EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 16, 2018

These online tools help teachers quickly create quizzes, surveys, polls and other assessment materials, which can then be manipulated individually to fit the growth of each student and generate data pools of new types of student data. Microsoft Forms is flexible enough to support formative assessments of an entire grade.

Data 333

Data Assessment Adaptive Learning Microsoft 333

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

An analysis of test scores in California and South Carolina found that students had lost almost a third of a year in reading. A national analysis of the test scores of 5.5 Fordham Institute, a think tank, posted on Twitter. “It’s Consulting firm McKinsey & Company calculated that U.S. In 2016, U.S.

Elementary 145

Elementary Analysis Libraries Report 145

NeverEndingSearch

DECEMBER 20, 2017

All three are outstanding (and free), but perhaps the most immediately useful to readers of this blog is Civic Online Reasoning or COR. These assessments might be used to engage learners in discussion before an inquiry. And they could be critical for baseline analysis of student skills and formative assessment.

Assessment 60

Assessment Analysis Social Media Libraries 60

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

It is the instructional designer and tenured professor’s signal — “to the barricades!” — and everyone snipes at the other side from the Twitter trenches for a week, until there’s an unspoken truce that lasts until the next “ban laptops” op-ed gets published. A “ban laptops” op-ed may be the greatest piece of ed-tech clickbait ever devised.

Pearson 145

Pearson MOOC Company Software 145