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A Teacher’s Best Evaluator

Ask a Tech Teacher

If a teacher wants a good picture of how teaching impacts students, I suggest using a Google Form survey or Microsoft forms. When doing the assessment, I clarified to the students the purpose of the survey and emphasized that it had no bearing on their grades. A simple prompt could be to review your teacher’s efforts during the year.

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PROOF POINTS: Overscheduling kids’ lives causes depression and anxiety, study finds

The Hechinger Report

The diaries had been collected over the years, dating back to 1997, as part of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) , a large nationally representative household survey overseen by the University of Michigan. Now a trio of economists say they’ve been able to calculate some of these psychological costs.

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7 Reasons Advancement Courses Has Excellent Teacher Professional Development

The CoolCatTeacher

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. I ran the lesson plan with my seventh graders while collecting learning and survey data — and I learned so much. Data Analysis. Recently, I took a course from Advancement Courses called Teaching Computer Science in 6-12. Look at Courses.

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How to Become a Citizen Scientist

Ask a Tech Teacher

Apart from careful studies conducted in complex laboratories, science also runs on data collection, observations, and statistical analysis. Such projects are especially useful in population studies, wildlife conservation efforts, psychological surveys, and behavioral research. This is where citizen science comes in.

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Crunch the Numbers—New Data on Student Tech Use; Chromebook Predictions; And the Impact of Pandemic Relief Funds

eSchool News

Despite a tumultuous 2023 – and a name change – Twitter/X saw a 27% boost in popularity among children. The report is based on a survey of more than 1,400 school district homeless liaisons from across all 50 states and the District of Columbia, as well as on analyses of federal data.

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Seeking Integrity in EdTech Research – Again

ProfHacker

Inside Higher Ed (IHE) recently issued their 2017 Survey of Faculty Attitudes on Technology and we were excited about the big initial finding that more faculty are teaching online and that more are finding that online learning can meet the same outcomes. We wonder why you would survey non-faculty in a survey about faculty attitudes?

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Data Driven Instruction: How Student Data Guides Formative Assessments

EdTech Magazine

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. For some educators, digital forms have been a productive way to achieve this. integrated with HP Chromebooks.

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