Edsurge

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

As researchers focusing on education technology, we see this often: interactive whiteboards covered in posters, desktop computers holding up plants, older devices that do not work with a newer assessment system. Here are five questions to ask when assessing the strength of the evidence. The list goes on.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 31, 2024

This report is one of the first to gather and analyze nationally representative data from more than five million Grades K–2 students, thanks to their i-Ready® Diagnostic for Reading and for Mathematics. points, respectively, from 2019 to 2023. Our students have faced tremendous hardship, and the road ahead will not be easy.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 25, 2024

The leading indicators of STEM troubles ahead are apparent within the 2022 scores from a national test called the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). These children are on grade level, but the eighth grade NAEP assessment shows that far fewer of them are hitting an advanced performance level, or even a proficient one.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

In the years after the law went into effect, the testing and data industries flourished, selling school districts interim assessments to track student progress throughout the year along with flashy data dashboards that translated student achievement into colored circles and red warning flags. Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

The new program extends the evidence-based classroom success of 95 Percent Group’s K-3 program, a Tier 1 solution for whole class and small group instruction, supporting explicit, structured literacy instruction. Research on reading instruction has been very clear for more than 20 years.

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100mentors

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

This post is part of a 6-part series highlighting how we, as IB teachers, can bring Approaches to Teaching to our classroom and challenge students to engage in Approaches to Learning. This final installment covers h ow to cultivate students’ self-management skills through teaching informed by assessment.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

This story also appeared in AL.com and The Associated Press Piedmont City schools landed in the top spot among all school districts nationwide in a comparison of math scores in 2019 and 2022. Related: The science of reading swept reforms into classrooms. What about math?

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PlagiarismCheck

DECEMBER 13, 2023

PlagiarismCheck.org Plagramme Turnitin CopyLeaks PlagScan PlagiarismCheck.org Features for teachers: Group accounts for getting similarity reports from the students, categorizing the assignments, and providing instant feedback. Google Classroom, Moodle, Canvas integrations, Google Docs add-on , and browser extensions.

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PlagiarismCheck

APRIL 24, 2023

PlagiarismCheck.org, Turnitin, Copyleaks and PlagScan all provide access to usage reports and detailed analysis of plagiarism check results. But only PlagiarismCheck has integration with Google Classroom. They also provide detailed reports on plagiarism matches, including highlighted text and links to original sources.

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100mentors

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

This post is part of a 6-part series highlighting how we, as IB teachers, can bring Approaches to Teaching to our classroom and challenge students to engage in Approaches to Learning. This final installment covers h ow to cultivate students’ self-management skills through teaching informed by assessment.

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MindShift

DECEMBER 1, 2020

But the report also includes a worrying caveat: Many of the nation’s most vulnerable students are missing from the data. “Preliminary fall data suggests that, on average, students are faring better than we had feared,” says Beth Tarasawa, head of research at NWEA, in a news release accompanying the report.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Too often, parents, educators and, yes, reporters, simply ask “What works?” Research organizations and universities have long examined the impact of technology products in the classroom. Data may also be self-reported by teachers and students on surveys developed by companies including Panorama Education or simply Google Forms.

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Edsurge

JUNE 15, 2020

With a new lens through which to view safety, officials will revise nearly every existing operational process all at once, from student and teacher schedules to classroom configurations and cleaning procedures. But everyone—from the superintendent’s office down to the last classroom teacher—is being inundated with solicitations.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 8, 2019

Mathletics is a captivating online learning space that provides students with all the tools needed to be successful math learners both in the classroom and beyond. Students can track correct responses allowing it to be used as an assessment if desired. More detailed reports are available online through the user account.

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Educational Technology Guy

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

One of the challenges associated with it is assessing and grading numerous students’ works. Modern tools allow running student papers for comparison with many different sources. Instructors can also leave comments, feedback and grades right in the plagiarism detection tool’s similarity report. Take Unicheck , for instance.

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PlagiarismCheck

APRIL 24, 2023

PlagiarismCheck.org, Turnitin, Copyleaks and PlagScan all provide access to usage reports and detailed analysis of plagiarism check results. But only PlagiarismCheck has integration with Google Classroom. They also provide detailed reports on plagiarism matches, including highlighted text and links to original sources.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 22, 2019

Students who don’t understand a topic and don’t do well on the summative assessment for that subject, aren’t automatically moved on because time allotted for that topic ran out. Success in an MBL program is defined by the achievement of competencies , not intangible performance measures or student-to-student comparisons.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

APRIL 4, 2024

When we think about having a diverse classroom we think of ethnicity, race, gender, nationality, religion, and sexual orientation. This paper explores the impact socioeconomic status has on student learning in order for teachers to have a better understanding of their diverse classroom.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 10, 2019

A Reboot Foundation report finds a negative tie between the use of tablets in school and fourth-grade reading scores. Photo: Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report. Eighth graders who reported using computers to conduct research for projects had higher reading test scores than those who didn’t use computers for research.

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techlearning

MAY 7, 2018

A leader in personalized learning, LEAP Innovations, recently released a second report showing Lexia Reading Core5® to have a statistically significant, positive impact for students in Chicago Public Schools. Core5 was piloted in four schools with a total of 443 students and the product’s usage resulted in a 2.57-point

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

DECEMBER 13, 2023

To refresh your mind, blended learning is an educational approach that combines traditional classroom teaching methods with digital and online media. This model maintained the traditional structure of classroom time but introduced an additional element: screencasts viewed outside of class. Fabbian et al.’s Luna and Stephanie A.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

But there were many reports of tutoring fraud and fiascos. Credit: Amadou Diallo for The Hechinger Report. Credit: Gretchen Ertl for The Hechinger Report. Credit: Terrell Clark for The Hechinger Report. This comparison of the two approaches using education technology is promising, but more research is needed.

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Linways Technologies

MARCH 13, 2020

Each of these are mapped with measurable outcomes to assess attainment. education like what we see in classrooms focuses on the cognitive. The believed that classifying goals like this would be beneficial to assess college student performances better. In this level, we assess the learner’s ability to retain and recall.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 21, 2015

Blend that concept into your classroom. These are difficult to quantify on a report card, but critical to life-long success. Anecdotally assess their daily efforts and let that count as much as a summative exam that judges a point in time. Post these on the classroom wall. Assess grit. Any golfers? See patterns.

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ViewSonic Education

MAY 28, 2019

Quick Take: Overview of educational assessment tools focusing on Summative assessment and Formative assessment. A comparison of summative assessment and formative assessment. The main components of being an educator are preparation, teaching, and assessment. How to explain summative assessment.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

In an era of breakneck change and tech innovation, evaluating dyslexia in young students looks much the same today as it has in the past: A struggling reader’s parents and teachers might sit down, gather information and assess the child on their strengths and weaknesses to determine a diagnosis and appropriate interventions.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2024

As an integral part of learning today, educators and students deserve new and improved ways to display and interact with classroom content, but to be successful, these tools need to be flexible and user-friendly. Historically there has been a limit to seamless integration across various technology solutions within today’s classrooms.

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The Mobile Native

APRIL 25, 2014

A collaboration of the Verizon Foundation and the ISTE, VILS is one of the few training programs of its kind focused on supporting the effective integration of mobile technology in the classroom. Key findings include: · Standardized test scores in math of students participating in the program increased by 4.13

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Edsurge

MAY 1, 2018

nearly 90% of students are taking the knowledge they learn home to the dinner table or using our companion app outside of the classroom. We have seen students’ scores on pre- and-post assessments rise from a D to a B. In his classroom, he focuses on the choices that seventh and eighth graders can make to influence their future.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

In conversations with edtech investors, some reported that the K-12 market has seen an influx of instructional content, particularly in the form of open educational resources (OERs). Source Description Ka’chingEdSurge tracks and reports on equity and debt investments in edtech companies across multiple education sectors and many countries.

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The Game Agency

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

However, without “practical follow-up or meaningful assessments,” learners lose 90% of the skills they learn in those training programs. Simply checking a box or using a five-question assessment at the end of a course isn’t effective in measuring learning. That’s a lot of money to throw out the window.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 20, 2016

This week, Education Commission of the States released a 50-State Comparison and Companion Report summarizing state statutes, rules and regulations related to K-3 quality. The comparison also addresses other issues impacting K-3 quality, including full-day kindergarten, teacher-to-student ratio requirements and instructional quality.

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MIND Research Institute

JANUARY 26, 2021

MIND has evaluated ST Math at school-wide levels since 2002, performing more than 100 internal quasi-experimental matched comparison group studies focusing on growth in grade-average mean scale scores and focusing on the percentage of students exceeding state math test standards. Summary of Efficacy. 2014, 2019). and 0.35, respectively.

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Edsurge

JULY 29, 2020

By comparison, the state of California reported a 12 percent chronic absenteeism rate among students in 2018-2019, representing 676,000 students. Simon and the rest of the district turned their focus to food security , internet connectivity for families in need and online suicide prevention assessments.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

The growing movement to require aspiring teachers to pass performance-based assessments to demonstrate that they can teach what they know – to all of their students – is a seismic shift for the field. But deciding if they can teach in diverse classrooms and schools has been left to the professional judgement of each institution.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Photo: Jill Barshay/The Hechinger Report. Yet the performance of American 15-year-olds on the Program for International Student Assessment, or PISA, has always been lackluster. “I disagree with the inference that not using monetary incentives distorts international comparisons,” Andreas Schleicher told me by email.

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techlearning

AUGUST 30, 2018

Math RIT points on the NWEA MAP Growth Math Assessment from winter to spring, exceeding expected growth of 3.3 Math RIT points.” “Stride also has the Progress Monitoring Assessments (PMAs) that can be administered four times per year.” It allows for an apples to apples comparison.” points based on national norms.

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