Edsurge

JULY 16, 2019

He’s started working with more schools and districts—instead of reaching students mainly at home—and has partnered with assessment groups, such as the College Board and, most recently, the NWEA for personalized test prep materials. The latter group administers the MAP Assessment—a test designed to measure growth in reading and math.

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Khan Academy Common Core Assessment EdTech 126

Edsurge

MAY 17, 2017

An increasing number of schools —including charter and traditional public schools—are making a similar move to ditch traditional grades in favor of a more robust approach to assessing students’ skills. Whether they call it competency-, mastery-, or standards-based grading, the movement aims to improve students outcomes sans As, Bs, and Cs.

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eSchool News

JUNE 8, 2015

“Gooru’s enhanced, free K-12 content will support a variety of innovative educational models and facilitate the growth of competency-based learning.”. In addition, Gooru offers a wiki-assessment system with millions of questions teachers can use to assess student learning. And this approach is growing.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

competency-based (a.k.a. standards-based) school for at-risk youth, pre-packaged curriculum and assessments offered very little flexibility for personalization or modification. This was at odds with my experience, because I relied extensively on edtech for assessments. Because I taught at a. Kiddom's Planner.

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Khan Academy Assessment Differentiated Instruction EdTech 60

Edsurge

MAY 30, 2017

Maine has long been an innovator in education, stemming back to the Maine Learning Technology Initiative. Now all eyes are on our corner of the country as we transition from a traditional seat-time high school diploma to a proficiency-based diploma.

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Edsurge

MAY 8, 2017

I credit technology—and superheroes. Talk about what's being learned, not what's missing. We intentionally redirected 100% of our engineering effort towards the new student platform because we believe education technology has typically ignored the student experience. Full size image here.

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Edsurge

JUNE 25, 2018

Little did I know this experience would eventually propel me to help develop a school operating system that tackles technology issues plaguing educators and supports them with more opportunities to offer individualized instruction. They bought a learning management system (LMS) and asked us to start using it.

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