The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2016

Since Kentucky became the first state to adopt the Common Core in 2010, the achievement gap between students with disabilities and their nondisabled peers has widened slightly – despite sweeping expectations the more rigorous standards would help eliminate disparities in academic performance. Reframing expectations.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Its latest act: making a strategic investment in Open Assessment Technologies (OAT), a San Francisco-based startup that offers open-source tools for building and delivering digital tests. Besides just being an assessment company, we’re also becoming a learning and navigation company,” Roorda tells EdSurge in an interview.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Many of us find students benefit greatly when the school employs curriculum-based assessments to measure progress. Because by teaching, assessing knowledge, tracking progress, and personalizing to student needs, we can determine if students are accomplishing what they must to complete the work of learning. What is Measuring Up?

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Meeting Dropout Assessment Case Study 203

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

He and Preston Magouirk, chief data officer at the nonprofit DC College Access Program, took that step back. They outlined key factors that can predict non-submission, using data students put into their Common App profiles coupled with community indicators from the American Community Survey administered by the U.S.

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Edsurge

JUNE 12, 2018

Specifically, there have been few useful tools with which to assess SEL. Specifically, there have been few useful tools with which to assess SEL. Funders and other organizations are focusing on how to bring practical social and emotional assessments to the field. Reasons to Assess A key question is why assess student SEL?

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Assessment Program Evaluation Data Report 88

Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2017

His own school experiences have since fueled his drive to support data-driven personalized learning in an effort to make today’s schools engaging, fun and free of “the stress and angst” many students feel. By allowing student information systems, rostering tools, assessment software, etc. They can’t talk to one another.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 22, 2016

But measuring how well schools are reaching English-learners is not easy, at least not from looking at the state’s accountability data. Strong language skills are key as part of the state’s Common Core standards. For one, the way English learners are tracked creates somewhat of a Catch-22 situation.

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Edsurge

JULY 9, 2019

As principal at Chula Vista School District’s Salt Creek Elementary, Lalaine Perez saw attitudes toward math bottom out in the years following the transition to California’s new Common Core standards. Students also needed support when it came to the end of year state assessments. “We The following year, Ruiz did the same.

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Common Core Adaptive Learning Elementary Blended Learning 124

Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 8, 2019

Programs are geared to the particular learning of Elementary and Middle School, and Middle and High School with games and lessons aligned to state and national standards like Common Core, TEKS and MAFS. Students can track correct responses allowing it to be used as an assessment if desired. BarGraph Sorter. Caesar Cipher.

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Common Core Digital Citizenship Comparison Report 253

Edsurge

JULY 10, 2019

As principal at Chula Vista School District’s Salt Creek Elementary, Lalaine Perez saw the need to better support a growth mindset around math in the years following the transition to California’s new Common Core standards. Post-Pilot Results : Succeeding with Common Core—Levered's 2018-19 survey.

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Common Core Adaptive Learning Elementary Blended Learning 125

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Assessment For Learning. We walk you through the process of distinguishing between various assessment types, building goals, identifying best practices around your assessments and analyzing your data to make lasting instructional decisions throughout the year. Student Performance Improves on State Assessments.

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Edmentum Common Core Assessment Study 142

Marketplace K-12

AUGUST 29, 2016

Two assessment companies—Educational Testing Service and Data Recognition Corp.—are Meanwhile in Nevada, the state attorney general sent a letter to the CEO of Data Recognition Corp. Assessment results that were due in July and August are now scheduled to arrive on Sept. 2 for the alternative assessments; on Sept.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

APRIL 13, 2015

The Assessment Range: Using Data In The Classroom To Meaningfully Affect Learning. If you don’t already have a plan for the data before giving the assessment, you’re already behind. Their teaching just isn’t ready for the data. What Should Assessments “Do”? by Terry Heick.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 24, 2023

This story also appeared in Mind/Shift The nine authors, most of whom hail from the University of Virginia, issued a press release trumpeting it as the first long-term study of a knowledge-rich curriculum and the first to show outsized gains on state assessments. They said the gains were large enough to catapult U.S.

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Study Common Core Elementary Report 132

Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 20, 2017

How many times have you experienced teachers who based report card grades on how well students complete classwork, homework, and quizzes? For example, a book report may require a certain number of written (or typed) pages or paragraphs rather than evidence that the student drew conclusions and summarized knowledge. Standards Planner.

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Khan Academy Common Core Digital Citizenship LMS 153

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

A decade ago, Common Core math was introduced to emphasize understanding over rote learning, but the delivery of standards varies across schools, classrooms and teachers, depending both on who is being assessed and who is doing the assessing. They are more likely to be assessed on their merits and performance.

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Common Core System Assessment STEM 134

Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 16, 2015

positive parent reports. doesn’t collect personal information other than user credentials or data required to operate the app. aligned with Blooms Taxonomy, Common Core, ISTE, or other state/national/international standards. positive parent reports. intuitive to use with a short learning curve. Conclusion.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 30, 2017

Zap Zap Math is a free gamified way to teach math skills that’s tied to many national and international standards (like Common Core). Teachers can add quizzes that assess student math knowledge by selecting the grade, the topic, one of the suggested Zap Zap Math games, and the duration. What’s changed.

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Learning Analytics Common Core Digital Citizenship Android 195

The Cornerstone for Teachers

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

Second, you can try to clean up on the assessment end if you’re still concerned that AI-generated content is in your students’ papers (which might be clear simply because of our usual teacher check-ins, drafting, etc.). ChatGPT) well. Now, we can (with parent permission), but this is a fast-evolving situation that requires vigilance.

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Tools Classroom Libraries Assessment 120

Edsurge

AUGUST 4, 2016

Another emphasis is more data-driven and focused on curriculum continuity and viability. We have aligned English Language Arts curriculum to the North Dakota Common Core State Standards, and redesigned units to address possible gaps. However, these initiatives are becoming increasingly contradictory.

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Assessment Classroom Common Core Data 60

eSchool News

APRIL 27, 2015

A CoSN survey reveals CTO concerns about privacy, budgets, and assessment readiness. What do the data tell us? What do the data tell us? Assessment readiness is again the No. The growing imperative about being assessment ready isn’t likely a surprise for those living in states adopting the Common Core.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 8, 2018

Twelfth-graders’ scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress have barely budged over the last 10 years. Plus the decline in remedial enrollments appeared in 2015, not long after the Common Core State Standards were implemented. Traditionally, students landed in remedial courses based on their placement test scores.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

The benchmarks are similar to those used in the more than 40 states that, along with the District of Columbia, adopted the national Common Core standards a decade ago. Credit: Jackie Mader/ The Hechinger Report Heather Miller’s students frequently write in notebooks to show their progress in writing skills.

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Elementary Report Groups Assessment 145

Marketplace K-12

MARCH 9, 2016

The testing world is being gripped by two overriding, and often competing forces: the continued reliance on big, high-stakes assessments for accountability purposes, and the rise of more sophisticated, nimble, and smaller-scale digital assessments, largely at the classroom level. It has become a part of [our] DNA.”.

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Assessment Industry Common Core Data 40

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 11, 2018

However, the benchmark assessments students take at the end of the year—designed to measure procedural fluency—often look very different from their coursework and cause more anxiety than anything else. These tools also gather actionable insights and information about a student’s progress and report the data back to the teacher.

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Baker's B.Y.O.D.

MAY 30, 2013

While I''ve written quite a bit about assessing writing (ad nauseum) via digital means, reading instruction and assessment have remained a primarily paper-based enterprise in my class. Independent and whole-class reading of complex texts while aligning with Common Core Standards is no longer a Sisyphean endeavor when using Gobstopper.

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Common Core Digital Citizenship Analysis Assessment 162

The Innovative Educator

JUNE 12, 2013

Instead, the focus is competition and acquisition, mastery, and assessment of skills as outlined in this video. Three-Minute Video Explaining the Common Core State Standards from CGCS Video Maker on Vimeo. Angela Maiers common core standards' worthy of the world). I want more ».

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Common Core Video Assessment Data 79

Edsurge

APRIL 25, 2017

This product is designed to offer ways to assign work from a large body of standards and content that is vetted, and provide new reporting for teachers,” Khan tells EdSurge. We can add more subjects, practice modalities, lightweight quizzes and assessments, and also get data quicker.” Khan also remains optimistic.

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Khan Academy Tools Common Core Exercises 160

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 3, 2019

Blockchain: Hype or Enabler for K-12 Data Privacy. Future of Assessment & Accountability. With data collection on the rise and the push for interoperability to better align reporting, there is an opportunity to capture competency through new and unique methods. Beyond Rubrics: Embedded Assessment in Making.

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Trends UDL Common Core Learning Analytics 76

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 8, 2021

Better results for project-based learning were documented on a variety of tests, from Advanced Placement exams in high school to annual state assessments in math and reading in sixth grade. The foundation is planning to try math again as a data science and statistics class, where projects are more feasible.

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Study Learning Training Common Core 145

eSchool News

MAY 25, 2017

At Wildwood, we have been holding K-8 student-led report card conferences for parents for six years. We have been doing individualized student data folders for as long. Students also have to select and unpack several Common Core standards to assess the quality with which they defend and showcase their theme.

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Technology Common Core Conference Assessment 163

Technology Tidbits

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Otus is a all-in-one mobile learning solution for schools that combines the best features of a: learning management system, data management system, and more. Teachers can link data to Common Core State Standards or integrate their own custom standards to report on.

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Khan Academy Differentiated Instruction Common Core Mobile Learning 36

Technology Tidbits

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Otus is a all-in-one mobile learning solution for schools that combines the best features of a: learning management system, data management system, and more. Teachers can link data to Common Core State Standards or integrate their own custom standards to report on.

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Khan Academy Differentiated Instruction Common Core Mobile Learning 36

Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

So why shouldn’t students create videos when constructing knowledge for formative or summative assessments? Why insist they write a report, participate in a play, or create a poster instead? That’s right out of Common Core writing standards. How do I assess a project like Movie Maker? More on videos.

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Video Common Core Digital Citizenship Assessment 150

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. Students can still receive traditional letter grades,” he explains of his plans to roll out an alternative assessment model. “Or

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How To Common Core Academic Standards Outcomes 114

techlearning

OCTOBER 12, 2018

Impact tracks the link between student usage on a particular app and how that may or may not influence their performance on assessments. To figure that out, they can look at assessment data for evidence of correlation between apps and test score improvement. Dr. Ryan S.

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Data Learning Common Core Chromebook 55

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2020

Math is the most-tracked subject in school: Three-quarters of eighth graders attend math classes that are segregated by ability, according to the latest federal data. In a report published in May, the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics recommended that districts eliminate tracking in middle school math.

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