The Hechinger Report

MAY 22, 2016

Strong language skills are key as part of the state’s Common Core standards. Yet it’s hard to determine from looking at the state’s testing data how successful schools have been in closing the achievement gap between these students and their peers since Common Core was implemented. born and raised.

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Common Core Data Elementary Groups 40

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 24, 2022

The studies that were excluded did not fit the review’s criteria of assessing child learning and development outcomes.) It was an attempt to move away from the rigorous, academic-focused kindergarten classrooms that emerged in a nation concerned about low reading scores and meeting the Common Core standards. Subscribe today!

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Report Learning Common Core Study 145

The Web20Classroom

MAY 10, 2017

Through Learning Management Systems (LMS) many educators are moving to put content online and extend learning beyond the four walls and beyond the school day. This Blended Learning approach is both beneficial but its definition can be tough to nail down. Private assessment and gradebook 2.

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Blended Learning Classroom LMS Groups 289

Edsurge

MAY 30, 2018

However, the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), an organization that has been mapping proficiency standards for 15 years, says the gap between how states define proficiency is narrowing. NCES has been administering the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) exam since 1969.

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Common Core Comparison Assessment Trends 115

Edsurge

AUGUST 4, 2016

We have aligned English Language Arts curriculum to the North Dakota Common Core State Standards, and redesigned units to address possible gaps. The reconfiguring and implementation of these two areas—curriculum and assessment—undoubtedly costs money and time. However, these initiatives are becoming increasingly contradictory.

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Assessment Classroom Common Core Data 60

edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Online assessments are becoming more common, and students who have strong digital literacy skills often score higher on them. Students who lack these skills may not be able to effectively demonstrate mastery of key concepts in math, reading or writing on online assessments.

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Online Assessments Assessment Elementary Common Core 41

Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 23, 2016

If you look it up in the Free Dictionary, you find this definition: The act or process of producing and recording words in a form that can be read and understood. What they have defined as ‘writing’ is actually writing conventions, tools, and activities rather than its purpose, goals, and definition. Twitter Novel.

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Tools Common Core Twitter Laptops 155

The Web20Classroom

SEPTEMBER 25, 2016

Recently, I was talking with my friend and literacy expert Shaelynn Farnsworth about the shifting definition of literacy and how we are all teachers of literacy. In talking with other educators this seems to be a challenge as well. Then you can start browsing the library. The texts themselves contain just more than the actual text.

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Classroom Common Core Libraries Assessment 100

Edsurge

OCTOBER 30, 2017

The goal is to not give readers a list of words and definitions to memorize, but rather to get them familiar with words and their place in language and knowledge. The goal is to not give readers a list of words and definitions to memorize, but rather to get them familiar with words and their place in language and knowledge.

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OER Common Core Video Assessment 114

Saving Socrates

JANUARY 30, 2014

Yet, it doesn''t mean we should entire disregard all standardized exams as having a place in educational evaluating processes. So, why am I actually advocating using standardized assessment tools? Hence, I propose that the digital content provider''s pre assessments each unit are not enough. This, I believe as well.

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Blended Learning Assessment Tools Common Core 59

Edsurge

AUGUST 16, 2018

The conversation was guided by our special guest Executive Director of C-BEN (Competency-Based Education Network), Charla Long. Much of the discussion focused on how competency-based education (CBE) could support students in acquiring and demonstrating the knowledge, skills and abilities. CBENetwork @CBENetwork — Cali Morrison, Ed.D.

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Digital Badges Education Secondary Assessment 69

Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

While it traditionally is an assessment tool for college-bound seniors, more and more high schools are choosing it as an exit exam for graduating seniors (such as these changes in Ohio and the State of Washington ). Education account, desktop or mobile device. Seven million students took the SAT test last year.

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Khan Academy How To Exercises Common Core 150

MIND Research Institute

OCTOBER 18, 2018

Like many educational buzzwords, conceptual understanding is one that has been defined in enough different ways that it starts to lose meaning. But just so we don’t gloss over the “what,” let’s clarify our working definition of conceptual understanding. What is Conceptual Understanding?

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Common Core Assessment Examples Learning 83

Baker's B.Y.O.D.

APRIL 6, 2013

Progressive : students peer edit and self assess using guided structure provided by teacher Techie Traditional : teacher uses Google forms with the Autocrat , Doctopus , and Goobric scripts, as well as other online rubric tools to assess student work. The same subjective scoring can be used on student creative pieces.

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Common Core Digital Citizenship Assessment Google 131

Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 9, 2017

For you as a job hunting educator, this becomes the best time of year to find a job. Discuss not just your years of experience, but the student groups you’ve taught, the philosophies you’ve followed (such as IB or Common Core), parent needs met, pedagogy you’ve rolled out, teacher groups you’ve led, and more.

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Robotics Social Media Chromebook Common Core 153

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 13, 2018

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every Tuesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. . Higher Education. These OER – open educational resources – may be good, bad or indifferent. Weekly Update.

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OER How To Common Core Instructional Materials 80

Technology Tidbits

NOVEMBER 21, 2014

As w/ the previous year''s list, more and more mobile apps are making the list as mobile learning continues to be the rising trend in education. Educators can manage/create student accounts, take attendance, grade, and assess students in real-time, and much much more. Also, a nice place to find Common Core aligned lesson plans.

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Game-Based Learning Common Core iPad Mobility 74

techlearning

OCTOBER 12, 2018

A recent University of Phoenix College of Education survey showed that about 58% of teachers use educational apps and 41% use social media. Impact tracks the link between student usage on a particular app and how that may or may not influence their performance on assessments. Growth is particularly high in web-based devices.

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Data Learning Common Core Chromebook 62

Marketplace K-12

JANUARY 29, 2016

More than half the states have made their tests more difficult to pass, bringing proficiency rates more closely into line with the those of the rigorous National Assessment of Educational Progress, or NAEP, according to a new study. Cross-posted from the Curriculum Matters blogs. The map has been updated as states report results.<p><a

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Common Core Report Assessment Analysis 40

eSchool News

JUNE 28, 2018

I wanted to use Serial as a primary text for at least a few weeks, but I wasn’t sure how it would fit in with Common Core or how it might affect my students’ reading habits. Somebody is definitely lying–but who? But many aren’t sure how to justify using podcasts in the classroom. That’s how I got started.

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Common Core Assessment Strategy Student Engagement 58

The Hechinger Report

MAY 26, 2016

Teachers participate in a Common Core training session in Kingsport, Tenn. Over half of teachers in a survey by researchers at the University of Rochester’s Warner School of Education said they thought the exam matched their “conceptions of good teaching.”. Washington took its time phasing in edTPA.

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Survey Common Core Assessment Study 62

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 7, 2016

The exam, known as PARCC — which stands for Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers — was aligned to the Common Core, a set of national educational standards for what students should be able to do in each grade in English and math. Related: The 7 steps to making a statewide test.

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Common Core Assessment Report Groups 40

Edsurge

MAY 30, 2017

Maine has long been an innovator in education, stemming back to the Maine Learning Technology Initiative. We have pushed many state districts to make significant policy changes that align with instructional and educational best practices, and have encouraged teachers, administrators, and districts to innovate educational systems design.

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System Assessment Guidelines Meeting 100

Saving Socrates

APRIL 22, 2013

In his post on his blog [link] , Aaron Ross suggests that their are two polar opposite approaches to the neccessity of a common core, those who want to protect and perhaps even popularize it and those who want to totally abandon it. Is a common core necessary for elementary school? He knows it best. I adore E.D.

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Common Core Assessment Learning Guidelines 49

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JANUARY 21, 2019

Welcome to number four in a series of four posts bringing you over 150 amazing resources for STEM education. FETC 2019 – How does Orlando in January sound for an educational conference? Please take a moment to share this post with fellow educators with a tweet. Check it out if you have not had a chance! My calendar is filling.

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STEM Resources Learning OER 148

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

On the one hand, China’s private education market is projected to grow 9 percent per year until 2020, reaching a value of $330 billion—an enticing market for many American entrepreneurs. education space, can pose serious challenges to any organization. ThinkCERCA is definitely not the first U.S.

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Company EdTech Tablets Edmodo 112

Graphite Blog

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Some tools definitely have more potential than others. Target skills and differentiate with dynamic practice and assessments. Bottom line: Rich with content-aligned assessments, printable worksheets, and progress analytics. Useful, adaptive tool for assessing, tracking reading ability. Khan Academy. Starfall.com.

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Khan Academy Classroom Assessment Exercises 66

The Hechinger Report

MAY 8, 2018

The trend toward dismantling traditional remedial education is unambiguous. The psychic and educational toll is such that very few of them ever complete the college-level math courses required to graduate or transfer to a four-year university. Higher Education. million to around 780,000. Related: U.S. Weekly Update.

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Data Survey Course Common Core 59

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

Teachers participate in a Common Core training session in Kingsport, Tenn. 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.

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Assessment Training Policies Common Core 40

Technology Tidbits

MARCH 17, 2014

I''ve done posts on educational iOS Apps and Educational Online Games but I have never combined the two and curated a list that specifically deals w/ GBL. Answerables - A innovative 3D virtual world that allows educators to Gamify their lessons in this cross between Game Based Learning and Learning Management System.

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Game-Based Learning Common Core Gamification iPad 60

Graphite Blog

JUNE 6, 2016

Common Sense Education provides teachers, librarians, and education technology coaches with a variety of ways to customize their learning over the summer. Common Sense Education provides many valuable resources focused on helping teachers identify how they can use tools and technology to assess learning in the classroom.

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Digital Citizenship Edcamps Common Core EdTech 40

Graphite Blog

JUNE 6, 2016

Common Sense Education provides teachers, librarians, and education technology coaches with a variety of ways to customize their learning over the summer. Common Sense Education provides many valuable resources focused on helping teachers identify how they can use tools and technology to assess learning in the classroom.

Digital Citizenship 40

Digital Citizenship Edcamps Common Core EdTech 40

Marketplace K-12

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

The disruptions in online assessments that roiled Montana, Nevada, and North Dakota in the spring of 2015 appear to have had both negative and positive effects on individual students’ test scores, according to a new analysis. See also: Assessment Fallout: Texas Fines ETS, Nevada Says DRC Misses Deadlines. We’re really moving on.”.

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Study Analysis Assessment Comparison 68

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 17, 2017

Kylie finds it a little stranger in chorus and physical education, but there, too, she is held accountable for mastering certain competencies, like singing on pitch, clapping an accurate rhythm and dribbling a basketball. Students are now assessed based on their “habits of scholarship” in addition to their mastery of course standards.

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Common Core Advocacy System Personalized Learning 94

Fractus Learning

APRIL 28, 2016

Over the years, Bloom’s Taxonomy has been revisited and in 2001, a revised A Taxonomy for Teaching, Learning, and Assessment ( Anderson ) was published. The revised work turns Bloom’s classifying nouns into verbs and gerunds to show the dynamic and interconnected functions of teaching, learning, and assessment.

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Analysis Assessment Common Core Examples 40

techlearning

MARCH 5, 2018

The Horizon Report: 2017 K–12 Edition, the goal of which is to identify technology that’s likely to impact teaching, learning, and creativity, identifies makerspaces as having “potential relevance to teaching, learning, and creative inquiry in K–12 education” within the next year.

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Learning Khan Academy Libraries Common Core 66

Graphite Blog

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Some tools definitely have more potential than others. Target skills and differentiate with dynamic practice and assessments Bottom line: Rich with content-aligned assessments, printable worksheets, and progress analytics. Here's a collection of some of the most-searched-for edtech tools among today's teachers.

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Khan Academy Classroom Assessment Exercises 40