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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Edsurge

MAY 8, 2023

Barclay is a friend of mine, and his insight about the learning that is — or isn’t — happening in his classroom helped to shape my thinking about a question that’s been on my mind since I started reporting about recent efforts to change the way that math is taught. Those schools, Brown says, really focus on regular testing and assessment.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

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. Census Bureau and school features from the Common Core of Data maintained by the U.S. Department of Education.

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Hapara

MAY 12, 2022

. “Interactive Middle School Math 7” This middle school math online textbook aligns to the Common Core State Standards. It also includes feedback for learners when they answer formative assessment questions. Learners will work on real-world examples and hands-on labs.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2016

The results from those new Common Core tests – designed explicitly to look for the skills kids need in college, namely critical thinking, problem solving and analytical writing skills – have been held up as proof of the persistence of deep-seated disparities in the education provided to poor students and children of color.

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Edsurge

JUNE 12, 2018

Many school-based social-emotional learning (SEL) programs are widely used, for example. Specifically, there have been few useful tools with which to assess SEL. Specifically, there have been few useful tools with which to assess SEL. Reasons to Assess A key question is why assess student SEL?

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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 Students can see examples.

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The Electric Educator

MARCH 16, 2018

Here are 25 different ways you can use Google Forms in your Classroom - with an example for each! This example is based on Fahrenheit 451 in a high school English classroom and is configured to release the quiz score immediately after submitting the quiz. Click here and I'll send it to you via email!

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Grace’s story is just one example of how the American education system and American policing tactics converge. They are more likely to be assessed on their merits and performance. The post OPINION: What math class and police brutality have in common appeared first on The Hechinger Report. But Grace was incarcerated.

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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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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.). Google Translated material, for example, flags as AI-generated content. ChatGPT) well.

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 19, 2021

He has two sets of videos specifically on the Common Core, in which he talks about the kindergarten and the third grade standards. Sylvia Majdoch, 9, pictured here during a remote school day at her home in Florida, is the fourth in her family to take on math using the principles of Common Core.

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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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Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 24, 2015

For the last two years, I’ve been increasingly frustrated with the traditional approach to assessing students and reporting grades. This year I decided to overhaul my gradebook and assess students based on their mastery of particular skills, also referred to as standards-based grading. Redesigning My Gradebook. 2 = basic.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report. This was not the first drop in national test scores since the biennial test, called the National Assessment of Educational Progress or NAEP, was first administered in the early 1990s. Every state has its own annual assessments but they vary in difficulty and how they are scored. Related: U.S.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 7, 2015

By highlighting examples of research-based product development, we aim to help all stakeholders use scientific and user research to improve student outcomes and better understand learners. Mindprint Learning provides a cognitive assessment developed for children that can be administered online. How do you use research?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 23, 2016

These include (rephrased from Common Core Writing Standards): dig deeply into subjects of interest to achieve better understanding and to build knowledge. assess the credibility and accuracy of each source, and integrate the information while avoiding plagiarism. Lesson Plans to Achieve Common Core Writing Standards.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 1, 2019

According to the National Assessment of Educational Progress, 25 percent of students nationwide are writing on grade level, and 3 percent are considered advanced. In one specific example, high school students across the city did not know what the conjunctions “because,” “but” and “so” are meant to signal.

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

To simplify the process for teachers, they’ve aligned their virtual math manipulatives to Common Core and State Standards. You can print out parent reports in their native language too.) What are examples of how teachers might use virtual manipulatives to teach math concepts? Matific does the work for you.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 28, 2019

schools assess. If students have never heard of the game polo, for example, a passage about polo on a test will likely confuse them so much that they flounder when asked to summarize the passage, even if they know how to summarize. The post How gaps in content knowledge hold students back appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

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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 post PROOF POINTS: Four new studies bolster the case for project-based learning appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

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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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Edsurge

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Stagnant scores breed plenty of hand-wringing and questions over the value of efforts like Common Core and investments in education reform and technology. Ninth graders who took an online growth mindset course reported higher grades that those who didn’t. Compared to the previous test in 2015, the scores stayed flat.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Jill Barshay/The Hechinger Report. Both fourth- and eighth-grade students posted declines on the math section of the 2015 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). For example, students at the top (90th percentile) gained 2 points. educational system is deteriorating appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 8, 2018

Photo: Sarah Gonser for The Hechinger Report. During the last school year, only 40 percent of fourth-graders nationwide scored at a proficient level in a nationwide math assessment. BERWYN, Ill. — But the early-grade math skills of these same low-income children have not received equal attention. It’s not just about teachers teaching.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2020

In a report published in May, the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics recommended that districts eliminate tracking in middle school math. Another DeWitt math teacher reported similar numbers. “We But she said the district would find ways to measure student performance and assess kids’ views on the changes along the way.

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ViewSonic Education

MAY 28, 2019

Quick Take: Overview of educational assessment tools focusing on Summative assessment and Formative assessment. Explain, Compare and give examples of the two concepts. A comparison of summative assessment and formative assessment. Today we will dive in deeper into the discussion of educational assessment.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 9, 2018

Photo: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report. Since the biennial test, called the National Assessment of Educational Progress or NAEP, was first administered in the early 1990s, student achievement, particularly in math, steadily improved until the late 2000s, then flatlined. . We must do better for all children.”

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 27, 2016

Source: Slide 15 of a PowerPoint presentation, accompanying a June 2016 OECD report, “Equations and Inequalities.” Creative math teachers commonly try to come up with concrete, real-world examples to motivate students and make math relevant to adolescents. But real-world examples aren’t enough.

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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: Common Core testing showdown in Massachusetts.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2017

By allowing student information systems, rostering tools, assessment software, etc. Right now, if you go to an SEA—state educational agency—or a local educational agency, or an individual school, they will have a student information system, an assessment system, a content management system, a learning management system.

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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. Clarity will really help us guide our next steps.”

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MARCH 25, 2015

In this follow-up post we look more closely at a range of data from two successful schools and one school identified in the Cuomo Report on Failing Schools. Here are its survey and quality report data: Overall Survey Data (and comparative graduation data). Selected quotes from the school Quality Review Report, based on site visits.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 22, 2015

Creating an online graphic organizer on the animal kingdom doesn’t necessarily conflate with knowing how to compare-contrast (a skill mentioned thirty-eight times by Common Core between kindergarten and eighth grade). For example, a picture taken in Google Earth is added to a slide deck for a geography report.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 10, 2023

for example. for example. 6.6 ) By 3rd grade, Common Core discusses the use of keyboarding to produce work, i.e., CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.3.6 which specifically mentions ‘use technology to produce and publish writing (using keyboarding skills)’ keyboarding is required to take Common Core Standards assessments in the Spring.

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EdTechTeacher

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

What does assessment look like in 21st Century education? With the rise of the Common Core and the PARCC tests, there is no question that we are living in an era of accountability. So a summative test like the PARCC is a good tool but not the only way that we should be assessing our students throughout the school year.

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