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Preparing Students for Online Assessments with Digital Literacy Skills

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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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State Testing Disruptions Likely Produced Dips and Gains in Student Scores, Study Says

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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.

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S'Cool Tools, Teacher Voice Edition: IXL, Brightspace, Tales2Go

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If you’d like to be featured in our S’Cool Tools column, click here to leave your very own Teacher Case Study. IXL was great for skill breakdown and practice, easy to find standards based on common core. I use D2L and our system eClass to post resources, classroom calendar of events, discussion posts and online assessments.

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Pearson CEO Fallon Talks Common Core, Rise of ‘Open’ Resources

Marketplace K-12

He also talked about how he thinks policy shifts like the implementation of the common-core standards and the adoption of “open” educational resources are likely to affect the K-12 market, and his company’s work. Recent studies, including one by Stanford’s CREDO project , have shown virtual schools producing poor results.

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T&L’S ISTE 2018 BEST OF SHOW AWARDS WINNERS

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The line supports up to 8th Generation Intel Core processors, up to 16GB of DDR4 memory, many storage options, and more. EDMENTUM EXACT PATH ( WWW.EDMENTUM.COM/ ) Edmentum Exact Path utilizes adaptive diagnostic assessments paired with individualized learning paths to ensure academic growth in K-8 reading, language arts, and math.

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6 Tech Best Practices for New Teachers

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A study released last year by the National Council on Teacher Quality found that nearly half of the nation’s teacher training programs failed to insure that their candidates were STEM-capable. An important part of succeeding in core classes is understanding the language. Common Core has three levels of vocabulary: basic.

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How to Get the Most Out Of Practice Testing

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Numerous studies since the early ‘90s have shown that learners who tested their knowledge during practice later remembered more information than learners who spent the same amount of time studying the complete information. This makes practice tests not only an assessment tool,but a crucial part of the teaching toolkit.

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