eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

The Back to School Behavior Management Course Bundle, part of Vector Solutions’ Special Education course offerings, is just one example of the resources the company provides around student safety and wellness, trauma, and mental health. The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Tampa, Florida.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 22, 2022

In a world where competition for jobs, pay increases, and academic success continues to increase, certifications offer hope because they are a credible, third-party assessment of one’s skill and knowledge for a given subject. The Perkins Act provides almost $1.3

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Edsurge

AUGUST 15, 2016

A few weeks back, EdSurge published a podcast interview with education consultant and commentator Alan November, and Director of Secondary Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment for the Houston Independent School District Mike Dorsey, after chatting with the two education experts at ISTE. There still seems to be a big demand for that.

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Edsurge

JUNE 30, 2016

But as educators and edtech companies look to track the most effective tools and practices, two big questions are at the fore: How do we measure technology’s effectiveness? Shana White, for example, is a 15-year veteran P.E. Multiple choice tests and high-stakes assessment had few fans at ISTE. Trends change.

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edWeb.net

AUGUST 24, 2020

” She points out that researchers, educators, and district administrators won’t have any empirical evidence until student assessments reveal learning gaps due to COVID slide and summer learning loss. Understanding why it is taught focuses on data derived from assessments that maximize the data. Learning Gaps.

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Edsurge

JUNE 16, 2020

The federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act, for example, limits the use of school-improvement funds to interventions that benefit student learning as documented by at least one well-designed and well-implemented research study. But that’s likely to change when budgets get tight. Poorer districts often paid the highest prices.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

For example, according to a separate report by NCES the median annual earnings for full-time workers ages 25 through 34 who had not completed high school were $26,000, compared to $32,000 a year for those whose highest education level was high school completion. Learn more at www.ancorahigh.com.

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Dropout Course Assessment Secondary 111

Edsurge

MAY 3, 2019

Ponddy Education , for example, is a San Jose, Calif.-based A growing number of vendors are offering AI-powered language-learning apps to companies and the general public ( Speexx , Busuu , Duolingo ) for hundreds of languages, but Ponddy’s products were developed specifically for secondary and university teachers of Mandarin.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Most, I'd wager, are facing severe funding shortages — the loss of tuition, dorm-room, and sportsball dollars, for example — as well as new expenses like PPE and COVID testing. Technology companies offer their products as the solution, and technology advocates promote the narrative of techno-solutionism. Let me fix that sentence.

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Robotics Software Company ProctorU 83

Iterating Toward Openness

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Improvement in post secondary education will require converting teaching from a solo sport to a community-based research activity. However, we’re just one company. Finally, we align each assessment item with the outcome it is designed to assess. Simon , 1986). The faculty Lumen work with carry an enormous workload.

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OER Outcomes Analysis Assessment 114

The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 5, 2018

Vicki: Give us some examples. You know, we’re not giving the kids the tools in school along with opportunities to collaborate, that they need on the job, that the companies are asking for. The company who sponsored it compensated me via cash payment, gift, or something else of value to include a reference to their product.

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Khan Academy Elementary Company Personalized Learning 165

The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 3, 2019

00:02:00] Yet they would remember the craziest things, if I told a story, I how I used math in life or for example, like you said in Estimation 180 I provided my students with visuals and ways for them to make sense of the world around them so I take pictures of things and ask them to estimate quantities or heights or distances.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2024

Policymakers will be looking to leverage their existing data sources to better understand those trends and the remaining gaps, and they will continue to look for innovative approaches to learning and ways to assess the needs of students. I can see a world where we overcorrect, however, and start to view it in a very narrow way.

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Trends EdTech Industry Data 144

Edsurge

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Laurence’s College in Brisbane had just 50 minutes to write up a formative assessment on the representation of robots and artificial intelligence in the movies. That way a secondary explanation of a concept can happen instantly as opposed to the next day,” she says. Her high school literature students at St.

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MindShift

JUNE 30, 2018

He’s also vice president for research for Pearson, the company whose automated scoring program graded some 34 million student essays on state and national high-stakes tests last year. The computer also breaks it down in several categories of sub-scores showing, for example, a one on spelling and grammar, and a two on task and focus.

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Secondary Pearson System Assessment 38

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Higher education has found itself under increasing pressure to change that, just as has happened in elementary and secondary schools, where a battery of standardized tests constantly check in on what students know. The push is coming from policymakers and consumers who want to know the return on their investments in college.

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Learning Outcomes Survey Assessment 101

edWeb.net

JULY 10, 2018

Digital educational materials have provided many benefits for K-12 educators and students from computer adaptive assessments to tools that allow students to collaborate and communicate 24/7. What additional features, for example a parent portal, are available? What analytics does the program provide? Does it go beyond basic usage?

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Accessibility EdTech Secondary Elementary 40

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

EdSurge will be hosting hundreds of local teachers and administrators, along with dozens of edtech companies from around the country, at our Summit on Dec. A common example of crossover between the teams occurred when a teacher wanted to unlock a website. Want to learn more about Seattle’s burgeoning edtech scene?

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MindShift

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

.” Eventually, the School Superintendents Association, the National Association of Elementary School Principals, the National Association of Secondary School Principals and groups representing charter and independent schools joined forces to urge school leaders to contribute. A software company called Qualtrics did the analysis.

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Fractus Learning

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Assessment is subjective. The Need for Autonomous Assessment. Teachers’ observation skills and subjective judgment are used quite frequently in terms of assessing students’ behavior and performance in the classroom. For example, in primary level teachers will prescribe printed textbooks and worksheet assessments.

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Learning Analytics Gamification Assessment Industry 40

Shake Up Learning

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Have you ever thought about how the way you grade and assess work, or maybe how the way you are required to grade could be contributing to the game of school? There have been many articles, books, and theories on shifting the way we assess and assign grades. Extra credit tends to play a major role in the secondary world.

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Policies Google Assessment System 78

eSchool News

JANUARY 5, 2024

Policymakers will be looking to leverage their existing data sources to better understand those trends and the remaining gaps, and they will continue to look for innovative approaches to learning and ways to assess the needs of students. I can see a world where we overcorrect, however, and start to view it in a very narrow way.

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Trends EdTech Industry Data 52

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 7, 2016

The nonprofit test development group has worked with the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary education to make and score MCAS for all but four of the 19 years it has been given. The company also works on large-scale assessments for 16 other states and is one of two companies in the running to design the MCAS 2.0.

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Common Core Assessment Data Secondary 40

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 28, 2019

In Boston, an all-day training in a high school gym attracted about 100 educators for instruction in yoga, meditation and mindfulness, part of a 200-hour training offered on weekends by a company called Breathe For Change. I love my students. Frustration can build even when teachers agree with the premise of a reform.

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Training Elementary Report Exercises 111

Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

At the time, I wrote about the importance of APIs; the issues surrounding data security and privacy; the appeal of platforms for users and businesses; and the education and tech companies who were well-positioned (or at least wanting) to become education platforms. The company has raised some $77.5 Okay, okay.

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Bryan Alexander

APRIL 15, 2016

Gardner, participants, and I explored pedagogy, the power of the hyperlink, data, instructors, institutions, eportfolios, language, students, assessment, a great card deck, our personal histories, and a lot more. Assessment becomes impersonal. For example, Martin Hawksey’s Twitter hashtag explorer. What’s going on here?

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Trends ePortfolio Twitter Gamification 41

Bryan Alexander

APRIL 15, 2016

Gardner, participants, and I explored pedagogy, the power of the hyperlink, data, instructors, institutions, eportfolios, language, students, assessment, a great card deck, our personal histories, and a lot more. Assessment becomes impersonal. For example, Martin Hawksey’s Twitter hashtag explorer. What’s going on here?

Trends 40

Trends ePortfolio Twitter Gamification 40

MindShift

JANUARY 9, 2019

So, for example, math teachers might want to meet every day for 35 minutes. How do you track a student through four years of flex-mod scheduling with a gradebook based on semesters, for example? After filling in some basic information in those four areas, the principal gets a personalized link with a 15-minute assessment for staff.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

As a bonus, these sessions can allow educators more opportunities to measure student achievement through informal assessments, potentially providing new holistic accountability measures. 15 These increases in achievement show great potential for using high-dosage tutoring as a school improvement strategy. 29 Additionally, U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2018

With textbooks open, they watched a lecture about Newton’s Laws on a giant screen, while their classroom teacher simultaneously offered examples of those laws in action. based education company that is part of a nonprofit consortium in the state. Quality can vary greatly.

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Online Learning Learning Course Blended Learning 63

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2019

DeLorenzo screened the candidates, assessing their capacity for change, and six districts were approved , among them the three districts mentioned above that had already begun experimenting with the model. To encourage them along, the state offered schools $50,000 grants to subsidize RISC training, Gendron recalled.

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Connecting 2 the World

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

In our department (Communication), for example our programs focus on Healthcare communication, political communication, and interpersonal communication. There needs to be a deeper level of assessment that objective tests don't access. In other words, the Ph.d. holds all knowledge about a content area, thus making them an "expert".

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Education Study Course Analysis 67

Fractus Learning

JANUARY 4, 2017

Acquisition is what happens to all individuals while they’re traversing the world, whether alone or with company. Once they have found the meaning of the word, they can try using it themselves, in a conversation, for example. I’ll illustrate with an example. Learning is what happens to students in a classroom with a teacher.

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Blackboard How To Classroom Course 41

MindShift

MARCH 6, 2018

With textbooks open, they watched a lecture about Newton’s Laws on a giant screen, while their classroom teacher simultaneously offered examples of those laws in action. based education company that is part of a nonprofit consortium in the state. Quality can vary greatly.

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Online Learning Learning Course Report 31

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2016

To be sure, ongoing ill will over NCLB influenced the bitter, drawn-out negotiations over the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, which became ESSA (NCLB was also a reauthorization of the 1965 act). Schools can also be evaluated by softer qualitative measures, such as campus climate, for example.

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Education Policies Learning Report 40

Iterating Toward Openness

APRIL 25, 2019

For example, I spend a fair amount of time thinking about the future of learning materials writ large. In this vision of the world, OER replace traditionally copyrighted, expensive textbooks for all primary, secondary, and post-secondary courses. assessment banks, assignments, online homework tools).)

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 24, 2017

01:01 Vicki : So give me an example of how it’s used in your classroom. So that’s just one example of getting the year started off with a thinking routine. So for example, one of the types of thinking is perspective taking. 05:00 Vicki: So you’ve already given us three examples. Such engagement!

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