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Measuring Student Engagement with Digital Tools

ViewSonic Education

Aside from asking students to assess their own levels of engagement — a perfectly valid process, albeit one which is influenced by bias — measurement has often relied upon the perception of teachers or outside observers. Student Engagement Surveys. Alternatively, anonymous surveys can be sent out digitally at the end of each lesson.

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Why Schools Should Focus on Social Capital Development — Not Just Skills

Edsurge

An analysis of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, for example, found that young adults who found jobs through informal networks had higher wages relative to those who used more formal job searching and application techniques. Co-designing surveys with students is one tactic for avoiding that deficit land mine.

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Learning Loss Is Everywhere. But How Do the Reports Compare?

Edsurge

Learning Loss in Math Exceeds Reading By Any Measure Let’s get this out of the way up front: there is no shortage of surveys, analyses and other reports on pandemic learning loss among K-12 students who have suffered shuttered schools and unplanned days of remote online instruction. All in this Edtech Reports Recap.

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PROOF POINTS: Paper books linked to stronger readers in an international study

The Hechinger Report

Teens who read more paper books scored higher on reading assessments. Even among students of similar socioeconomic backgrounds, those who read books in a paper format scored a whopping 49 points higher on the Program for International Student Assessment, known as PISA. Credit: Jill Barshay/The Hechinger Report. years of learning.

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4 key ways schools can strengthen and advance cybersecurity strategies

eSchool News

In a 2022 survey , 72 percent of the participating school administrators responded that cybersecurity was either a priority or high priority for their district leadership and local school boards. This enabled district leaders to see a side-by-side cost comparison of using a hosted, cloud-based firewall service versus an on-prem solution.

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PROOF POINTS: Researchers blast data analysis for teachers to help students 

The Hechinger Report

In the years after the law went into effect, the testing and data industries flourished, selling school districts interim assessments to track student progress throughout the year along with flashy data dashboards that translated student achievement into colored circles and red warning flags.

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For Schools, Time Was Already Scarce. Here’s What They’ll Need to Restart in Fall.

Edsurge

Student Assessment By now (mid-June), nearly every school in the U.S. Quality formative assessments, a requisite for providing meaningful instruction, will be especially important for closing COVID learning gaps. has been running remotely for twelve weeks.