Edsurge

JUNE 19, 2017

When you enter Parker-Varney Elementary School, you are immediately struck by the relaxed atmosphere. Parker-Varney grade bands—K/1/, 2/3, 4/5—allow teachers to gather and review data and respond to academic and social needs when needed most. Students created a survey to send out to all Manchester, N.H.

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eSchool News

APRIL 2, 2024

Because student identifiable information is not gathered in these assessments, they are more likely to provide truthful responses and as a result they can receive greater personalized feedback. Questions that constitute a good screening tool assess the most quintessential factors of mental health, functioning, and academic achievement.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 17, 2021

Since then, scholars have been trying to figure out why their scores dropped so much between 2017 and 2019 on a highly regarded national test known as the National Assessment of Educational Progress or NAEP. In survey questions that accompany the NAEP test, eighth graders reported how much time they spent reading outside of school.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2018

Science could be considered the perfect elementary school subject. Most elementary school teachers have little scientific background and many say they feel unprepared to teach the subject well, according to a national survey of science and mathematics education conducted by a North Carolina research firm in 2012.

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EdTechTeacher

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

While next-generation assessments and instructional data can help educators gain a deeper understanding of students, the sheer amount of information available can prove challenging. As I discussed in a prior post , educational technologies can amplify the impact of proven formative assessment strategies. More to Explore.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 17, 2019

The ACT Network brings together shared school leadership teams—teachers, principals, central office staff who serve the schools, and community advocates—to analyze a school’s data sources, including demographic data, perception and survey data, learning data, and program data.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 3, 2021

Relationship over reproach: Fostering resilience by embracing a trauma-informed approach to elementary education. SEL Courses Assessment Strategies for SEL In this course, you’ll get up to speed on current practices in SEL, including the history and legislation that has propelled it to the forefront of our educational focus.

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eSchool News

APRIL 4, 2024

Cyberbullying, increasingly more common, occurred at least once per week in 37 percent of middle schools, 25 percent of high schools, and 6 percent of elementary schools. Alanko and colleagues analyzed time trends of biennial data collected in Finland between 2000 and 2019. sleep), negatively influencing grades and attendance.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 22, 2024

Available now to school districts nationwide, Pear Deck Learning offers a comprehensive ecosystem of tools for instruction, engagement, assessment, and intervention that is rooted in learning science and designed to help K-12 classrooms — teachers and students alike — achieve their full potential.

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ExcelinEd

JULY 23, 2020

Now, new surveys and polls are offering insight into what worked and what didn’t. We reviewed these resources and identified four questions states and schools can consider as they assess parent satisfaction with distance learning. This spring, educators and families nationwide navigated a heroic transition to distance learning.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 31, 2017

Nearly two-thirds of Americans can’t pass a basic financial literacy test, and data from the Federal Reserve show that consumer debt hit an all-time high in early August. In 2015, the PISA financial literacy assessment found that 15-year-olds in the U.S. As a country, our financial literacy skills are dismal.

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Edsurge

JULY 7, 2023

There are a number of research organizations collecting data about foreign language study and multilingualism in the U.S., however, with insufficient and lagging data from schools, this research has its limitations. language education was published in 2017, with data from less than half of the country’s K-12 schools.

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edWeb.net

JULY 26, 2022

Using data to set the vision: Just as educators give students assessments at the beginning of the year to determine their proficiencies in academic skills, the presenters administered SEL screeners to measure their students’ emotional needs.

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edWeb.net

MARCH 17, 2023

Watch the Recording Listen to the Podcast When the Nation’s Report Card for 2022 was released by the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), the declines in student reading and math scores were alarming, but for many, the data was not surprising.

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eSchool News

JULY 10, 2019

The Algoma District School Board (ADSB), located in Ontario, Canada, serves a diverse group of 9,400 students across 39 elementary and 10 secondary schools. Our district uses the School Effectiveness Framework (SEF), a tool that is based on best practices, to help us effectively monitor, reflect and gather teacher data throughout our system.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 25, 2022

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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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 2, 2023

Researchers randomly assigned 21 elementary and middle schools to receive arts education first and watched what happened to 8,000 of their students in grades three through eight. The researchers also detected an increase in students’ compassion for others, or emotional empathy, based on student surveys. In the schools without art, 14.5

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2023

The second grader attends SpaRRk Academy, a virtual learning program for elementary students created in 2021 by the Rio Rancho School District in New Mexico. A longtime administrator in Rio Rancho, Aaker led the district-wide transition of elementary students to online learning when Covid struck. It wasn’t just a mother’s intuition.

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Marketplace K-12

MARCH 9, 2016

Much of the talk about student data these days focuses on worries about how to protect it, and safeguard privacy. But a new survey of classroom teachers underscores a different, and perhaps no less fundamental concern: that much of the data educators receive is of little use to them in their efforts to improve instruction.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

One big reason is the strong data on education outcomes that we have collected and shared in our state. This is one recent example of how access to timely and reliable education data can help us better understand which classroom practices, programs and policies can benefit children throughout their educational experiences.

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eSchool News

MAY 13, 2016

A new survey reveals teachers are concerned and frustrated with shifting policies, an outsized focus on testing and a lack of voice in decision-making. Forty-six of teachers surveyed cited state or district policies that get in the way of teaching as a major challenge. “It’s becoming a tougher sell as a career.”

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 10, 2022

One study by the assessment organization NWEA noted that the achievement of Hispanic students, who were already trailing white students academically by two or so years before the pandemic, dropped twice as much as for white students by spring of 2021. Now we have a new batch of studies analyzing how students did on fall 2021 assessments.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

In May 2021, Think College Now elementary students sit in class after returning to in-person learning. The district relied on individual schools to call families, while its department of research, assessment and data conducted surveys at individual school sites to find out whether families had an internet connection and computer access.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2021

On April 20, Kentwood Elementary in Los Angeles opened its doors to students. At Creekside Elementary in Durham, North Carolina, kindergarten enrollment is down by 35 students. I’ll want to look at academic data and the age of the child. It was news Lauren Phillips, 37, had been waiting for. Credit: Carla Suarez-Capdet. “We

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Learning Elementary Data Report 126

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Mackenzie Woll, a second-grade teacher at Abby Kelley Foster Charter Public Elementary School in Worcester, Massachusetts, said diagnostic tests at the start of the year revealed that most of her students were reading at a kindergarten or a first grade level. “But READ THE SERIES. Even before the pandemic, reading achievement was in a slump.

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MindShift

JULY 10, 2018

Science could be considered the perfect elementary school subject. Most elementary school teachers have little scientific background and many say they feel unprepared to teach the subject well, according to a national survey of science and mathematics education conducted by a North Carolina research firm in 2012.

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Elementary Education Survey Report 39

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 The following year, Ruiz did the same.

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Reading By Example

JUNE 27, 2016

We used three strategies to assess growth from fall to spring: Instructional walk trends, student engagement surveys, and digital student portfolios. Each data point related to one major componenent of literacy: Instructional walks: Speaking and listening within daily instruction, including questioning and student discussion.

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Reading By Example

JUNE 27, 2016

We used three strategies to assess growth from fall to spring: Instructional walk trends, student engagement surveys, and digital student portfolios. Each data point related to one major componenent of literacy: Instructional walks: Speaking and listening within daily instruction, including questioning and student discussion.

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Elementary Classroom Survey Assessment 40

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 15, 2022

Data show many of the 69,000 U.S. Almost a quarter have neither a science degree nor full certification to teach science, according to a 2017-18 survey by the U.S. I n a 2019 survey of the state’s school principals, 81 percent reported they could find few or no satisfactory applicants for middle-school science jobs.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 17, 2022

It’s a professional assessment of a flawed model. Surveys of school principals during the 2020-21 school year by the RAND Corporation found that 60 percent of schools were offering hybrid instruction, but that could also mean that students alternated between in-person and remote days. It’s completely absurd.”.

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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. The following year, Ruiz did the same.

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Common Core Adaptive Learning Elementary Blended Learning 113

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

My classmates at th e public high school I attend in New York City are not unusual: In a recent survey, 89 percent of students who responded said they had used ChatGPT for homework. Now that I’m older, these include Regents exams, New York State tests and Advanced Placement assessments.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Every few years, the Department of Education administers a test called Long-Term Trend NAEP or National Assessment of Educational Progress to a group of students selected to reflect the diversity of the U.S. Accompanying the NAEP test was a student survey, which asked students if they learned remotely even once during the 2020-21 school year.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Thank you to everyone who has read and commented on my weekly stories about education data and research. A survey of 800 California community college students reveals why some students managed to transfer to a four-year university and others didn’t. I look forward to continuing this conversation with you next year.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2019

In addition to employing qualified elementary, middle and high school music teachers, David Douglas offers inexpensive instrument rentals ($25 per year), a library of musical scores, connections to reduced-price or free private lessons and a closet of free marching band uniforms and orchestra dress blacks, among other necessities.

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MSEDTechie

JANUARY 26, 2015

Our students now in elementary school have never had a time in their lives where mobile technology wasn''t present. The website allows you to assess students’ learning in a fun and engaging way, and it is very simple to use. There is also a survey feature. As an educator in this digital age, that’s one of my biggest challenges.

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