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How Data Drives Strategies for Improved Student Outcomes

Edsurge

Data-driven decisions are increasingly recognized as a critical component of K-12 education, enhancing personalized learning, improving assessment and feedback, optimizing resource allocation and fostering early intervention. Data informs us how best to respond to student needs and work toward the greatest student outcomes.

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What is A Portfolio Assessment?

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

In the ever-evolving landscape of education, the concepts of portfolio and portfolio assessment have garnered significant attention as comprehensive tools for evaluating student growth. This post delves into the intricacies of portfolio assessment, drawing primarily on the insightful research presented in the works of Valeri-Gold et al.

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PROOF POINTS: Only a quarter of federally funded education innovations benefited students, report says

The Hechinger Report

Credit: Staff/ The Hechinger Report Education journalism is chock full of stories touting some brand new idea that could fix schools. A February 2024 report about a research-and-development program inside the Department of Education makes this truth crystal clear. Almost 150 of them reported results with more than 20 still unfinished.

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Assessing Maker Education Projects

User Generated Education

Institutionalized education has given assessment a bad reputation; often leaves a sour taste in the mouths of many teachers, students, and laypeople. This is primarily due to the testing movement, the push towards using student assessment in the form of tests as a measure of student, teacher, principal, and school accountability.

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What Is ‘Quality’? Task Force Seeks Comment on Higher-Ed Outcomes Reporting Standards

Edsurge

Corinthian Colleges show, there can be a wide disconnect between marketing language and actual outcomes, making it hard for students to do apples-to-apples comparison between different options. One option is to charge accounting firms a membership fee to apply the standards in their audit reports of schools. Michael Horn.

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Understanding the new Alberta curriculum

Hapara

Guiding Questions are designed to guide learning, call for higher-order thinking and invite students to consider the relationship between concepts in the learner outcome. Learner Outcomes simply describe what students are required to know, understand and be able to do by the end of a grade. Educators assess and report on outcomes.

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How bullying contributes to K-12 student absenteeism

eSchool News

Previously thought to “diminish over time,” a review of longitudinal studies on bullying and subsequent outcomes revealed that the negative impacts could be experienced years later. The odds of illness and truant absences “increased by 45 percent if bullying victimization was reported several times a week.”

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