User Generated Education

MARCH 19, 2020

In this case, I inform the Breakout Groups to decide on a spokesperson or two to report to the whole group. Google Forms can be used for student surveys and polling. More information about how to do this can be found at How to Make a Survey With Google Docs Forms. Breakout Groups. Google Form. Poll Everywhere.

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Meeting Poll Everywhere Groups Case Study 374

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

They outlined key factors that can predict non-submission, using data students put into their Common App profiles coupled with community indicators from the American Community Survey administered by the U.S. Compared to applicants, non-submitters were also less likely to report having a parent with a college degree.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 7, 2022

The new NCTQ report, State of the States 2022: Teacher and Principal Evaluation Policies , presents data and analysis on policies from all 50 states and D.C. The new NCTQ report, State of the States 2022: Teacher and Principal Evaluation Policies , presents data and analysis on policies from all 50 states and D.C.

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Policies Survey Analysis Data 69

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 17, 2022

Credit: Lillian Mongeau/The Hechinger Report. 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.

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Personalized Learning Study Laptops Learning 139

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Related: Inside the middle school math crisis I sat through other new simulations at the summit as well, including Dreamscape Learn, something I’d heard and read about from a colleague who took a trip through its virtual Alien Zoo ) and YouTube Player for Education , which is creating virtual lessons, content and assessments.

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Training Report Online Learning Conference 123

Edsurge

JUNE 14, 2017

In an effort to close the gap between claims and facts, Entangled Solutions has issued a near-final draft of a new set of “quality assurance” standards for how programs report and communicate student outcomes. One option is to charge accounting firms a membership fee to apply the standards in their audit reports of schools.

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Outcomes Report Comparison Guidelines 96

Edsurge

OCTOBER 28, 2020

More than two-thirds of colleges saw additional students apply for academic accommodations during the spring 2020 semester, according to a national survey of 212 colleges that shifted to remote instruction because of the pandemic. There seems to be an environmental factor involved.”

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Survey Accessibility Learning Report 124

Edsurge

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Among employers, awareness of and experience with new non-degree and digital credentials is also continuing to grow—and the potential value proposition of digital credentialing resonates, according to survey results that we published just last week. College enrollment has been on the decline, dropping 7 percent between 2010 and 2018.

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MOOC Coursera Trends Survey 201

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 23, 2021

Employers rate “ability to work in teams” as the most important skill required of college graduates; 62 percent of employers said this skill is “very important,” while another 31 percent rated it as “somewhat important,” according to a recent employer survey conducted by the Association of American Colleges & Universities.

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Survey Training Groups Exercises 142

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

As you might know there are some amazing formative assessment tools on the web. Free Digital Formative Assessment Tools… Important Thoughts Before Implementing - Michael Gorman ( https://21centuryedtech.wordpress.com ) . Not only can the formative assessment process be engaging, it can also be owned by students.

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Assessment Tools STEM Policies 155

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Credit: Lillian Mongeau for The Hechinger Report That’s slowly changing — for some disabilities. This back-to-school season, the Education Reporting Collaborative, a coalition of eight newsrooms, will be documenting the enormous challenge facing our schools and highlighting examples of progress.

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Report Training Elementary Strategy 133

The Hechinger Report

MAY 16, 2022

Today, A students make up a majority of ACT test takers, some of whom are not college bound and take the test as a required high school assessment. One drawback of the study is that it relies on self-reported grades that students disclose on an optional survey when they register for the ACT. As grades rose, achievement fell.

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Analysis Study Report Assessment 143

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2023

This back-to-school season, the Education Reporting Collaborative, a coalition of eight newsrooms, will be documenting the enormous challenge facing our schools and highlighting examples of progress. The post AI might disrupt math and computer science classes – in a good way appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

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Khan Academy Software Report Tools 111

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Decades of research shows that math anxiety is a common problem for adults, and surveys show it particularly affects women , who make up nearly 90 percent of elementary teachers in the United States. Wendi is me,” said Ivory McCormick, a kindergarten teacher from Atlanta.

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Elementary Report Conference Exercises 131

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

With the addition of PBIS Rewards, Navigate360 is setting the new standard for whole-child safety through modern, holistic solutions that address school climate and culture, full-cycle emergency management, early detection, assessment and violence prevention—issues that all desperately require action in today’s schools.

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Software System Data Report 93

Edsurge

AUGUST 7, 2018

Grounded in decades of research into positive youth development and funded by the Institute of Education Sciences , our framework is a comprehensive set of assessment tools that help schools evaluate students’ mental health, social and emotional well-being, as well as several important risk factors. So what does that actually mean?

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Assessment Survey Learning Report 87

Edsurge

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Ask any educator who teaches five classes of 30 students each per day; there’s a lot of homework to assess. According to the International Center for Academic Integrity, 58% of more than 70,000 students surveyed say they have plagiarized someone else’s ideas in their writing. It’s a problem that doesn’t seem to be going away.

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Software Assessment Analysis Tools 147

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Several largely overlooked reports, including from the Department of Defense, raise alarms about how Americans’ disdain for math is a threat to national security. It reports that there are now eight times as many college graduates in these disciplines in China and four times as many engineers in Russia than in the United States.

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STEM Report Study Industry 137

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. How can student achievement around the country be hit so hard if we reported in July 2022 that the pace of learning was back to normal

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Report Trends Assessment Elementary 90

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Credit: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report. The family hoped Eli could get an Individualized Education Program (IEP), a legal document that qualifies students for special education and lays out the services and accommodations they will receive. Credit: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report.

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Education Assessment Advocacy Report 135

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Credit: Noah Willman for The Hechinger Report. And that was before the shutdowns and confusion of the Covid-19 pandemic, which other surveys show has further damaged public confidence. Credit: Noah Willman for The Hechinger Report. Johns Hopkins reported spending $29.6 Johns Hopkins reported spending $29.6

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Social Media Report Survey Conference 145

techieMusings

JUNE 3, 2015

Each year, we are asked to administer student surveys at the end of the year to get a student perspective on things that went well and areas for improvement in our teaching. Finally, students reported that I was always available and willing to help. This class was very engaging and fun. Roshan is an amazing teacher!

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Survey Flipped Classroom Video Guidelines 50

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

The National Survey of Student Engagement , or NSSE (pronounced “Nessie”), which McCormick now runs, was conceived in 2000 to track the ways students spend their time in college, including how and how much they study, meet with faculty and participate in class discussions. “We’ve never really had to demonstrate our learning,” said McCormick.

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Learning Outcomes Survey Assessment 103

Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 25, 2019

Online libraries and collections of free didactic documents were a reality as early as 1997 , through the Cisco Networking Academy. Results can be then assessed and graded accordingly, which facilitates the overall learning experience immensely. Extended Access to Education. Lower Maintenance Costs.

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Industry Khan Academy Education Coursera 227

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

More than a dozen studies have documented that students, on average, made sluggish progress in reading during the pandemic. Six newsrooms joined together to report on the problem and find solutions for America’s reading problem. Credit: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report. Credit: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report.

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Elementary Analysis Libraries Report 145

Fractus Learning

APRIL 9, 2021

These tools help create instructional content, interactive lessons, polling surveys, activities, and students’ opportunities to ask questions and communicate effectively. Student engagement in answering questions or testing their knowledge with challenges helps teachers assess the student’s student progress.

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Flipped Classroom Software Tools Classroom 97

eSchool News

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Cassie Creswell of the nonprofit Illinois Families for Public Schools says surveying students online could undermine the district’s most important tool for getting information that helps avert violence. It planned to spend $450,000 on the program over three years.

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Social Media Company Report Data 125

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. Expenditure Transparency It’s important to know how money is spent and where it goes.

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Policies EdTech Program Evaluation Outcomes 125

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 29, 2022

Credit: Photo: Rory Doyle / The Hechinger Report. We know that kids love it and so do parents and teachers,” said Emily Morton, a researcher at NWEA, a nonprofit assessment company, who has studied four-day school weeks around the country. appeared first on The Hechinger Report. Is a four-day school week a bad idea?

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Study Analysis Policies Report 121

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 23, 2020

Lafayette College showed faculty how to make document cameras at home using cardboard and rubber bands. Real online education lets students move at their own pace and includes such features as continual assessments so they can jump ahead as soon as they’ve mastered a skill, Fredericksen and others said. Illustration by Shonagh Rae.

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Tools Coursera Course Survey 119

Kitaboo on EdTech

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

A quick scan of the EdTech Top 40 – Fall 22 Report reveals that teachers in the United States used almost 148 digital tools, while students used nearly 143 digital tools in the school year 2021–22. The platform facilitates instant assessments and feedback so teachers can stay connected to their pupils in real-time.

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Tools eBook Classroom Future Ready 52

Mistakengoal.com

APRIL 15, 2014

this set of Excel macros ), usually to save time and ensure accurate, well-documented, and reproducible results. First, I spend quite a bit of my time analyzing quantitative data e.g., student grades and assessment data, student retention data, and survey responses. At times I write scripts or light programs (e.g.,

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Survey Analysis Assessment Data 45

The Hechinger Report

MAY 8, 2018

That decline, recently documented in a survey of math and statistics departments by the Conference Board for Mathematical Sciences (CBMS), is great news for students. Twelfth-graders’ scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress have barely budged over the last 10 years. million to around 780,000. Related: U.S.

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Data Survey Course Common Core 58

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 10, 2023

Credit: Valerie Plesh for The Hechinger Report But the remote lessons she was teaching to second graders at a Silver Spring, Maryland, elementary school didn’t resemble the in-person classes where she learned her craft in college as a student teacher. Then the pandemic came along, hammering teachers and the profession as a whole.

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Elementary Report Training Classroom 73

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

An Education Week survey found that the vast majority of educators believe that a growth-oriented mindset can help improve students’ motivation, commitment and engagement in learning. Most importantly, this needs to happen embedded in learning throughout the year (not just in first two weeks lessons or at report card time).

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Strategy Exercises Study Survey 133

The Electric Educator

MARCH 13, 2018

I've blogged about it quite a few times over the past few years: 10 Google Form Tricks Restrict Answer Length in Google Forms My most epic spreadsheet ever Elementary book report machine You have probably created a survey or quiz using Forms. Week 2: Forms for Assessment Google Forms is a great tool for assessment.

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Google Classroom Data Course 51

MindShift

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

In a MindShift survey this fall, some of our newsletter subscribers described structural changes at their schools that were making the year more manageable, such as shorter class periods or having one day per week devoted to teacher planning. This year, students are taking three classes at a time for just one quarter. instead of 7:45 a.m.

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Survey Course Analysis Report 69