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Documenting and Reflecting on Learning

User Generated Education

Blogging acts as a formative assessment whereby I, as the educator, get an opportunity to learn what elements of the projects were significant for my learners. They then presented their work to their peers and a group of adults: parents, school officials, visitors to the school. Work is easily reviewed and edited for errors.

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Leadership Coaching and How Students and Teachers Benefit

Digital Promise

Establishing Goals and Program Evaluation. Digital Curriculum and Assessment. Leadership and Organizational Design. Messaging and Effective Communication. Budget and Resources. Technology Infrastructure. Personalized Professional Learning. Data Use and Security. Family and Community Engagement.

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National Network Launches to Connect Students in Crisis

eSchool News

With $250,000 from ECMC Foundation and a matching grant from Strada Education Network, the Emergency Coaching Network will provide up to 5,000 students at participating institutions with support from InsideTrack coaches specially trained to assess and support across a range of challenging situations.

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Ed tech companies promise results, but their claims are often based on shoddy research

The Hechinger Report

In some places, principals and administrators consider themselves well-equipped to assess research claims, ignore the bunk and choose promising products. They don’t have the skills to assess whether promising findings with one group of students may realistically translate to their own buildings. The results were stark.

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Let Evidence Guide the Solutions to Student Absenteeism

edWeb.net

Panelist Phyllis Jordan, editorial director at FutureEd, pointed to the results of the organization’s analysis of states’ 2017 ESSA plans, which require one non-academic indicator for school assessments. The Research Division is the internal hub in OPS for all things data, assessment, research, and evaluation.

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More than a Checkmark

MIND Research Institute

Furthermore, frequent, comparable studies shed light on patterns of outcomes, including across grade levels, across different assessments, and for students at different performance levels. An annual frequency is vital due to the constant and significant changes over time to programs, standards or assessments, and the education ecosystem.

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The dark side of education research: widespread bias

The Hechinger Report

It is by no means a complete or an exhaustive collection of educational research but a group of high quality studies curated by experts. He recalled a reading study where struggling students who didn’t complete the program were excluded from the treatment group. “Every single person said ‘no.’

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