eSchool News

AUGUST 25, 2023

With post-pandemic learning loss a continued focus, educators and administrators are relying on both formative and summative K-12 assessment data to direct classroom instruction. Only 62 percent of educators feel proficient in assessment literacy and 51 percent have concerns over the negative impact of assessments on instructional time.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 18, 2024

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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Neo LMS

MARCH 29, 2022

We will walk you through the definition of these objectives, their advantages, and how to set and track them within a learning management system (LMS ). . Finally, SMART goals will help you continuously optimize and improve your teaching and assessment. . Let’s move forward and see how you can configure them in an LMS. .

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eSchool News

MARCH 20, 2024

Key points: Very soon, districts must closely examine the edtech they use and compare it with budget realities How to ensure edtech ROI? How to assess your edtech Assessing whether a district should continue using—and paying for—a tool is dedicated work involving backend data collection and surveying teachers and students for their thoughts.

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

It will also help you with both formative and summative assessments, and it will enter your grades into any electronic grade book directly from GradeCam. Simple Assessments of All Kinds. First, let’s look at the ways you can use GradeCam for assessments. Setting up assessments is fast and easy. Make assessment simple.

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EdTech Magazine

JULY 17, 2019

Phishing in K–12: How to Avoid Taking the Bait. Of attack types, phishing is by far the security threat that most concerns districts ,” according to a Consortium for School Networking report. “Of For many — especially those with limited IT resources — the question is, how? eli.zimmerman_9856. Wed, 07/17/2019 - 10:35.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JULY 7, 2016

Assessment strategies that show what students have REALLY learned From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Assessments should cover what is taught and address important learning goals. Thomas Guskey reflects today on what makes a good assessment. The are the keys to effective assessment?

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 9, 2021

Three new reports on student achievement during the pandemic all point to larger declines in math than in reading and widening gaps between the haves and have-nots. That’s because low-income students were less likely to attend in-person school, where diagnostic assessments were given, or take an online assessment at home.

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User Generated Education

MAY 5, 2018

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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ViewSonic Education

JUNE 5, 2019

Figuring out how to do modern assessments. There are many kinds of assessments on the educational landscape. Here are 6 major learning assessment categories from TeachThought.com : Diagnostic Assessment. Formative Assessment. Norm-Referenced Assessment. Criterion-Referenced Assessment.

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EdTech4Beginners

APRIL 19, 2016

Socrative is an App (or you can use a Web browser) in which quizzes, tests and assessments can be easily created by educators and subsequently completed by students. How Do I Create My First Assessment? 6) When you are happy with your assessment, save and you will return to the home page. How Do I See The Results?

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EdTech4Beginners

APRIL 19, 2016

Socrative is an App (or you can use a Web browser) in which quizzes, tests and assessments can be easily created by educators and subsequently completed by students. How Do I Create My First Assessment? 6) When you are happy with your assessment, save and you will return to the home page. How Do I See The Results?

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Waterford

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

In a recent webinar presented by Waterford.org, Julie Christiansen reaffirmed that the science of reading is “the body of research from neuroscience and education that helps us understand how the brain learns to read and how to deliver instruction that helps students learn to read most effectively.?”[5]. The Nation’s Report Card.

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Neo LMS

MAY 10, 2022

According to a 2021 McKinsey report , disruptions such caused by the pandemic left K–12 students five months behind in some key subjects such as Math. You can get a general idea by interacting with students during classes and checking their assignments; Evaluation is by definition the process of assessing students’ acquired skills.

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Gradelink

MAY 13, 2021

This moment might just be the perfect time to rethink your school’s report cards. If you find that your school’s current report card template isn’t making the grade, then we’ve got some creative solutions for you. What Elements Make Up A Report Card? Traditional and Standards-Based Report Cards.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 13, 2023

According to a recent national survey report by the Boys and Girls Clubs of America , 130,000 kids and teens ages 9-18 reported some form of bullying. Provide training to teachers: Teachers and staff will need training on what bullying is , what the school’s policies and rules are, and how to enforce the rules.

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Neo LMS

OCTOBER 10, 2019

The question is, how can we better prepare our students for their future jobs, so that when they get hired, they already possess the basic set of skills needed to perform their job? How to enhance students’ work-ready skills. The world of work is constantly changing and evolving. Complex problem solving. Agility and adaptability.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JANUARY 6, 2023

Keeping Our Schools Safe: Reporting, Assessing, and Managing Threats A Library 2.0 + LearningRevolution.com Webinar with Dr. Steve Albrecht Please consider forwarding this material to colleagues or associates in school settings. Using the USSS Safe Schools and FBI research reports. It is presented by Library 2.0

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A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 16, 2023

By understanding how these tools impact teaching and learning, educators can determine which ones to use and how to implement them effectively. Innovative assessments The changing formats and contexts of assignments have necessitated a corresponding evolution in assessment methods. Purposeful use by the learner is vital.

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edWeb.net

MARCH 6, 2022

Technology and assessments seem like natural partners—after all, the goal of assessments is to collect data on student progress. During the edLeader Panel, “ Formative and Summative Assessment: Springboards for Achievement,” the presenters discussed the lessons they learned searching for and implementing a new assessment platform.

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eSchool News

MARCH 1, 2024

Key points: A new report urges policymakers to help students develop career-ready skills at each level of education 3 lessons on perseverance from a honey badger Are you tackling the durable skills challenge? Credentialing can show employers that high school or college students have passed skills assessments.

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EdTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

How to Redesign the K–12 Media Center. We’ve already helped several schools plan alignments that fit under the top three learning space trends reported recently by eSchool News : . That extends beyond one-to-one Chromebook initiatives and personalized assessments to learning environments. eli.zimmerman_9856.

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eSchool News

MAY 23, 2023

And most schools are not equipped to deal with these threats; the Nationwide Cybersecurity Review (NCSR) risk-based assessment rates the cyber maturity score of K-12 schools at 3.55 In fact, according to 29 percent of those responding to the K-12 Report, a cyber incident occurred in their district last year.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 22, 2019

I remember report card days as a child, me sitting outside on a brick wall, scared to death as my mother met with the teacher and received the (always bad) news about how I wasn’t doing. I love report card days now because this is when I get to meet parents. How to run a student-led conference. More about parents.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 24, 2022

The studies that were excluded did not fit the review’s criteria of assessing child learning and development outcomes.) Last year, a report by the LEGO Foundation that looked at 26 studies of play from 18 countries found play is so powerful it can reduce inequality and close achievement gaps between children ages 3 to 6.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

We didn’t go in and say, ‘Let’s take the state practice math test to find out how to use the tools.’ Not only do students get to work at their own pace in MATHia, but its built-in reports also provide actionable data to teachers so they can best set students up for success. We just went in, and the kids were fine.”

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 24, 2017

In my school, every teacher assesses writing. Even in the tech lab, which is my purview, I provide mini-how-to-write lessons before tech projects that include writing. That’s not just for essays or reports but slideshows, blog posts, comments in forums, and more. You want to only assess how well they communicate ideas.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 14, 2023

In 2022, only 22% of students scored “proficient” or higher on a nationwide civics assessment. He as more than 35 years of experience in journalism and freelance writing and was a reporter and editor at Worcester’s Telegram & Gazette from 1987 until 2015. Unfortunately, stats are even worse in other subjects.

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

Schooling is as much about learning as it is about testing how much we’ve learned. Benchmark assessments are testing tools that are used throughout the year, as opposed to final examinations, which are taken at the end of each school year. Assessment Guest Blogger'

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Edsurge

MARCH 22, 2024

After the Virginia Tech shooting in 2007, Virginia became the first state to require colleges to conduct threat assessments , later requiring K-12 schools to do the same. A method for schools to figure out which student threats foreshadow violence, threat assessment was adapted from the Secret Service.

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Edsurge

APRIL 28, 2020

She is the vice president of advocacy and engagement at the Mozilla Foundation, which today released a new report examining the privacy and security policies of 15 commonly used video-conferencing apps. In essence, the Mozilla report distills legalese and technical jargon into plain language.

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Turning Learning On Its Head

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

If they don’t demonstrate mastery on your first assessment, you need to provide a new assessment that tests the same material. How many versions of the summative assessment can they create? This article is part of a series where we will discuss how you can make mastery learning a reality.

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Hapara

AUGUST 8, 2022

Let’s take a look at how to develop K-12 open educational resources. Formative assessments like this NGSS-aligned weather formative assessment. Pre-assessments like this clouds pre-assessment. In addition, you can add media such as video and images if you’re building a lesson plan, unit or assessment.

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EdTech Magazine

APRIL 4, 2019

CoSN 2019: How to Design an Effective K–12 Technology Evaluation Program. Assessments can be used to make programs more cost-effective, improve implementation, enable replication elsewhere in the district and justify more funding to administrators. . eli.zimmerman_9856. Thu, 04/04/2019 - 11:01. Community Schools. by Eli Zimmerman.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 7, 2018

Here, you can register for an SAT test, send score reports to colleges, go behind the curtain to see what concepts are tested on each section, and practice for the test with authentic questions and full-length practice tests. Parents, teachers, and counselors can monitor a student’s progress by viewing real-time reports.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 9, 2017

If you’re a fan of Kiddom , the easy way to plan, assess, and analyze learning, you’ll be excited to hear that they added more than 50 features to the new Kiddom 2.0 (see Reports — visualize progress with beautiful analytics that track student performance. see my review of Kiddom ). Kiddom 2.0 Try Frolyc.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 11, 2016

The most difficult part was convincing colleagues that 2nd graders couldn’t write a book report in MS Word until they understood toolbars, keyboarding basics, enough digital citizenship to research effectively online, and how to solve the never-ending-but-repetitive tech problems they surely would face during their work.

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