A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 1, 2019

I also see plenty of investments in materials from Teachers Pay Teachers. I am all for teachers selling lesson plans, assessments, support materials, and other resources to their peers. Judgments can be self-assessments by students, or judgments can be made by others, such as faculty, other students, or field-work supervisors.

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Assessment Instructional Materials Resources Examples 262

The Hechinger Report

JULY 29, 2019

High-quality instructional materials simply aren’t optional. Now, instead of having to scan the overwhelming array of curricular options on their own, districts have a reliable reference for what our state’s teachers and independent experts have said are great choices. Sign up here for our newsletter.

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Meeting Education Instructional Materials Report 89

Iterating Toward Openness

MARCH 24, 2015

For several years my colleagues and I have been conducting and reviewing empirical research on the impact on student outcomes when OER are adopted in place of commercial materials. Many of these studies report small positive and negative changes in outcomes that, aggregated across several courses, fail to achieve statistical significance.

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NeverEndingSearch

JULY 5, 2017

When my colleagues and I wrote our Social Media Curation Library Technology Report for ALA, we struggled with a definition. It often refers to the gathering and contextualizing of OER to replace expensive traditional texts and to include them in learning management systems. ” Library Technology Reports 50.7 2014): 27-36.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 30, 2023

Understanding why pandemic learning loss varies so much around the nation is admittedly a “head scratcher,” said Emma Dorn, a co-author of the McKinsey report. Nationally, the 2022 NAEP assessments showed an average drop of four points compared with 2019. But the amount of catch-up money each state gets doesn’t reflect this disparity.

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Iterating Toward Openness

JANUARY 13, 2017

This is because books are what economists refer to as private goods, meaning they have two specific characteristics: they are rivalrous and excludable. In no instance did a majority of students or teachers report that the OER were of inferior quality. References. Adopting OER is a completely different experience.

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