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6 reasons it’s important to create your own online assessments

eSchool News

Homegrown online assessments prove invaluable to one district. Assessments are critical to our efforts to improve instruction in K-12 education. At Hopewell Valley Regional School District (HVRSD), we began the transition to online assessment more than three years ago. It makes student thinking visible.

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CoSN 2018: Broadband and Cybersecurity Are Top IT Concerns

EdTech Magazine

More than half of women come to their IT role with an academic background in education and instruction , compared with a third of men, who come from a background in technology,” says Steve Langford, CoSN Board member and CIO of Beaverton School District in Oregon. IT Leaders Focus on Data-Driven Decisions.

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6 EdTech Resources and Strategies to Gain a Deeper Understanding of Students

EdTechTeacher

As educators across the nation have adopted these high impact assessment strategies, there has been considerable advancement in educational technologies that help amplify the effectiveness of these practices. You Need Data to Personalize Learning. Assessment Strategies and EdTech Resources in Action.

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Skyward, Certica launch formative assessment solution

eSchool News

Partnership aims to help educators access more than 80,000 item bank resources for assessment. At the center of this platform is Certica’s Formative Assessment Item Bank (FAIB), which features over 80,000 items, including more than 50,000 Common Core-aligned Math and English Language Arts selections.

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What are IT leaders worried about? Assessment readiness and money

eSchool News

What are the key technology trends in education according to leadership in our school systems? What do the data tell us? Assessment readiness is again the No. The growing imperative about being assessment ready isn’t likely a surprise for those living in states adopting the Common Core.

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Preparing Students with Technology Skills

edWeb.net

Jeff Meyer, Director of Education at Learning.com, during a recent edWebinar , underscored that while this generation of students is growing up using technology, they generally lack the digital literacy skills they need for success by the time they enter high school. Computational Thinking and Coding. Things to consider.

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BoomWriter for Districts

Technology Tidbits

BoomWriter for Districts ensures that a complete education technology experience will be delivered to your teachers and students resulting in improved fiction and nonfiction reading, writing and content assessment skills, and enhanced vocabulary development. This is a wonderful innovative way to integrate technology into the classroom.