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U.S. K-12 Educational Technology Policy: Historical Notes on the Federal Role

Doug Levin

Note that the last category is the most subjective and one might reasonably argue some reports (including those conducted under contract with the U.S. Please feel free to comment if you believe I’ve missed a key document or piece of crucial information, or if you have a question regarding the context of a specific statement or document.

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With Budget Cuts Looming, Here’s How Districts Will Decide What to Keep or Cut

Edsurge

Evidence-based Investments There is a long-standing interest in spending academic intervention funds on programs with a record of success. With regard to the latter, there are new requirements under the Every Student Succeeds Act that require school-level expenditure reports. But that’s likely to change when budgets get tight.

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The dark side of education research: widespread bias

The Hechinger Report

.’ If you’re in the work of program evaluation, you can see why these things might happen,” said Wolf. The problem of hiding unfavorable results from publication was documented as far back as 1995. The post The dark side of education research: widespread bias appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

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Debunking the ‘Gold Standard’ Myths in Edtech Efficacy

Edsurge

Summative Research This is all about outcomes and includes the classic RCT and QED research programs. Evaluating outcomes in this way takes both time and financial resources. These reports should include details about the nature of the institution using the product (i.e. age, grade, ELL, SPED, etc).

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