Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 20, 2019

Student information systems, online gradebooks, electronic formative assessment tools, and data warehouses are all examples of technologies that help educators input, manage, analyze, and present student learning data (Wayman, Stringfield, & Yakimowski, 2004).

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Digital Promise

JUNE 15, 2016

Teaching quality has been defined as “instruction that enables a wide range of students to learn” ( Darling-Hammond, 2012 ), and it is the strongest school-related factor that can improve student learning and achievement ( Hanushek, 2011 ; Nye, Konstantopoulos, and Hedges, 2004 ; Rivkin, Hanushek, and Kain, 2005 ).

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Edsurge

APRIL 3, 2019

At the time, Wireless Generation was expanding from its roots in K-3 reading assessment into new areas: intervention, professional development, and data systems. We focused on the essential needs of the market—curriculum, assessment, and intervention—which aligned with our core competencies and interests. Sometimes very hard.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 13, 2024

The long-term assessment format changed in 2004, which is why you’ll notice some spikes or kinks for that year in the graphs below.) Achievement gaps were at their most narrow in 2004, but Black 9-year-olds continued to make progress in math through 2012.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 19, 2021

When we began our residential summer learning program in 2004, we wrapped our curriculum around a “team model” that reflects the collaborative way that the world works. Small-group and peer-based learning offer valuable and engaging learning structures. Focus on engaging content, not seat time.

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User Generated Education

DECEMBER 1, 2014

Assessment as an Ongoing Act of Learning: A Heutagogical Approach: Melanie Booth. is a type of essentialist, behaviorist education based on the three Rs – receiving by listening to the teacher; responding by taking notes, studying text, and doing worksheets; and regurgitating by taking the same assessments as all other students in the cohort.

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MIND Research Institute

JUNE 18, 2024

In the United States , only 36 percent of 4th-grade students performed at ‘proficient’ or above in math on the 2022 National Association for Educational Progress (NAEP) Assessment. 2004) , invent algorithms (Hiebert, 2003) , and translate them to everyday situations ( Baroody et al.,

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eSchool News

AUGUST 6, 2019

Traditionally, the education sector and student-focused nonprofits providing services like afterschool and mentoring programs, have relied on test scores and assessments to gauge student progress. However, these two factors alone can’t reliably show what else might contribute to a student’s academic success.

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Edsurge

APRIL 20, 2020

From 2004 to 2009, transfer students on average lost 43 percent of their credits—basically a semester’s worth. In lock step, employers will need to adopt and advocate for skills-based standards with aligned mastery-based assessments as part of their hiring and promotion. But as they move, their credits don’t always follow.

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System Outcomes Competency Based Learning Course 153

Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2019

Teachers can create, distribute and manage multimedia content and assessments on students’ devices. Since 2004 it has created more than 1,100 clips that have amassed an estimated 50 million views. Founded in 2012, Nearpod started as an “interactive lecture” platform for iPads that has since evolved to support all devices.

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Chegg Education Company Libraries 164

MIND Research Institute

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

At all points in the design process, we consider whether the mathematical understandings, lesson objectives, lesson activities, student reflection, and assessments contribute toward a focus on the big idea and coherence within and across grade levels. Mack, 2004).

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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 is the author of Images of America: Sutton (2004) and Images of America: Millbury (2013). Unfortunately, stats are even worse in other subjects. And one in three scored below basic understanding of the subject.

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Doug Levin

APRIL 21, 2016

FY 2004 $695,900,000 (President Bush’s request: $700,500,000). Office of Management and Budget Program Assessment: Enhancing Education Through Technology (Rating: Not Performing, Results Not Demonstrated ) (undated, but stopped being maintained after the Bush administration). FY 2003 $700,500,000.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 12, 2016

Learning Space Toolkit by North Carolina State University has a system for needs assessment and space planning. link] [PDF] High Performance Learning Spaces – a paper shared by Stanford University in 2004 about their research into creating spaces where high performance learning happens. University of Salford, Manchester.

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Edsurge

MARCH 6, 2019

He said Turnitin has been cashflow positive since 2004. This is a pretty common end game for tech companies, especially ones that traffic in human data: create a large base of users, collect their data, monetize that data in ways that help assess its value, leverage that valuation in an acquisition deal,” Stommel said in an email.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

The trend-spotting Horizon Report series is a long-standing tradition—it dates back to 2004, first under the banner of the now-defunct New Media Consortium and then, after 2017, continued independently by its long-time partners: the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN) in K-12 and EDUCAUSE in higher education.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MARCH 9, 2015

The Inconvenient Truths About Assessment. In terms of pedagogy, the primary purpose of an assessment is to provide data to revise planned instruction. This can mean that it’s often easier to assess something other than an academic standard than it is knowledge of the standard itself. by Terry Heick. ” What now?

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Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 2020

Birds of a Feather Smart Sparrow traces its origins to 2004, to the University of New South Wales in Australia, where Ben-Naim, then a Ph.D. ACT, the group best known for its assessment used in college admissions, invested $7.5 student and teaching assistant, began building his own homegrown adaptive tutoring technologies.

Pearson 143

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MIND Research Institute

OCTOBER 4, 2023

While most of our competitors feel comfortable relying on a single RCT from many years passed, often on old versions of the product and results from assessments no longer being administered, MIND believes in providing a rich set of continuous, rigorous research.

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ExcelinEd

MARCH 20, 2019

As director of Florida’s Reading First program from 2004-2009, I had the privilege of being a part of Florida’s incredible work to enable all students to become successful readers by the end of third grade. A system for statewide early literacy training. School-based reading coaches to support teachers with effective implementation.

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Policies Training Assessment Report 78

N2Y

JANUARY 31, 2020

Because this foundational component is also informed by formal and informal assessments, it should identify the student’s specific needs and his or her strengths—both critical to developing short-term objectives and annual goals. Pair with assessment results, Student Daily performance data and observations to build a rock-solid PLAAFP.

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Data Assessment Report Guidelines 98

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2024

Yet the change isn’t happening fast enough for many parents and researchers who say the tests remain deeply ingrained in the work of school psychologists, in particular, and that they are still regularly misused to gauge young children’s potential and assess whether they are “worthy” of extra help or investment.

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Assessment Policies Accessibility Report 135

Edsurge

JULY 7, 2016

Over one-half of participating school districts allowed students to take home their laptops by 2004; a second RFP was issued in 2006; and the MLTI program expanded into high schools in 2009. In fact, assistant Superintendent Shawn Carlson points out the one of the most successful uses of iPads in Boothbay has been in assessments.

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eSchool News

MARCH 27, 2023

in linguistics from Stanford University, was a faculty member of the University of California at Berkeley Graduate School of Education from 1974 to 2004. About Curriculum Associates Founded in 1969, Curriculum Associates, LLC designs research-based print and online instructional materials, screens and assessments, and data management tools.

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Brainscape

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Studying for a very particular assessment? 17 (April 28, 2004): 4105. Customize your decks Use Brainscape’s AI flashcard generator or make flashcards yourself with our awesome flashcard authoring tools to create decks that cover exactly what you need to know. Available at: [link] Zald, David H., Dichter, and Alain Dagher. "Dopamine

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Huinker led a math education revolution in the district when, between 2004 and 2014, almost every teacher in Milwaukee Public Schools received this type of training. Second, teachers and university professors helped develop standardized assessments for each grade level. New district leaders abruptly ended that work. Credit: Abby J.

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Elementary Report Training Data 125

Edsurge

JUNE 4, 2018

The organization has been providing LMS-based professional learning for the state’s educators since 2004. “We For example, we did a training for the Michigan Department of Education on how to administer state assessments. Michigan Virtual has been in the online education space for two decades.

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Veative

NOVEMBER 18, 2018

By creating specially designed virtual environments for the detection, assessment and treatment of this disorder, Virtual Reality can serve both as a diagnostic tool and an effective therapeutic strategy in the rehabilitation of children with ADHD. How can VR help children with ADHD. The VR-based approach to ADHD.

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Assessment Analysis Study Strategy 80

Edsurge

APRIL 4, 2017

In 2016, our Anna Reynolds Elementary School was the recipient of the National Blue Ribbon Award for high performance , and every school in the district routinely outperforms the competing magnet school on standardized assessments. He began his teaching career at Newington High School in 1985, before being appointed principal in 2004.

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STEM Personalized Learning BYOD iPad 125

Digital Promise

JULY 14, 2016

These contexts involve social interactions, activities and routines, and biological factors (McAtee, Carr, & Schulte, 2004). Preferences can be assessed and individuals can be taught to make choices related to their preferences, thereby minimizing the frustration of seldom being able to choose what is meaningful. Giacin, T.A.,

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Training System Analysis Examples 120

eSchool News

AUGUST 10, 2023

Established in 2004, all 11 schools across the state are accredited by the Arkansas Department of Elementary and Secondary Education. Editable, ready-to-use worksheets and assessments are also available in both English and Spanish. The LISA Academy is an award-winning charter district with a 95% college acceptance rate.

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Brainscape

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Educational Assessment , 11 (1), 1–31. 17 (April 28, 2004): 4105. It only presents flashcards within your ideal learning zone.) But this self-reflection also engages metacognition —thinking about your thinking—which establishes even stronger memory traces to every concept you review in Brainscape. link] Son, L.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

In 2004, as a new Ph.D., In 2004, the federal government reversed course on its 1970s guidance, strongly recommending that states consider alternatives. “I According to several researchers, a better—though hardly perfect—approach to assessing children for learning disabilities is “response to intervention,” or RTI.

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Learning Study Report Elementary 145

Learning with 'e's

MARCH 14, 2012

It also involves an assessment of how well teachers and learners are coping with any new issues or challenges that may have arisen during the implementation of the new tools. 2004) Technology in the classroom: Steps toward a new vision. Adpated from John, P. and Wheeler, S. Abingdon: Routledge/David Fulton. (p References Venezky, R.

Technology 55

Technology Assessment Classroom Tools 55

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 15, 2019

And annual state assessments may not do a good job of measuring this kind of depth, creativity or critical thinking. McCoach argues that research supports acceleration, citing a 2004 summary of the research evidence conducted by scholars at the Belin-Blank Center at the University of Iowa.

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Learning with 'e's

DECEMBER 13, 2011

Some comments pointed out that resources, teacher styles, assessment methods and time were important factors in determining the relevance and efficacy of curricula in schools. Carl Young (2004) relates the story of a language teacher who used pure conversation as the basis for all her teaching. Bleakley, A. Unported License.

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Social Media Assessment Learning System 65

MIND Research Institute

JUNE 11, 2019

Fuster, 2004; Schneider & Chein, 2003), schemas and heuristics (e.g., Dietrich, 2004), to name a few. In a variety of ways, we continuously assess the usability and effectiveness of the ST Math program, and we provide educators, administrators and students with the tools to do so as well. Formative Research. Fuster, J.

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