The Principal of Change

APRIL 11, 2023

There has been a multitude of conversations regarding assessment and grading practices, focusing on shifting practice that makes more sense not only for the current time we live in but also moving forward. She had said, “How we assess drives our teaching, not the other way around.” ” I would agree.

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Assessment Secondary Strategy Report 90

The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 26, 2017

We are also hosting a giveaway contest with her book on assessment. Books Starr has authored: Teaching Mythology Exposed: Helping Teachers Create Visionary Classroom Perspective , Blogging for Educators , Teaching Students to Self Assess: How do I help Students grow as learners? , Listen Now. Listen on iTunes. Stream by clicking here.

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Strategy Classroom Assessment BYOD 231

Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 23, 2017

A secondary focus (but of significant interest with educators I polled) is technology as change agent in achieving Standards, enabling teachers to fulfill Common Core requirements without adding that ‘extra layer’ many teachers fear will take more time/knowledge/effort than they have available. Also, teachers will embed web tools (i.e.,

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Edsurge

JUNE 30, 2016

Administrators were a bit more tempered in their responses, expressing hesitation about whether live observation is the be-all, end-all in assessing edtech impact. Mike Dorsey, Director of Secondary Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment for the Houston Independent School District, felt the same. Trends change. Trends change.

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Technology Classroom EdTech Secondary 118

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

In their district-wide tech plan for 2016 to 2022 , Renton set a goal of reaching a 1:1 device-to-student ratio for all middle and high schoolers in the 2019-2020 school year. Although there were many reasons, in large part the district had moved away from desktops and more teachers were using carts of devices, often for assessment.

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EdTech Accessibility Policies Digital Citizenship 133

Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2019

The nonprofit publisher of K-12 curriculum launched in 2016 expecting an audience for its digital offerings. higher education courseware business despite gains in digital—all because of secondary textbook market’s impact. Just ask Jessica Reid Sliwerski, CEO of Open Up Resources. It’s a coexistence. Blended is best,” he said.

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Chegg Software Industry Pearson 162

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

I hope you are enjoying this series on formative assessment, and I am sure you will find these tools most valuable. I am almost booked through August and fall dates for 2015 are now over 3/4 full and the 2016 calendar is beginning to fill. Part 4: Over 35 Formative Assessment Tools To Enhance Formative Learning Opportunities.

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Assessment Tools LMS Learning 60

eSchool News

DECEMBER 27, 2016

Produced with the insights of an international panel of experts, and with nearly one million downloads per year, this report on emerging technologies for learning is likely the most well-read report identifying key technology trends for primary and secondary education. Time-to-Adoption Horizon: Four to Five Years: Artificial Intelligence.

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Doug Levin

APRIL 21, 2016

For each of the three primary (equity-focused) federal educational technology programs authorized by Congress since the passage of the 1994 revision to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), below I provide details on the programs’: legislative authorization (i.e., FY 2016 $0 (President Obama’s request: $200,000,000).

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Secondary schools can only take in 36 percent of students who finish primary school. In South Africa, the youth unemployment rate topped 50 percent in 2016. In 2012, 30 million primary-age children (or 1 out of 5) in sub-Saharan Africa did not attend any school. The magnitude of the problem may be disheartening.

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EdTech Pearson Company Industry 107

edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

She has also worked on projects with researchers at Education Testing Service (ETS) and interned with consultants at the Center for Assessment. Smith began his tenure as superintendent of Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) on July 1, 2016 and is now in his second term as superintendent.

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Education Secondary Policies Professional Learning 94

ViewSonic Education

JANUARY 1, 2019

Self-marked assessment activities, such as multiple choice quizzes, can be undertaken by children to gauge their progress and to determine if they are ready for more challenging tasks. Dr. Neelam Parmar; Director of E-learning for Primary & Secondary Schools. It is more than just working with a computer on self-assessed activities.

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Blended Learning Learning Khan Academy MOOC 165

Edsurge

MAY 22, 2017

As the largest school district in Rhode Island, Providence Public Schools makes up 25% of the state’s entire elementary and secondary student population. This case study was originally published on Getting Smart. Looking Ahead While Instituting Change. In partnership with. Teachers were trained in anticipation of a September launch.

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Case Study Learning Data Mobility 102

Edsurge

APRIL 17, 2018

In 2016 the company reported a $3.3 We’re also making big investments in authentic assessments that know more than whether you’ve got the answer right or wrong, but why, and providing much more granular, personal and adaptive, feedback to students based on the years of data that we have, on the tens of millions of students that we’ve got.

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Pearson Education Outcomes Company 107

The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 4, 2019

The Learning Policy Institute says in their 2016 study, Well-designed mentoring programs improve retention rates for new teachers, as well as their attitudes, feelings of efficacy, and instructional skills.(32) Progress through the teacher pipeline: 1992–93 college graduates and elementary/ secondary school teaching as of 1997.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2018

And that could be why just 38 percent fourth grade students performed at or above proficient on the latest National Assessment of Education Progress for science, which was administered in 2015. In 2016, she was accepted as a trainer for the Oregon Science Project. Not everyone loved them though. That pattern holds true in Oregon.

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Elementary Education Survey Report 95

Learning with 'e's

JULY 18, 2017

For the second year in the UK, secondary (high) school numbers have grown, and it's expected that over the next 8 years there will be a 19% rise in these numbers , with over 600,000 additional students. In many secondary schools, students are now being taught mathematics by teachers who are not qualified to do so.

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Secondary Training Exercises Trends 55

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 17, 2018

While numbers have grown over the years, among the 125,000 plus primary and secondary schools in the U.S., Through assessment and care coordination by school health center clinicians, the student successfully engaged in much-needed psychiatric follow up and was linked to supported living. He was able to graduate on time.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 11, 2019

The school has two full-time school counselors, but in 2012 laid off a staffer whose sole focus was guiding students to college or other post-secondary options. The ratio of school counselors to high school students in Minnesota was 681-to-1 in 2016, according to state data. Steve Friess for The Hechinger Report. The 19-year-old St.

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E-rate Report Accessibility Secondary 111

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Department of Education: One was administered as part of the 2016 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) for eighth grade music and the other focused on all fine arts and was administered during the 1999-2000 school year. The percentage of secondary school teachers who specialize in art or music instruction grew from 6.7

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Elementary Trends Report Survey 105

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 23, 2016

In 2012, Estonia’s 15-year-olds ranked 11 th in math and reading and sixth in science out of the 65 countries that participated in an international test that compares educational systems from around the world, called the Programme for International Student Assessment, or PISA. Photo: Sarah Butrymowicz.

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Secondary System Survey Study 0

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

In the summer of 2016, a community of educators, research design partners, and over 150 teens and young adults in Colorado engaged in a bold experiment to rethink how quality and impact might be measured in a modernized system of learning. Our current approach of summative assessments has few fans. Framework for the Future of Learning.

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System Competency Based Learning Education Assessment 60

eSchool News

JUNE 18, 2024

7 Given the screening mandate, some publishers have fashioned screeners out of their reading assessment instruments designed for the typical population. 12 The latter can be identified with norm-referenced measures in state and standardized reading assessments. The Principal Advocate. link] National Center for Education Statistics.

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Differentiated Instruction Training Analysis Assessment 102

Edsurge

MARCH 18, 2019

ChalkTalk launched in 2016, graduating from Boston’s LearnLaunch accelerator, a program that mentors and invests in early-stage education companies. He wrote an SAT prep book for international students and sold it door-to-door in Jordan before founding his current business. The company had raised $3 million in seed funding.

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Company EdTech Industry Secondary 84

The Hechinger Report

JULY 17, 2017

At the outset a survey was conducted to assess the needs of schools, families and communities. Say Yes also credits its partnerships for a K-6 summer camp program that served 2,500 students in 2016. “It Are our students completing post-secondary education? Dedecker said the No. We’ve got a long way to go,” Rust acknowledged. “I

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Data Secondary System Accessibility 104

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Founded in 1986, Renaissance combines decades of experience in assessments with personalized instruction and analytics solutions delivering teachers and administrators the tools to plan, lessons to teach, and the resources to motivate students to learn. Blackstone’s investment will be made through its flagship private equity vehicle.

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Company Assessment Software Differentiated Instruction 57

Edsurge

OCTOBER 13, 2016

The First Year In the first year of our virtual co-planning, we first wrote common assessments, then later common lesson plans and projects, before beginning video conferences to reflect on and edit our work. In 2016, we invited two other teachers to join our “common class,” and expanded what we were collectively working on.

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Analysis Course Trends Assessment 60

The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2018

The other program, the Honors College, has existed for decades; in 2016 it retooled its admissions strategy to attract students with a wider range of academic interests. The HLLC is one of two on-campus programs offering ambitious students from the Newark area a reason to stay close to home. percent in 2000 to 25 percent by 2025.

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Report Policies Study Secondary 95

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

A Proof-of-Concept Study of Game-based Learning in Higher Education,” published in the August 2016 issue of the journal Simulation & Gaming. As part of their research in the field, Crocco, Offenholley and Hernandez conducted a study on GBL and co-wrote. “A These results may have particular impact on non-traditional students.

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Game-Based Learning STEM Secondary Study 60

Edsurge

AUGUST 15, 2017

That’s among the questions we posed to Scott Pulsipher, who took the helm as the university’s president in March 2016. We run seminars specifically about competency-based education, our approach to it, how you design for it—everything from the program design to the instruction, assessment and evaluation. Yeah, they do.

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Outcomes E-rate Accessibility Course 90

eSchool News

JUNE 9, 2016

Under this initiative, children who will be starting kindergarten in fall 2016 will receive a free summer subscription to Smarty Ants®, an effective, research-based literacy program designed specifically for young learners. Smarty Ants is not the only Achieve3000 solution currently implemented at Virginia Beach.

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Blended Learning Secondary Differentiated Instruction Academic Standards 0

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

Produced with the insights of an international panel of experts, and with nearly one million downloads per year, this report on emerging technologies for learning is likely the most well-read report identifying key technology trends for primary and secondary education. Time-to-Adoption Horizon: Four to Five Years: Artificial Intelligence.

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Trends Report Guidelines Secondary 40

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2019

With people of color expected to make up a quarter of the state’s population by 2035, these gaps represent an economic threat to Minnesota; unless more residents get to and through college, there won’t be enough qualified workers to fill the jobs that require a post-secondary degree or certificate. “[O]ur Paul’s residents are people of color.

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Dropout Secondary Course Report 79

NeverEndingSearch

JULY 12, 2018

How about a few fresh strategies for energizing your information literacy instruction and preparing your secondary learners for their academic experience? Project CORA : I first met CORA, the Community of Online Research Assignments, back in 2016 and immediately considered her a welcome friend. Thing 4: Assessment Overview.

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Secondary Libraries Assessment Outcomes 42

Reading By Example

JUNE 27, 2016

On Saturday, I shared why I was not at ISTE 2016. We used three strategies to assess growth from fall to spring: Instructional walk trends, student engagement surveys, and digital student portfolios. At the younger ages, our assessment system is built so that students are seeing steady progress with benchmark books.

Elementary 40

Elementary Classroom Survey Assessment 40

Reading By Example

JUNE 27, 2016

On Saturday, I shared why I was not at ISTE 2016. We used three strategies to assess growth from fall to spring: Instructional walk trends, student engagement surveys, and digital student portfolios. At the younger ages, our assessment system is built so that students are seeing steady progress with benchmark books.

Elementary 40

Elementary Classroom Survey Assessment 40

Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Is it the vast corpus of data that the company has amassed — decades of essays and theses and Wikipedia entries that it uses to assess student work? Students were therefore unable to sit their A Levels, the exams that are the culmination of secondary education there. Every student is guilty until the algorithm proves her innocence.

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Robotics Software Company ProctorU 87