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Instructionally Useful Assessments for Ambitious Teaching

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Watch the Recording Listen to the Podcast Educators want assessments to be instructionally useful and provide data they can use to help students learn, but not all assessments do that. So what do instructionally useful assessments look like? Designing instructionally useful assessments does not have to be difficult.

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CoSN 2019: How to Design an Effective K–12 Technology Evaluation Program

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Proper technology evaluation is a crucial element to digital innovation , said Baule, speaking at Consortium for School Networking’s 2019 annual conference. Assessments can be used to make programs more cost-effective, improve implementation, enable replication elsewhere in the district and justify more funding to administrators. .

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Everything You Always Wanted to Know About SEL Assessment But Were Afraid to Ask

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Specifically, there have been few useful tools with which to assess SEL. Specifically, there have been few useful tools with which to assess SEL. Funders and other organizations are focusing on how to bring practical social and emotional assessments to the field. Reasons to Assess A key question is why assess student SEL?

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Utah STEM Action Center Releases Exemplar Statewide Program Evaluation

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A new bar has been set for state-grants-funded digital math programs evaluation. The Utah STEM Action Center has released its 2020 annual report , which includes the results of their comprehensive statewide program evaluation. EdSurge Article Recommends Edtech Efficacy Portfolios - Here's Ours. Further Reading.

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Debunking the ‘Gold Standard’ Myths in Edtech Efficacy

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Few can offer buyers independent assessments of the value of their products, even if those same entrepreneurs have sweated and toiled to build great wares. Entrepreneurs, moreover, couldn’t imagine waiting until their products were “done” to do a single, huge expensive RCT program.

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Michigan School Administrators’ Journey Toward Increased Equity and Inclusion

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After starting with individual work, the next phases cover district assessments and audits, designing a district plan, and then providing support and coaching during the implementation of the plan. And equally important is determining all the assessments and grading are free of bias and accurately reflect student mastery.

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Bring Science to Life: The Impact of Video Game Simulations

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Disciplinary core ideas that focus science curricula, instruction, and assessments on the most important aspects of science. This article was modified and published by EdScoop. Crosscutting concepts applied and linked across all science domains. The integration of engineering and the nature of science into science. About the Presenter.

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