eSpark

APRIL 12, 2022

This year, many districts are replacing state standardized tests with PARCC or Smarter Balanced, two Common Core-aligned assessments designed to measure college readiness. Schools using PARCC have the option of taking a mid year assessment as a means of monitoring student growth. Smarter Balanced.

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Assessment Common Core Blended Learning Analysis 94

Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

I polled my PLN to find specific tech areas students needed help with in preparing for the Assessments. Pay attention to these and your students will be much more prepared for this Spring’s Common Core assessments: Keyboarding. Common Core requires this. It boils down to five tech areas.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 25, 2016

Rubrics are a well-accepted, even transformative tool for assessing student knowledge over a breadth of criteria. The pre-online versions weren’t dynamic or flexible, couldn’t be re-used, and few teachers had the time or energy to build these summative, purpose-built assessments. Common Core Rubric Creator.

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Tools Common Core Assessment Digital Citizenship 150

Edsurge

JUNE 26, 2018

Two national education nonprofits whose school improvement and assessment tools impact millions of students across the country are merging. To do so, it offers a range of supports that include observation software and professional development services. AdvancED also offers accreditation services—a business that it has deep roots in.

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Assessment Common Core Outcomes Data 104

Edsurge

MAY 26, 2019

The class reads about Common Core and completes a few samples of Common Core assessment questions to understand the student and teacher experience using these materials. Then as a group, we try on different perspectives and opinions of how Common Core assessments are shifting the focus of American education.

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EdTech Course Common Core Industry 154

Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 9, 2015

Even if the sub is knowledgeable in the subject matter, s/he doesn’t have intimate knowledge of what this particular student group knows about software, websites, problem solving, and more, which can be scaffolded for the current lesson. This preparation will be time well-spent on your part: You can use them for other assessments.

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Khan Academy Common Core Assessment Groups 150

Edsurge

JULY 16, 2019

He’s started working with more schools and districts—instead of reaching students mainly at home—and has partnered with assessment groups, such as the College Board and, most recently, the NWEA for personalized test prep materials. The latter group administers the MAP Assessment—a test designed to measure growth in reading and math.

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Khan Academy Common Core Assessment EdTech 133

Educator Innovator

AUGUST 26, 2014

This was originally posted at Common Sense Graphite. As the new school year begins, articles and resources dedicated to helping teachers develop curriculum and assessments aligned to the Common Core literacy standards are popping up everywhere.

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Common Core Poll Everywhere Survey Facebook 53

Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 6, 2015

Think how often keyboarding is part of student work–entering website addresses, adding comments to blogs, typing docs into GAFE, and taking online assessments. An important part of succeeding in core classes is understanding the language. Common Core has three levels of vocabulary: basic. Vocabulary.

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Digital Citizenship Common Core Chromebook iPad 150

Kathy Schrock

JANUARY 1, 2014

How can the use of infographics be used to address the Common Core State Standards? The second way infographics can be incorporated into teaching and learning is by having students create an infographic as a formative or summative assessment. ELA Common Core Standards CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.R.7

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Common Core Analysis Android Data 105

Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Who picks the digital apps, software, extensions, and programs used in the classes? For Common Core schools: How do they prepare students to succeed with online testing? End-of-year assessments of the Common Core grade-level standards are delivered online. This isn’t an uncommon concern.

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Technology Digital Citizenship Common Core iPad 150

Edsurge

MAY 29, 2019

And the number of education-specific apps, services, and software I actually used consistently? The Return When teachers conduct an initial assessment of any technology, they assume there will be some investment involved—usually related to the amount of time it will take to learn the technology and incorporate it into practice.

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Edsurge

JUNE 5, 2020

The company licenses its calculator to publishers and other edtech developers for use in their software. Luberoff says that end-of-year assessments in 35 U.S. Meyer says Desmos’ middle-math core curriculum aligns with state and Common Core academic standards. It’s also not entirely digital.

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Company Exercises Common Core Academic Standards 218

Saving Socrates

AUGUST 28, 2013

What Parents Need to Know About the Common Core and How They Can Help Their Children The Common Core is an attempt to nationalize the curriculum creating common core standards in grades K-12. What does this practically mean? This test will be conducted online. This learning curve will need to be addressed.

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eSpark

APRIL 12, 2022

This year, many districts are replacing state standardized tests with PARCC or Smarter Balanced, two Common Core-aligned assessments designed to measure college readiness. Schools using PARCC have the option of taking a mid year assessment as a means of monitoring student growth. Smarter Balanced.

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Assessment Common Core Blended Learning Analysis 52

Kathy Schrock

JANUARY 7, 2025

Assessment of student mastery of content takes many forms. This list includes support materials for assessments that work with the Common Core State Standards and rubrics for many different assessment products. It also contains some information on the creation of rubrics and assessment in general.

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Kathy Schrock

JANUARY 7, 2025

Assessment of student mastery of content takes many forms. This list includes support materials for assessments that work with the Common Core State Standards and rubrics for many different assessment products. It also contains some information on the creation of rubrics and assessment in general.

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Assessment Common Core Wiki Educreations 40

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 24, 2017

For example, one teacher might need a digital portfolio to holistically assess student progress on an inquiry project; another in the same department may use physical portfolios but would need a more robust tool to help grade formative assessments. Have you seen some of these science tools ?

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EdTech Tools Common Core Assessment 129

eSchool News

MAY 21, 2018

With a few clicks, we can view detailed reports on student test scores, formative assessments, progress reports from self-paced software, attendance, and so much more. We knew that MVUSD’s math scores were low on the California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress (CAASPP). Step 1: Finding the right data.

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Data Differentiated Instruction Common Core Assessment 77

eSchool News

AUGUST 12, 2015

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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Skyward Assessment Common Core Online Assessments 40

Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2017

By allowing student information systems, rostering tools, assessment software, etc. Right now, if you go to an SEA—state educational agency—or a local educational agency, or an individual school, they will have a student information system, an assessment system, a content management system, a learning management system.

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Data System Software Assessment 138

Educator Innovator

AUGUST 26, 2014

This was originally posted at Common Sense Graphite. As the new school year begins, articles and resources dedicated to helping teachers develop curriculum and assessments aligned to the Common Core literacy standards are popping up everywhere.

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Common Core Poll Everywhere Survey Facebook 36

EdTech4Beginners

APRIL 18, 2022

This includes online courses, lesson plans, and assessment tools. However, with the advent of social media and collaborative software tools, students can now work together from anywhere. Edmodo is also aligned with the Common Core State Standards, so it can be used to measure student progress.

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Edsurge

APRIL 5, 2019

Others went deep, with curriculum, intervention and assessment stacks. All of these players, new and old, are operating in a stable yet fragmented market, finding product-market fit in school systems’ existing market segments: core, supplemental, and assessment. (I Assessment (including state tests) is another $1.2

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Industry Edmodo Pearson Instructional Materials 107

Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 22, 2015

Creating an online graphic organizer on the animal kingdom doesn’t necessarily conflate with knowing how to compare-contrast (a skill mentioned thirty-eight times by Common Core between kindergarten and eighth grade). An important part of this: Use lots of varied tools. you have a BYOD school, teach these. Otherwise, discuss it.

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Digital Citizenship Social Media Wiki BYOD 150

Edsurge

JULY 21, 2018

The boom and bust of Common Core standards have left their mark, just as new concerns over media literacy and privacy are doing currently. As a director for Common Sense Education , I’ve enjoyed something of a ringside seat, having edited close to 1,000 edtech reviews written by expert educators. No more bulky software”).

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EdTech Tools Examples Common Core 150

EdTechTeacher

JANUARY 9, 2019

The key strategy to get to this level of understanding involves a tried-and-true instructional practice: formative assessments and feedback. So what are some main characteristics of these assessment practices? Students learn to set goals, self-assess, monitor their progress over time. You Need Data to Personalize Learning.

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Strategy EdTech Resources Assessment 110

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Both fourth- and eighth-grade students posted declines on the math section of the 2015 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). And another international exam, the 2015 Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) showed back-to-back deterioration in math performance among American 15-year-olds in 2012 and 2015.

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System Education Common Core Study 112

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JANUARY 14, 2020

In regard to Creativity, check out my last post, which covers facilitating and assessing Creativity in the classroom. He attributes this theory to the role Asia now plays in the global economy with automation being software driven, and abundance of material in the market place. In essence, routine work is disappearing!

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The Thinking Stick

OCTOBER 30, 2014

Here in Washington State our new state assessment is done on a computer. Many schools are now complaining that students are doing poorly on the test because they don’t have the computer skills needed to even navigate the test software. The Common Core standards do contain references to digital literacy, however.

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Common Core Social Media Google Assessment 93

eSchool News

JANUARY 14, 2016

Open-source assessment system is based on alternate achievement standards for students with the most significant cognitive disabilities. The NCSC alternate assessment evaluates knowledge of Common Core Math and ELA (reading and writing) standards at grades 3-8 and 11.

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Assessment Common Core System Software 40

eSchool News

JANUARY 4, 2017

In 2016, among other things, I took the time to focus on learning the ins and outs of ClassFlow collaborative learning software. Next year, I plan to look at my growing list of websites, software, and subscription services and pick a few to dive into on my own. After 10 years of teaching, I was set in my ways on many things.

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Education Common Core Learning Software 79

The Web20Classroom

JUNE 12, 2015

Simply type in the search term on appoLearning, or browse by subject, grade-level, device and Common Core Standard, to find a list of vetted resources. Collections empower teachers to continually manage the use of great digital resources into their classroom and to share these with peers, parents, students, and administrators.

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Reading By Example

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Teacher monitoring, assessing, and support during IR. The authors also cite the Common Core Anchor Standard that addresses independent reading: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.CCRA.R.10. Assessing Independent Reading. The challenge then is: how do I assess independent reading? Assessing Independent Reading. Notability.

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Assessment Tools Common Core Digital Citizenship 52

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

On the platform, students complete assignments and assessments from a variety of third party programs, enter in their scores, and reflect on their work while teachers monitor student progress and performance. Sown to Grow License: Sown to Grow — Interested in pushing for more of a growth mindset amongst your students?

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Tools Common Core Case Study Software 60

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2017

New Hampshire is adopting it, too, and developing a statewide assessment method that would replace most standardized tests. It’s no surprise that schools adopting the method are often the same ones that have invested heavily in education software and computers. The scores signified a high point for M.S. 442, teachers said.

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Learning Common Core System Groups 110

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

Resource offers district, school administrators insight into student progress on Common Core. Edulastic, creator of formative assessment tools for teachers, has launched Edulastic District Enterprise, a premium version of the software platform designed specifically for district and school administrators.

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