The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Higher education has found itself under increasing pressure to change that, just as has happened in elementary and secondary schools, where a battery of standardized tests constantly check in on what students know. The push is coming from policymakers and consumers who want to know the return on their investments in college.

Learning 109

Learning Outcomes Survey Assessment 109

Edsurge

JULY 18, 2016

For example, if a teacher is teaching a reading analysis standard, such as “compare and contrast,” a Venn diagram would be the best tool to use because it naturally points the mind to the task of comparison.

Common Core 60

Common Core Tools Analysis Comparison 60

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.

Secondary 0

Secondary System Survey Study 0

wwwatanabe

SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

The Arizona Department of Education (ADE) issued a letter informing us they will increase the text complexity as well as higher Lexile levels on the current AIMS test this year to help transition to the PARCC assessment. Secondary examples: Synthesize primary sources of information on the same topic from different perspectives.

Common Core 74

Common Core Resources Differentiated Instruction Secondary 74

MindShift

MARCH 16, 2015

Tests are just one form of assessment, he points out, and limited in what they can accurately measure. He faults them for suppressing creativity and innovation, and creating narrowed educational experiences, because everything that is not measured becomes secondary or is dismissed entirely.

Assessment 28

Assessment Learning Common Core Comparison 28

eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2024

Policymakers will be looking to leverage their existing data sources to better understand those trends and the remaining gaps, and they will continue to look for innovative approaches to learning and ways to assess the needs of students. I can see a world where we overcorrect, however, and start to view it in a very narrow way.

Trends 144

Trends EdTech Industry Data 144

Shake Up Learning

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Here’s a full comparison.). Schools may want teachers and secondary students to have access to Gmail, but not give Gmail access to K-5, and that is possible through user groups. All You Need to Know to Prepare for the Trainer Skills Assessment and Application! Has your school gone Google yet?

Google 78

Google Education Course Groups 78

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 31, 2020

Nearly 90 percent of the school population is considered low-income and nearly three-quarters are labeled English learners, meaning that the state language arts test assesses their reading and writing ability in a language they’re still trying to learn. Most districts didn’t budget in a way that allowed comparisons of school-level spending.

Data 145

Data Elementary Trends Analysis 145

Iterating Toward Openness

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

The second, which is my path, is to make common cause with others who are working on solving the problem of the cost of attending a post-secondary institution, like Martha Kanter , Morely Winograd , and others making slow but steady progress eliminating tuition as a barrier to students. That can’t comparison shop.

OER 60

OER LMS Course Secondary 60

Learning with 'e's

MARCH 3, 2016

All they care about is obtaining statistics that show how good their education system is in comparison to others. Most admitted they were more interested in the grade - the feedback was secondary. What if exams were more focused on assessing how well a student could learn, rather than what they had memorised?

System 28

System Comparison Secondary Trends 28

Learning with 'e's

MARCH 3, 2016

All they care about is obtaining statistics that show how good their education system is in comparison to others. Most admitted they were more interested in the grade - the feedback was secondary. What if exams were more focused on assessing how well a student could learn, rather than what they had memorised?

Comparison 22

Comparison Secondary System Trends 22

The Cornerstone for Teachers

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Looking for new ways to review learning, discuss questions, formatively assess, and be more playful with learning? These games enforce academic learning because they are a method of formative assessment that is not a paper quiz. Best for secondary (grades 6-12). Scroll down for secondary games).

Classroom 52

Classroom Learning Examples Groups 52

eSchool News

JANUARY 5, 2024

Policymakers will be looking to leverage their existing data sources to better understand those trends and the remaining gaps, and they will continue to look for innovative approaches to learning and ways to assess the needs of students. I can see a world where we overcorrect, however, and start to view it in a very narrow way.

Trends 52

Trends EdTech Industry Data 52

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2016

To be sure, ongoing ill will over NCLB influenced the bitter, drawn-out negotiations over the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, which became ESSA (NCLB was also a reauthorization of the 1965 act). How much of No Child Left Behind’s legacy still lingers on in its successor?

Education 40

Education Policies Learning Report 40

Edsurge

MARCH 2, 2021

Since the onset of the pandemic nearly a year ago, educators have been tasked with addressing new, multi-layered challenges due to the primary and secondary trauma associated with COVID-19. Finally, coordination of supports for educators will be important in addressing the secondary traumatic stress they have experienced over the past year.

Secondary 184

Secondary Education Meeting Comparison 184

NeverEndingSearch

DECEMBER 20, 2017

However, at each level—middle school, high school, and college—these variations paled in comparison to a stunning and dismaying consistency. SHEG currently offers three impressive curricula that may be put to immediate use in secondary classrooms and libraries. That was certainly the case in our experience. What’s the evidence?

Assessment 60

Assessment Analysis Social Media Libraries 60

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

More than 60 percent of American fourth-graders are not proficient readers, according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress, and it’s been that way since testing began in the 1990s. “I wouldn’t have been able to use that strategy at the secondary level,” she said. “We know how to do it.”

Training 112

Training Elementary Report Study 112

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Results from Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), a test in reading, mathematics, and science administered every three years in about 70 countries by the Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. These factors, the critics say, make comparisons impossible. Related: U.S. Moreover, the U.S.

Comparison 40

Comparison Secondary Exercises Study 40

Hack Education

JULY 1, 2017

For what it’s worth, investment analyst firm CB Insights predicts that funding this year will not exceed that 2015 level , but one of the reasons I like to track the data myself is that everyone’s numbers and everyone’s assessment of the industry seem to be different, depending in part on “what counts” as ed-tech.

Coursera 58

Coursera Company Knewton Udemy 58

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

In the meantime, teachers are using other tools to identify the struggling readers the state test missed, including the use of assessments that can be taken at home. Some testing experts say that gaps in the data will render it useless for comparison purposes and could even lead to the misallocation of resources.

Education 133

Education Assessment Data Elementary 133

Hack Education

DECEMBER 4, 2016

In part, their struggles are a result of controversies surrounding the Common Core State Standards, which were supposed to streamline and procurement the development of curriculum and assessment. According to Edsurge , changes to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act will soon be another “ win for ed-tech vendors.”

Technology 40

Technology Education Common Core Company 40