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Reading and the Impact of Cognitive Skills Training

ET Magazine

We emphasized that comprehension is the ultimate purpose of reading and that, while educators measure decoding and fluency separately, the point is that they are assessing progress towards reading and reading includes comprehension. In an ORF assessment, students read a grade-appropriate passage for one minute.

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Study: Instructional Mode Played No Significant Role in COVID-19-Related Learning Loss in Indiana Public Schools in 2020-21

eSchool News

What Contributed to COVID Learning Loss in Indiana’s Schools? ,” a recently published study from Ball State’s Center for Business and Economic Research (CBER), utilized Indiana Learning Evaluation Assessment Readiness Network (ILEARN) test scores from Spring 2019 to Spring 2021 as a measure of learning for Indiana public K-12 schools.

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Reading and the Impact of Comprehensive Integrated Cognitive Skills Training

ET Magazine

We emphasized that comprehension is the ultimate purpose of reading and that, while educators measure decoding and fluency separately, the point is that they are assessing progress towards reading and reading includes comprehension. In an ORF assessment, students read a grade-appropriate passage for one minute.

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Short Answer- Build better k12 writers through social, engaging writing activities

iLearn Technology

What it is: Short Answer is a k-12 formative assessment and writing instruction tool that capitalizes on the learning potential of adaptive comparative judgment. Big congratulations to the Short Answer team, who was just named as a YASS Prize semi-finalist!) It makes writing feedback more social, engaging, and effective for students.

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The Countdown is On! 5Sigma Launch: The Power of Student Agency (featuring keynote speaker @gcouros)

iLearn Technology

Re-imagining assessment? Finding Motivation with Kristina Ishmael & Zac Chase A Computer Science State of Mind with Jeremy Macdonald Honoring Student Agency Through Assessment Practices with Kelly Tenkely. slight bias*) The opportunity to talk shop: have you ever dreamed of starting a school? Ditching homework? Ditching the test?

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Prodigy: Virtual world of math

iLearn Technology

From the teacher dashboard, you can use the assessment feature to diagnose where students are, and align math content to what you are teaching in class. Because Prodigy is aligned to the Common Core, it is easy to navigate. The teacher dashboard is really intuitive, you can get in and have your class signed up and ready to roll in no time!

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MobyMax: Tablet + help differentiating instruction

iLearn Technology

What it is: MobyMax is more than just a tablet, it is a complete system that helps you identify areas of strength and weakness that your students might have through placement testing, progress monitoring, assessments, and IEP reporting; has practice for kindergarten through eighth grade mathematics, fact fluency, number sense, reading, language, literature (..)

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