Edsurge

MAY 28, 2024

The nonprofit assessment organization NWEA, Peters’ organization, recently released guidance for schools to better identify when students are prepared to take algebra, in the hopes of encouraging schools to use “universally administered” data points when making math placements.

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Waterford

JULY 6, 2020

8] Additionally, one study found that when parents are involved in schools, their children are more likely to graduate from high school and attend post-secondary education.[9]. Parental involvement in middle school: a meta-analytic assessment of the strategies that promote achievement. Recognize and Alleviate Barriers to Involvement.

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eSchool News

MARCH 20, 2024

Making tough choices Later this year, the final round of federal pandemic funding, known as Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER), will expire, leaving school budgets uncertain in many districts. Funds they have come to rely on for staffing and technology will end in September if not allotted.

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EdTech Assessment Policies Data 119

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 13, 2024

“We have kids that on our benchmark knowledge assessments are scoring what is the equivalent of second grade, first grade, fourth grade,” said Fisher, who is also a professor and chair of educational leadership at San Diego State University. Credit: Image provided by Patty Topliffe Poor reading skills are a nationwide issue.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 22, 2019

I remember report card days as a child, me sitting outside on a brick wall, scared to death as my mother met with the teacher and received the (always bad) news about how I wasn’t doing. I love report card days now because this is when I get to meet parents. I love report card days now because this is when I get to meet parents.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 8, 2024

A couple of years ago, Kelly Spoon decided to experiment with her assessment practices. She has changed her approach to grading in other classes as well, now offering more frequent assessments, providing chances to retake tests or quizzes and putting a stronger emphasis on incorporating accommodations in her class.

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The Web20Classroom

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Rubrics have been a part of the assessment toolbox since at least the mid-1990s. Assessed overall achievement on an activity or product Holistic Rubric Example Analytic – Written with levels of achievement as columns and assessment criteria as rows. and Self-Efficacy.71).

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Edsurge

JANUARY 27, 2022

Maybe to assess the health and character of our education system we should look at how our teachers are treated and how they are feeling. Almost half of all school leaders (47 percent) report that the role of the principal has changed “a great deal” since the start of the coronavirus outbreak.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Today’s technology makes it easy to collect concrete data and view reports that provide guiding insights. With PLCs, we decide as a team that ‘this’ is really what every student at Benton High School leaving Algebra 1 should know how to do,” says Brandy Beckman, Secondary Math Instructional Facilitator.

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Edsurge

JUNE 14, 2023

We wondered about the role of AI in one specific teaching practice: assessing student learning. This yielded a total of 160 teacher-assessed essays, which we could compare directly to the AI-given scores and feedback on those same essays. How were teachers’ scores similar to or different from scores given by the AI?

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Assessment Secondary Training STEM 171

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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eSchool News

AUGUST 22, 2023

Under this partnership, educators using both Otus and CAE’s College and Career Readiness Assessment (CCRA+) will have a holistic picture of student performance by combining CCRA+ data with other assessment data districts are collecting – all in one platform, which will ultimately help them make instructional decisions to improve student outcomes.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Students at the Secondary School for Journalism in Brooklyn had become increasingly frustrated with Summit Learning. The Secondary School for Journalism is one of about 380 schools nationwide using Summit Learning, a personalized learning program that involves the use of an online instructional software, called the Summit Platform.

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Waterford

JULY 24, 2020

In a survey from the International Journal of Education, 97% of teachers reported never or seldom using a flexible curriculum for their students.[2] Our programs assign these lessons based on a student’s placement assessment and their demonstrated mastery. Benefits of Differentiated Learning for Students.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Assessment For Learning. We walk you through the process of distinguishing between various assessment types, building goals, identifying best practices around your assessments and analyzing your data to make lasting instructional decisions throughout the year. Student Performance Improves on State Assessments.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 2, 2023

The national online survey, Post-Graduation Readiness Report , polled more than 500 students from the 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022 high school graduation classes. At a time when many industry leaders report that their top challenge is the limited supply of talent and nearly six million people in the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 31, 2024

Meanwhile, digital media, heavily reliant on visuals and text, with audio often secondary, is playing an increasing role in education. Audio is often a secondary consideration; particularly once users can read. Far too many students, especially those with special needs, do not progress as well as their peers do academically.

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Secondary Industry Policies Accessibility 118

MindShift

OCTOBER 7, 2018

The condition has numerous names: secondary traumatic stress (STS), vicarious trauma, compassion fatigue. One of the handful of studies of STS in schools found that more than 200 staff surveyed from across six schools reported very high levels of STS. How Schools Can Acknowledge Secondary Trauma.

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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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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

News reports—and rumors—about the pandemic are inescapable. Called the COVID-19 School Response Dashboard , it asks elementary and secondary schools and districts throughout the U.S. to report confirmed and suspected cases of COVID-19 among their students and staff who are learning and teaching in person this fall.

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Data Education Guidelines Secondary 158

EdTechTeacher

MAY 12, 2023

[INTRO: A recent national report by the Watson Foundation found that teachers are using ChatGPT more than students and are using it to create new lesson ideas. Each post will focus on a practical strategy for using ChatGPT and will include ideas for both elementary and secondary school teachers. ( Check out our first tip here!

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Secondary Course Examples Robotics 159

Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2019

But now I can report that these tools have been adopted in thousands of U.S. higher education courseware in 2015, down from 50 percent the year before, according to a 2018 report from Macquarie, an investment bank and financial services company. classrooms from kindergarten through high school.” It’s a coexistence.

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Chegg Software Industry Pearson 164

eSchool News

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Key points: More than half of surveyed students say they will opt out of the traditional four-year undergraduate path This decision to pursue alternative post-secondary options hints at an evolving postsecondary landscape. The findings from YouScience’s second annual national 2023 Post-Graduation Readiness Report.

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Survey Industry Report Secondary 122

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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The 21st Century Principal

MARCH 29, 2014

Duncan''s Department of Education and President Obama even released a report, not independently created mind you, to declare how successful their Race to the Top program has been. This year, I could count the number of secondary teachers I spoke to on one hand. I recently attended a job fair at a university in our state.

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Assessment Secondary Policies Comparison 80

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., the more detailed program rules, as determined by the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress stagnated, with children lacking even basic proficiency by the end of third grade. Neuman was the assistant secretary of elementary and secondary education under former President George W. Pre-pandemic, we weren’t doing all that well in teaching our children to read.

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Secondary System Elementary Report 145

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Nevertheless, teens report that their own mental health is spiraling : Increasingly, they are anxious, depressed and wrestling with thoughts of suicide. As other measures improved, youth also reported feeling less anxiety and depressive symptoms. In reality, they’re not appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

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Smartphone Social Media Trends iPhone 110

The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2024

Credit: Holly Korbey for The Hechinger Report Kindergarten may be math’s most important year — it lays the groundwork for understanding the relationship between number and quantity and helps develop “number sense,” or how numbers relate to each other, experts and researchers say. Student math achievement, which dropped to a low of 13.5

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Elementary Instructional Materials Report Data 145

EdTechTeacher

JUNE 9, 2023

[INTRO: A recent national report by the Watson Foundation found that teachers are using ChatGPT more than students and are using it to create new lesson ideas. Each post will focus on a practical strategy for using ChatGPT and will include ideas for both elementary and secondary school teachers.

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Education Secondary Examples Groups 135

EdTechTeacher

APRIL 4, 2023

Post by Tom Daccord [INTRO: A recent national report by the Watson Foundation found that teachers are using ChatGPT more than students and are using it to create new lesson ideas. Each post will focus on a practical strategy for using ChatGPT and will include ideas for both elementary and secondary school teachers.

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Secondary Course Examples Elementary 156

Edsurge

APRIL 15, 2019

By combining all of this data, teaching SEL skills and doing the SOS assessment, not only are we having serious and meaningful conversations with families, but we are saving lives,” explains Dain. And we share that data with parents so they can see how their child scores during that assessment window. They also can see the trend data.

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Survey Data Elementary Strategy 167

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

According to a report from Tyton Partners and the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL), district spending on SEL programming between the 2019–20 and 2020–21 academic years grew from $530 million to $765 million. Some tools may be free, while others come at a cost or as part of a larger assessment suite.

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Data Strategy Secondary Report 101

Edsurge

MARCH 1, 2021

million post-secondary educators are at risk of losing their jobs today by performing one single act: Posting on social media. He added: “On the one hand unis are pushing their staff to be active online, on the other they are assessing their use of social media. There are approximately 3,700 higher ed institutions in the U.S.

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Social Media Policies Secondary Examples 168

Edsurge

JUNE 16, 2020

The federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act, for example, limits the use of school-improvement funds to interventions that benefit student learning as documented by at least one well-designed and well-implemented research study. Expenditure Transparency It’s important to know how money is spent and where it goes.

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Policies EdTech Program Evaluation Outcomes 144

Edsurge

APRIL 17, 2018

In 2016 the company reported a $3.3 For the first time, we’ve reported our revenues on pure digital, digital enabled, and non-digital services. Pearson CEO John Fallon Other companies are looking towards bringing together curriculum and assessment, and provide the whole package to try to improve student learning outcomes.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2023

A new report from Washington, D.C., This story also appeared in Mind/Shift The numbers are stark in a March 2023 report by the D.C. Within six months of high school graduation, only 51 percent of the class of 2022 enrolled in post-secondary education, down from 56 percent from the class of 2019. Based on these trends, the D.C.

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