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Utah STEM Action Center Releases Exemplar Statewide Program Evaluation

MIND Research Institute

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.

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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. While they are not necessarily instructionally useful, they are useful for program evaluation. So, what is instructional usefulness?

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Invest in the Workforce of the Future with Data-Driven Collaboration

Digital Promise

Through the utilization of an expansive data sharing platform, Rhode Island hopes to conduct robust analyses to: Improve workforce development and adult education programs. Link Data across Systems to Improve Program Decisions. Ultimately, these data and analyses will inform program and investment decisions.

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Empowering Community Perspectives in Evaluation Research

Digital Promise

What is equitable evaluation? As funders, government agencies, and service providers become increasingly focused on program evaluation results to make evidence-based decisions, evaluators and other researchers seek to answer this question. Why does equitable evaluation matter? .

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Edtech Data Improves Purchases and Student Performance

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Rather than rely solely on randomized controlled trials, generally considered the “gold standard” for medical treatments, the MIND approach emphasizes the use of publicly available schoolwide performance data that can be matched to specific schools and types of students. Evaluating the Evaluation Process.

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EmpowerU Expands Tier 2 Student Mental Health Offering

eSchool News

Building on this success, EmpowerU’s new School-Led Group Support program enables busy school counselors to use targeted and ready-to-implement tools to address each student’s unique needs in a single area, like friendships or emotional regulation. Learn more at www.catapultlearning.com/empoweru.

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MTSS: Where to Begin?

edWeb.net

Create a matrix of what programs and supports you already have, which populations they support, and who is leading the programs. Evaluate the efficacy of current programs. Look at the data and talk with teachers, staff, administrators, students, parents, etc. Collect data.