eSchool News

JULY 19, 2023

During the 2023-2024 school year, K-3 student achievement benchmarks will directly benefit from having Istation available.” Inside Istation, educators get easy-to-read assessment data and personalized profiles with relevant information on students’ progress. said Vice President of Research and Assessments, Victoria Locke, Ph.D.,

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 8, 2024

But there’s a similar learning disability that is holding back the achievement of students in mathematics, and it’s much less widely known. As with reading disabilities, early identification can lead to timely and effective support, reducing students’ long-term struggles with math and boosting educational outcomes. What is dyscalculia?

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Catlin Tucker

MARCH 23, 2022

Hattie’s and Timperley’s (2007) research on feedback identified it as having a significant impact on student achievement and learning. Evaluating the impact of differentiated instruction on literacy and reading in mixed ability classrooms: Quality and equity dimensions of education effectiveness. 77, 81–112.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 28, 2022

Early simulations like Reader Rabbit are still used in classrooms to drill reading and math skills. In case you must ‘sell’ this idea to your administration, here are three great reasons why students should use Minecraft in school: Reading, Writing, and Problem Solving. Game playing develops reading skills.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 23, 2023

In short, it has never been more critical to understand how to support students on the path to reading proficiency by the end of 3rd grade. Applying research to practice is at the core of instruction based in the science of reading. Scores have continued to decline, in part because of pandemic-related learning interruptions.

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Study Achievement Evaluation Curriculum Design 284

Catlin Tucker

APRIL 10, 2018

goals they have for the grading period and describe their action plan for achieving these goals. Too often students become overwhelmed by all of the work teachers assign and lose sight of what they would like to achieve. First, students are asked to articulate three S.M.A.R.T.

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eSchool News

MARCH 20, 2023

Cabin John MD – Early learning leader, Learning Without Tears, today affirmed that equity and access are at the core of Phonics, Reading, and Me —its K–3 supplemental literacy program designed to help students learn the skills they need to become proficient readers.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 3, 2020

Partnership offers automated assessment of students’ oral reading fluency — for testing at school or at home . AMI) , an educational technology company, to provide a fully automated assessment tool that uses artificial intelligence and voice technology to measure K-5 students’ reading abilities. (AMI)

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Texthelp ®, a leading education technology company focused on helping learners of all ages and abilities improve their reading, writing, and math skills, today announced the launch of WriQ ®, a cloud-based writing assessment and achievement tool. “WriQ, has been designed with those needs in mind. .”

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Writing Gamification Motivation Evaluation 260

eSchool News

JUNE 4, 2024

Key points: Critical thinking should not be separate from and on top of what teachers are doing in the classroom How to help students build critical success skills 3 lessons on perseverance from Stoffel the honey badger For more news on durable skills, visit eSN’s Innovative Teaching hub Achievement discrepancies among U.S.

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Critical Thinking Metacognitive Skills Knowledge Achievement 339

eSchool News

JUNE 18, 2024

1 Within this larger pool, a core group is considered to have a reading disability or dyslexia. Even lengthy evaluations by specialists have all the same limitations. 7 Given the screening mandate, some publishers have fashioned screeners out of their reading assessment instruments designed for the typical population.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

While the primary goal of standardized testing is to measure student achievement and set benchmarks for educational standards, it carries unintended consequences. Standardized reading tests In recent years, the landscape of reading instruction has undergone a dramatic transformation.

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Testing Critical Thinking Evaluation Essay 284

eSchool News

JULY 5, 2024

months of reading instruction to recover in these two subjects. Because of the rise in usage of summer programs, NWEA researchers evaluated the current studies and identified 10 recommendations district leaders should consider regarding their design and implementation: Districts should offer summer programs for a minimum of four weeks.

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Learning Math Participation Achievement 307

eSchool News

JANUARY 8, 2025

Together with professional development, S mithsonian Science for the Classroom , which is published by Carolina Biological, the leading school science supplier, was shown to raise science, math and reading performance for grades 3 to 5. The difference for female students was statistically significant. Lapp and Anne B.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 7, 2022

Susan Blum, author of the book, "Ungrading" Michelle Miller encourages us in “ Minds Online: Teaching Effectively With Technology ” to not feel like instructors have to evaluate each and every thing that a student submits to one of our classes. The most common homework given to students in most classes is reading.

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Tutoring practices that include non-evaluative feedback and mindful approaches support writers’ growth holistically. I don’t start from a deficit approach, but rather, I listen to writers’ concerns and accompany them through their academic journey with a non-evaluative and mindful approach.

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Evaluation Feedback Writing Languages 119

eSchool News

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Knowledge Graph helps developers enhance AI system inputs by aligning them with learning science research, state academic standards, and curricula, while Evaluators help developers assess AI system outputs to ensure they meet the accuracy, rigor, and quality essential for teaching and learning.

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Intelligence Evaluation Knowledge Science 263

Faculty Focus

JUNE 1, 2025

I read Susan Blums Ungrading as a first-year graduate student and was immediately smitten. In my more recent students evaluations, students say they are less stressed, they are more motivated, and they understand assignment expectations at the beginning of the semester. My first attempt at alternative assessment didnt go very well.

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Edsurge

APRIL 17, 2024

Over the past few years, more literacy tools have been using generative AI, either to accelerate children’s reading proficiency or to stimulate more reading interest. Using speech recognition technology to listen to a child read and using AI to offer feedback can be helpful as long as the technology is based on science-backed design.

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Coaching Reading Motivation Feedback 204

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

million students who completed the i-Ready Diagnostic for Reading and more than 3 million students who completed the i-Ready Diagnostic for Mathematics in Grades K–7 in 2021–2022 and in Grades 1–8 in 2022–2023. But for these same students, meeting Stretch Growth led to 89 percent achieving grade level.

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Learning Grades Curriculum Achievement 321

eSchool News

JUNE 15, 2022

Just four years ago, a study predicted that AI in education and learning would increase 47.5% through 2021; as it turned out, the prediction was conservative. The current landscape.

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Instructors Intelligence Evaluation Achievement 261

EdTech Magazine

APRIL 4, 2019

CoSN 2019: How to Design an Effective K–12 Technology Evaluation Program. Schools must have robust evaluation if they want to continue to find success in technology integration, said Steven Baule, assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin-Superior, and former superintendent for Muncie (Ind.) eli.zimmerman_9856.

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eSchool News

JULY 9, 2020

Most librarians are familiar with reading challenges — the challenge format is a type of reading program that provides a more engaging way to get students to read. But reading challenges don’t have to be run by one teacher or media specialist independently. We have long since known that independent reading volume ?

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Reading Participation Achievement Evaluation 148

Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 12, 2019

” I know a lot of teachers who spend the summer reading, reflecting, and refocusing, but it is hard to take those resolutions we make in summer and put them into practice during the chaos of first few weeks of school. The summer break gives us time to recharge and re-evaluate why we do this challenging work. What is our purpose?

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Metacognitive Skills Schools Blended Learning Evaluation 367

eSchool News

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Join eSchool News for the 12 Days of Edtech with 2024s most-read and most-loved stories. Read these passages for fluency. These kinds of exercises can help students make marginal gains in reading, math, and general content knowledge, but they dont address the root of the problem: learning how to think and how to learn.

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Critical Thinking Metacognitive Skills Education Knowledge 273

Edsurge

MARCH 20, 2023

Reading skills are the gateway to success in every classroom subject. The need to read is not limited to English Language Arts classes; literacy skills are essential in math, history and all other content areas. Not being able to read has a profound effect on our self-esteem, social-emotional skills and imagination.

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Reading Failure Motivation Study 164

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

The program will utilize federal funds under the Every Student Succeeds Act, Title II and feature CORE’s Online Elementary Reading Academy (OERA), as well as individualized coaching sessions for each participating teacher. Instructors will provide support to participants through feedback and dialogue. CORE is a subsidiary of Pivot Learning.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 7, 2019

Our efforts seem to be paying off, as all of our elementary and middle schools are rated by the state as either “shows progress” or “excels” in terms of reading and math achievement. Under these more rigorous standards, students are expected to read more complex texts and reach greater depths of knowledge than before.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 22, 2021

The research, Learning during COVID-19: An update on student achievement and growth at the start of the 2021-22 school year , is the third in a series of research briefs by NWEA focused on understanding how the pandemic has affected student reading and mathematics outcomes. PORTLAND, Ore., About NWEA.

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Achievement Education Math Evaluation 261

Edsurge

MARCH 13, 2019

On Wednesday, the firm announced it invested $50 million in a Series C round for Newsela , which offers an instructional content platform containing news and nonfiction articles at various reading levels. Sanchez says the platform saves teachers about five hours a week from searching for content online to use in a reading class.

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Reading Internet Social Studies Study 155

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The feedback is listed in three easy-to-read columns, which helps make even complex discussions easy to digest. Plus Delta is a formative evaluation model that prompts individuals to assess what went well with an event or experience and what could be improved. Conceptboard’s template is just as straightforward as the evaluation model.

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Teachers Feedback Evaluation Intelligence 335

Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Each of us go to school with a backpack filled with very different experiences that we draw from to master content, create meaning, work in groups, share our voice, and achieve our potential.” . “Yet, if there is one takeaway from the burgeoning learning sciences research, it is that no two of us learn in exactly the same way.

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Blended Learning Education Feedback Fairness 419

eSchool News

MARCH 14, 2024

This article on the science of reading originally appeared on Purdue University’s site and is reposted here with permission. awarded to Purdue in August as part of Lilly Endowment’s Advancing the Science of Reading in Indiana initiative, which launched in 2022. The work is funded in part by a $1.5

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Science Reading Interdisciplinary Languages 157

eSchool News

APRIL 16, 2019

Biggest challenge: Results on standardized tests revealed that about a quarter of our 9th- and 10th-grade students weren’t reading at grade level. Others simply hadn’t discovered texts that engage them, so hadn’t spent enough time developing the reading skills they need for success. Some were students with learning disabilities.

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English Languages Language Learning Disabilities 222

Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Tutoring practices that include non-evaluative feedback and mindful approaches support writers’ growth holistically. I don’t start from a deficit approach, but rather, I listen to writers’ concerns and accompany them through their academic journey with a non-evaluative and mindful approach.

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Evaluation Feedback Writing Languages 98

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

During a time when many kindergarten through 12th grade education leaders are facing many challenges, including teacher shortages , declining math and reading scores , funding issues, student mental health , and more, it’s critical that superintendents maximize their resources.

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Hybrid Learning Schools Evaluation Blended Learning 293

Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 29, 2020

Summer for me is nonstop reading — in an easy chair, under a tree, lying on the lawn, petting my dog. Nothing distracts me when I’m in the reading zone. I found it a satisfying read. And it paid off. I came up with six. by Weston Kieschnick. Teach Like a Champion 2.0: by Doug Lemov.

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Reading Blended Learning Curriculum Evaluation 147