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What data is necessary to help students succeed?

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In contrast, medical school can overwhelm students with detailed information, like longitudinal reports on multiple-choice question performance throughout the year. This raises an essential question: What kind of feedback information is genuinely useful for students?

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Aldine ISD Gets 100% STAAR Pass Rate in Algebra 1 Pilot Program

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The challenge Aldine ISD faced at the beginning of the 2022-23 school year was to prepare their students for the redesign of the math State of Texas Assessment of Academic Readiness (STAAR), which added non-multiple-choice questions to align with the deep critical thinking and conceptual mathematics learning students should be doing in class.

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What Happens When a School Closes Its Library?

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Demonstrators gather in August 2023 in protest of Houston ISD's plan to close libraries in schools. The most high-achieving students would be funneled there, too, where they could do worksheets at their own pace and free up teachers to focus on everyone else. For short-answer questions, they wrote on an index card.

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Not Just Numbers: How Educators Are Using Data in the Classroom

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To shed some light on the questions above, EdSurge talked to six educators to get their take. Here’s the big takeaway: Data doesn’t just come in the form of grades, attendance records and answers on multiple choice questions. I think they’re a treasure trove of insight in the story behind student achievement,” he says.

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Pulling the Plug on a Personalized Learning Pilot

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17, Rudolph explained the motivation behind the decision: “It’s hard to argue with personalized learning… but when everybody is sitting there saying ‘yes, this looks good,’ maybe we should ask some more critical questions.” High achievers can accelerate into above-grade level standards, while those move slower can get extra practice.

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