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MAY 29, 2019

in the School Counseling Program at Freed-Hardeman University, TN, lays out strategies and ground rules for what works and what doesn’t work when it comes to assessments. Preparing for the classroom, system-wide, or state-mandated testing requires organization, training, a great attitude, and patience.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

“Lower test scores only illuminate some of the problems caused by chronic absenteeism. Students who miss school also miss important social interaction with their peers, access to regular meals and special services such as speech therapy or counseling.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 19, 2023

Take, for example, the recent California Science Test (CAST) scores released in October 2022 that showed 29.45 We highly recommend that you take the race implicit bias test. We as educators can also serve as gatekeepers to either advanced studies, special education, counseling, etc.

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OCTOBER 10, 2019

Students come here from miles around to meet—first-come, first-served—with advisers for help navigating all things higher education, from admissions tests to majors to meningitis shots. At a table with stacks of flyers advertising scholarships, a family confers quietly with a counselor. The advice is free.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 29, 2016

As a result of testing this method within K-3 classrooms, Wendy Reinke, an associate professor of educational, school and counseling psychology, found that students who receive more negative attention from teachers experience increases in problems with emotional regulation, concentration and disruptive behaviors.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Refined through extensive beta testing, the new portal is designed to be more personalized and intuitive for the students and educators who use it. (September 23, 2021—Minneapolis, MN) EmpowerU has reimagined the online portal to its highly personalized, data-driven social-emotional learning (SEL) solution.

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JANUARY 4, 2023

My days involve a combination of classroom counseling, meeting students in small groups and one-on-one sessions and consulting with staff and caregivers. In some of the schools in our district, we have seen regression in academic test scores, significant learning loss and an increase in students dropping out of high school.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 10, 2015

It also opens the door to new state testing systems. Called Student Support and Academic Enhancement Grants, the program combines several priorities such as Advanced Placement, physical education, school counseling, and educational technology into a single state block-grant program. Next page: New state testing procedures explained.

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JANUARY 12, 2023

Alyssa Parks first made an appointment at the counseling center at Marshall University thanks to her roommate. There is a stigma about that topic, and I think it’s getting better, but sometimes it’s nerve-wracking if you’ve never been to the counseling center.” Alyssa Parks. Photo courtesy of WVHEPC.

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DECEMBER 8, 2020

While all this information can be useful for maintaining integrity in testing and ensuring that student needs are being met, questions remain about where and how this data is being used before, during, and after tests, by both your company, the virtual proctors, and testing administrators. More than 60,000 U.S.

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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2020

Even the College Board, maker of the SAT, advised colleges to be flexible about requiring the test in the upcoming admissions cycle because of challenges students face getting to in-person tests and glitches in the group’s efforts to administer exams remotely. The pitch: Use deeper technology to make admissions more deeply human. “I

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eSchool News

MARCH 27, 2020

A brief history of adaptive testing. My graduate school mentor, David Weiss , was a counseling psychologist. Counselors rely heavily on psychological tests, which led Weiss to become an expert in test theory and practice, and to found the Psychometric Methods graduate degree program at the university.

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MARCH 6, 2024

Admittedly, I find it hard to counsel them when the value of a diploma and the future of society keeps moving before I have time to adjust. Louisiana, where I teach, is one of eight states in the country that requires a passing score on standardized tests to receive a diploma.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Terms such as “professional learning communities” and “data-based instruction” take the focus off of children as developing human beings, and force conversations to be about standardized data points from benchmark tests and high-stakes standardized assessments, which can dehumanize the way we address student needs. What do teachers want?

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FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Students can continue improving their test scores even after the party starts for a chance to join in the last hour. Two Major Battles’ Kelli Frazier, now a counselor at Bowie Middle School and colleague of Ibarra, was undertaking her counseling internship during the COVID-19 lockdown. After Covid, we saw an increase in aggression.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 5, 2017

Overall it reveals that educators, parents, and students want a balanced approach to K-12 testing that utilizes a variety of academic assessments designed to support and improve teaching and learning.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Testing the Theory Cajon Valley’s application of vocational psychology is unique for a school district that doesn’t serve high schoolers. These tests are based on the work of John Holland, a psychologist whose theory on vocational choice in the mid 20th century is foundational for the field.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 31, 2023

And since today’s school counselors work with all students in a school — through classroom instruction, small group, individual counseling and individual consultation — having those smaller ratios gives school counselors an opportunity to deliver information and curricula and … to address gaps around opportunity, equity and access.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Become an Admission Test Objector COVID-19 ushered in the era of test-optional admissions. De-centering standardized tests in the college application process is unequivocally a good thing. Going “test optional” is an excellent first step, but it's not enough. Big change starts with small steps. And many U.S.

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MAY 4, 2017

secondary schools and universities , where demand for counseling services is rapidly outstripping supply. test scores increasing from 60/100 to 71/100). Finally, we foster preventive mental health by closing the gap between traditional counseling service and SEL / character development programs. Existing College SEL Programs.

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APRIL 26, 2025

“Our college counseling program is designed to support students at every stage of their high school career,” says Dr. Ott. By eleventh grade, students are immersed in workshops, standardized test preparation, and strategic college application planning.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 5, 2019

They juggle high-stress classrooms and constant pressure from administrators and state officials to improve students’ standardized test scores. In the last 20 years, the agenda that has been pushed forward—it’s demonized teachers, dehumanized teachers and focused on standardized tests in math and literacy as the only measures of success.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

The COVID-19 pandemic complicated the application process further with disruptions to in-person advising, testing and extracurricular activities. Counseling Students to Submit Applications Dorma Lozada, a senior at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in Manhattan, recalls going through the college application process herself a few years ago.

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Edsurge

MAY 14, 2019

Students can find data on colleges including average test scores, financial aid offered and essay deadlines. A college counseling director at Taipei American School in Taiwan, Neill had searched for college counseling software that had more international offerings for his students.

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Edsurge

MARCH 18, 2020

With price packages that range from from 499 rupees (about $7) a month to 1,499 rupees (about $20) for two years, EduRev offers videos, notes and practice tests on subjects that range from business and programming to engineering and economics. The platform hosts more than 500 courses and 100,000 videos, documents and tests.

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Edsurge

MAY 19, 2020

The company has since branched out to provide services in other areas, including occupational therapy and mental health counseling, and offers online evaluations to help districts determine whether students qualify for special education or gifted-and-talented programs.

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Edsurge

APRIL 5, 2019

School counselors are not only an important influence in the lives of students, but research shows that students attending schools with lower counselor-to-student ratios were more engaged in higher-quality college counseling learning decisions, and in turn made more informed college decisions.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 5, 2020

Springboard recruits mentors who work at big companies to counsel students one-on-one through the ups and downs of learning new skills and navigating the job search process. “To I must have passed the test as well.” “The mentors make a difference for these students,” says Mark Sherman, managing director at the investment firm.

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eSchool News

MAY 26, 2016

In addition, the programs used different measures of success, such as scores on year-end tests, graduation rates, and college attendance rates. Students agreed and felt that their teachers genuinely cared about them and would help them succeed.

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JULY 24, 2024

Students at rural high schools may lack access to adequate counseling about college options and financial aid, or they may not be offered classes that selective institutions look for among applicants, such as calculus. Members of the STARS College Network are testing strategies to improve the odds of students feeling comfortable and thriving.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 19, 2023

Take, for example, the recent California Science Test (CAST) scores released in October 2022 that showed 29.45 We highly recommend that you take the race implicit bias test. We as educators can also serve as gatekeepers to either advanced studies, special education, counseling, etc.

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eSchool News

APRIL 20, 2016

Conboy, General Counsel, The New York State Council of School Superintendents, N.Y. Create a national communications awareness campaign to raise awareness about the women’s leadership initiative, disseminate learnings and promote project resources. Margaret Grogan, Dean of the College of Educational Studies, Chapman University, Calif.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Students will receive tailored counseling to build strong candidacies for elite colleges, as well as assistance with every facet of the admissions process during the college application season. Tutoring (for academic subjects & standardized tests). ? AtomicMind also aims to help these students more easily obtain financial aid.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Despite their exhaustion, educators across our nation have worked tirelessly, transforming their kitchen tables into classrooms while simultaneously becoming the cafeteria, technology, custodial and counseling staff for their own children. Educators have recounted to us that they feel forgotten and undervalued, overworked and under-resourced.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Students are counseled on how to interpret their data and know that if certain formative assessments show areas of weakness, they should go back and work on them before requesting an assessment. Based on this data, students can determine whether they are ready to take unit assessments, which count towards their grade.

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JULY 2, 2019

A 2016 study of 67 students from researchers with Disney, University of Plymouth, University of Lincoln and Ghent University found that the children who used robots saw scores “improve significantly between a pre- and a post-test” on French language skills.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 11, 2017

The school offers each students, who often arrive to the school from local shelters or the streets, two physical and two dental exams, as well as on-site mental health counseling. Untreated trauma is an invisible epidemic in inner-city neighborhoods,” says Ashley Edwards, founder of counseling text messaging platform MindRight. “We

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