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Can a Test Ever Be Fair? How Today's Standardized Tests Get Made.

Edsurge

Then there are the psychometricians—the math savants who design tests and create complex algorithms that attempt to make them fair to all students. Mark Moulton : Here that whole question is, what does fair mean? It makes the test more fair because it guarantees that everyone is being measured with the same degree of precision.

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29 K-12 edtech predictions for 2021

eSchool News

However, the struggle will be to expand innovation in core subjects and beyond, including integrating technology into ancillary K-12 areas such as CTE, music, physical education, health, and the arts. There’s a critical need for more funding for schools, including fair pay for teachers. Collin Earnst, CEO, LearnWell.

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What I Learned About Math(s) Education In Australia

Robert Kaplinsky

I implore Australian mathematics educators to shift from a culture of everyone against each other to everyone against the world. If were a society that truly believes in equity, we cant exploit people for centuries and then pretend like everythings fair now. That has to be challenging for the teacher, students, and community.

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