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The Best Edtech for Students Is Backed by Research. Here’s What to Look For.

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Random assignment is intended to ensure the treatment and comparison groups are the same along both measurable characteristics such as test scores as well as unmeasured characteristics such as motivation to learn. This could mean that the groups of students have similar scores on a state test or a pretest relevant to the study.

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Engineers Week — A Must for High School

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Future City challenges middle-school students to take four months to imagine, research, design, and build cities of the future using the free platform SimCity. DiscoverE offers a wide selection of hands-on science-fair-type activities to inspire and motivate students. Future City. Hands-on Activities.

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?Tressie McMillan Cottom on For-Profit Higher Ed, Purdue, and Dream Data Sets

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It jumpstarted a moment in research for us. There is this whole world of open access communities out there that have built a plethora of tools that really do everything that they say they needed Kaplan to do, everything from the design of curriculum design to delivery. And doing that meant Purdue would’ve owned it.