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Why combining assessments and LMS technology is essential

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While this may make some educators cringe, the reality is that test-enhanced learning, or testing as an aid to learning, has evidence of effectiveness dating back nearly 100 years ( Roediger III, McDaniel, & McDermott, 2006 ). The Testing Effect and LMS Technology.

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

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As researchers focusing on education technology, we see this often: interactive whiteboards covered in posters, desktop computers holding up plants, older devices that do not work with a newer assessment system. 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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What a Summer Prototype Taught Us About Measuring Quality in an Unbundled Education System

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In the summer of 2016, a community of educators, research design partners, and over 150 teens and young adults in Colorado engaged in a bold experiment to rethink how quality and impact might be measured in a modernized system of learning. Why focus outside of formal learning time for our design work? Source: ReSchool).

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Lexia Celebrates 40th Anniversary 

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Nevertheless, in the year following its founding, Lexia won a major grant from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development to fund product research, design, and development. In terms of technology companies, Lexia is now one of the biggest literacy providers in the market,” said Gaehde.

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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. I will say the other good thing that I think came out of MOOCs.

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Reality Is Messy, Labs Aren’t: How to Make Research-Backed Education Work

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But the challenges and constraints of practical educational settings mean laboratory-based findings don’t readily translate into the kinds of practices, resources and tools that can meaningfully improve teaching and learning. Education research needs a bit more of that kind of hands-on approach.

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Why ‘What Works’ Doesn’t: False Positives in Education Research

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If edtech is to help improve education research it will need to kick a bad habit—focusing on whether or not an educational intervention ‘works’. A typical research question in education might be whether average test scores differ for students who use a new math game and those who don’t.

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