Edsurge

JANUARY 23, 2025

She hears from teachers who have bad memories of math class when they were growing up of the stress of timed tests and of impatient instructors who discouraged them from pursuing math. Elementary school teachers can fall short on math instruction, according to Huinker. Thats why Robinson says she feels like a math therapist.

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Edsurge

MARCH 16, 2020

during lessons, and offer students a variety of ways to complete assignments rather than requiring everyone to write a paper or take a timed exam. The Downsides of Closing Schools and Colleges in a Crisis. Makeup exams for the March 14 administration are also canceled. What about AP tests? Here is more information.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 22, 2017

Brook Avenue Elementary School in Waco, Texas has been in the papers before, but not for shiny new laptops or flexible classrooms. The school has served as the model for poor performance in the area—listed in both Waco Tribune-Herald and on KCEN-TV for falling below state standards for the last six years. Jessica Torres.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Rogers Elementary School in Texas get an unusual introduction to technology. The following February, the district sent an email to school leaders gauging interest in participating in the initiative. The data only represents one class in the high school, which was in its first two years of existence. Students at Dan D.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

While enthusiasm can fade with age, at Qualcomm he noticed middle school students would still snap to attention when it came to the jobs they could one day have, the money they could make and their own interests. At the end, test-takers are given three such interest codes—the first of which, known as the “leading” code, is the most important.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 26, 2019

The following stories offer a glimpse into how teachers, school leaders and researchers are using what we know about how people learn to improve schools and student outcomes that go beyond test scores, such as suspension rates and even the number of hours kids sleep at night. Here’s why.

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EdTech Magazine

JUNE 21, 2018

AI Solutions Drive Higher STEM Test Scores. At Slackwood Elementary School in New Jersey, AI assistants helped bolster first-grade students, a majority of whom were struggling to achieve high test scores in science, technology, engineering and math courses.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Yet, the district has seen consistent and remarkable success in math achievement across all of its elementary schools since it began using Stepping Stones, a prekindergarten through sixth grade comprehensive math program from ORIGO Education. Sandy Szako is a math instructional coach at Nichols Sawmill Elementary School in Magnolia.

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EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 16, 2018

Summative assessments, such as final exams, can be a great way to assess the efficacy of a curriculum within a school , offering a view of an entire class in order to judge what materials or classroom structures may need to be adjusted for the next year. . Formative Assessments and Student Data Are Pathways to Adaptive Learning.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Some school leaders turn to expensive technology and troves of data as an answer to low proficiency problems in public schools. When I entered the school four years ago, we were the lowest performing school in our zone and one of the lowest performing schools in the state,” Beaird explains. “As

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Edsurge

AUGUST 29, 2016

While preparing for our standardized tests, too many of us assumed that because our students are “digital natives” their transition to online testing would be seamless and they would easily adapt and excel in these new environments. In fact, during the first PARCC exam, I was teaching in an affluent, high-performing school.

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Edsurge

MAY 13, 2019

Emily Tate / EdSurge) An expressed goal of the school, Ashton said, is to have 100 percent of students pass the AP Computer Science Principles exam by the end of 10th grade. “We Before she came to Digital Pioneers Academy, Senora had a tough time at school, Ashton said. Seeing my own creation is cool.”

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Will it be on the test? Here are a few more: Quizzes : Assigning tests and quizzes throughout the semester is necessary to assess student understanding of important course content. A nonlinear approach to testing incorporates student-generated quizzes. What comes next? that demonstrate the content in a more creative way.

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Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2018

The large district, with about 110 schools, went through a rocky personalized-learning implementation process with the consultant group, where educators struggled with fractured understandings of the model, and test scores fluctuated in certain schools. Schools like Memminger Elementary had as few as 8.9

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Edsurge

JULY 29, 2019

We had three schools performing academically in the bottom five percent in the state—they were the lowest of the lowest. And this past year two of those schools came off the list! Our middle school and elementary school are no longer priority schools. We’re going to go from the bottom to the top.

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Edsurge

JULY 2, 2018

The demographic data showing how students from different backgrounds are performing on exams helps parents learn how other kids like their own are faring. They are able to ask questions like, “Are many ELL students performing below grade-level in English at this school, or is it only my child?”

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English Exams Schools Languages 119

eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2022

— Nicollette LeTellier, STEM Specialist for K-5, Swift Water Elementary School. After the pandemic, schools will need to find a way to measure where their students are academically, developmentally, and socially to make their best efforts to remediate learning loss of all kinds. — Keith Look, Ed.D.,

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Will it be on the test? Here are a few more: Quizzes : Assigning tests and quizzes throughout the semester is necessary to assess student understanding of important course content. A nonlinear approach to testing incorporates student-generated quizzes. What comes next? that demonstrate the content in a more creative way.

Teaching 111

Teaching Quizzes Instructors Exams 111

Edsurge

APRIL 3, 2017

On March 22, Google and the Lemann Foundation, an education nonprofit in Brazil, announced plans for an initiative that will deliver digital lessons directly to the cellphones of elementary school teachers. The Prova Brasil [the standardized Brazilian national exam]data tell us which are the most problematic areas.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 14, 2016

Time is a powerful variable driving the operation of schools. Just consider the constructs of grade levels, attendance and seat time, school days and class periods, final exams and grade reports, and standardized testing. Cynthia Day ( @msdayvt ) is an educator at Barre Town Middle and Elementary School in Vermont.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 23, 2022

— Nicollette LeTellier, STEM Specialist for K-5, Swift Water Elementary School. After the pandemic, schools will need to find a way to measure where their students are academically, developmentally, and socially to make their best efforts to remediate learning loss of all kinds. — Keith Look, Ed.D.,

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Edsurge

JULY 31, 2018

But Steve had a special place in his heart particularly for elementary schools. In fact, in the book, Steve is quoted saying, "If I could put one computer in a school and one person would find that computer, it would change their life." What are they going to do? I tell you what they did. Nothing about creativity.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 30, 2016

It may sound like an oxymoron, but it is possible to assess where your students are on their learning path without taking home a stack of papers or forcing your students to complete mundane multiple choice questions in a simulated testing environment. There’s also a summative assessment option (think end-of-unit exams).

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EAB

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

7% Parents: 6% Strategic planning: 6% School configuration: 5% Classroom setting: 4.5% Exams and testing: 4% Grading practices (as a district policy): 3% School closure/merger: 3% #3: People management Following in a distant third among our most requested topics, people management questions comprised 14% of this year’s AskEAB requests.

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Edsurge

APRIL 20, 2020

The education sector was squarely in the middle of China’s fight against COVID and the after effects continue to be felt: In early April, the government announced it would delay important exams, including the gaokao , the university entrance exam in China. Wuhan, the epicenter of the epidemic, was locked down on January 23.

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Edsurge

APRIL 18, 2023

To do that, the organization plans to work with the Educational Testing Service (ETS) — the folks behind standardized tests including the GRE and the Praxis — to create new tools designed to assess what students are able to do, not how much time they spent studying to do it. Embracing Flexibility?

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