eSchool News

OCTOBER 26, 2015

…It is essential to ensure that tests are fair, are of high quality, take up the minimum necessary time, and reflect the expectation that students will be prepared for success in college and careers,” according to an Oct. Fair–and supportive of fairness–in equity in educational opportunity.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

23, 2022 – The Arizona Department of Education (ADE) selected Riverside Insight’s Cognitive Abilities Test ( CogAT ® ), the most respected and widely used test of student ability, to screen Grade 2 students state-wide for gifted programs. ITASCA, Ill. –

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Oregon teachers wish they didn’t have to give their students Smarter Balanced English and math tests because the tests take too much time, have confusing directions and are unfair for students who don’t have computers at home or who have inadequate technology at school.

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Testing Teachers Math Essay 156

eSchool News

JULY 16, 2024

Test-optional and test-blind admissions in recent years could mean a radical expansion of access to selective colleges. The patchwork of admission test policies in college admissions underscores a larger challenge—and opportunity—for both K-12 and higher education.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Seventh-grade students in Jeanne Halderson’s social studies and English language arts class and Liz Ramsay’s science and mathematics class are the first to field-test the green screens in the schoolwork. It gives kids more freedom and more choices,” she said. “It It becomes more meaningful and the kids own it more.”.

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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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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

School leaders hope that will be enough time to teach students key skills they missed and boost test scores. “We About three-quarters of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch and more than half of students are learning English. There are challenges, I’m not going to sit here and say that there’s not.

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eSchool News

APRIL 6, 2022

Errors, along with a plain English explanation of how to fix them, are presented to users. We took on an initiative, working with the Michigan Educational Technology Leaders (METL), trying to get our hands wrapped around data governance, and that’s like a greased pig at the county fair,” Sharpsteen said.

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Fairness English Evaluation Motivation 260

eSchool News

APRIL 19, 2015

The federal agency is charged with protecting investors and maintaining fair, orderly and efficient markets. He sold his holdings and emerged as a project critic, although he later voted to purchase additional devices for schools and for testing.). The SEC declined to comment and does not, by policy, confirm or deny investigations.

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Testing Fairness Curriculum Questions 195

Cult of Pedagogy

JANUARY 21, 2024

Over the last decade or so , we’ve settled into a choreographed dance around large-scale, state-mandated standardized test scores. Next, people who have nothing to do with the design, administration, taking, or scoring of the tests will then use them to critique states, districts, schools, and/or individual teachers.

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Testing Multiple Choice Questions Language Languages 107

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

To Truman, the worksheets, which were meant to fill a bit of time in the morning, had become a form of timed testing, presenting him daily with a task he couldn’t complete. One year, I had a new student from Sweden who didn’t speak English. Can I help you rebuild it?”. Play promotes the development of language.

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Testing Fairness Languages Language 218

Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 17, 2017

Last year, Sammy Spencer, a High School English teacher in Southern California, ran a pilot program using Revision Assistant in her school. By the time we were finished with a pilot test, we discovered that a technology tool helped us and our students in some unexpected ways. This is a fair criticism.

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Testing Essay English Writing 82

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Since he now had the opportunity to manage his own time, Ratnam had the chance to drive his children to school and after-school activities, working with their school’s PTA, volunteering for the science fair and helping with homework every evening. Ratnam did his best to explain the word and they moved on.

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Language Languages Assignments Reading 167

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

When I handed back quizzes and tests, I gave students who scored an 80 percent or higher stickers and placed their tests on our “Show What You Know” bulletin board. Another student cried when they didn’t get stickers on their test, even though they tried their best. They were used as gimmicks and antics to “motivate” students.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Interestingly, nearly 72% of MinSpark participants were educators in schools that ranked within the bottom 50% of all schools in their state based on combined math and reading proficiency test data. These educators have impacted roughly 13,982 English language learners (ELLs). . About mindSpark Learning.

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Edsurge

MARCH 13, 2017

But with Istation, administrators can use skill growth reports to show progress in skills tested by student, classroom, tier group, grade-level all the way to district or state. We can measure how the teacher is doing in a fair way because we'll know if the children are far behind. What’s next for Istation? Make it more adaptive.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 3, 2017

CASA Academy co-CEO Jenna Leahy (28), another TFA alum and “30 Under 30” honoree, heads up the Arizona-based charter school where more than 70 percent of students are English language learners. The list includes Ryan Hoch (29), a one-time TFA math teacher who in 2013 co-founded the college readiness platform Overgrad.

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Education Learning Fairness Blended Learning 153

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

News & World Report rankings and test-prep tutors who charge $400 an hour. It’s filled with candid interviews of both rich students facing intense pressure from their parents to boost their test scores and high-achieving teens from poor families who are counting on college to sate their intellectual cravings. News ranking dropped.

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Testing Achievement Culture Fairness 154

Edsurge

MAY 9, 2023

CoCo is still in its beta phase, being tested out by educators from 65 different countries. For instance, it now groups student users who are at the same level of mastery together, to make competition more fair. Students have also been asked to use the platform to make presentations for English or social science classes, she adds.

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Gamification Motivation Game-Based Learning Math 206

eSchool News

MAY 14, 2025

I uploaded we did a a recent Delac report on remote testing, so it’s just the idea that online students, students and online schools have to test in a face to face environment. If it doesn’t already exist, we’re not far from being able to say OK, now give me a version of that course for an English language learner.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 9, 2024

Additionally, non-native English speakers and students with language and learning disabilities often turn to these tools to support their thinking, communication, and learning. Note that these tools are notoriously unreliable, inaccurate, and biased against non-native English speakers and students with disabilities; Liang et al.,

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Academic Integrity Writing Syllabus Exams 137

Edsurge

DECEMBER 27, 2018

But high school English and journalism teacher Bryan Christopher is using micro-writing regularly in his classroom to support identity development and to build a sense of belonging. The answer—like so much else related to digital copyright and fair use—is kind of a gray area. Can You Show Netflix in Class? Editor’s Picks.

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Ethics Plagiarism English Writing 129

eSchool News

DECEMBER 3, 2024

By investing $7 million in technology and implementing the bilingual “Footsteps to Brilliance” program, the district aims to provide equal educational opportunities for its diverse student population, including one-third English learners. And so as an example, we are testing we. Is actually bilingual.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 20, 2017

Looking For Answers To test this hypothesis, I partnered with a couple of universities in the U.S. One might expect that courses offered as a series with a culminating credential could be even more beneficial than individual MOOCs. to develop a series of surveys to embed in their MicroMasters programs and in a Coursera Specialization.

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Participation Exams Fairness Study 147

Edsurge

MARCH 7, 2018

Teachers are naturally people pleasing, and you care, but it does not seem fair when we all know that teachers’ time is so precious, to voluntold them for things.” In general, top-down mandates to test products are taxing on teachers’ time and provide few rewards, making them somewhat burdenous.

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Ethics Teachers Testing Fairness 119

Edsurge

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. Called GRADcafé on the Go, it drives around to high schools, church festivals, health fairs and wherever else people request it. The advice is free.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 2, 2025

Narrative Writing Prompts: TASK CARDS By Stacey Lloyd Grades: 6th-10th Subjects: Creative Writing, English Language Arts Avoid writers block with a helpful set of narrative writing task cards. Are the drawbacks of animal testing worth the benefits to humans? Is it fair to judge someone based on social media posts from years ago?

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High School High School Writing Essay 52

eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2022

Technology will be tailored to support through-course assessment.Rather than an end-of-year, single high-stakes test, conversations are picking up around scaffolding the high stakes testing model, whereby students take pieces of exams as they progress. . — Keith Look, Ed.D., VP of Equity and Innovation, K-12, Territorium.

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Edsurge

APRIL 14, 2020

I also taught geography and then English as well. I taught there for 19 years, and taught pretty much anything that would keep me employed within social studies. But my passion and what I really had a niche for there was law-related education, civics, and then AP government and politics. I think the power of civics.

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History Social Studies Study Writing 183

Faculty Focus

MAY 9, 2024

Additionally, non-native English speakers and students with language and learning disabilities often turn to these tools to support their thinking, communication, and learning. Note that these tools are notoriously unreliable, inaccurate, and biased against non-native English speakers and students with disabilities; Liang et al.,

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Academic Integrity Writing Syllabus Exams 98

Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 12, 2016

From tutoring to instructing test preparation classes, there are many places to look for summer work that will give you freedom to enjoy the season as well as some income. Children’s museums, test prep companies, and adult education classes are also great places to check for employment. Take a trip and teach abroad.

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Teachers Instructors Education Essay 73

eSchool News

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Technology will be tailored to support through-course assessment.Rather than an end-of-year, single high-stakes test, conversations are picking up around scaffolding the high stakes testing model, whereby students take pieces of exams as they progress. . — Keith Look, Ed.D., VP of Equity and Innovation, K-12, Territorium.

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Hybrid Learning Communication Accessibility Languages 297

Dangerously Irrelevant

MARCH 30, 2015

Learned enough English to transition into regular classes in 8th grade, finished all high school coursework by 11th grade, now taking 5 AP classes as a senior. Just 26 percent of ACT test-takers are prepared for college. LC – I lead an annual STEM excellence fair and bring other teachers, community members in that way.

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STEM Interdisciplinary Quizzes Math 94

Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 1, 2019

Fair warning: This robot doesn’t look like the famous humanoid robots of literature–C3PO or Marvin the Paranoid Android (from The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy ), with arms, legs, and a head. It comes in German, Swedish, and English–excellent. Who will love this robot. kids who love Legos.

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Mobile Devices Math Curriculum Art 94

Teachers Pay Teachers

MAY 12, 2025

Your students may be an energetic bunch, be easily riled up before a test, or still full of energy after recess. Adding an activity like a short brain break to your transition into a test or out of recess could be a creative way to defuse this energy.

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Classroom Management Teachers Attention Grades 78

k12 Online Schools

APRIL 28, 2025

Standardized Testing Still Plays a Role (But Not the Only Role) In a world where many colleges have gone “test-optional,” standardized tests like the SAT and ACT still matter for certain programs, scholarships, and competitive universities. However, test scores alone dont define an applicant anymore.

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k12 Online Schools

APRIL 26, 2025

Common Challenges During the Transition (and How to Overcome Them) Switching from traditional schooling to K12 online learning can be exciting but also comes with its fair share of challenges. Solution: Test all equipment before the school year starts. Encourage interaction during live classes and group projects.

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Motivation Schools Assignments Art 52