eSchool News

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Be informed before testing: Districts must thoroughly understand the tool, including its privacy practices, security measures, and contract terms, before making a commitment. Start with staff: Testing AI tools with staff, rather than students, helps avoid premature exposure of student data.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

Pinterest boasts more than 1,000 ideas about how students can self-evaluate their own learning. How can we motivate students to want to evaluate their own learning? The first step is to reframe self-evaluation within the context of the learning environment rather than primarily as a task-oriented process. What’s In A Word?

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

In educational settings, data can be derived from a range of sources–student assessments, attendance records, teacher evaluations, behavioral data, etc. For instance, consider a scenario where a district uses standardized test scores to evaluate teacher performance.

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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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Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2018

The 26-year-old entrepreneur has set out to replace the standardized tests that are deeply entrenched in K-12 and higher education, like the SAT and ACT, and she tells EdSurge her efforts to do so are sure to spark controversy. How can you move past multiple choice tests?” Rebecca Kantar is fighting an uphill battle.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

The University of Massachusetts Amherst has historically required prospective undergraduate students to submit a standardized test score as part of their applications. Even now, as testing has resumed—albeit with social distancing, face coverings and limited seating—access to testing centers is not equal, nor equitable.

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Teach Hub

OCTOBER 25, 2024

If you’ve been a teacher for a while, you already know how much standardized tests shape everything from what you teach to how you’re evaluated. These tests seem to influence how you prepare lesson plans, so you may feel pressured to “teach to the test” rather than foster a love of learning.

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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

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Finalists navigated a series of interactive challenges and were evaluated on their ingenuity and innovative thinking, application of STEM principles, demonstration of passion and research, presentation skills, and ability to inspire others. Paul, Minnesota, on Oct.

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eSchool News

MAY 3, 2016

Based on the programs I was using, I could evaluate how to differentiate instruction for my students,” she said. With Aware, educators can create and administer their own assessments and also import other state and local test results to view students’ progress and understand larger trends.

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Edsurge

MARCH 5, 2018

When the Opt-Out movement gained traction in 2015, more than 20 percent of New York students (about 200,000) in grades 3 through 8 declined to take state standardized exams, a statistic that raised questions about the future of such testing. Aligning tests with the ways students learn in the classroom is one of Gorin’s goals.

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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2020

Even the College Board, maker of the SAT, advised colleges to be flexible about requiring the test in the upcoming admissions cycle because of challenges students face getting to in-person tests and glitches in the group’s efforts to administer exams remotely. The pitch: Use deeper technology to make admissions more deeply human. “I

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eSchool News

MAY 19, 2016

The study from the Educational Testing Service (ETS) notes that improving state finance systems can go a long way to support equitable funding and increased resource access. They focused on income inequality, specifically child poverty, for evaluating gaps in those educational resources and outcomes.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

And universal assessments that test multilingual students in English can provide inaccurate information that teachers use to guide their practice or can wrongly indicate learning disabilities. Research shows that students who are classified as English language learners may be perceived by teachers as less capable than their non-ELL peers.

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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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eSchool News

APRIL 6, 2022

Addresses are also evaluated against U.S. 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. Postal standards for accuracy and Geocoding coordinates.

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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. All of the blocks, dinosaurs, paints, puppets and dominoes the class hadn’t had time to explore were now fair game. As educators, we cannot allow this to continue.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

The kit also includes printable templates for inspiration and feedback forms for testing their game with peers. • Entries will be evaluated by a team of educators, mathematicians and game designers who develop and facilitate the ST Math software program for one million students across the country.

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Edsurge

MAY 16, 2019

The numbers are provided only to admissions officials, and not visible to test takers. The goal of this is to be used by admissions officers at higher-ed institutions to evaluate the context from which a student is coming from—so the community, the school, et cetera,” Singer said. “An An SAT score of 1400 in East L.A.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 8, 2023

Are kids learning to think or just to pass tests? Students are responsible for setting the patterns and strategies that allow them to succeed, by evaluating what they can do at any given point and making a plan for learning everything else. If they fail at the Science Fair, they’ll fall in love with art instead.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

There’s a Phase I award that offers around $250,000 for building and testing prototypes. Rather, all future applicants seeking funding for edtech projects will be evaluated and compete for funding alongside other applications in AI, IT and robotics. million in funding. There’s no sudden date when we started talking about it.”

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 17, 2017

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. Revision Assistant, or any technology that evaluates writing, is unable to assess the human writer. This is a fair criticism.

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Edsurge

JUNE 24, 2024

Evaluate: Assess Product Quality and Efficacy During the evaluation stage, districts review potential edtech solutions and scope their ability to meet the identified needs. Validated information from trusted third-party sources illuminates key areas for consideration when exploring and vetting new tools.

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 8, 2023

They can also help instructors to ensure that exams are fair and equitable. This standardization is crucial for fairness and equality within the course. Fairness : Blueprints eliminate the chance of subjective grading and unexpected exam questions, thereby ensuring a more equitable assessment process. on a scale of 1 to 5.

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Edsurge

MAY 26, 2017

Evaluating and Supporting an Array of Technologies District-wide assessment platform Illuminate DnA will serve as DPS’s data assessment management platform. Allen said the district has been testing out various forms of data-driven instruction, with varying degrees of success.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Join us at one of our jobs fairs! Find Your Dream Job at EdSurge’s Jobs Fairs Network with top edtech companies in: SF (10/10), Boston (10/16) and NYC (10/17) Learn More 5. I use this lens as a decision making test before saying yes, and as a barometer to ensure I’m still on the right track down the road. It takes practice.

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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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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 8, 2023

They can also help instructors to ensure that exams are fair and equitable. This standardization is crucial for fairness and equality within the course. Fairness : Blueprints eliminate the chance of subjective grading and unexpected exam questions, thereby ensuring a more equitable assessment process. on a scale of 1 to 5.

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Edsurge

MARCH 13, 2017

It allows for individualized learning paths for all children and can evaluate what works and what doesn’t. 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. But in education, technology threatens no one.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 16, 2024

This requires thoroughly self-examining personally held biases and evaluating our social connectedness (Dewsbury & Brame, 2019). In the ideate stage, the educator should evaluate the problem or focus of the education from multiple perspectives and sit in the seat of both the learner and the educator who will teach the content.

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EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 11, 2018

During testing, I had one of my seventh-grade computer students try the first tutorial: “Your Very First Game Controller.” When my Code Kit arrived for evaluation, I tore into it like a kid at Christmas. Of course, as a classroom management technique (and to keep things fair), students’ roles can switch every 10 to 15 minutes.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 16, 2024

This requires thoroughly self-examining personally held biases and evaluating our social connectedness (Dewsbury & Brame, 2019). In the ideate stage, the educator should evaluate the problem or focus of the education from multiple perspectives and sit in the seat of both the learner and the educator who will teach the content.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 7, 2024

This requires thoroughly self-examining personally held biases and evaluating our social connectedness (Dewsbury & Brame, 2019). Test – The educator will practice and test the education plan for efficacy. To understand and dialogue effectively with our students, we must recognize and understand our voices and perspectives.

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Edsurge

MARCH 25, 2019

The competition evaluated startups on the quality of their innovation, their impact to date, and their potential to scale. We believe it’s fair to assume that more than half of the existing education startups in the MENA region are running a B2C model, focusing on the parent as the consumer.

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Edsurge

APRIL 4, 2023

But I came from a family that had a lot of resources and had support — and they got me tested and really put resources in place to allow me to thrive. So that means that as a result of this film, I'm hoping that school boards put literacy in the superintendent's evaluation plan. Is it evidence-based? Is it working for all of our kids?

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Edsurge

MARCH 13, 2019

Over the past three years, with experimentation and many conversations, my students and I have worked together to develop a system of learning that values transparency, fairness, collaboration and feedback—and we've got the data to support that it’s improving student engagement. Anonymous student.

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Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 12, 2023

In doing so, we should design assessments as an engaging, ongoing process for students, helping them learn and achieve their learning outcomes rather than considering it as a one-shot test or quiz and focusing merely on the score. Integrate different assessment methods to form a holistic, precise, and reasonable evaluation system.

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