eSchool News

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

As educational technology companies look to place learning science at the core of their products, there are three key steps to success: aligning their teams around education outcomes, building a feedback loop, and evaluating and validating your results.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

A study of public schools in Texas found that those using IXL Math or IXL English Language Arts outperformed other schools on STAAR exams by as much as 11 percentile points in math, 17 percentile points in reading and 8 percentile points in writing. IXL’s impact in Texas.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 29, 2024

Interdisciplinary Studies: Breaking Boundaries for Comprehensive Learning Interdisciplinary studies, as an approach to education, research, and problem-solving, break down traditional boundaries between academic fields, encouraging collaboration and integration of knowledge from diverse areas. 2017; Liu et al.,

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 28, 2025

The Rise of Online Learning Online learning has increasingly become a staple in education, with studies showing that over 30% of students now prefer it over traditional classroom settings. A study from the U.S. They want the ability to learn at their own pace and choose when and where they study.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

According to McKinsey’s 2017 study , the average teacher worked 50 hours a week (a number that has grown to 54 hours post-pandemic, according to 2022 research ). Indeed, the time spent on teaching class is less than the time spent on preparation, evaluation, and feedback (grading). AI transforms textbooks into interactive study guides.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

When we get to see effective edtech products in practice, the view is exciting: We see kids engaged, teachers energized about the kinds of thinking their students are generating and strong learning outcomes that result from well-made tools matched to the students and educators using them.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 29, 2024

Interdisciplinary Studies: Breaking Boundaries for Comprehensive Learning Interdisciplinary studies, as an approach to education, research, and problem-solving, break down traditional boundaries between academic fields, encouraging collaboration and integration of knowledge from diverse areas. 2017; Liu et al.,

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eSchool News

MAY 28, 2024

The district was among the first in the country to test the chatbot called Khanmigo, an AI program developed by online learning giant Khan Academy that is designed for classrooms and acts as a tutor for students and an assistant for teachers. Learn more about our funding here.)

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Edsurge

JULY 22, 2016

At the same time, the number of studies of the effectiveness of learning software is huge. Even limiting your search to the relatively new category of “courseware” doesn’t reduce the number of studies enough to make the task of reviewing them less daunting. An evaluation of adaptive learning products by.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 9, 2019

It Takes a Village to Study and Support Whole Teacher Well-Being The Happy Teacher Project takes a holistic and comprehensive approach by studying physical, psychological and professional well-being and how workplace conditions support these three areas. Most had below average cardiorespiratory fitness.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 11, 2021

Each quiz contains around 10 questions, with roughly half of the questions evaluating student knowledge of topics covered in last week’s lecture, and the remaining half covering topics from earlier in the course. In this way, I continue to evaluate students’ mastery of topics from the whole course each week.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 17, 2023

He devoted the bulk of his time and energy to studying how to improve teaching. “I So what has he learned in more than 20 years from applying his persistence (and much of the money he won from the Nobel) to studying teaching? One thing you’ve focused on more recently is teaching evaluation at colleges. Why that topic?

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Edsurge

AUGUST 10, 2016

Companies, unsurprisingly, are happy to help "prove" their effectiveness by publishing their own studies, sometimes in partnership with third-party research groups, to validate the impact of a product or service. Is your edtech efficacy study up to par? Digital Promise invites edtech developers to share their studies for review.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 15, 2021

“Schools need technology that paints vivid pictures of student knowledge levels so they can meaningfully evaluate and teach every learner,” said Paul Mishkin, CEO of IXL Learning. RIDE’s adoption of the Real-Time Diagnostic clears a path for educators to make significant strides towards boosting learning outcomes.”.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 14, 2024

According to a recent study , this ratio has stayed stable for years, but teachers are under more pressure and are working more hours than ever before – an average of 52-58 hours per week. This can significantly enhance learning outcomes by ensuring students receive the support they need to master the material.

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EdTech Magazine

JULY 12, 2018

There are very few studies being done on the overall effectiveness of edtech interventions,” The Tech Edvocate reports. This means that administrators can’t see what has produced better learning outcomes for students as a result of their purchases.”. Use Ed Tech for Professional Development and Evaluation.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

With the continued funding challenges educators face, it’s crucial to pick an education resource that will yield the best return on investment and support learning outcomes for your district. Share these success criteria when evaluating resources so there is a mutually agreed upon goal that both parties are working toward.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MARCH 2, 2022

Hechinger Report just published an article on how having teachers study student data doesn’t actually result in better student learning outcomes. We implement benchmarking assessments and professional learning communities (PLCs). Think about that for a minute. That finding is pretty counterintuitive, right? Good grief.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 9, 2020

IXL Learning , the K-12 personalized learning platform used by 11 million students, today announced a three-year agreement with Laredo Independent School District to bring its award-winning program to approximately 23,600 students and 1,100 teachers. Laredo ISD is located in Laredo, Texas , on the border with Mexico.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Moreover, he points to the product’s assessment strategies focused on student outcomes, employing a combination of automated evaluations and teacher-led assessments to ensure comprehensive learning assessment. This approach ensures effective learning outcomes and supports diverse educational settings and needs.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 13, 2016

This is a view of personalized learning that is strikingly similar to the approach Netflix has popularized with movies. Unlike movie enjoyment, which is an inherently subjective evaluation, learning is an objective outcome. prefer instructional formats that produce inferior learning outcomes. Butler, A.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

How many hours each week do you spend on creating, sharing, monitoring, evaluating and providing feedback on student activities? One survey found teachers average more than 10 hours weekly on planning and grading , and another study reported that about a third of teachers spend at least 2 hours daily on pre- and post-instruction activities.

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Edsurge

MARCH 29, 2021

These tools can and should be created with pedagogy, student experience, and learning outcomes as the priority. Instead of studying drawings or renderings of molecules, students could see these virtually in 3D. And it is not enough to try to use existing VR/XR applications and tailor them to educational scenarios.

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Edsurge

JUNE 2, 2023

McGraw Hill AR activity for balancing algebraic equations Rob Spierenburg Chief Executive Officer at All Things Media How can educators be confident that integrating AR into their lessons is actually moving the needle toward their key standards and learning outcomes? What does AR look like in the humanities?

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Edsurge

MAY 21, 2019

But unfortunately over the past decade or two, educational research has gotten tangled up in how the medical industry defines and measures efficacy—standards that are as inappropriate as evaluating a headache only with an MRI machine. Researchers then study the outcomes. But using RCT in education has turned out to be tricky.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Digital quizzes, online assignments, and real-time feedback mechanisms offer a more dynamic and varied approach to evaluating students’ understanding and progress. Research about technology in education suggests an evolving impact on teaching and learning.

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Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 12, 2023

As educators, in order to advance our assessment methods so that it serves the learning of our students, it’s important to prioritize aligning the intended learning outcomes with assessment tasks. Moreover, assessment should be incorporated as an integral component of the student learning experience.

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Edsurge

MARCH 4, 2017

School, district, and state leaders make technology decisions every day that will affect student tech fluency, not to mention learning outcomes. But how do these leaders know whether their investments will lead to the student learning outcomes they desire?

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Edsurge

JULY 29, 2022

Children’s Health Is Crucial to Closing the Achievement Gap Student wellbeing—including physical and mental health—is deeply intertwined with learning outcomes. In short, healthy children learn better than children who are suffering from health-related problems. But that would be a mistake.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

“They're not going to be able to even use the controller with great effect,” says Heather Kirkorian, an associate professor of human development and family studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who studies the impact of screen media on infants and young children.

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Edsurge

MAY 2, 2017

If a university evaluated Blackboard and WebCT using a feature checklist, we lost most of the time. When the university evaluated platforms by having a group of faculty use both systems, we won most of the time. Yet selling against the proposition of improved learning outcomes is dangerous. But we’d say no.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Ertmer and Anne Ottenbreit-Leftwich that refers not just to whether technology is used in the classroom but also when and how teachers use technology to improve learning outcomes. For example, in one of our focus groups, we asked teachers to examine the prototype for a tool they could use to evaluate whether and how to use edtech.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 1, 2020

“Synchronous online learning” generally refers to live learning activities that must happen at a set time (often over Zoom or a similar platform), while “asynchronous online learning” refers to almost everything else (completing assignments, doing readings, watching videos, etc.).

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Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

According to the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC), the body for the accreditation of degree-granting higher education institutions in the southern states, the Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP) evaluative framework consists of an assessment indicator. 8: 1079–94 McConlogue, Teresa (2020).

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Edsurge

APRIL 17, 2017

To ensure equitable learning outcomes for all. also ensure equitable professional learning outcomes for all mathematics teachers. To ensure equitable learning outcomes for all. Is it great news to learn that you only have to take one college math methods course to follow your dream?

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 13, 2025

When students evaluations are viewed by instructors as a type of formative assessment to be used as a tool for instructional improvement, mid-semester feedback surveys allow instructors to immediately respond to their students needs (Chapman & Joines, 2017; Diamond, 2004). 2002; Spencer & Schmelkin, 2002). Sojka et al.

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Edsurge

JULY 31, 2018

Instead of the usual private-equity conversations around profits and margins, Rogers wanted to talk about DreamBox’s research and learning outcomes. We do care about financial outcomes. But we believe that driving impact in learning outcomes will get us there.” You’re going to see more studies from us.

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