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What data is necessary to help students succeed?

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In contrast, medical school can overwhelm students with detailed information, like longitudinal reports on multiple-choice question performance throughout the year. This raises an essential question: What kind of feedback information is genuinely useful for students?

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6 tools for real formative assessment

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“We see more districts turning to formative assessments as their way of measuring student progress, instead of relying on end-of-course exams–they’re looking at district-wide formative assessments,” Creel said. “[Districts] are really looking to publishers to help them with that.

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Can a Test Ever Be Fair? How Today's Standardized Tests Get Made.

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Then there are the psychometricians—the math savants who design tests and create complex algorithms that attempt to make them fair to all students. We handle, for instance, the CELDT exam for the state of California—the California English Language Development Test—which is a massive test. We still have an emphasis on math and language.

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Teaching Courses that Provoke Student Anxiety

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The pressure to solve problems, answer multiple-choice question, and write essays on an exam scares them. And finally, students are anxious about statistics courses because they aren’t good at math, don’t have the math background, and are convinced they won’t be able to run the tests or do the statistical calculations.

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Teaching Courses that Provoke Student Anxiety

Faculty Focus

The pressure to solve problems, answer multiple-choice question, and write essays on an exam scares them. And finally, students are anxious about statistics courses because they aren’t good at math, don’t have the math background, and are convinced they won’t be able to run the tests or do the statistical calculations.

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Pulling the Plug on a Personalized Learning Pilot

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Among the tools the district found was Teach to One: Math (TTO), a digital personalized learning program by New Classrooms , a New York-based nonprofit, that adapts to a student’s individual skills and gaps. Students work through the TTO curriculum at their own speed via 90 minute digital math lessons. 12 it would drop TTO altogether.

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How You Can Take the Pain Out Of Data-Driven Classrooms

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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).