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One Standardized Tests Provider Looks to Gaming and Personalized Learning to Innovate Exams

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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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Is It Ethical to Run Learning Experiments On Students Without Their Knowledge?

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Did you simply practice the same type of A/B testing that’s common throughout the tech sphere? That’s the ethics debate playing out in one online educator space , a lively back-and-forth carried over from a recent workshop on educational A/B testing. But if researchers are A/B testing two innocuous options, what’s the harm?

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The Low-tech Research Strategies That Are Turning Around a Failing Title I School

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“As of this year, our scores have gone up significantly, and in our zone of 16 schools, we are currently sixth in ELA based on state test scores and seventh in math. The effect size of teacher instruction is calculated using pre- and post-exam scores between each unit of instruction.

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