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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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. It was much like her high school experience, she says: “Lots of work, but not lots of development.”

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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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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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Edsurge

JULY 31, 2019

These days the leaders of the College Board, which runs the SAT, have been making a surprising argument—that colleges and parents should stop taking the scores of its signature test so seriously. In this new era, the College Board is testing a controversial new metric that has been labeled as an “ adversity score.”

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eSchool News

AUGUST 27, 2021

The Home Depot and Discovery Education joined forces to help STEAM-power classrooms and homes across the country as students prepare for the careers of tomorrow through Science Fair Central. Testing the Limits Virtual Field Trip with Boeing Premiere: September 30 th at 1 PM ET.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 22, 2024

During testing, the device achieved an accuracy rate of identifying pesticide residues on spinach and tomatoes of greater than 85%, meeting the project’s objectives for effectiveness and speed. These exceptional students are: In second place, Minula Weerasekera from Beaverton, Oregon, a 9 th grader at Mountainside High School.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 30, 2024

More than four out of five (82 percent) higher education students have used AI technologies compared to just 58 percent of high school students. More college students also report that their institutions have established a code of conduct regarding AI use compared to high school students (41 percent vs. 18 percent).

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 12, 2024

The mind of a young student is wired to sniff out fairness, or lack thereof. For example, we ask students to make commitments to the class, such as preparing for a test scheduled on a certain date. But to them, its entirely unfair that we dont make commitments ourselves, such as grading those very tests by a certain date.

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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2020

Back before the internet made it possible—and popular—for people to document their lives in real time, teenagers found themselves preserved between the pages of their high school yearbooks—forever young. We encourage schools to define success as four-year, or slightly longer, graduation rates,” Schaeffer explains. “We

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Edsurge

JULY 16, 2018

At the end of next school year, thousands of high school students will sit down at individual workstations, laptops in hand, for an end-of-course exam. The new soft-skill component, given online, will be taken by up to 400,000 K-12 students in more than 10,000 schools at the end of the 2018-19 school year.

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eSchool News

MAY 7, 2019

Biggest challenge: Three years ago, when I started as executive director for high school instruction, our state of student achievement was average. We typically see 40 new teachers in our high schools each year. In between meetings, we’ve seen five-minute interventions having a massive impact on our high school teachers.

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eSchool News

MARCH 16, 2016

White House competition is giving schools the chance to design and realize the perfect makerspace. A new Department of Education-sponsored challenge is letting high school students design the makerspace of their dreams — with $200,000 going to as many as 10 winning schools to help turn their plans into reality.

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Edsurge

MARCH 31, 2021

On a memorable morning in my high school civics class, the students—seniors, full of energy—learned about the formation and function of our legislative branch. One student, standing up and projecting his voice, declared: “Virginia objects to New Jersey demanding that She give away Her fair and right voice in the new government.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 4, 2019

When you attend a rural public high school like I did, no one explains to you that you are creating a resume that you will use when you apply to colleges,” she wrote. Outcomes, Testing and Grading Which methods of assessment best measure learning and ability? Are standardized tests a fair gauge for predicting college success?

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

This school year at Umatilla School District, two science teachers are embarking on a new career after years of real-world experience in the subject. “I had to study for it,” Durfey said of the science test. “It was like going back to school again. It was pretty difficult.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Students entering kindergarten today will graduate high school in 2034. Now is the time to reinforce the fundamental scaffolding that determines whether a child has a fair shot at success later in life. Recently, NAEP determined a new reading assessment framework aimed at making the test more equitable.

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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

JUNE 9, 2021

“Not only will I be able to better analyze situations, but I can also create better predictions for myself in the real world and put my problem-solving skills to the test,” she said. Ruthie Zhang from Littleton High School in Massachusetts was the other $1,000 scholarship winner.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 24, 2024

She says she’s not a math person, but she was able to pass her high school math classes without too much trouble, earning Cs. Having students reframe their feelings as excitement rather than anxiety or having them journal about their anxiety before taking a test may help, some researchers suggest. It’s given her severe anxiety.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

During Engineers Week, engineering societies, universities, companies, and other organizations organize workshops, competitions, seminars, outreach programs to schools, career fairs, and networking events.

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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. Just the recognition of this counter narrative has changed my teaching. But there are also other steps I’ve taken to change my practice.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Nardolilli’s experience in designing educational games goes back to when he would create science-themed birthday parties at an after-school science center. Now, he and Baselice collaborate to create and test games and are actively trying to gather evidence that these activities aren’t just good for engagement, but for long-term learning.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

The far-reaching meta-analysis considered flipped learning experiments done in elementary schools, high schools and colleges, with the bulk of the studies in the higher ed setting. I didn’t think that was fair to people practicing flipped learning.”

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 20, 2017

Marc Pedersen Paulding County High School Students At Paulding County High School in Dallas, Georgia, science classes are messy and alive. Marc Pedersen leads the biotechnology career pathway classes at Paulding County High School, a magnet school in Georgia about one hour away from Atlanta.

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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. Here’s her story: Last Fall, my El Camino Real High School colleagues and I set out to change the way we teach writing. This is a fair criticism.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 27, 2019

Leaders of the College Board, which operates the SAT, wants a retest of its effort to help admissions officials understand the relative privilege of test takers. But the service will still present all the same statistics about the high school and neighborhood environment of each test taker.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

You may have seen the photos of stadiums packed to the gills with crazed fans or photos of young high school- and college-aged players hoisting sparkling trophies high into the air as they pull in million-dollar prize purses. From one institution to 35-plus in three years is fairly rapid growth in the world of higher education.

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Edsurge

APRIL 23, 2019

She describes a time at a previous school she worked at when students and teachers collaborated on a project and how that inspired her and other educators to feel re-energized around what they teach. This particular year they were teaching the World's Fair, and I worked with the students to create websites.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Little did the Edquity team know how soon that belief would be put to the test. The company has new projects, like Compton College’s plans to use the platform to expand its support to high school dual-enrollment students. And Helene realized that Edquity had the potential to assist communities in crisis. “It Without bias?

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Edsurge

MAY 16, 2019

The numbers are provided only to admissions officials, and not visible to test takers. Census and includes “contextual information on students attending a particular high school including SAT performance, AP performance, average number of AP courses taken, percentage of students eligible for free and reduced-price lunch, etc.

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eSchool News

MAY 14, 2025

We defined digital learning as all these instances where students are learning outside of the time and place constraints that you see in a traditional school in a traditional. Trick now that sometimes takes the form of a fully online school, but that’s actually fairly rare. Let me give you an example.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

In middle school, I participated in Future City , a STEM competition for middle schoolers. Influenced by my own experiences and the philosophy of my school, competition became a staple in our classroom culture. Another student cried when they didn’t get stickers on their test, even though they tried their best.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

University recruiters who never visit your high school. News & World Report rankings and test-prep tutors who charge $400 an hour. There’s a lot that needs to change in higher education to make it mostly fair and more effective,” Tough said in an interview with EdSurge.

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EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

In Georgia’s Columbia County School District , for example, students in teacher Erica Cox’s class use Google Drawings and other G Suite apps to illustrate and create presentations. . Test Adobe Spark, free for educators and a user-friendly tool for creating video, social media graphics and web pages. In the Beaverton (Ore.)

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Edsurge

APRIL 12, 2019

A private admissions counselor allegedly bribed a proctor of an SAT test, and in some cases paid someone to take the test for a student, or have someone change answers to improve a student’s score. A few students were able to switch the school where they tested. The integrity of the test is critically important.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Plus, he adds, its common for tracking to focus on narrow factors such as test scores that don't account for discrepancies in opportunities to learn math that accrue throughout a students academic career. But their families have managed to give them a jump-start through additional after-school programs, tutors and other resources, he says.

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