eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

For instance, consider a scenario where a district uses standardized test scores to evaluate teacher performance. If the data is skewed by socioeconomic factors or if the test itself is biased against certain groups, it could lead to unfair evaluations.

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Edsurge

MAY 10, 2018

They’re often ineffective as a teaching tool, they’re easy for students to cheat, and they can exacerbate test anxiety. Yet more professors seem to be turning to the format these days, as teaching loads and class sizes grow, since multiple-choice quizzes and tests can be easily graded by machines.

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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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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

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Here in Cicero School District 99, students are getting an extra 30 minutes of reading or math instruction every day, which adds up to around three additional weeks of school. School leaders hope that will be enough time to teach students key skills they missed and boost test scores. “We But can I read and understand a paragraph?”

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Challenge encourages game-based learning to help kids learn to have fun with math. That’s the idea behind the national K-12 Game-a-thon, which invites students to let their imaginations and problem solving run wild as they design, build and share their own math games. Kids all across the country are already having fun with math.”.

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Edsurge

MAY 25, 2021

For decades, that question has largely been decided by a test. A special science and math test developed specifically for the school. And they’re quoting America’s founding fathers, arguing that the ones who are getting in are simply the ones studying the hardest, and that the current system is fair. So who gets to go?

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

They also were required to pass a test on national and state civil rights laws and professional ethics, as well as a rigorous state test required for the grade-level and subject-matter area. “I had to study for it,” Durfey said of the science test. “It was like going back to school again.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

We must ensure students have the basic reading and math competencies they need to succeed in any trade. 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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Edsurge

MARCH 31, 2021

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. Therefore, it is right and fair we have more influence on the actions of government.” We have a larger population. A student on the opposing side retorted: “No way.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Even years later, San Francisco Unified School District casts a shadow over attempts to quash long-standing disparities in math. In 2014, the district pushed algebra to ninth grade from eighth grade, in an attempt to eliminate the tracking, or grouping, of students into lower and upper math paths. Nevertheless, the attempt was tense.

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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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Edsurge

DECEMBER 6, 2023

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. When I’m testing a game, I have no way of knowing if it's going to be blocked by the school’s servers,” Angie says.

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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. The same analysis found kindergarten teachers were about 15 percent more likely to use math and reading workbooks at the end of the decade.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Ensuring that assessments are fair, inclusive and meaningful for all students is a growing priority for educators. Often, students see assessments as punitive — failing a test can be damaging — rather than performative. Knowing fractions is important, but believing you’re a math learner is equally as powerful.

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Edsurge

MAY 9, 2023

CoCo is still in its beta phase, being tested out by educators from 65 different countries. For instance, it now groups student users who are at the same level of mastery together, to make competition more fair. Tan is the co-founder of Boddle, a multiplayer math learning game that reports a user base of 4 million students.

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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. We score achievement.”

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

For others, assessment equates solely to tests or diagnostic screenings. instruction, especially in math and science, tends to embrace a mile-wide, inch-deep approach. Equity in the classroom is critical, but beware of conformity under the guise of fairness. Commit to equity.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 8, 2023

Are kids learning to think or just to pass tests? They are good at math or they aren’t. If they fail at the Science Fair, they’ll fall in love with art instead. It’s no secret many parents are frustrated with public schools. Are they spending classroom time wisely or just doing what’s always been done?

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Critical Thinking Evaluation Fairness Math 148

Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 11, 2019

To be fair, kids who use technology regularly at home do have both a baseline set of skills and a fearless enthusiasm for anything with a screen and a power button. Math is like that. Only math teachers like formulas and scripts. Let’s take a quick test. You’re a geek; I’m not. Of course you do.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 22, 2017

Higher test scores. Inspirational vs. aspirational “I absolutely just want to spend my day nagging my students to finish an endless pile of worksheets and practice tests that will be totally fulfilling and meaningful.,” Or initiative to math? Better graduation rates. Increased lifetime earning potential. said no teacher ever.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 20, 2017

Students must be high achievers in middle school with recommendations from math and science teachers, in addition to high test scores. They make a point to de-emphasize grades and tests, removing all high stakes tests and assessments apart from the state’s End-of-Pathway assessments.

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Edsurge

MARCH 13, 2017

So in 1998, he and seven colleagues launched an animated e-learning platform designed to engage elementary and middle school students in math, reading and Spanish curriculum while supporting teachers with assessment tools. We can measure how the teacher is doing in a fair way because we'll know if the children are far behind.

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Edsurge

JUNE 4, 2024

In it, Sal Khan, founder of Khan Academy, which has been building a tutoring tool with ChatGPT, sits watching his 15-year old son Imran learn a math concept from a talking version of the chatbot running on an iPad, which can also see what the student is typing on the tablet. What was your biggest worry then, and how did the testing go?

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Edsurge

JANUARY 3, 2017

The list includes Ryan Hoch (29), a one-time TFA math teacher who in 2013 co-founded the college readiness platform Overgrad. And although no current classroom teachers are included this year, 2017 brought with it another batch of former Teach for America (TFA) educators. teachers, of whom just 7 percent are black.

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EdTech Magazine

MARCH 6, 2019

In fact, with some supervision, I tasked two middle school students to unbox and set up the printer, and in less than 15 minutes , we were printing our first test object. During testing, I printed several objects, some in high resolution and others in standard. Initial setup was quick and easy. Tweet ideas @EdTech_K12.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Interestingly, nearly 72% of MinSpark participants were educators in schools that ranked within the bottom 50% of all schools in their state based on combined math and reading proficiency test data. These educators have impacted roughly 13,982 English language learners (ELLs). . About mindSpark Learning.

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Edsurge

JULY 26, 2016

However, test-takers were overwhelmingly white and male, according to data from the College Board, which administers the AP test. This approach helps students learn math and computing principles as they explore cultural practices such as graffiti, breakdancing, beadwork, etc.—in This isn’t new.

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EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Test Adobe Spark, free for educators and a user-friendly tool for creating video, social media graphics and web pages. Students demonstrate their knowledge in core subjects, such as math, through traditional worksheets or by creating projects with Tynker. In the Beaverton (Ore.)

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Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2017

Allowing students to move on when they’re ready—or revisit something when they need support—is giving everyone a fair chance at being successful.”. ST Math and Lexia Core 5), and their own interests. Equity isn’t everyone getting the same thing. It’s everyone getting what they need. At CICS West Belden, part of the.

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Edsurge

APRIL 3, 2018

EdSurge is hosting a series of spring fairs this April! Insider tip #2: Do have a generic resume for jobs fairs or to add to your jobseeker profile. Did you rapidly improve test scores during your time as an 8th grade math teacher? Looking to level up in your career? San Francisco, April 10th. Boston, April 18th.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 20, 2015

That’s a fair questions considering learning is no longer done sitting in auditoriums nodding off to the wisdom of a guest speaker behind a podium. Test drive it so you know where the buttons are, then use it to find meeting rooms, changes in schedules, and updates. iPad, Chromebook, or netbook.

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Edsurge

MARCH 25, 2019

We believe this can be partly explained by the lack of education-focused accelerator or incubator programs, the absence of frameworks for collaboration with academics that can help startups better understand the impact of their work, and finally the absence of “test-bed” sites.

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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. –Brett Woudenberg, CEO, MIND Research Institute , Creators of ST Math.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 2, 2025

Are the drawbacks of animal testing worth the benefits to humans? Is it fair to judge someone based on social media posts from years ago? Math: Students can write reflectively about the ways they use math in their daily lives, or they can write about a math-focused career theyd like to have in the future.

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High School High School Writing Essay 52

Edsurge

JULY 12, 2017

NYSCI, born at the 1964 World’s Fair in Corona, NY, is on a mission to put its visitors at the center of each hands-on learning experience. In 2015, NYSCI’s first foray into this field was developing Noticing Tools , a set of five apps based on Design Lab that help students tackle math through selfies, video and building 3D models.

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Science Learning Schools Gamification 145

Dangerously Irrelevant

MARCH 30, 2015

Iowa’s 25th place math ranking shows we have work to do. Just 26 percent of ACT test-takers are prepared for college. Belie-Blank – Spencer CSD is doing math-science extracurricular with 6-8 graders. LC – I lead an annual STEM excellence fair and bring other teachers, community members in that way.

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