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What data is necessary to help students succeed?

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Typically, information presented to students is either qualitative or too broad, such as during parent-teacher conferences or through course grades. In contrast, medical school can overwhelm students with detailed information, like longitudinal reports on multiple-choice question performance throughout the year.

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Aldine ISD Gets 100% STAAR Pass Rate in Algebra 1 Pilot Program

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The challenge Aldine ISD faced at the beginning of the 2022-23 school year was to prepare their students for the redesign of the math State of Texas Assessment of Academic Readiness (STAAR), which added non-multiple-choice questions to align with the deep critical thinking and conceptual mathematics learning students should be doing in class.

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What Happens When a School Closes Its Library?

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Her school is located in Houston’s Fifth Ward neighborhood and serves a student body that is nearly 100 percent classified as economically disadvantaged. The Texas Education Agency awards letter grades to schools and districts based on test scores and other student performance metrics. Map by Nadia Tamez-Robledo for EdSurge.

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Not Just Numbers: How Educators Are Using Data in the Classroom

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To shed some light on the questions above, EdSurge talked to six educators to get their take. Here’s the big takeaway: Data doesn’t just come in the form of grades, attendance records and answers on multiple choice questions. In my mind, this keeps the learning in the driver’s seat,” she says.

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?Updates, Upgrades and Overheard: What Was Unveiled at ISTE 2017

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Quizzes on Google Forms now allow for a bit more customization: Teachers can offer partial credit for answers choices while auto-grading multiple choice questions. Our bread and butter has always been middle school ELA,” a representative from the company explains.

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Pulling the Plug on a Personalized Learning Pilot

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High achievers can accelerate into above-grade level standards, while those move slower can get extra practice. After gaining board and trustee approval in June 2016, the district decided to run a one-year pilot program for the 2016-2017 school year for sixth graders at the district’s two middle schools, Graham and Crittenden.

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