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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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

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Taylor Hill, a student at Wheatley High School, would experience the change firsthand. Her school is located in Houston’s Fifth Ward neighborhood and serves a student body that is nearly 100 percent classified as economically disadvantaged. Ultimately, Klussmann said, Miles’ model is designed to produce higher test scores.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 16, 2021

So the folks behind the Common App have been testing a tool that might help more students successfully apply to college, both by giving them accurate information about deadlines and resources and by encouraging them to keep at it when it feels overwhelming. That tool is a chatbot, and its name is Oli. 2] Feeling a little nervous. [3]

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eSchool News

JULY 4, 2023

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. “The

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Truly rare are those careers where employees advance based on their ability to regularly answer multiple-choice questions correctly! schooling for young children since John Dewey’ s time. Truly rare are those careers where employees advance based on their ability to regularly answer multiple-choice questions correctly!

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 25, 2016

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. Firman is not the only educator who looks for data in areas other than test performance.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

We have evidence that when you take a demanding test that requires reasoning, reading a book or listening to a lecture in preparation is no different than doing nothing. That’s different than the standard delivery of text and multiple choice questions. But to put those concepts into practice, you need deeper learning.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2024

When students can bring models to life and test them in real world situations, they are expanding beyond paper and screen into the world around them. Finally, I predict data security to be a continued focus for schools in 2024. Looking ahead to 2024, the industry is poised to transition to an offensive stance.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 9, 2025

The onus is now on schools to ensure theyre purchasing accessible materials and the clock is ticking away on their two-year deadline. Social-Emotional Learning Strategies Don't Work for Every Student. Here's What Does.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 19, 2017

At the end of the session, a personalized five-question assessment (known as an “Exit Slip”) is given to test concepts they individually worked on that day. I want my 5th grader to be well-educated… Tapping away at multiple choice questions is not high level math,” another parent said.

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Edsurge

MAY 22, 2017

End-of-year state testing can be useful as a “gut check,” says Phillips, to ensure that students don’t fall too behind. Is it fair to only cover the standards that are going to be on the test?” I personally think that there needs to be a way to make comparisons across schools and districts,” says Horn.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 5, 2024

When students can bring models to life and test them in real world situations, they are expanding beyond paper and screen into the world around them. Finally, I predict data security to be a continued focus for schools in 2024. Looking ahead to 2024, the industry is poised to transition to an offensive stance.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Schools must support teachers as humans; AI can help them reduce preparation time and act as an instruction supplement. We’re seeing a major shortage of substitute teachers,” says David McGrath, headmaster of Paragon Prep, a high school in Austin, TX. But with AI in schools, that is simply not the case. newsletters.

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Edsurge

APRIL 16, 2017

Spring means one thing to many elementary and middle schools across the country: test prep. Schools will be in competition to attract students and the publicly funded voucher dollars that come along with them. The problem is, an increasing body of evidence points to one conclusion: most test prep doesn’t work.

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