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What data is necessary to help students succeed?

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In contrast, medical school can overwhelm students with detailed information, like longitudinal reports on multiple-choice question performance throughout the year. This raises an essential question: What kind of feedback information is genuinely useful for students?

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

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But one word in that phrase often raises a host of questions: What counts as “data”? 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.

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What Happens When a School Closes Its Library?

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One was Melissa Yarborough, a teacher at Navarro Middle School in Houston’s East End, which is home to one of the city’s historically Latino neighborhoods. While not targeted as a failing school, her campus became “NES-aligned,” meaning her principal opted into the New Education System. Map by Nadia Tamez-Robledo for EdSurge.

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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. READ WHAT YOU LIKE: Fashion. Selena Gomez.

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Stay Active at Home With These 6 Fun AR / VR Apps

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My children are now on regular video chats, as is my husband, a middle school science teacher. We’ve redesigned our home to adapt to multiple meeting spaces and upgraded our Wi-Fi to meet the demands. Now that COVID-19 is keeping many of us home, I understand their struggles, ranging from isolation to time management.

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Pulling the Plug on a Personalized Learning Pilot

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17, Rudolph explained the motivation behind the decision: “It’s hard to argue with personalized learning… but when everybody is sitting there saying ‘yes, this looks good,’ maybe we should ask some more critical questions.” These bright guessers are going to be in big trouble in high school if we don’t push them beyond that.”

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