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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. “The

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

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Pulling the Plug on a Personalized Learning Pilot

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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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Let’s Prepare Students for the World—Not Tests

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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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