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The Best Edtech for Students Is Backed by Research. Here’s What to Look For.

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Random assignment is intended to ensure the treatment and comparison groups are the same along both measurable characteristics such as test scores as well as unmeasured characteristics such as motivation to learn. This could mean that the groups of students have similar scores on a state test or a pretest relevant to the study.

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What a Summer Prototype Taught Us About Measuring Quality in an Unbundled Education System

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In the summer of 2016, a community of educators, research design partners, and over 150 teens and young adults in Colorado engaged in a bold experiment to rethink how quality and impact might be measured in a modernized system of learning. Why focus outside of formal learning time for our design work? The Testing Backdrop.

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Reality Is Messy, Labs Aren’t: How to Make Research-Backed Education Work

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If research is to yield real-world solutions, it will take teachers, students, researchers and technologists working together to dabble, invent and test new ideas. Botanist George Washington Carver took his academic research and translated it into theories that he would test in the fields.

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Improve the precision of student enrollment forecasting

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Hanover Research’s (2011) report mentions that several high school achievement factors (GPA, SAT/ACT test scores, high school rank) are among the most consistent predictors of retention. Unfortunately, Miami became test-optional in the fall of 2020 and our collection of data such as high school GPA and rank was inconsistent.

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An agile solution to higher ed problem solving

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Traditional change management styles like the waterfall method are essentially a domino effect that can take weeks to years involving analysis, design, implementation, testing, and maintenance.

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Why the Littlest Learners Deserve the Most Attention—and Money

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Citing findings from his recent article , published in Pediatrics Journal, he claimed that over four decades of research has shown that while early-childhood interventions can produce positive outcomes in a child’s health and brain development, these impacts are typically moderate and ineffective at scale.

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