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We Know SEL Skills Are Important, So How the Heck Do We Measure Them?

Edsurge

Today, they are committed to assessing students’ progress towards SEL mastery, which they see as essential to understanding where students are at—and to proving their SEL curriculum works. But assessing non-academic skills, it turns out, is no easy task. At Nueva, when it comes to assessment, standards-based grading is king.

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How International Rankings are reshaping Indian Higher Education

Linways Technologies

Setting up of accreditation systems and bodies at the national and international level to rank and recognize Universities and Institutions for meeting the minimum acceptable standards through inspection and assessment has taken top priority amongst the national policymakers as Education takes a center stage in today’s world.

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Trouble With the Curve: Estimating the Size and Growth Rates of K-12 Markets

Edsurge

For example, specific policies regarding academic standards, testing requirements, and charter school authorization caps can give rise to specific types of products. Common Core, Next Generation Science Standards, etc.). Two key factors drive this complexity. First, many educational markets are shaped by public policy.

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Take Two: Clever’s Newest Effort to Help Teachers Try Before They Buy Edtech

Edsurge

Soft-launched last summer, the library currently houses more than 100 educational apps, which teachers can browse by subjects or categories (like assessment or presentation tools). Another recent survey found that, on average, districts saw more than 700 different edtech products used each month during the last school year.

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How State Reform in New Hampshire Led to Teacher Autonomy

Edsurge

Two recent state initiatives are defining a set of non academic work habits that contribute to student success , and developing a statewide performance-based assessment system. After spending a few years thinking deeply about assessment in a competency-based system, Memorial teachers noticed something troubling.

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How to Build a High-Functioning Remote Team for Your Edtech Company

Edsurge

It proved useful in finding teachers to help develop our lesson plans, assessments and professional development. To gauge how well you’re doing with customers, you can use periodic surveys. (We Hiring outside and field sales reps is another geographic consideration when selling to specific states. We did semi-annual ones.)

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In Successful Edtech, Pedagogy Comes First—Devices Second

Digital Promise

Many school districts -- including mine in Middletown, NY-- are leveraging the power of technology with adaptive assessments and instructional software. These tools help us identify and then address -- through intervention or enrichment -- individual students' needs around each of the major academic standards.

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