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Preparing Students for Online Assessments with Digital Literacy Skills

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Online assessments are becoming more common, and students who have strong digital literacy skills often score higher on them. Students who lack these skills may not be able to effectively demonstrate mastery of key concepts in math, reading or writing on online assessments. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING.

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6 reasons it’s important to create your own online assessments

eSchool News

Homegrown online assessments prove invaluable to one district. Assessments are critical to our efforts to improve instruction in K-12 education. At Hopewell Valley Regional School District (HVRSD), we began the transition to online assessment more than three years ago. Online assessment saves teachers’ time.

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Edulastic launches district tool for administrators

eSchool News

Resource offers district, school administrators insight into student progress on Common Core. Edulastic, creator of formative assessment tools for teachers, has launched Edulastic District Enterprise, a premium version of the software platform designed specifically for district and school administrators.

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What are IT leaders worried about? Assessment readiness and money

eSchool News

What are the key technology trends in education according to leadership in our school systems? Assessment readiness is again the No. The growing imperative about being assessment ready isn’t likely a surprise for those living in states adopting the Common Core. What do the data tell us? 1 priority for IT Leaders.

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S'Cool Tools, Teacher Voice Edition: IXL, Brightspace, Tales2Go

Edsurge

IXL was great for skill breakdown and practice, easy to find standards based on common core. Valerie: I was not involved in the decision making process but can assume that our system moving in a world class way with the ever changing technology. The system actually works pretty well as a Learning Management System.

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Pearson CEO Fallon Talks Common Core, Rise of ‘Open’ Resources

Marketplace K-12

He also talked about how he thinks policy shifts like the implementation of the common-core standards and the adoption of “open” educational resources are likely to affect the K-12 market, and his company’s work. We’re very confident that our products are aligned to the common core. John Fallon CEO, Pearson.

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Preparing Students with Technology Skills

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The tech and core standards of organizations such as ISTE, CSTA, and Common Core State Initiative stipulate that students need foundational digital literacy skills to demonstrate writing, reading, and mathematical achievement. Things to consider.