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Utah STEM Action Center Releases Exemplar Statewide Program Evaluation

MIND Research Institute

MARCH 5, 2021

A new bar has been set for state-grants-funded digital math programs evaluation. The Utah STEM Action Center has released its 2020 annual report , which includes the results of their comprehensive statewide program evaluation. What can other states take from this analysis?

Program Evaluation

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Empowering Community Perspectives in Evaluation Research

Digital Promise

DECEMBER 17, 2019

What is equitable evaluation? As funders, government agencies, and service providers become increasingly focused on program evaluation results to make evidence-based decisions, evaluators and other researchers seek to answer this question. Why does equitable evaluation matter? .

Program Evaluation

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Everything You Always Wanted to Know About SEL Assessment But Were Afraid to Ask

Edsurge

JUNE 12, 2018

Many school-based social-emotional learning (SEL) programs are widely used, for example. And a growing number of states are integrating social-emotional expectations into their educational standards. When these programs are well-implemented, they have academic, social, and emotional benefits.

Assessment

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CoSN 2019: How to Design an Effective K–12 Technology Evaluation Program

EdTech Magazine

APRIL 4, 2019

Proper technology evaluation is a crucial element to digital innovation , said Baule, speaking at Consortium for School Networking’s 2019 annual conference. Assessments can be used to make programs more cost-effective, improve implementation, enable replication elsewhere in the district and justify more funding to administrators. .

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OPINION: Black-white disparities in education correlate with teachers’ implicit biases, but it will take more than education reform to solve the issue

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Such policies include, for example, mandating that police , healthcare workers and judges receive training to reflect on how their own racial prejudices might affect their work. Many leaders in education have similarly called for action to address the biases of those working in schools across the country.

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Documenting and Reflecting on Learning

User Generated Education

MAY 21, 2017

Blogging has its own unique benefits as Sylvia Duckworth’s Sketchnote summarizes: Experiential, STEM, STEAM, and maker education are the focus of my gifted education classes. The learners in my gifted education classes have access to Chromebooks. Sometimes I list vocabulary words I ask learners to include in their blogs.

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With Budget Cuts Looming, Here’s How Districts Will Decide What to Keep or Cut

Edsurge

JUNE 16, 2020

Evidence-based Investments There is a long-standing interest in spending academic intervention funds on programs with a record of success. As a part of this, schools should invest in services that build the relationship between educators and families.” But that’s likely to change when budgets get tight.

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Policies EdTech Program Evaluation Outcomes

Ed tech companies promise results, but their claims are often based on shoddy research

The Hechinger Report

MAY 20, 2020

Examples from The Hechinger Report’s collection of misleading research claims touted by ed tech companies. School closures in all 50 states have sent educators and parents alike scrambling to find online learning resources to keep kids busy and productive at home. Video: Sarah Butrymowicz. But they are all misleading.

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This Tech Encourages Career Planning When It Matters Most—Before Graduation

Edsurge

APRIL 29, 2019

Instead, she spent two years at a junior college in general education before declaring a major in accounting—mainly because she had done well in her high school accounting classes. So, she marched herself across campus to the Education department and decided to teach business instead. But her heart wasn’t in it. “I What is the income?

Future Ready

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An Interactive Tool Empowers High Schoolers To Take Control of Career Planning

Edsurge

APRIL 29, 2019

Instead, she spent two years at a junior college in general education before declaring a major in accounting—mainly because she had done well in her high school accounting classes. So, she marched herself across campus to the Education department and decided to teach business instead. But her heart wasn’t in it. “I What is the income?

Future Ready

Future Ready Tools Software Program Evaluation

Let Evidence Guide the Solutions to Student Absenteeism

edWeb.net

MARCH 16, 2020

Panelist Phyllis Jordan, editorial director at FutureEd, pointed to the results of the organization’s analysis of states’ 2017 ESSA plans, which require one non-academic indicator for school assessments. Chronic absenteeism emerged as a top indicator that affects students’ educational experiences. Evidence-Based Solutions Examples.

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The dark side of education research: widespread bias

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 18, 2019

Now, scholars are detecting the same type of biases in the education product industry — even in a federally curated collection of research that’s supposed to be of the highest quality. Higher Education. The study, “ Do Developer-Commissioned Evaluations Inflate Effect Sizes? Choose as many as you like.

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Why You Need More Than "One Good Study" To Evaluate EdTech

MIND Research Institute

JANUARY 16, 2018

You probably wouldn’t be surprised to hear that every education technology (edtech) publisher says their product works, and they all have some sort of supporting evidence. Yet just that one piece of "gold standard" evidence is often considered good enough by educators when making a purchasing decision. But it shouldn’t be.

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Study EdTech Program Evaluation Assessment

Michigan School Administrators’ Journey Toward Increased Equity and Inclusion

edWeb.net

MAY 27, 2021

She worked with Dr. Griffin on the development of what became a professional learning project designed to prepare educators to engage with students in deep dialogues about race and other equity issues. And equally important is determining all the assessments and grading are free of bias and accurately reflect student mastery.

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Professional Learning Elementary Policies Assessment

ST Math Results & Impact

MIND Research Institute

MARCH 1, 2023

Understanding MIND's Research Paradigm and Ways to Evaluate Effective Education Research Academic conversations around education research can often be daunting, difficult to follow, and beg more questions than answers when considering education programs. For example, how were the results measured consistently?

EdTech

EdTech Study Outcomes Data

Bring Science to Life: The Impact of Video Game Simulations

edWeb.net

APRIL 11, 2020

Three-dimensional learning – The standards are based in three learning dimensions central to science and engineering education: Practices, the behaviors of scientists and engineers. Disciplinary core ideas that focus science curricula, instruction, and assessments on the most important aspects of science. What will they eat?

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Video Analysis Program Evaluation Game-Based Learning

National Study Shows Significant Results on an Unprecedented Scale

MIND Research Institute

MARCH 23, 2018

Independent education research firm WestEd recently published the largest ever national study evaluating a math edtech program. Two outcomes were evaluated: average math scale scores and the proportion of students who were proficient or above in math. Control schools were not filtered based on math programs being used.

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Study Handbook Program Evaluation Guidelines

EdTech Update

Utah STEM Action Center Releases Exemplar Statewide Program Evaluation

Empowering Community Perspectives in Evaluation Research

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Everything You Always Wanted to Know About SEL Assessment But Were Afraid to Ask

CoSN 2019: How to Design an Effective K–12 Technology Evaluation Program

OPINION: Black-white disparities in education correlate with teachers’ implicit biases, but it will take more than education reform to solve the issue

Documenting and Reflecting on Learning

With Budget Cuts Looming, Here’s How Districts Will Decide What to Keep or Cut

Ed tech companies promise results, but their claims are often based on shoddy research

This Tech Encourages Career Planning When It Matters Most—Before Graduation

An Interactive Tool Empowers High Schoolers To Take Control of Career Planning

Let Evidence Guide the Solutions to Student Absenteeism

The dark side of education research: widespread bias

Why You Need More Than "One Good Study" To Evaluate EdTech

Michigan School Administrators’ Journey Toward Increased Equity and Inclusion

ST Math Results & Impact

Bring Science to Life: The Impact of Video Game Simulations

National Study Shows Significant Results on an Unprecedented Scale

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