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Assessment and Grading in Distance Learning – How to Get Better

The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 9, 2020

Thomas Guskey shares insight on assessments From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Assessment expert Dr. Thomas Guskey reflects on the positives and negatives of assessments during distance learning. Creating Successful Grading and Reporting Systems. Guskey, T. Get Set, Go!

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What Makes a Good Assessment?

The CoolCatTeacher

JULY 7, 2016

Assessment strategies that show what students have REALLY learned From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Assessments should cover what is taught and address important learning goals. Thomas Guskey reflects today on what makes a good assessment. The are the keys to effective assessment?

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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. Why is the report significant? What does the report say about K-12 math software?

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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? .

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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.

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U.S. K-12 Educational Technology Policy: Historical Notes on the Federal Role

Doug Levin

APRIL 21, 2016

Secretary of Education Richard W. ” This letter marked the launch of the implementation of the first federal program dedicated to ensuring universal access to information and communications technology for improved teaching and learning in the nation’s schools. the more detailed program rules, as determined by the U.S.

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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

Many leaders in education have similarly called for action to address the biases of those working in schools across the country. Notably, these biases are implicit because the IAT assesses individuals’ automatic associations of white and Black people with certain attitudes using high-speed computerized tasks.

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Fair Grades, Dropping Grades, Grading Versus Knowledge

The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 23, 2016

Advice From a Student Assessment Researcher About What is Fair and Unfair in Today's Grading Systems From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Thomas Guskey@ tguskey is Professor of Educational Psychology in the College of Education at the University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky.

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Profiles in Success: Evaluation Links ST Math to Improved Growth Mindset

MIND Research Institute

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

At Robeson Elementary, a school in Champaign Unit 4 School District in Illinois, educators take pride in fostering a growth mindset in their students and providing them with the right tools for success. The report reflects what Gaines and his teachers had been seeing since the beginning. Interested in learning more about ST Math?

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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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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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A summer program uses the arts to combat the achievement gap

The Hechinger Report

JULY 19, 2018

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every Tuesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. Higher Education. The academy is run by Young Audiences, a Baltimore nonprofit dedicated to arts-based education.

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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. Almost all took action as a result.

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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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More than a Checkmark

MIND Research Institute

JUNE 20, 2023

If you’re merely looking to check a box saying “It has evidence” before you commit to a program, you’re asking for something that can be generated by any program. Savvy practitioners in the field of education should be dissatisfied with this simplistic “checkbox” approach to evaluating program effectiveness.

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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. What was the frequency of the program's evaluation?

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Debunking the ‘Gold Standard’ Myths in Edtech Efficacy

Edsurge

MAY 21, 2019

Few can offer buyers independent assessments of the value of their products, even if those same entrepreneurs have sweated and toiled to build great wares. Everyone, whether an educator, an entrepreneur or a parent, should want edtech products that are effective—ones that genuinely help students learn.

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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. With all 14 states’ math tests transformed to the same basis (statewide z-score) it was possible to aggregate and compare data across any state or assessment. Read the full report from WestEd.

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Assessment and Grading in Distance Learning – How to Get Better

What Makes a Good Assessment?

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Utah STEM Action Center Releases Exemplar Statewide Program Evaluation

Empowering Community Perspectives in Evaluation Research

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

U.S. K-12 Educational Technology Policy: Historical Notes on the Federal Role

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

Fair Grades, Dropping Grades, Grading Versus Knowledge

Profiles in Success: Evaluation Links ST Math to Improved Growth Mindset

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

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

A summer program uses the arts to combat the achievement gap

Let Evidence Guide the Solutions to Student Absenteeism

The dark side of education research: widespread bias

More than a Checkmark

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Debunking the ‘Gold Standard’ Myths in Edtech Efficacy

National Study Shows Significant Results on an Unprecedented Scale

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