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T.H.E. Journal August 10, 2009 Scott Aronowitz |
South Dakota Mandates Statewide Testing in 21st Century Skills The South Dakota Department of Education has chosen the skills assessment program offered by Learning.com to judge student proficiency in a number of areas, most of them related to skills in Internet usage and widely-used software applications. |
T.H.E. Journal April 2004 |
MathFacts in a Flash MathFacts in a Flash is a software program that addresses assessment and instruction with more than 40 levels of different math skills. |
T.H.E. Journal December 2007 |
StudentWatch Suite by PublicSchoolWorks StudentWatch Suite is a new web-based suite for tracking and reporting on student safety issues, from bullying to sportsrelated accidents. |
T.H.E. Journal June 1, 2010 Geoffrey H. Fletcher |
A Sobering Survey A look at new data on how colleges of education are using technology, courtesy of a recent Project Tomorrow survey of preservice teachers' views on technology use. |
T.H.E. Journal February 2009 Rama Ramaswami |
Artificial Intelligence: Is the Future Now For A.I.? The feds' reliance on standardized testing excludes the use of artificial intelligence, so school districts are forging ahead with the technology to power their own formative assessments. |
T.H.E. Journal May 2003 Sylvia Charp |
Assessment and Accountability Assessment and accountability are not new to educators, but they have been brought to the forefront as a result of the No Child Left Behind Act, which requires states to conduct annual mathematics and reading tests in grades 3-8. |
T.H.E. Journal July 2008 Christine Fox |
Elementary Schools : The Time Is Now Early diagnosis of academic deficits is pivotal to keeping students from falling irretrievably behind. Formative assessment technology gives teachers the tools to respond. |
T.H.E. Journal January 2001 |
Test Prep and Tutoring Online SkillsTutor.com has launched its new Internet curriculum program, SkillsTutor. This program is designed to support mastery of core skills and prepare students to take state and national standardized tests... |
T.H.E. Journal January 13, 2010 David Nagel |
What Are the Top-10 Ed Tech Priorities for 2010? Which issues in education technology should drive policymaking in 2010? |
T.H.E. Journal January 2003 Wayne Moore |
Facts and Assumptions of Assessment: Technology, The Missing Link The infusion of technology in schools has opened the door for opportunities to challenge governing bodies to use the technology to provide student assessment that will measure their abilities for connecting knowledge learned with real-world applications. |
T.H.E. Journal May 2002 |
George Middle School Increases Student Achievement With Comprehensive Learning System Three years ago, Portland, Oregon's George Middle School made a significant investment in technology, including the purchase of Classwell Learning Group's ClassWorks software, a comprehensive learning system designed to improve individual student achievement in math and language arts... |
T.H.E. Journal February 2006 |
Assessment Testing >> In Their Hands Handheld devices empower teachers with assessment data they can put to immediate use. |
T.H.E. Journal December 2001 Barbara Hudgins |
Leveraging Handheld Technology in the Classroom Over the last year, the use of PDAs in the classroom has become more prevalent. Yet few hav tapped the affordability and portability of handheld technology for ongoing classroom assessment. In my classroom, such a system has the students actually looking forward to quizzes... |
T.H.E. Journal September 2001 Matthew Miller |
Focus on Assessment Tools Exciting new assessment tools benefit both students and educators. These tools are making teaching simpler and more rewarding for instructors, because they can now concentrate more on their students' education and not on creating documents... |
T.H.E. Journal December 2000 |
Online Test Prep Tutoring SkillsTutor.com has launched its new Internet curriculum program, SkillsTutor. This Web-based program is designed to support mastery of core skills and prepare students to take state and national standardized tests... |
T.H.E. Journal January 2003 Sylvia Charp |
Assessment and Accountability The No Child Left Behind Act requires the inclusion of all students in state assessment programs, and holds students and educators accountable for performance relative to state standards. However, a number of challenges still need to be addressed. |
T.H.E. Journal April 2004 |
Classroom Connect Launches Web-Based Instructional Program Connected Tech offers districts and states an effective and affordable way to help students learn lifelong technology application skills, while also meeting the need to improve overall student achievement in reading, math, science and social studies. |
T.H.E. Journal December 2005 Geoffrey Fletcher |
Building a Better Assessment Program Now is the time to utilize the technology we have, to create a system that encourages students to learn rather than just pass a test. |
T.H.E. Journal July 2004 |
Data-Driven Decision-Making The hurdles of implementing successful processes for data management and analysis, online assessment, and capacity building with data-driven decision-making at a state level are numerous and sometimes daunting. |
Registered Rep. May 11, 2015 Greg Taggart |
Ways to Minimize the Risk of Student Loans Unwary students and their parents continue to pile the debt on in pursuit of what can be a valuable college degree. All too often, the result is a Phi Beta Kappa key to the poor house. |
T.H.E. Journal December 2001 Sylvia Charp |
Assessment and Accountability Tests are a means, not an end. To increase educational achievement, teachers should be responsible for judging student performance, giving out grades and deciding to pass or fail students... |
T.H.E. Journal January 2004 Grimes & Smith |
The Impact of Standards-Based Technology Professional Development In an effort to meet local, state and federal demands for education reform, school leaders are scrambling to identify effective strategies for delivering and reporting on technology professional development and how it impacts school reform. |
T.H.E. Journal September 2005 Margaret A. Jorgensen |
Test Bias or Real Differences? Harcourt's perspective on assessment is closing the achievement gap. |
T.H.E. Journal April 2004 |
Short Takes - AntiCheat AntiCheat, published by Stop-Cheat (www.stop-cheat.com), takes exams produced with word processing programs and shuffles the questions -- generating multiple-choice and open-ended questions. |