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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.
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T.H.E. Journal September 2005 Larry Hines	Interactive Learning Environment Keeps Modesto Students Engaged The Classroom Performance System provides four district junior high math and science classes with a wireless, collaborative, instant-response learning solution.
T.H.E. Journal May 2004 Cathryn Harvey	Special Education Solutions in the Age of NCLB While an individualized approach to connecting assessment with instruction is helping mainstream students succeed, there have not been solutions that special education teachers can adopt in helping with the issues surrounding standardized testing.
T.H.E. Journal February 2002 Kevin T. McNulty	Fostering the Student-Centered Classroom Online There are many ways to maximize use of the Internet to benefit student instruction. On my classroom Web site I publish tutorials to assist with classroom instruction, and students use the site as a launchpad to research information...
T.H.E. Journal December 2000 Gary West	Technology Tools to Make Educational Accountability Work The South Carolina Education Accountability Act of 1998 (EAA) establishes new standards for student performance. There is little doubt that such standards are needed as our state attempts to move up the ladder toward excellence...
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T.H.E. Journal March 2008	Activexpression by Promethean Promethean has launched a new student response solution called Activexpression.
T.H.E. Journal February 2007	Texas District Uses Web-Based Assessment Solutions To Target Instruction Standards-based formative assessment and computer-adaptive diagnostic testing provide educators with data to address student needs.
T.H.E. Journal January 2004 Mike Gatlin	Interactive Whiteboard System Creates 'Active Classrooms' for Rural Georgia School System In order to catch and keep students' attention, while improving student learning in the process, our district needed new and exciting technology to infuse into the curriculum.
T.H.E. Journal October 2004 Ullman & Rabinowitz	Course Management Systems and the Reinvention of Instruction University teachers approach the use of the Course Management System with a pre-existing "mental model" of how the technology should be used and that this mental model then constrains how the teachers use it.
T.H.E. Journal December 3, 2009 Bridget McCrea	Keeping on Task in a Digital Environment It doesn't take much to disrupt an entire high school classroom and get a student off task, particularly when that student is using a desktop or laptop computer to finish a lesson.
T.H.E. Journal May 2004 Faye P. Taylor	Education Technology Helps Unite School Communities, Improve Academic Achievement The landmark No Child Left Behind Act has spurred the adoption of innovative education technology and Internet-based programs into classrooms nationwide.
T.H.E. Journal April 2004 June Ahn	Electronic Portfolios: Blending Technology, Accountability & Assessment Many educators struggle to discover the proper assessment strategies for students. Portfolio-based assessment and, more recently, the electronic portfolio have been seen as an alternative to standardized tests. Includes a list of e-portfolio resource websites.
T.H.E. Journal June 2002 Douglas W. Green & Thomas O'Brien	The Internet's Impact on Teacher Practice and Classroom Culture Does Internet use result in an increase in constructivist teacher practices? What other features of classroom life are impacted when the Internet is used as a source of information for student research projects?
T.H.E. Journal August 2006 Michelle Gamble-Risley	Surviving Accountability: As Easy as AYP Data-driven strategies and personalized instruction are paving the way to higher test scores, one student at a time.
T.H.E. Journal February 2004 Sloane O'Neal	Individualized Instruction for Improved Student Achievement -- Education's 'Holy Grail' Adding more teachers may help somewhat, but unless we can provide one-to-one instruction, teachers -- and more important, our students -- will still fail. This is where technology can make the difference.
T.H.E. Journal June 2001 Keith Oelrich	Virtual Schools A 21st-century strategy for teacher professional development...
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T.H.E. Journal October 2005 Barlow & Wetherill	Tech + Imagination = Results Inspired technology initiatives driven by one university project are changing the way teachers instruct and assess, but most importantly, the way today's students learn.
T.H.E. Journal September 2005 Podoll & Randle	Building a Virtual High School...click by click South Dakota's Rapid City Academy finds out just what it takes to provide a diverse population of students the flexibility offered by online learning.
T.H.E. Journal June 2004 Creg E. Williams	School District of Philadelphia Uses Web-Based System to Increase Student Achievement The evidence clearly showed that our high schools were in need of innovative solutions to improve the foundation for student success.
T.H.E. Journal July 2006 Mary Ann Wolf	Using Technology to Improve Achievement: Making Data Relevant New information systems are helping states and districts individualize instruction and boost student learning.
T.H.E. Journal April 2006 Lisa A. Petrides	ISKME Special Series Part 3: Using Data to Improve Instruction Are you using the right tests? The correct assessment methods? The best technology? These are only a few of the issues that must be addressed in the effort to use data to change teacher practice.
T.H.E. Journal November 2003 Wangemann et al.	Portable Technology Comes of Age The utilization of handhelds in a pilot teacher education program
T.H.E. Journal April 2006 Brian McElfish	Interactivity for the 21st Century A Southern California tech coordinator wants to create a classroom that engages all three essential participants in education: teachers, students, and parents. Here's how he intends to do it.
T.H.E. Journal May 2005 Mari Liles	Interactive Whiteboard System Drives Increased Achievement at Texas School for the Deaf The electronic whiteboard system has made a huge difference in how teachers teach and how motivated students have become about learning.
T.H.E. Journal August 2004 Anastasia Trueman	InterWrite SchoolPads Take Technology to a New Level This wireless pad gives teachers the ability to use an electronic pen like a mouse to annotate and highlight any computer image. It also enables teachers to interact with a projected image at the front of the room while standing anywhere in the classroom.
T.H.E. Journal May 2002 Colleen Brandao	Teaching online: Harnessing Technology's Power at Florida Virtual School With modest beginnings in 1996, FLVS has evolved from an instructional experiment based on distance learning to a successful mainstream educational alternative serving the students of Florida and beyond...
T.H.E. Journal August 2005 Carole Eaton	Sparking a Revolution in Teaching and Learning How one of Ohio's lowest-performing elementary schools used technology to raise its third-grade reading test scores by a whopping 124 percent.
T.H.E. Journal September 2000 Patricia S. Smeaton & Faith H. Waters	Keeping Connected An Asynchronous Communication System to Support Student Teachers
T.H.E. Journal August 2006	CrossTec's SchoolVue CrossTec's SchoolVue has a variety of features to help teachers manage their classrooms and keep students on task.
T.H.E. Journal April 2007 Linda L. Briggs	Business Intelligence :: Magnum B.I. Using powerful business intelligence tools, two districts are drilling down to the finer points of student data, where the most revealing insights lie.
T.H.E. Journal August 2003 Judith B. Rajala	Handhelds in Education According to the Center for Highly Interactive Computing in Education at the University of Michigan, handheld devices such as Palms are making technology accessible, affordable and fun for teachers and students alike.
T.H.E. Journal November 2005 Jacob Milner	Warming Up To Wireless As wireless technology takes hold in school districts, the biggest challenge is getting teachers to embrace it, to take student learning to a new level.
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T.H.E. Journal July 2005 Knudson & Cantrell	A New Competitive Grant Model for Nevada The Nevada Department of Education uses a comprehensive program to measure the benefit to students of a technology package (computer, LCD projector, internet access and web-based instruction) delivered to teachers. Some results were exciting and not expected.
T.H.E. Journal June 2008 Esther Shein	One-Stop Shopping With Learning Management Systems Virtual course delivery is only one of many options afforded by an LMS, which allows educators to transfer online a host of educational and administrative tasks.
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