Are the items written with language appropriate for the intended audience? Is the assessment reliable across diverse groups of respondents? Here's some research on how to choose the right assessment for your students.
The senior director of information technology at Digital Promise, which brings together solutions across research, practice and technology to shape the future of learning and advance equitable education systems, Doersch is also the board chair of the Consortium of School Networking (CoSN).
“Parents are monitoring their kids far more closely, really wanting to be aware of their location [and] concerned about their safety," says Mitch Prinstein, chief science officer at the American Psychological Association.” This heightened surveillance has trade-offs. The trend has seeped into schools.
There is some good news but more not-so-good news in a pair of wide-ranging reports on how students across the U.S. are faring academically and civically this fall.
Earlier this year, a record-low 39% of teachers believed education was going in the right direction in their local school districts. Now, their optimism is on the rebound.
How did you pick a college: the academics, the cost, the campus? For today's high schoolers, a new metric has entered the chat—how the college will look on TikTok.
The first question leaders should ask when looking for edtech solutions is, "What is the problem I'm trying to solve," says today's guest on the Talking Out of School podcast.
