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Increasing Achievement and Saving Time by Selecting the Right Assessment and Instruction Tools
By: District Administration Custom Publishing. How a district in Ohio used adaptive technology and instruction tools to eliminate excess testing by assessing students strategically, thus creating actionable data and performance measures.
From Formative Assessment to Tracking Student Mastery: The Road to Competency-Based Instruction
Mastery tracking, fed by formative assessment, is fundamental to competency-based learning and any attempt to personalize. Here, we dive into 10 reasons why it is so important.
Creating a Data Driven Classroom
By: Dr. Gregory Firn. A data-driven culture that nurtures and continuously examines learning processes and outcomes is necessary for personalized learning and to revolutionize instruction in the classroom.
Technical Challenges on the Path to Personalization
We believe a comprehensive learner profile, data backpack, and student portfolio are key to personalization. However, there are five challenges to overcome to unlock the power of personalized learning that includes student records, interoperability, and developing growth rates.
Formative Assessment To Initiate Personalized Learning
The combination of powerful technology with passionate teachers is creating a new path for personalization. Formative assessment is one of the first steps to personalizing the learning experience for students.
Rethinking Assessment to Meet the Demands of the 21st Century Workforce
With innovative teaching models and new assessment capabilities brought about by technology, students and teachers will have greater access to information about levels of understanding, remediation can decrease, and personalized learning at scale will become reality.
The End of the Big Test: Moving to Competency-Based Policy
The use of assessment pilots and innovations zones where groups of schools apply and become authorized to operate alternative assessment systems will soon replace the frustration surrounding NCLB and end of year tests.
Path To Personalization: Better Models & Better Tests
New developments will mean a gradual reduction in the size of and reliance in heavyweight summative assessment to smaller, less frequent tests that check the validity of local assessments.
The Future of Personalized Learning is Now
By: Jean Fleming. Measures of Academic Progress Assessment, or MAP test, is a system that gathers inputs from different kinds of assessment, including formative, in-the-moment assessments, and longer interim assessment.
Hut 1, Hut 2: Literature Class on a Football Field
Have you discovered your classroom to be a bit too confined for creativity? Just head to the football field. Go long!