How can educators effectively engage students with disabilities in distance learning? Elizabeth Barker shares shares four ingredients for effective special education in this piece by The 74’s Beth Hawkins.
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Mentions: Elizabeth Barker
Topics: Equity, Accessibility, COVID-19 & schools
NWEA 2020 MAP Growth Achievement Status and Growth Norms for Students and Schools
The 2020 MAP Growth Norms report presents mathematics, reading, language arts and science achievement and growth patterns for students attending public schools across the U.S. It includes details on the methodological approach, information on MAP Growth assessments, the tested student population and post-stratification weighting, growth modeling, and implications of the study for research and practice, as well as tables showing student and school status and growth norms, status percentiles, growth distributions, and growth percentiles
Topics: Growth modeling, Measurement & scaling
The 4 ingredients you need for reaching students with disabilities online
The Universal Design for Learning (UDL) framework, formative assessment strategies, student data, and individualized or small-group instruction can help educators provide quality instruction for students with in distance learning.
By: Elizabeth Barker
Topics: Equity, Accessibility, COVID-19 & schools
This study explored how response style affects estimates of growth.
By: James Soland, Megan Kuhfeld
Topics: Measurement & scaling, Growth modeling, Social-emotional learning
Start now for a coherent assessment system in the fall
In this guest blog on the National Center for the Improvement of Educational Assessment’s CenterLine, the authors share their perspective on how states, districts, and schools should consider using assessment to support instruction when school begins again in the fall.
By: Patrick Meyer
Topics: COVID-19 & schools, Empowering educators
An intelligent CAT that can deal with disengaged test taking
This book presents varied applications of artificial intelligence (AI) in test development, including research and successful examples of using AI technology in automated item generation, automated test assembly, automated scoring, and computerized adaptive testing.
By: Steven Wise
Topics: Measurement & scaling, Innovations in reporting & assessment, School & test engagement
A cessation of measurement: Identifying test taker disengagement using response time
This chapter explores both what happens when test takers disengage and how this disengagement should be managed during scoring.
By: Steven Wise, Megan Kuhfeld
Topics: School & test engagement