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Not as Easy as It Sounds: Designing a Balanced Assessment System
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Chattergoon, Rajendra; Marion, Scott – State Education Standard, 2016
Many states and school districts are rethinking how they do educational assessment. A few are going further: attempting to build "balanced," "comprehensive," or "next-generation" assessment systems. At the same time, practitioners and researchers have long mulled the purposes and parts such systems should have. But…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Systems Development, Design Requirements, Best Practices
The Current Status and Future Directions in the Development of the Cyber Home Learning System in Korea
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Kang, Myunghee; Kim, Seyoung; Yoon, Seonghye; Chung, Warren – Journal of Interactive Learning Research, 2017
The purpose of this study was to set future directions of the Cyber Home Learning System in Korea based on its current status. The Cyber Home Learning System has been designed and used by K-12 students to study voluntarily at home using online lessons. The development process of the Cyber Home Learning System was composed of the following four…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Online Courses, Database Management Systems, Computer System Design
Does Common Enrollment Work?
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Carpenter, Dick M., II; Clayton, Grant – Educational Leadership, 2016
In this article, researchers Dick M. Carpenter II and Grant Clayton explore common enrollment systems (CESs)--how they work and what school leaders can learn from districts that have implemented CESs. Denver, New Orleans, and Newark (New Jersey) have rolled out this centralized enrollment process for all district-run and charter schools in their…
Descriptors: Enrollment Management, Enrollment, Database Management Systems, Management Information Systems
Beyond Barriers: Encouraging Teacher Use of Feedback Resources. A Report from the Teacher Feedback Resources Project
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Morgan, Nicholas; Killion, Joellen – Learning Forward, 2018
This report investigates factors that drive teachers to embrace or challenge the use of products and services designed to support improvements in practice. Key elements of the study include: (1) Technology-based resources studied include those designed for video observations, peer feedback and collaboration, online professional learning, and…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Barriers, Educational Resources, Technology Uses in Education
The Unseen Digital Divide: Urban, Suburban, and Rural Teacher Use and Perceptions of Web-Based Classroom Technologies
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Kormos, Erik M. – Computers in the Schools, 2018
This quantitative study investigated the differences in perceptions and attitudes toward technology integration of K-12 public school teachers in rural, suburban, and urban environments. The purpose was to examine the relationship between frequency of use and perception of effectiveness of web-based learning tools based upon the type of school…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Web Based Instruction, Statistical Analysis, Technology Integration
Moving Forward: The Next-Gen Catalog and the New Discovery Tools
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Weare, William H., Jr.; Toms, Sue; Breeding, Marshall – Library Media Connection, 2011
Do students prefer to use Google instead of the library catalog? Ever wondered why? Google is easier to use and delivers plenty of "good enough" resources to meet their needs. The current generation of online catalogs has two main problems. First, the look and feel of the interface doesn't reflect the conventions adhered to elsewhere on the web,…
Descriptors: School Libraries, Online Catalogs, Library Services, Online Systems