All Discussions Tagged 'iste10' - Classroom 2.02024-03-28T10:54:39Zhttps://www.classroom20.com/forum/topic/listForTag?tag=iste10&feed=yes&xn_auth=noEducation News: Interesting Correlation Report Compares Any Two Assessmentstag:www.classroom20.com,2010-06-16:649749:Topic:4796382010-06-16T19:02:19.192ZKimberly Hulberthttps://www.classroom20.com/profile/KimberlyHulbert
<div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;">"To help TestWiz customers view the relationship between two assessments, dataMetrics, a Massachusetts-based company specializing in test processing and reporting software for K-12 educational institutions, has…</span></div>
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<div><br/></div> New National Standards are Releasedtag:www.classroom20.com,2010-06-03:649749:Topic:4752232010-06-03T15:38:22.888ZKimberly Hulberthttps://www.classroom20.com/profile/KimberlyHulbert
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<div class="entryText" style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 20px; margin-bottom: 20px;"><p><br style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px;"/>The standards, which took a year to write, have been tweaked and refined in recent weeks in response to some of the 10,000 comments the public sent in after a draft was released in March.<br style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px;"/><br style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px;"/>The standards were made public at a news conference on Wednesday in Atlanta.<br style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px;"/><br style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px;"/>Leah Lechleiter-Luke, a Spanish teacher from Mauston, Wis., who is that state’s 2010 teacher of the year, said at the conference that the new standards were preferable to her home state’s. 'It’s not that the standards in Wisconsin are so bad, it’s just that there are so many of them,' she said. 'These are more user-friendly.'<br style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px;"/><br style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px;"/>The Obama administration hopes that states will quickly adopt the new standards in place of the hodgepodge of current state benchmarks, which vary so significantly that it is impossible to compare test scores from different states. The United States is one of the few developed countries that lacks national standards for its public schools..." NYTimes.com<br style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px;"/><br style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px;"/>More: <a href="http://www.testwiz.com/home/whatsnew/10-06-03/new_national_standards_released_.aspx" style="color: rgb(102, 153, 204); text-decoration: none; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px;">http://www.testwiz.com/home/whatsnew/10-06-03/new_national_standards_released_.aspx</a></p>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;">dataMetrics is proud to announce that we have won a Best In Tech for 2010 award for the category of Response to Intervention. …<br style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px;"></br></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;">dataMetrics is proud to announce that we have won a Best In Tech for 2010 award for the category of Response to Intervention. <br style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px;"/><br style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px;"/>Ken Royal from Scholastic Administrator explains, “The challenge in crafting RTI programs is finding solutions to help a wide variety of students while providing individualized attention. Some of the programs here are jack-of-all-trades used in elementary and middle schools, for students both ahead of grade level and behind. Other programs are more specific, focused on math or better assessment.”<br style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px;"/><br style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px;"/>Our assessment processing, scoring and reporting tool, TestWiz, allows users to:<br style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px;"/><br style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px;"/></span><ul style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"><br style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px;"/><br style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px;"/>To learn more about TestWiz: <a href="http://testwiz.com/products.aspx" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(135, 160, 60); text-decoration: underline;">http://testwiz.com/products.aspx</a> or e-mail us at<a href="mailto:help@testwiz.com" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(135, 160, 60); text-decoration: underline;">help@testwiz.com</a><br style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px;"/><br style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px;"/>Official anouncement: <a href="http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/article.jsp?id=3754204" target="_blank" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(135, 160, 60); text-decoration: underline;">scholastic.com</a></span> Google Wave Invitestag:www.classroom20.com,2009-11-08:649749:Topic:4023292009-11-08T01:27:34.412ZBeth Stillhttps://www.classroom20.com/profile/BethStill
My name is Beth Still and I am the founder of the <a href="http://www.bethstill.edublogs.org" target="_blank">ISTE 10 Newbie Projec</a>t. To help fund this project I am selling my most recent batch of Google Wave invites. A few other people have graciously donated some to this project so I have at least six left. These things are hard to come by so they will go fast! Email me if you are interested. I am asking for a $10 donation.
My name is Beth Still and I am the founder of the <a href="http://www.bethstill.edublogs.org" target="_blank">ISTE 10 Newbie Projec</a>t. To help fund this project I am selling my most recent batch of Google Wave invites. A few other people have graciously donated some to this project so I have at least six left. These things are hard to come by so they will go fast! Email me if you are interested. I am asking for a $10 donation.