How are kids performing so far this fall?
How are kids performing so far this fall?
October 14, 2020
Categories:
Assessment
Last spring, school buildings had barely gone dark before questions about potential learning loss began to appear. The title of an Education Week article from early April read, “How Schools Will Overcome the ‘Coronavirus Slide:’ Ideas [...]
How we create vocabulary, literacy skills, and Spanish quizzes for Accelerated Reader
How we create vocabulary, literacy skills, and Spanish quizzes for Accelerated Reader
October 2, 2020
Categories:
Reading
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Accelerated Reader
Accelerated Reader includes more than 210,000 quizzes on a wide range of fiction and nonfiction books. The majority of these are Reading Practice Quizzes, which assess students’ literal comprehension of the books they’ve read. In an [...]
6 myths about emergent bilinguals
6 myths about emergent bilinguals
September 25, 2020
Categories:
Assessment,
Reading
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Star Spanish
Schools across the US are using Star Assessments in Spanish and English to assess their emergent bilingual students. In a recent webinar, Doris Chávez-Linville and Dr. Carol Johnson describe new features in Star that help educators to better understand what [...]
How to set equitable goals this school year
How to set equitable goals this school year
September 22, 2020
Categories:
Assessment
For many of us, fall screening may look a bit different this year, especially if we’re assessing students remotely. Nonetheless, we’ll soon have—or may already have—our fall screening results. Based on this data, we’ll need to [...]
Transforming student learning and empowering educators with PLCs in education
Transforming student learning and empowering educators with PLCs in education
September 20, 2020
The popularity of PLCs–professional learning communities–in education has grown in recent years, and it’s easy to see why. Educators nationwide are working to reestablish connections and relationships with their students to help them get back on track with learning.
Quizzing at home in Accelerated Reader
Quizzing at home in Accelerated Reader
September 18, 2020
Categories:
Reading
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Accelerated Reader
In spring 2020, educators who use Accelerated Reader had two key questions for us, as they worked to quickly transition from in-person to remote instruction. (1) Does Accelerated Reader support at-home quizzing? (2) If so, can [...]
Assessing emergent bilinguals: Celebra lo que saben
Assessing emergent bilinguals: Celebra lo que saben
September 11, 2020
Categories:
Assessment
| Products:
Star Spanish
According to estimates, between 60 and 75 percent of the world’s population speak two or more languages. The benefits of bilingualism are well documented: A larger working memory, better reading and listening skills, greater empathy and openness, and expanded job [...]
How the new Star CBM supports distance learning
How the new Star CBM supports distance learning
September 9, 2020
Categories:
Assessment
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Star CBM,
Star Math
The 2020–2021 school year is shaping up to be like nothing we’ve seen before—and will hopefully never see again. Schools have been planning for a variety of scenarios, including in-person instruction, remote instruction, “hybrid” models where students and teachers are [...]
The making of an Accelerated Reader quiz
The making of an Accelerated Reader quiz
September 3, 2020
Categories:
Reading,
Reading,
Reading
Every school day, hundreds of thousands of students assess their reading comprehension by taking a Reading Practice Quiz in Accelerated Reader. More than 210,000 AR quizzes are available on a wide range of books, and districts [...]
In response to: Should we assess students this fall?
In response to: Should we assess students this fall?
September 1, 2020
Categories:
Assessment,
Assessment
Recently, there’s been a lot of chatter about the role of assessment in the new school year. Should we or should we not assess students this fall? If so, in which ways? The title of a [...]
