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Lemov, Doug, Ed. – Jossey-Bass, An Imprint of Wiley, 2020
School closures in response to the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic resulted in an immediate and universal pivot to online teaching. More than 3.7 million teachers in the U.S. were suddenly asked to teach in an entirely new setting with little preparation and no advance notice. This has caused an unprecedented threat to children's education, giving…
Descriptors: Online Courses, COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing
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Boninger, Faith; Molnar, Alex – National Education Policy Center, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has given the entire country a crash course in virtual education and digital education platforms. School leaders have been forced to consider a set of very imperfect options as they struggle to reopen their schools. This three-brief collection identifies key issues for school leaders to consider before adopting a digital…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, COVID-19, Pandemics
Maki, Peggy L. – Stylus Publishing, LLC, 2010
While there is consensus that institutions need to represent their educational effectiveness through documentation of student learning, the higher education community is divided between those who support national standardized tests to compare institutions' educational effectiveness, and those who believe that valid assessment of student…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Standardized Tests, Program Effectiveness, Teaching Methods
Tsagari, Dina, Ed.; Csepes, Ildiko, Ed. – Peter Lang Frankfurt, 2012
The Guidelines for Good Practice of the European Association for Language Testing and Assessment (EALTA) stress the importance of collaboration between all parties involved in the process of developing instruments, activities and programmes for testing and assessment. Collaboration is considered to be as important as validity and reliability,…
Descriptors: Sign Language, Testing, Language Tests, Test Validity