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3) School districts often purchase educational software based on marketing hype rather than carefully considering independent research on the products' effectiveness. The article uses Carnegie Learning as a case study but notes other companies also overpromise results.
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- Social networking sites like Facebook are widely used, with 95.3% of students using Facebook for over 2-3 hours daily.
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- 95.4% of students felt that digital tools make learning easier and more effective compared to traditional methods.
- 83.4% of students believed that digitalization positively impacts classroom studying.
- Social networking sites like Facebook are widely used, with 95.3% of students using Facebook for over 2-3 hours daily.
- Only 18.4% of the students surveyed were female, indicating a need to improve women's access to education.
- On average, students spent over 3 hours daily using internet resources like Google, YouTube and Wikipedia for
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The document discusses various ways that technology can be used to engage students and keep parents informed. It recommends creating a Yahoo group to share information with parents, using Microsoft Word to create a monthly newsletter for parents, and posting student grades and test analysis on the Yahoo group using identification codes. It also discusses using the ARIS system to track student data and make it available to teachers and parents.
The document discusses next generation student assessment and measuring what matters most in education. It provides examples of performance-based and computer-adaptive assessments that measure higher-order thinking skills like problem-solving, critical thinking, and written communication. These include the High School Survey of Student Engagement, NWEA MAP assessments, and the College and Work Readiness Assessment. The document advocates for balancing standardized tests with other measures that better reflect schools' educational missions.
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2) Supporters argue this more flexible approach prepares students better for their individual career goals, but critics worry it could deepen inequities if some students lack access to transportation or online courses.
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Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus, 1818
Boris Karloff in Frankenstein in 1931 directed by James Whale
Mary Shelley first published Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus 1818. the novel allegorizes the Romantic obsession with discovering the power or principle of life. Ideas about a life power were consistent with the scientific understanding of the day. Darwin himself spoke of an organizing “spirit of animation” in his Zoonomia; or, The Laws of Organic Life, in which he stated “the world itself might have been generated, rather than created.”
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Laid the foundation for major subfields of comp sci: theory of computation, design of hardware and software, and the study of artificial intelligence
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1. GRADING THE DIGITAL SCHOOL
Inflating the Software Report Card
By Trip Gabriel and Matt Richtel
Oct. 8, 2011
The Web site of Carnegie Learning, a company started by
scientists at Carnegie Mellon University that sells classroom
software, trumpets this promise: “Revolutionary Math
Curricula. Revolutionary Results.”
The pitch has sounded seductive to thousands of schools across
the country for more than a decade. But a review by the United
States Department of Education last year would suggest a much
less alluring come-on: Undistinguished math curricula.
Unproven results.
The federal review of Carnegie Learning’s flagship software,
Cognitive Tutor, said the program had “no discernible effects”
on the standardized test scores of high school students. A
separate 2009 federal look at 10 major software products for
teaching algebra as well as elementary and middle school math
and reading found that nine of them, including Cognitive Tutor,
“did not have statistically significant effects on test scores.”
Amid a classroom-based software boom estimated at $2.2
billion a year, debate continues to rage over the effectiveness of
technology on learning and how best to measure it. But it is
hard to tell that from technology companies’ promotional
materials.
Many companies ignore well-regarded independent studies that
test their products’ effectiveness. Carnegie’s Web site, for
example, makes no mention of the 2010 review, by the
Education Department’s What Works Clearinghouse, which
analyzed 24 studies of Cognitive Tutor’s effectiveness but
found that only four of those met high research standards. Some
firms misrepresent research by cherry-picking results and
promote surveys or limited case studies that lack the scientific
rigor required by the clearinghouse and other authorities.
2. “The advertising from the companies is tremendous oversell
compared to what they can actually demonstrate,” said Grover J.
Whitehurst, a former director of the Institute of Education
Sciences, the federal agency that includes What Works.
School officials, confronted with a morass of complicated and
sometimes conflicting research, often buy products based on
personal impressions, marketing hype or faith in technology for
its own sake.
“They want the shiny new one,” said Peter Cohen, chief
executive of Pearson School, a leading publisher of classroom
texts and software. “They always want the latest, when other
things have been proven the longest and demonstrated to get
results.”
Carnegie, one of the most respected of the educational software
firms, is hardly alone in overpromising or misleading. The Web
site of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt says that “based on scientific
research, Destination Reading is a powerful early literacy and
adolescent literacy program,” but it fails to mention that it was
one of the products the Department of Education found in 2009
not to have statistically significant effects on test scores.
Similarly, Pearson’s Web site cites several studies of its own to
support its claim that Waterford Early Learning improves
literacy, without acknowledging the same 2009 study’s
conclusion that it had little impact.
And Intel, in a Web document urging schools to buy computers
for every student, acknowledges that “there are no longitudinal,
randomized trials linking eLearning to positive learni ng
outcomes.” Yet it nonetheless argues that research shows that
technology can lead to more engaged and economically
successful students, happier teachers and more involved parents.
“To compare this public relations analysis to a carefully
constructed research study is laughable,” said Alex Molnar,
professor of education at the National Education Policy Center
at the University of Colorado. “They are selling their wares.”
Carnegie officials say 600,000 students in 44 states use its
products, many taking teacher-led classes three times a week
3. with Carnegie-provided workbooks and spending the other two
class periods in computer labs using Cognitive Tutor. The full
curriculum can cost nearly three times as much as a typical
textbook over six years.
Officials declined to release annual revenue figures, but
Carnegie Learning was acquired in August for $75 million by
the parent of the for-profit University of Phoenix. Carnegie
Mellon University, which had retained ownership of the
Cognitive Tutor software and licensed it to Carnegie Learning,
earned an additional $21.5 million from the sale.
Steve Ritter, a founder and the chief scientist of Carnegie
Learning, said there were flaws in the What Works
Clearinghouse evaluations of Cognitive Tutor and disputed the
Education Department’s judgment of what makes a worthy
study.
“What you want to focus on is more of the why,” he said, “and
less of a horse race to find out what works and doesn’t.”
A Carnegie spokeswoman, Mary Murrin, said in a statement that
the company used “the data from all studies with varying
outcomes to continuously improve our programs.”
Karen Billings, a vice president of the Software and Information
Industry Association — a trade group representing many
education companies — said the problem was not that
companies overpromise, but that schools often do not properly
deploy the products or train teachers to use them. Ms. Billings’s
group helped design the field trials, in 132 schools, for the
landmark 2009 government study of 10 software products,
which was ordered by Congress and cost $15 million.
Then came the deflating results. The industry “became very
hostile,” recalled Mr. Whitehurst, now director of education
policy at the Brookings Institution. “It seems to me,” he added,
“ ‘hypocrisy’ is the right word for loving something until the
results are not what you expect.”
The Hard Sell
Shelly Allen, the math coordinator for public schools in
Augusta, Ga., has seen a lot of curriculum salespeople pass
4. through. She is wary of their sweet words and hard sell.
In June, when representatives from Carnegie Learning visited,
Dr. Allen warned: “I just want everybody to know I grew up
here. I graduated from here. My children go to school here.
When you guys get back where you live, our kids have to still
be able to reach goals we set.”
Augusta is famous for its magnolia-shaded National Golf Club,
host to the Masters Tournament, but its public schools are
typical of struggling urban districts. Three-quarters of the
32,000 students in the district, Richmond County, are black, and
72 percent are poor enough to qualify for the federal lunch
program. The mean SAT math score last year was 443, below
Georgia’s mean of 490 and the nation’s 516.
Six years ago, the district adopted Cognitive Tutor for about
3,000 students at risk of failing, paying $101,500 annually to
use it. As students work through problems, the computer
analyzes their weaknesses and serves up new items until they
grasp the skill and are allowed to move on. To a student, the
promotional materials say, it feels “as if the software is getting
to know her and supporting her like a tutor.”
So when the screen says: “You are saving to buy a bicycle. You
have $10, and each day you are able to save $2,” the student
must convert the word problem into an algebraic expression. If
he is stumped, he can click on the “Hint” button.
“Define a variable for the time from now,” the software advises.
Still stumped? Click “Next Hint.”
“Use x to represent the time from now.” Aha. The student types
“2x+10.”
The software likes this and moves on to highlight a series of
questions in green, beginning with, “How many more days must
you save to buy a bike that costs $60?” Using his 2x+10
formula, the student enters “25.”
After solving several questions of this sort and plotting them on
a graph, the student would click “Skillometer” to see how he
had fared. A series of forest-green bars would show that he did
5. well labeling axes for his graph, but not so well writing the
initial formula.
Moving on, Cognitive Tutor would bump him down to an easier
problem: “A skier noticed that he can complete a run in about
30 minutes (half an hour).” The expression relating ski runs to
time would be 2x, with x representing hours.
“Immediate feedback,” Carnegie Learning explains on its Web
site, “enables the student to self-correct and leads to more
effective learning.”
Augusta officials liked the program enough that when concerns
arose last winter that many 11th graders were not on track to
pass a new state graduation test, the district asked to expand the
software’s use to all 9,400 of its high school students. The
company agreed to provide access for no additional charge —
temporarily.
“As a company, it makes sense to give you the opportunity to
prove it works for all students,” Anita Sprayberry, a regional
sales manager, told school leaders. That way, she said, “We can
talk about a bigger sale.”
Going forward, Ms. Sprayberry said, the cost would be about
$34,000 for each of the district’s 11 high schools.
In a recent interview, Dr. Allen said she was familiar with the
What Works Clearinghouse, but not its 2010 finding that
Cognitive Tutor did not raise test scores more than textbooks.
Though the clearinghouse is intended to help school leaders
choose proven curriculum, a 2010 Government Accountability
Office survey of district officials found that 58 percent of them
had never heard of What Works, never mind consulted its
reviews.
“Decisions are made on marketing, on politics, on personal
preference,” said Robert A. Slavin, director of the Center for
Research and Reform in Education at Johns Hopkins University.
“An intelligent, caring principal who’d never buy a car without
looking at Consumer Reports, when they plunk down serious
money to buy a curriculum, they don’t even look at the
6. evidence.”
Evaluating Curriculums
Founded in 1998 by cognitive and computer scientists along
with math teachers, Carnegie Learning is proud of its academic
heritage, and many education researchers consider it a model of
rigor and transparency.
One founder, John R. Anderson, received the 2011 Benjamin
Franklin Medal in Computer and Cognitive Science for work on
how humans perceive, learn and reason. The company’s Web
site promises that its curriculums “provide the research-based
foundation for proven results,” citing “success stories” from
around the country.
At Dundalk Middle School in Baltimore County, Md., for
example, Carnegie Learning says that Cognitive Tutor led to an
increase in the passing rate on a state assessment, to 86 percent
in 2004 from 49 percent in 2002. What it does not say is that the
rate remained at 85 percent last year, even though Dundalk
dropped Cognitive Tutor in 2007 because of difficulties
arranging lab time.
That is why many academics dismiss case studies: it is too easy
for slices of data to be taken out of context, or for correlation to
be confused with causation.
Instead, the gold standard of education research is a field trial
in which similar groups of students are randomly assigned to
classes where one uses the curriculum and the other does not.
The Carnegie Web site lists five such trials and says they all
show positive results for Cognitive Tutor.
Three of these studies, however, were rejected by the What
Works Clearinghouse for flaws in their design; in a fourth, the
clearinghouse identified a problem with part of the study — the
part that purported to show benefits. One of the rejected studies
had found that users of Cognitive Tutor in 10 Miami high
schools scored better on Florida state exams than a control
group, but the clearinghouse found that the students being
compared were not equivalent.
“The entire ‘effect’ of Cognitive Tutor possibly can be traced to
7. other factors,” said Mark Dynarski, a former director of the
clearinghouse, “and the way in which the research was carried
out does not allow one to know if this is the case.”
Dr. Ritter, Carnegie’s chief scientist, noted that the
clearinghouse’s 2010 review was limited to high schools and
that a year earlier it found that Cognitive Tutor had “potentially
positive effects” in middle school.
The middle school finding rested on one study, out of 14
reviewed. That study is featured prominently on the Carnegie
Web site, which omits mention of two others that the Education
Department judged to be well designed but showed no benefits.
Dr. Ritter said he had excluded those studies, in Hawaii and
Virginia, because the students had not used Cognitive Tutor
precisely as the company intended. The researcher who did the
Hawaii study, Denis Newman, said it reflected how Cognitive
Tutor was used in the real world.
Dr. Newman is also the author of research guidelines for the
Software and Information Industry Association, where Dr.
Ritter sits on the education research working group. One of
those guidelines states, “An expectation in the scientific
community is that research findings are made available
regardless of the result.”
Karen Cator, a former Apple executive who directs the Office of
Educational Technology at the Department of Education, said
the clearinghouse reports on software should be “taken with a
grain of salt” because they rely on standardized test scores.
Those tests, Ms. Cator said, cannot gauge some skills that
technology teaches, like collaboration, multimedia and research.
Ms. Cator’s office is developing a new framework to measure
the educational value of technology, but she advised schools
and districts not to wait to invest in software like Cognitive
Tutor.
“They know what their students need to know and what they
need to be able to do,” she said.
Real-Time Assessments
8. In Augusta, Dr. Allen, the math coordinator, said her district
did not have the means to study the effectiveness of Cognitive
Tutor formally. But she and her staff saw that low-achieving
students who used it were able to join mainstream classes. And
teachers appreciated the way the software transmits assessments
in real time to Carnegie Learning, then kicks back a report
indicating the strengths and weaknesses of each student.
Teachers “just didn’t know, skill by skill, the same type of data
they are getting now,” Dr. Allen said.
On the other hand, when the new state math test was given in
March, 27 percent of the district’s 11th graders did not pass,
which Dr. Allen described as “something that makes us not real
excited.”
At the June meeting with Carnegie Learning’s sales team, Dr.
Allen said Cognitive Tutor could be worthwhile if the district,
which has recently cut $7 million from its budget and
furloughed employees for nine days, could scrape together the
financing. “Our negotiations are intense because we don’t have
any money,” she said to laughter around the table.
In Georgia, where the state negotiates prices with publishers, an
annual license for Cognitive Tutor software is $32 per student,
and the workbook, which must be replaced annually, is $24 —
for a total of $336 over six years, a typical lifespan of a math
textbook that costs about $120.
Ultimately, Dr. Allen’s district did not have the money, so she
focused on getting the most out of her staff. “Giving them the
right tools and resources certainly helps,” she said, “but our
teachers are the ones making that difference.”
Gregory W. Capelli, co-chief executive of the Apollo Group,
which runs the 400,000-student University of Phoenix and
bought Carnegie Learning this summer, said his company first
ran its own pilot project with the software and also examined
independent research.
But Mr. Capelli, like others, relied at least in part on personal
experience.
“My daughter, who’s in eighth grade, used this product,” he
9. said.
“She would do very well” in some lessons “and not in others,”
Mr. Capelli said. “What I liked about it is that once she got it, it
would allow her to go on to the next part of the tree.”
Correction: Oct. 13, 2011
An article on Saturday about technology companies that produce
software for use in classrooms misspelled the given name of a
researcher whose study showed that the use of Cognitive Tutor,
one such program, produced no benefits. He is Denis Newman,
not Dennis.
Grading the Digital School: Articles in this series are looking at
the intersection of education, technology and business as
schools embrace digital learning.