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" ... Another thing all three have in common is that they bring colleges and universities a bit closer to the way the rest of the world works. Only in the movies is someone’s career made on the basis of a single memo or presentation. In the real world, performance is evaluated daily, across hundreds of deliverables and interactions, and then over a period of years. So it may be a good thing that cheating technology has made point-in-time summative assessments anachronistic. Getting rid of the midterm + final model may be hard for colleges and faculty, but it will be good for students. ... "
" ... No question, this has been a school year like no other. It’s one reason why there is so much debate about testing in school—particularly statewide summative assessments. Given the incredible disruption to learning over the pandemic, why not just cancel those tests? It is certainly understandable to want to focus every possible minute on classroom instruction rather than exams. ... "
" ... Scanlon: We don't go directly to parents or even to schools or districts. We work directly with the education technology experts, and that's actually been really enjoyable because you get to power so many different products across a range of different industries—from speech therapy dyslexia screenings to English language learning to formative and summative literacy assessments. We are able to touch all parts of the child's reading journey as well, from decoding to fluency and comprehension. We do know that teachers don't have the resources to be that human evaluator that can sit with the child as they read aloud all of the time. It requires human power that is just not scalable. But if we can help teachers and parents by letting the system listen to, encourage and correct the child, and invisibly assess them all at once, it takes the stress out of the situation. Kids don't know they've been assessed, and it becomes a playful and engaging experience. You get amazing data out of it that can be surfaced to the teacher. It can also be surfaced to the parent, and interventions can happen quicker. They say it takes four times longer to intervene when the child is age eight than it does with a four or five-year-old. If you can reach children early and catch them up with their peers, that has incredible impact that is tangible to the parents and educators. ... "