The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 12, 2024

This is helpful for so many reasons. I will take 5 points off for each spelling, grammar or typo. When assessing the students' work, the grading rubric should take into account their contribution to the assignment, while also imposing penalties for spelling and grammar errors. My rubric is this for each individual.

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Neo LMS

APRIL 19, 2022

It is also one of the reasons why many students fail to feel motivated and engaged in what is happening in the classroom. Once they’re done with their assessments, they can move on to the next chapter and complete classes faster, making the whole experience more engaging. Improved confidence and self-assessment skills.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Forms are popular in schools for assessments, data collection, and a slew of other reasons. Some teachers look no further than Google Forms but for those who require more simplicity and sophistication, a higher degree of agility and rigor, the gold standard for forms is free JotForm (premium edition also available).

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Neo LMS

JUNE 7, 2022

In fact, one of the main reasons why you would use an LMS in the first place is that it makes evaluation easy through automation and helps you save time, whether you’re teaching remotely, face-to-face or using a hybrid model. Quizzes are the quickest way to assess student knowledge. For example, maybe you rely heavily on essays.

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Neo LMS

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Here are a few reasons why I think online learning improves access to Higher Education for students with all sorts of disabilities: Accessible learning environment. Read more: The 5 Bs of online feedback teachers need to master. Accessible design, whether in the physical world or the virtual one, simply means good design.

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Hapara

AUGUST 17, 2022

Printed textbooks have been used for centuries, and while they still work, there are many reasons why school districts are transitioning to OER versions. . Here are 17 reasons why open educational resource textbooks work well for the K-12 environment. . Additionally, they can click on review sections for online formative assessments.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 25, 2022

Teens who read more paper books scored higher on reading assessments. Even among students of similar socioeconomic backgrounds, those who read books in a paper format scored a whopping 49 points higher on the Program for International Student Assessment, known as PISA. Credit: Jill Barshay/The Hechinger Report. years of learning.

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A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 17, 2018

It should also be noted how it differs from assessment. Feedback justifies a grade, establishes criteria for improvement, provides motivation for the next assessment, reinforces good work, and serves as a catalyst for reflection. In reality, formative assessment is an advanced form of feedback.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 15, 2020

Course: Designing Blended Learning for Student Engagement and Achievement “By the end of the course, you will be able to design and implement meaningful blended learning experiences with objective-aligned assessments and activities that foster core 21st-century skills.” Teacher Self-Care and Balance Teacher satisfaction is a challenge.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 5, 2019

Sure, sometimes kids get engaged, but other times, you have to help them find their reason to engage. For these reasons, an effective pitch process is so vital to successful genius projects. Assess Your School or District Mark Wise told me about how they assess their entire district with a massive project for eighth-graders.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

Formative assessment and game based learning make a powerful combination in the classroom. For example, for me, the SMART Notebook makes it easier to present student games, formative assessment, and contentin a smooth, seamless way. Make the formative assessment games and activities. Download a free trial.

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Neo LMS

JULY 19, 2022

In an increasingly digital world, there is almost no way to escape tech in its many forms and applications—and rightly so, as it is incredibly useful and can help us improve our capabilities and achieve greater things. The post 5 Tech tools every student should have appeared first on NEO BLOG.

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

It will also help you with both formative and summative assessments, and it will enter your grades into any electronic grade book directly from GradeCam. Simple Assessments of All Kinds. First, let’s look at the ways you can use GradeCam for assessments. Setting up assessments is fast and easy. Let’s dive deeper.

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PlagiarismCheck

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Turnitin Features for teachers: Feedback Studio allows instant assessment, grading, and tracking of the students’ progress. For this reason, finding a trustworthy similarity detection tool becomes significant. A vast database of scholarly articles. Text-formatting and proofreading functions. No LMS integration.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Pittsburgh, PA– Carnegie Learning , a leader in artificial intelligence for K-12 education and formative assessment, announced today that elementary students from Buchanan County, Virginia School District achieved unprecedented reading gains using Carnegie Learning’s Fast ForWord ® reading and language program. And this program was it.”

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 26, 2021

In this post, I’ll share three reasons you’ll want to sign up now and how to register. 12 Formative Assessment Tips to Elevate Student Voice – Monica Burns. Individual tickets are 75 EUR (around $92 in USD) and group tickets of 5 or more are 50 EUR (around $61 in USD). I am speaking at this conference.

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Educational Technology Guy

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

One of the challenges associated with it is assessing and grading numerous students’ works. 5 Advantages of Using Plagiarism Detection Software Have you ever wondered what online plagiarism detection tools have to offer? Read further to find out their main benefits for blended teaching. Luckily, plagiarism detection software has it.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 13, 2018

Socrative is one of the most well known and widely used student response systems and for good reason. It is a robust, intuitive tool that makes forms and surveys easy to create for teachers and a snap to join for students (for example, no login required — just a class code). Polls, forms, and surveys. Warm up and Exit Tickets.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 27, 2021

One reason for the increase in emotional distress, researchers found, could be that 82 percent of women who stopped working said they could not afford to be out of work; meanwhile, 68 percent of women with reduced hours said they could not afford that shift.

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Battelle for Kids

AUGUST 16, 2015

Let's start with an assessment. A D It is important that teachers formatively assess students in the middle of lessons 2. A D Feedback to students is the most important part of the assessment process. A D Assessment is an important instructional tool. A D Assessment is an important instructional tool.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Welcome to a series of posts dedicated to 21st skills and assessment. I want to provide you some great reasons, ways, and resources to make this happen in your classroom, school, or district. Critical Thinking: Facilitating and Assessing the 21st Century Skills in Education. Self assessment can be powerful).

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User Generated Education

MAY 5, 2018

Institutionalized education has given assessment a bad reputation; often leaves a sour taste in the mouths of many teachers, students, and laypeople. This is primarily due to the testing movement, the push towards using student assessment in the form of tests as a measure of student, teacher, principal, and school accountability.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Welcome to a series of posts dedicated to 21st skills and assessment. It seems educators and industry are all talking about the importance of student collaboration, but how are we facilitating and assessing this skill. Collaboration: Facilitating and Assessing the 21st Century Skills in Education.

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ViewSonic Education

JANUARY 24, 2019

In the context of eLearning, the implementation of adaptive learning is usually performed by way of established algorithms and assessments, as opposed to the potentially arbitrary determinations of teachers themselves. As such, there’s no reason to expect a backslide anytime soon. Social Learning. Artificial Intelligence.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

The problem can be attributed to a variety of reasons; one is that many schools assume English learners cannot participate in rigorous STEM content learning before reaching a certain level of English proficiency—an assumption that research has disproven, according to the authors. Should more qualified ESL teachers be available to teach STEM?

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 13, 2019

Use Tools Promoting Simple Accountability and Formative Feedback As teachers, we need constant feedback on where student learning is and isn’t happening. Formative assessment is key. Fantastic, Fast Formative Assessment Tools is a helpful article that I wrote for Edutopia. This lets us adjust our teaching.

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Edsurge

MAY 1, 2020

We have Individualized Education Plans (IEP) for a reason, and we can’t forget that when we move online we also need a digital IEP where we create an individual program using the virtual environments. But teachers need support to learn skills like authentic online assessment.

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A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 22, 2017

The Rigor Relevance Framework provides schools and educators with a checks and balance system by providing a common language for all, creating a culture around a common vision, and establishing a critical lens through which to examine curriculum, instruction, and assessment. Research Research is prevalent in education for a reason.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

APRIL 25, 2017

5 Ideas to Incorporate Assessment in Project Based Learning… Grounded in the Standards. In my workshops, I emphasize that one of the building blocks of PBL (Project Based Learning) maintains that a project must be grounded in standards and assessment. In this post, I wish to speak to the idea of assessment in PBL.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

The gamification of learning became popular at first because students exhibited great aptitude and tolerance for learning new material when gameplaying, but the reason that popularity lasted is even more simple: Applying the characteristics of gameplaying to learning works ! 5 Resources to Gamify Student Writing. Breakout EDU.

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EdTechTeam

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Here are 5 of the many reasons why I love Hyperdocs: You are the designer. Here are 5 of the many reasons why I love Hyperdocs: You are the designer. Hyperdoc digital lesson design allow teachers the opportunity to develop, design, curate and create content and assessment that is authentic to your classroom and audience.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JANUARY 13, 2020

It is filled with thoughts on Creativity including “I can” statement(s), classroom attributes, and assessment rubrics. Creativity: Facilitating and Assessing the 21st Century Skills in Education. It is for this reason that education must nurture and facilitate Creativity in students. Self assessment can be powerful).

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Edsurge

MAY 10, 2021

As new approaches are tried, it is important to also analyze the reasons why children may be apprehensive about learning. All of this has contributed to too great a focus on finishing a set curriculum, then trying to assess all of it, versus meeting the needs of all students. Although math is already PreK-5, ELA is only PreK-2.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

It is filled with thoughts on Student Communication Skills including “I can” statement(s), classroom attributes, and assessment rubrics. Communication: Facilitating and Assessing the 21st Century Skills in Education. Ten Reasons to Promote Communications in the Classroom. Make assessment of Communication an ongoing effort.

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The Electric Educator

MARCH 15, 2019

I believe that formative and summative assessments have an appropriate role in the classroom and that it is our duty as educators to take reasonable action to maintain the integrity of these assessments. Google Forms is a tremendous tool for organizing and automating digital quizzes.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 25, 2016

Zearn is an online math curriculum for grades 1 through 5, with supplemental skills practice activities for kindergartners. Students will also find an independent practice and formative assessment activity rolled into one (called the Tower of Power) and a summative exit ticket. Grades : K-5. Rating : 4/5.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Tips are organized alphabetically by category, with the number of tips in parentheses after the category: Assessment (7). Programs (5). Category: ASSESSMENTS. There are lots of reasons why they don’t and I’m not here to judge. In many cases, more information is provided via weblink. Chromebooks (14). Differentiation (6).

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