Edsurge

MARCH 21, 2017

Over time, they have learned that some of the skills that are most critical for success are difficult to teach and even harder to assess. It’s not always as simple as purchasing a curriculum, or even modifying an existing set of assessments, because in many cases, these materials don’t yet exist.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 9, 2016

Since January 2016, we’ve showcased over 100 edtech “S’Cool Tools.” So, we’re bringing you the top ten S’Cool Tools that you, our readers, have loved the most in the first half of 2016. And the most popular S’Cool Tool so far in 2016 is… 1. Quick Rubric —Create and print assessment rubrics.

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EdTech Magazine

JUNE 21, 2018

percent by 2016. With the technology still in its emergent phase, teachers who are interested in these solutions may also find it difficult to gather definitive best practices. To get the most out of AI integration, Kaplan emphasizes the need for specific data sets , including grade books and assessments aligned to specific standards.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

AUGUST 17, 2015

I have often reflected on the idea of formative assessment. Second, it may be better stated as formative learning since I view assessment as a part of the overall learning experience. I am almost booked through August and fall dates for 2015 are now over 3/4 full and the 2016 calendar is beginning to fill. Hope to see you there!

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ViewSonic Education

APRIL 10, 2019

As it turns out, there’s no one definitive answer. Choose one definition and esports qualifies as a sport. ” At first glance, this definition seems to back the assertion that esports is not a sport. Most of which clearly bears no resemblance to most definitions of sport. What about competitive video gaming?

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Edsurge

MARCH 13, 2019

In 2016, our school began putting intentional effort into getting our students to value the learning process and to focus on growth rather than grades. With the addition of feedback and assessment literacy practices, my students now have the information and strategies necessary to engage in iterative learning.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

AUGUST 25, 2015

Welcome to post number two in a series devoted to formative learning (assessment). I am almost booked through August and fall dates for 2015 are now over 3/4 full and the 2016 calendar is beginning to fill. Part 2: Over 35 Formative Assessment Tools To Enhance Formative Learning Opportunities. Check out my Booking Page.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

Updated: February 5, 2016. The lead GAFE administrators should definitely use this resource. Assessment. Online Assessment with Google Forms – this document gives walk throughs for Flubaroo and other tools to help you assess using Google Forms. Flubaroo – help for grading online assessments.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

The company last raised $30 million in a Series C round led by Naspers in 2016, and a $10 million Series B back in 2012. Through regular exercises, assessments and certificates, the Business platform allows students to learn new skills and update employers with their coding progress.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Founded in 1986, Renaissance combines decades of experience in assessments with personalized instruction and analytics solutions delivering teachers and administrators the tools to plan, lessons to teach, and the resources to motivate students to learn. NEW YORK, SAN FRANCISCO, WISCONSIN RAPIDS, Wis. About Renaissance. About The Rise Funds.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Her desire to incentivize and reward students for their reading diligence was born out of a deep concern for some alarming English Language Arts (ELA) numbers: In 2018, when she became the principal, the lowest-performing 25% of her 3rd, 4th, and 5th graders reached only 46% of their expected yearly growth based on statewide assessments. “I

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

AUGUST 11, 2023

Progress Monitoring : Regularly assessing students’ performance to determine whether interventions are effective or if adjustments need to be made. This can be done through weekly or bi-weekly assessments, observations, or other data collection methods. This helps in identifying students who may need additional supports.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

In the county where Texas State University sits, for instance, more people have voted early this year than cast ballots in the county during the entire 2016 election cycle. “So That's definitely been the experience for Jeremi Surrey, a professor of public affairs and history at the University of Texas at Austin. “It

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Waterford

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

The true definition of self-care is actually very broad. Use this self-care assessment from NAMI to help you discover which elements of self-care you’re lacking and pinpoint how to improve.[6]. PLoS One, June 2016, 11(6). Self-care is any action that you do to improve your health. Retrieved from digitalpto.com: [link].

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 30, 2017

The goal is to not give readers a list of words and definitions to memorize, but rather to get them familiar with words and their place in language and knowledge. The goal is to not give readers a list of words and definitions to memorize, but rather to get them familiar with words and their place in language and knowledge.

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The Principal of Change

JANUARY 12, 2021

I read the following in a post from my friend Katie Martin, titled “Do Your Assessments Improve Learning?”: ”: Assessment can (and should) be about growing and learning and instead of being punitive or used as a gotcha moment- I am looking at you “pop quiz”. Provided maximum flexibility in the assessments.

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Learning with 'e's

JANUARY 5, 2017

My learning definitions series #learningis (13 posts) proved to be popular with a combined hit count of almost 50,000 views. It kicked off after I watched a video of some teachers at Geelong College in Australia, talking about their definitions of learning. The series attracted a combined total of over 21,000 views.

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Edsurge

MARCH 7, 2017

How a school defines student success influences its design and impacts critical aspects such as professional learning, curriculum, assessment and school culture. EdSurge takes full responsibility for all editorial content. Eighth graders who are taking a capstone course on U.S. Those two hours weren’t enough.

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Edsurge

MAY 30, 2017

In 2012, Maine passed a law requiring that by 2018 all students would graduate with a proficiency-based diploma; the law then went through a major update in 2015-2016. You can find the official definition here. To me, proficiency-based education is about drawing lines in the sand of learning.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 20, 2019

If equity has anything to do with fairness and impartiality, as its dictionary definition would suggest, then we must pay attention to the practices that we know children need to be successful in school and in life. And this gap widens throughout a child’s school experience.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 19, 2018

As a result, India cracked down on all online learning, with a moratorium on accredited universities offering online degrees in December of 2016. Some reports suggested students didn’t learn much of anything, and were certainly not prepared to tackle real-world problems.

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The Principal of Change

APRIL 5, 2017

” In reality, are you looking at what the gentleman in the video is creating, or are you assessing his knowledge? If you were to google the definition of literacy, you will find it simply states the “ability to read and write” in many forms. April 29, 2016 How do you see “literacy”?

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The Principal of Change

FEBRUARY 19, 2017

In my last post, “Common Assessments” vs “Common Understandings” , I was reminded of how powerful comments are on a blog, and why blogging is a hugely powerful tool for not only sharing your learning, but learning from others. 2 What I think we mean is that we are looking for “common understandings”, not “common assessments”.

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The Principal of Change

APRIL 30, 2017

It is definitely convenient, but does this lead to better learning in the classroom? It trickles into how we do everything, whether that is assessment practices, leadership, professional learning, how we use technology, and so many other areas, but ultimately in teaching and learning.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2017

For many of our students, there isn’t a singular, definitive reason why they came to McClarin. When an exam is designed to assess a wide set of skills and content, and success is calculated by one total score, students walk away identifying as a letter, number or percentage. It felt good, but it wasn’t enough.

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100mentors

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Their oral and written responses may not always reflect their level of understanding, but whatever they deliver should be assessed as it is. Introducing such testimonials would definitely add value and impact to their assignment. And here comes learners’ most famous argument for claiming marks: “You know that’s what I meant…”.

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Reading By Example

DECEMBER 7, 2016

In addition, discussion boards and assessment tools are available for teachers and students in most systems. This definition and description of your typical LMS leads to an important question: Who is the learning management system for? The teacher can assess learning online. The excuse “My dog ate my homework” ceases to exist.

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Reading By Example

DECEMBER 7, 2016

In addition, discussion boards and assessment tools are available for teachers and students in most systems. This definition and description of your typical LMS leads to an important question: Who is the learning management system for? The teacher can assess learning online. The excuse “My dog ate my homework” ceases to exist.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2017

education technology startups ebbed in 2016, dipping roughly 30 percent in deal volume and value from the previous year. 2016 US Edtech Funding Totals $1 Billion. There’s a lot of creativity around targeted vocational programs that deliver a definite salary uplift and expand people’s life options,” he says. Lessons From K-12.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 25, 2016

If you’re an educator, chances are you’ve heard the phrase “data-driven instruction,” where you’re asked to constantly assess, analyze, and adjust how you teach students. That's understandable given that how kids performed on state and national assessments can impact funding. How do you collect it?

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 12, 2020

The definition of asynchronous learning helps us understand the need for asynchronous access to this content, especially when this access is not through a dated university learning management system, but something more authentic to the student, maybe even accessed on their own mobile devices. Open Curriculum. ’, Dustin Swanger, Ed.D

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

“We do not believe that there is yet definitive proof that personalized learning works better than other models.”­. — At Navigator charter school Hollister Prep, 85 percent of Latino students scored proficient in English Language Arts (ELA) on the state assessment, compared to 37 percent of Latino students in the rest of the district.

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Edsurge

MAY 25, 2017

Online education is definitely one of the challenges, but it's also an opportunity,” says Glasper, who before taking his current job was a long-time chancellor of the Maricopa Community College system, one of the largest community college districts in the nation. Definitely. How do we assess that?

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

There’s definitely a larger deficit in academics than there has been in the past,” Iturralde said. “I I have a lot of students that are below grade level, and so with this year being so heavily impacted with students coming in below grade level, we have to assess the students and what they need.”. Reading Remedies.

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Reading By Example

JULY 30, 2019

So there has to be a way to describe equity and determine at what level it has been achieved in schools, beyond only a definition. In Shane Safir’s book The Listening Leader , she describes three sets of data that educators can look to when assessing their school’s journey toward a collective capacity for achieving equity (p.

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100mentors

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Their oral and written responses may not always reflect their level of understanding, but whatever they deliver should be assessed as it is. Introducing such testimonials would definitely add value and impact to their assignment. And here comes students’ most famous argument for claiming marks: “ You know that’s what I meant… ”.

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Learning Strategy Assessment Course 60

The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 11, 2017

Today’s Sponsor: WriQ from Texthelp is a new FREE Add-on for Google Docs that helps teachers easily assess student writing and track progress over time by automatically scoring students’ spelling, punctuation, and grammar errors. They can access these different assessments (tasks for them to do) in each G-suite, and they can complete that.

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