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10 Ways to Use Screencasting for Formative Assessment

The CoolCatTeacher

Screencastify and Screencasting for Formative Assessment (a sponsored post) From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Screencasting is a useful assessment tool. While I use it for my video tutorials, I also have my students make their own screencasts to help me assess their progress.

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Simple Steps for Research Paper Writing and the Importance of Samples

Ask a Tech Teacher

Simple Steps for Research Paper Writing and the Importance of Samples Research papers are academic writings that offer rigorous analysis, evaluation, assessment, and interpretation of a specific topic. The primary purpose of encouraging students to jot down a research paper is to assess their writing and research skills.

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Communication: Facilitating and Assessing the 21st Century Skills in Education

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

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. Make assessment of Communication an ongoing effort. Self assessment can be powerful).

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3 Months, 3 Micro-credentials, 1 Teacher: Building Performance Assessment Capacity in Georgia

Digital Promise

In that capacity, she is participating—along with eighty or so of her Henry County colleagues—in the Assessment for Learning micro-credential project , led by the Center for Collaborative Education (CCE). In June, she submitted evidence for and earned all the micro-credentials in the full stack , “Leading a Performance Assessment Community.”

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Troubleshooting the Flipped Classroom: Dealing with Unprepared Students

Catlin Tucker

The engagement strategy becomes the students’ documentation of learning and their “entrance ticket” into the actual lesson. Using a digital platform to assess student learning makes it possible to quickly identify what students know or understand and surface that data quickly.

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The Power of Claim-Evidence-Question

Catlin Tucker

Thinking routines offer more than just a structured pathway for students to delve into their thinking and explore the content deeply; they also serve as a window into their cognitive processes, offering invaluable formative assessment data. This phase underscores the significance of critical evaluation, research skills, and reasoning.

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Creativity: Facilitating and Assessing the 21st Century Skills in Education

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

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. Make assessment of Creativity an ongoing effort. While the teacher can assess, have students assess themselves.