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The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Becky Holden in episode 398 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Becky Holden talks about formative assessment in kindergarten. Blog: bpholden.wordpress.com. SPONSOR: Join a Free Personalized Learning Session with Me and TextHelp! Twitter: @ bholden86.

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Neo LMS

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

But one thing is certain: teachers need to consider the way they assess students in these specific conditions. Assessment is often associated with quizzes, exams, and summative assessments. However, summative assessments offer a limited perspective. There’s more to assessment that needs teachers’ attention.

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Neo LMS

NOVEMBER 26, 2020

As the name suggests, the proctoring feature ensures that assessments are carried out safely. Through this feature, you typically limit students’ access to assessments until the day of the exam. What teachers can do to minimize cheating in online assessments. Read more: How to manage assessments in the blended classroom.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

Summative vs formative assessment is the topic of our blog post today! Navigating the realm of educational assessments can feel like a tightrope walk. On one side, we have formative assessments—those ongoing checks that help us tweak our teaching and help students steer their learning.

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Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 30, 2019

If teachers assess their students’ knowledge before diving into an explanation, lesson, or unit, they might be surprised by the wealth of experience and information that students bring into the classroom. I realized I had not written a blog about these strategies. I had the pleasure of working with teachers in Texas this week.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 24, 2020

Curriculum-Based Assessment (CBA), often equated with Curriculum-Based Measurement (CBM), is any form of assessment that measures progress toward fulfillment of a stated curriculum. Once these are in place, you devise the assessments — formative and summative — that will provide the evidence of achievement.

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Catlin Tucker

APRIL 10, 2018

For the last two years, I have published several blogs detailing my journey away from traditional grading and assessment practices. Ultimately, I want students to take an active role not only in their learning but also in the assessment of their progress as a learner. The purpose of this shift was three-fold.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

DECEMBER 22, 2023

In this post, we delve into various strategies educators can use to assess students’ prior knowledge. From interactive classroom activities like quizzes and mind maps to reflective practices like learning logs and self-assessments, these methods offer a diverse range of ways to gauge what students know and how they think.

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Neo LMS

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

Assessments are the unloved orphan of schooling — no-one likes them. They are typically named as one of the most time-consuming activities for teachers, and debates continue on how effective current standards of assessment are in actually measuring what students know, vs. simply measuring teacher and school performance.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

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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EdTechTeacher

JUNE 25, 2020

The following post is an excerpt from EdTechTeacher CEO Tom Daccord’s blog, Leading Innovations in Schools: From Someday to Monday. With distance learning (or some form of blended/hybrid learning) a real possibility next school year, this shift in the student learning experience upends traditional assessment methods.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 21, 2017

Episode 37 of The 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Monica Burns, author of #FormativeTech , shares essential tools and tips for effective formative assessment. What are some of Monica’s favorite tools for formative assessment. Blog: [link].

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

A sponsored post by GradeCam From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. 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. This blog post is sponsored by GradeCam. Make assessment simple.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JULY 7, 2016

Assessment strategies that show what students have REALLY learned From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Assessments should cover what is taught and address important learning goals. Thomas Guskey reflects today on what makes a good assessment. Is preassessment fair?

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EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 16, 2018

Data Driven Instruction: How Student Data Guides Formative Assessments. As personalized learning becomes a more mainstream pedagogy in K–12 classrooms, teachers have started to adapt assessment processes to get a deeper look at student growth. . What Are Summative Assessments Vs. Formative Assessments. eli.zimmerman_9856.

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A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 7, 2024

Teachers can use it to help design lessons, build assessments, unpack standards, personalize , scaffold questions, develop hooks, provide relevant connections, and so many more possibilities. Gradescope -Seamlessly administer and grade all of your assessments, whether online or in class.

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Neo LMS

APRIL 5, 2018

Today we’ll look at grading and assessment, and how technology can assist teachers to streamline the process, as well as extract more valuable information on how students are tracking on their learning pathways. Teacher tricks: grading & assessment. Grading: a necessary evil? Grade for completion.

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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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Ditch That Textbook

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Gimkit is a game show for the classroom that makes assessments feel like fun! The post We don’t do tests: Using Gimkit for assessment appeared first on Ditch That Textbook. How can you use Gimkit in your class? Read on for ideas. in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Prior to teaching in Canada, she was […].

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Neo LMS

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

This will be the first blog in a series about NGLC, and today we will explore a NGLC grant recipient, Del Lago Academy, that has designed an innovative assessment model. Today we’ll explore a new approach to assessments. Next Generation Learning Assessments, a case study.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Mike Roberts on episode 250 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Teacher Mike Roberts give five strategies that can help us with formative assessment AND classroom management. 5 Formative Assessment Strategies to Help with Classroom Management.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 11, 2018

The #5 Show of Season 3 with Mike Roberts From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Teacher Mike Roberts give five strategies that can help us with formative assessment AND classroom management. We need more strategies than fist to five or thumbs up thumbs down. We’re counting them down!

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A Principal's Reflections

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

After learning about her Chemistry blog titled Avogadro Salad I asked her to share some insight on the importance of blogging from a student''s perspective. Sheninger giving me the opportunity to write a guest post on the importance of student blogging. When I post to my blog, I don’t write to impress a teacher.

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Edsurge

JULY 29, 2020

Even during the pandemic’s early days, some professors decided to toss out their grade books , figuring that high-stress assessments weren’t appropriate given the uncertain circumstances, which saw students sent away from campuses, sometimes without tech tools or internet access. when they come in, what do they know? What do they want to do?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 31, 2017

Assessing student learning used to be as simple as giving a test that consisted of multiple choice, True/False, short answer, and/or essay. Habits, templates, and routines are much easier than reinventing the assessment wheel but a tool that results in passionate students committed to lifelong learning gets my attention.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 18, 2017

Blogging is a popular tool used in education to not only practice writing, but reinforce collaboration, perspective taking, speaking/listening skills, and a lot more. Look at these reasons why teachers incorporate blogging across all academic topics and lesson plans: Collaboration. The roots of blogging lay in journaling.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 24, 2017

In my school, every teacher assesses writing. That’s not just for essays or reports but slideshows, blog posts, comments in forums, and more. Gather relevant information, assess the credibility and accuracy of each source, and integrate the information while avoiding plagiarism. That’s a separate skill.

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Ditch That Textbook

AUGUST 27, 2019

For a couple of years now I have been wondering if there is a better way to do summative assessments. Typically, in my district, we offer standard multiple-choice tests and possibly some writing options for our summative assessments but I didn’t feel like it was giving me a clear picture of what my students really […].

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 1, 2017

Episode 89 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Today Alan November @globalearner shares an assessment idea that is gaining steam. In today’s ThoughtLeader Thursday, start thinking about this new idea in assessment. Blog: [link].

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EdTechTeacher

JUNE 16, 2020

The following post is an excerpt from EdTechTeacher CEO Tom Daccord’s blog, Leading Innovations in Schools: From Someday to Monday. Continue reading this blog post on tomdaccord.com. The post Breaking from Tradition: Assessment During Remote Learning appeared first on EdTechTeacher.

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Adam Watson Edtech Elixirs

MAY 21, 2023

Today will be a short blog entry just to highlight some recent multimedia appearances. Back in January 2022, I wrote " From Good to Great, Initial to Ideal: A Way to Improve Exhibitions and Other Performance Assessments. Special thanks to Laurie Gagnon, the CompetencyWorks Director, for thinking of me and sharing my writing!

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The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 19, 2016

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. That’s because, formative assessment is in my toolkit and I’m empowered to poll the whole class with a click. Formative assessment is here. Equally important, the point of formative assessment is NOT to take another grade.

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edWeb.net

MARCH 6, 2022

Blog post by Stacey Pusey based on this edLeader Panel. Technology and assessments seem like natural partners—after all, the goal of assessments is to collect data on student progress. Thus, they also work on developing the assessments—from questions to timing to method. Start small and build on your success.

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Shake Up Learning

AUGUST 16, 2022

The post Emoji Assessments for Any Classroom – SULS0168 appeared first on Shake Up Learning. In this episode, I’m sharing ideas for using emojis in your informal and formative assessments. Use emojis to create a key to check for understanding, reflect, self-assess, peer-assess, or give feedback!

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 12, 2024

“The content presented in this blog is the result of my creative imagination and not intended for use, reproduction, or incorporation into any artificial intelligence training or machine learning systems without prior written consent from the author.” BTW, we’re always open to sponsors. We love sponsors!

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 18, 2015

Assessments have become a critical piece to education reform. To prepare students well for college and career means they must deeply learn the material and its application to their lives and future learning.That means assessing student knowledge authentically and accountably. Method: Formative assessment. Time: a few minutes.

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