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Dozens of Online Resources for Assessment

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Assessment of student work is a crucial aspect of learning. It helps students recognize important lesson goals and teachers gauge understanding. While multiple choice, short answer, and essays are still proven methods, there are many alternatives teachers can use for their particular student group.

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10 Ways Any Teacher Can (and Should) Use Technology

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Common Core tells us: New technologies have broadened and expanded the role that speaking and listening play in acquiring and sharing knowledge and have tightened their link to other forms of communication. You can use Google Forms or the Google calendar. Write them in Word or Google Docs. Try these ten tech uses.

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Get Common Core Ready: Achieve Dynamic Student-led Discussions

Catlin Tucker

Shifting to Students Designed, Facilitated & Assessed Discussions. Each night they design a dynamic discussion question and submit their question via the Google Form I have embedded in our class website. Note: For educators using Google Apps, click here to view a copy of the student-led facilitation form. Learning'

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Teacher tricks: Grading & assessment

Neo LMS

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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Cross Curricular Maker Education Activity That Addresses Common Core Standards

User Generated Education

It combines geometry concepts with a language arts activity while addressing several common core standards. Common Core State Standards Addressed. Assessment. Grade Level: Grades 6 through 8. Title: Geometry Meets Maker Education. Brief Description: Learners create a robot using geometric shapes and LEDs.

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OpenEd Launches Free Common Core Assessment Creation Tool

The 21st Century Principal

L os Gatos, CA – June 17, 2014 — OpenEd ( www.OpenEd.io ), the largest K-12 educational resource catalog, today announced a free tool designed to enable teachers to easily create assessments with the question types required by Common Core standards. OpenEd Assessment Creation Tool - www.OpenEd.io/#!

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How NOT to Assess Student Writing

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In my school, every teacher assesses writing. If I use Common Core as an example, here’s what these Standards call out as important about writing (slightly rephrased from the Anchor Standards): Write arguments to support claims in an analysis of substantive topics using valid reasoning and relevant and sufficient evidence.