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Texthelp ®, a leading education technology company focused on helping learners of all ages and abilities improve their reading, writing, and math skills, today announced the launch of WriQ ®, a cloud-based writing assessment and achievement tool. MORE
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. There are many types of assessments in GradeCam including handwritten numeric. One of the advantages of GradeCam is the quick feedback that you get for your assessments. MORE
Jeff sits down with Vikram to discuss why EduSight is simply the best standards-based portfolio to help teachers document student achievement. Edusight is a standards-based portfolio to help teachers document student learning with grades, notes, photos, and audio/video comments. Use Edusight on the web to manage assessment, grading, and standards seamlessly (includes Common Core, Next Generation Science Standards, and state standards). MORE
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. Educators should be clear about why they include assessment in their instruction; be strategic and intentional in its use. Documenting Learning. MORE
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. In this blog post, I’ll share how I use screencasting to assess student work. Why Screencasting Is a Useful Formative Assessment Tool. MORE
The misconception and lack of understanding about assessment is one hole I fell into often as a teacher and observe in other educators as we unintentionally do what was done to us. Back in my day…assessment was the end result. The teacher would assess at the end of the unit or topic and, based on my grade, I either got it or didn’t get it but we moved on anyway. So…that leaves me thinking about what experiences we want our students to have with assessment? MORE
Before every major assessment I like to facilitate review activities in class. Assessment Chemistry Design Google Invention Megacognition Technology Tutorials VideosThat being said, I can only handle the Kahoot theme song so much, play so many games of "Chemistry Jeopardy" , or figure out another variation of Periodic Table Battleship to satisfy review of the whatever skills we are learning that topic. MORE
The Record of Thinking is the documentation of that learning: the “Making Of” the movie. Students who have been diligent about documenting their process up to this point really see the benefit of this work, and the final narrative is truly a metacognitive piece grounded in actual evidence. Students who haven’t kept up with documentation do poorly, regardless of how the final project turned out. Blog Douglas Kiang Featured assessment Daily Genius Maker Space PBL MORE
Designed to end the speculation and provide guidance for educators as they address learning gaps, the report is based on the results of more than five million student assessments. MORE
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. Provides an avenue for teacher to listen and assess learning. Make assessment of collaboration an ongoing effort. Self assessment can be powerful). MORE
One of these tools is the Digital Practice Assessment (DPA). During this reflective process, it is expected that school leadership teams collect and document aligned evidence for each item. Step 5 : On-going professional learning is implemented and progress monitoring through the online Pillars of Digital Leadership Questionnaire is documented to determine the efficacy of the digital transformation. MORE
The challenge for me was to design an “assessment” that was meaningful. I had tried everything from the traditional book report style assessment to more creative movie trailers, but I didn’t feel like they accomplished what I wanted from a silent sustained reading assessment. Why couldn’t our SSR assessment be more like that? So, I decided to design a book club style chat assessment for our silent sustained reading. MORE
Innovative assessments are getting a fair amount of attention in K-12 policy circles as a handful of states gear up for the federal innovative assessment pilots and ESSA implementation gets underway. Exciting an opportunity as that may be for the edu-wonks among us, state-sanctioned innovation, by and large, takes an inside-out form: existing teachers, leaders, and assessment experts are coming together to craft new approaches to gauging academic proficiency. MORE
The more physical distance between the teacher and the learner, the more challenging it is to collect formative assessment data consistently. How can we effectively weave formative assessment into the design and facilitation of learning regardless of the teaching and learning landscape? #1 MORE
HearALL™ Assessment Recorder ( click here ) Product Description : Hear way beyond! Authentically assess students’ skills and participation in small groups. Enter to WIN a FREE HearALL Assessment Recorder a Rafflecopter giveaway Luna™ Interactive Projection Camera ( click here ) Product Description : Now Mac compatible! Demonstrate manipulatives in action, student work, real-life objects, book pages and more — at a fraction of the cost of a "document" camera! MORE
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. Self assessment can be powerful). Make Creativity part of your formative and summative assessment. Welcome to my first post of the New Year! MORE
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. My co-teachers and I designed an ongoing self-assessment document that we share with our students each grading period to guide their reflections on their progress and skill development. MORE
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. While the teacher can assess, have students assess themselves. Self assessment can be powerful). I have been mentioning rubrics and assessment tools through out this post. MORE
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.” This led to a creation of goals for the school that promote the use of performance assessments. MORE
Why Teachers Should Digitally Document Evidence Of Learning contributed by Shelley Hudson For early elementary teachers, measuring student learning is especially challenging. Early elementary teachers assess student learning through 1:1 conversations, student artwork and more. The post Why Teachers Should Digitally Document Evidence Of Learning appeared first on TeachThought. MORE
Reshan Richards Formative Assessment To assess your students'' ongoing awareness of what and how they''re learning, consider using cameras, screenshots, video, and screencasting as everyday classroom tools MORE
Socrative is an App (or you can use a Web browser) in which quizzes, tests and assessments can be easily created by educators and subsequently completed by students. How Do I Create My First Assessment? 6) When you are happy with your assessment, save and you will return to the home page. Tagged: App , assessment , education , ipad , learning , lessons , plenary , Socrative. education App assessment ipad learning lessons plenary Socrative MORE
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. Teachers often have difficulty seeing much less documenting the progress made by a struggling student. MORE
When exploring teaching practice through a 21st century classroom lens, many questions about assessment practices arise. How can teachers use available technology to make assessment practices more efficient? How can teachers reduce the amount of pen to paper documentation and instead progress into a paperless assessment program? How can teachers streamline their documentation so that it is organized and manageable? MORE
This week we take a look at Document Cameras. So I modified the system slightly into what I now call Shared Assessment. We''re all familiar with the gradual release of responsibility as a model of instruction , but it''s an equally valuable model for providing feedback and assessment in general. Here''s where the Document Camera comes into play! Person #1 now revises their work based on agreed upon next steps via the Document Camera for all to see. MORE
Documenting Learning. Silvia Tolisano sees documenting learning as: a process of intentional documenting serves a metacognitive purpose. being open for feedback ( Documenting FOR Learning ). Blogging as a Form of Documenting Learning and Reflection. I find blogging to be a one of the most powerful ways to documenting learning and engage in reflective practice. I am a strong proponent of encouraging learners of all ages to engage in reflective practice. MORE
60 Non-Threatening Formative Assessment Techniques. These can be formal–formative or summative assessment, multiple choice, short answer, essay, matching, and related iconic “test” forms. We recently shared the Inconvenient Truths of Assessment , and one of the takeaways from that post by Terry Heick could be that rather focusing on the design of assessment, we could instead focus on a climate of assessment.–a MORE
In Learning in the Making , I discuss assessment as follows: Educators should be clear about how and why they include assessment in their instruction. Assessment should be about informing learners about their performance so increased learning and future improvements can result. Their last major assignment was to create methods for assessing STE(AM) learning. My goal was for the students, who are classroom teachers, to develop assessment strategies based on above. MORE
Students can use an Assessing my Assessment sheet to reflect on their growth and identify areas for improvement. “How you climb a mountain is more important than reaching the top.” – Yvon Chouinard. Digital portfolios are one of the most powerful ways my students take ownership of their learning and reflect on their learning journeys. Digital portfolios help students set, track, and achieve their academic learning goals. MORE
As teachers prepare for classes to resume this fall, McGraw Hill today announced the launch of McGraw Hill Rise , a new reading and math supplement with embedded assessment and personalization to help educators identify and address individual learning gaps for each student. MORE
Socrative is an App (or you can use a Web browser) in which quizzes, tests and assessments can be easily created by educators and subsequently completed by students. How Do I Create My First Assessment? 6) When you are happy with your assessment, save and you will return to the home page. Tagged: App , assessment , education , ipad , learning , lessons , plenary , Socrative. education App assessment ipad learning lessons plenary Socrative MORE
Before every major assessment I like to facilitate review activities in class. Video TL Advisor Blog blog Assessment CreativeThat being said, I can only handle the Kahoot theme song so much, play so many games of "Chemistry Jeopardy" , or figure out another variation of Periodic Table Battleship to satisfy review of the whatever skills we are learning that topic. Not that there is anything wrong with the above games, or the myriad of variations. MORE
The post 4 Tech Tools for Photo Documentation appeared first on Brilliant or Insane. Assessment Technology edtechBrilliant or Insane. I fell in love with photography the year we took our kids to Washington D.C. and Philadelphia. My daughter was ten: not quite young enough to tuck into a stroller for an afternoon nap when she grew tired and not quite old enough to maintain the same level of enthusiasm her father had for the […]. MORE
As someone who writes for a living, I was especially interested in one of the suggestions for improving nonfiction writing learning and assessment: investing in programs that connect students with “authentic” audiences, like career professional or community residents, to read and offer feedback on their work. Sometimes conversations about “real-world” assessments devolve into obsessing over carefully constructed simulations or elaborate word problems. MORE
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. Policy documents. What teachers can do to minimize cheating in online assessments. MORE
Project Zero’s Agency by Design team is developing documentation and assessment tools for maker-centered learning and “maker empowerment”, which they see as the key to ensuring that the maker movement secures a long-term place in education and pedagogy. Specifically, we now see developing qualitative assessment strategies as the next frontier of research for maker-centered learning. The challenge of documenting and assessing maker empowerment is a tricky one. MORE
Teacher Reboot Camp
AUGUST 3, 2017
Students can use an Assessing my Assessment sheet to reflect on their growth and identify areas for improvement. “How you climb a mountain is more important than reaching the top.” – Yvon Chouinard. Digital portfolios are one of the most powerful ways my students take ownership of their learning and reflect on their learning journeys. Digital portfolios help students set, track, and achieve their academic learning goals.
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. My co-teachers and I designed an ongoing self-assessment document that we share with our students each grading period to guide their reflections on their progress and skill development.
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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. Policy documents. What teachers can do to minimize cheating in online assessments.
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. Teachers often have difficulty seeing much less documenting the progress made by a struggling student.
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. Educators should be clear about why they include assessment in their instruction; be strategic and intentional in its use. Documenting Learning.
User Generated Education
MAY 21, 2017
Documenting Learning. Silvia Tolisano sees documenting learning as: a process of intentional documenting serves a metacognitive purpose. being open for feedback ( Documenting FOR Learning ). Blogging as a Form of Documenting Learning and Reflection. I find blogging to be a one of the most powerful ways to documenting learning and engage in reflective practice. I am a strong proponent of encouraging learners of all ages to engage in reflective practice.
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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. In this blog post, I’ll share how I use screencasting to assess student work. Why Screencasting Is a Useful Formative Assessment Tool.
Brilliant or Insane
MAY 19, 2015
The post 4 Tech Tools for Photo Documentation appeared first on Brilliant or Insane. Assessment Technology edtechBrilliant or Insane. I fell in love with photography the year we took our kids to Washington D.C. and Philadelphia. My daughter was ten: not quite young enough to tuck into a stroller for an afternoon nap when she grew tired and not quite old enough to maintain the same level of enthusiasm her father had for the […].
Catlin Tucker
MARCH 1, 2021
The more physical distance between the teacher and the learner, the more challenging it is to collect formative assessment data consistently. How can we effectively weave formative assessment into the design and facilitation of learning regardless of the teaching and learning landscape? #1
Educator Innovator
SEPTEMBER 23, 2016
Project Zero’s Agency by Design team is developing documentation and assessment tools for maker-centered learning and “maker empowerment”, which they see as the key to ensuring that the maker movement secures a long-term place in education and pedagogy. Specifically, we now see developing qualitative assessment strategies as the next frontier of research for maker-centered learning. The challenge of documenting and assessing maker empowerment is a tricky one.
Kleinspiration
MARCH 20, 2012
HearALL™ Assessment Recorder ( click here ) Product Description : Hear way beyond! Authentically assess students’ skills and participation in small groups. Enter to WIN a FREE HearALL Assessment Recorder a Rafflecopter giveaway Luna™ Interactive Projection Camera ( click here ) Product Description : Now Mac compatible! Demonstrate manipulatives in action, student work, real-life objects, book pages and more — at a fraction of the cost of a "document" camera!
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TeachThought - Learn better.
MARCH 13, 2018
Why Teachers Should Digitally Document Evidence Of Learning contributed by Shelley Hudson For early elementary teachers, measuring student learning is especially challenging. Early elementary teachers assess student learning through 1:1 conversations, student artwork and more. The post Why Teachers Should Digitally Document Evidence Of Learning appeared first on TeachThought.
Catlin Tucker
APRIL 8, 2015
The challenge for me was to design an “assessment” that was meaningful. I had tried everything from the traditional book report style assessment to more creative movie trailers, but I didn’t feel like they accomplished what I wanted from a silent sustained reading assessment. Why couldn’t our SSR assessment be more like that? So, I decided to design a book club style chat assessment for our silent sustained reading.
Inquire and Inspire
SEPTEMBER 27, 2014
When exploring teaching practice through a 21st century classroom lens, many questions about assessment practices arise. How can teachers use available technology to make assessment practices more efficient? How can teachers reduce the amount of pen to paper documentation and instead progress into a paperless assessment program? How can teachers streamline their documentation so that it is organized and manageable?
Edutopia
MARCH 10, 2015
Reshan Richards Formative Assessment To assess your students'' ongoing awareness of what and how they''re learning, consider using cameras, screenshots, video, and screencasting as everyday classroom tools
The Christensen Institute
NOVEMBER 1, 2018
Innovative assessments are getting a fair amount of attention in K-12 policy circles as a handful of states gear up for the federal innovative assessment pilots and ESSA implementation gets underway. Exciting an opportunity as that may be for the edu-wonks among us, state-sanctioned innovation, by and large, takes an inside-out form: existing teachers, leaders, and assessment experts are coming together to craft new approaches to gauging academic proficiency.
User Generated Education
DECEMBER 8, 2019
In Learning in the Making , I discuss assessment as follows: Educators should be clear about how and why they include assessment in their instruction. Assessment should be about informing learners about their performance so increased learning and future improvements can result. Their last major assignment was to create methods for assessing STE(AM) learning. My goal was for the students, who are classroom teachers, to develop assessment strategies based on above.
The Christensen Institute
MARCH 21, 2019
As someone who writes for a living, I was especially interested in one of the suggestions for improving nonfiction writing learning and assessment: investing in programs that connect students with “authentic” audiences, like career professional or community residents, to read and offer feedback on their work. Sometimes conversations about “real-world” assessments devolve into obsessing over carefully constructed simulations or elaborate word problems.
eSchool News
OCTOBER 5, 2020
Texthelp ®, a leading education technology company focused on helping learners of all ages and abilities improve their reading, writing, and math skills, today announced the launch of WriQ ®, a cloud-based writing assessment and achievement tool.
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. Make assessment of Communication an ongoing effort. While the teacher can assess, have students assess themselves. Self assessment can be powerful). I have been mentioning rubrics and assessment tools through out this post.
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. Provides an avenue for teacher to listen and assess learning. Make assessment of collaboration an ongoing effort. Self assessment can be powerful).
Inquire and Inspire
MAY 26, 2014
This week we take a look at Document Cameras. So I modified the system slightly into what I now call Shared Assessment. We''re all familiar with the gradual release of responsibility as a model of instruction , but it''s an equally valuable model for providing feedback and assessment in general. Here''s where the Document Camera comes into play! Person #1 now revises their work based on agreed upon next steps via the Document Camera for all to see.
Reading By Example
JULY 14, 2020
The misconception and lack of understanding about assessment is one hole I fell into often as a teacher and observe in other educators as we unintentionally do what was done to us. Back in my day…assessment was the end result. The teacher would assess at the end of the unit or topic and, based on my grade, I either got it or didn’t get it but we moved on anyway. So…that leaves me thinking about what experiences we want our students to have with assessment?
Cycles of Learning
SEPTEMBER 24, 2018
Before every major assessment I like to facilitate review activities in class. Assessment Chemistry Design Google Invention Megacognition Technology Tutorials VideosThat being said, I can only handle the Kahoot theme song so much, play so many games of "Chemistry Jeopardy" , or figure out another variation of Periodic Table Battleship to satisfy review of the whatever skills we are learning that topic.
TeachThought - Learn better.
MARCH 16, 2015
60 Non-Threatening Formative Assessment Techniques. These can be formal–formative or summative assessment, multiple choice, short answer, essay, matching, and related iconic “test” forms. We recently shared the Inconvenient Truths of Assessment , and one of the takeaways from that post by Terry Heick could be that rather focusing on the design of assessment, we could instead focus on a climate of assessment.–a
EdTechTeacher
JUNE 14, 2016
The Record of Thinking is the documentation of that learning: the “Making Of” the movie. Students who have been diligent about documenting their process up to this point really see the benefit of this work, and the final narrative is truly a metacognitive piece grounded in actual evidence. Students who haven’t kept up with documentation do poorly, regardless of how the final project turned out. Blog Douglas Kiang Featured assessment Daily Genius Maker Space PBL
A Principal's Reflections
OCTOBER 29, 2017
One of these tools is the Digital Practice Assessment (DPA). During this reflective process, it is expected that school leadership teams collect and document aligned evidence for each item. Step 5 : On-going professional learning is implemented and progress monitoring through the online Pillars of Digital Leadership Questionnaire is documented to determine the efficacy of the digital transformation.
TeacherCast
SEPTEMBER 9, 2015
Jeff sits down with Vikram to discuss why EduSight is simply the best standards-based portfolio to help teachers document student achievement. Edusight is a standards-based portfolio to help teachers document student learning with grades, notes, photos, and audio/video comments. Use Edusight on the web to manage assessment, grading, and standards seamlessly (includes Common Core, Next Generation Science Standards, and state standards).
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. Make assessment of Creativity an ongoing effort. While the teacher can assess, have students assess themselves. Self assessment can be powerful). Make Creativity part of your formative and summative assessment. Welcome to my first post of the New Year!
techlearning
SEPTEMBER 25, 2018
Before every major assessment I like to facilitate review activities in class. Video TL Advisor Blog blog Assessment CreativeThat being said, I can only handle the Kahoot theme song so much, play so many games of "Chemistry Jeopardy" , or figure out another variation of Periodic Table Battleship to satisfy review of the whatever skills we are learning that topic. Not that there is anything wrong with the above games, or the myriad of variations.
eSchool News
AUGUST 19, 2020
As teachers prepare for classes to resume this fall, McGraw Hill today announced the launch of McGraw Hill Rise , a new reading and math supplement with embedded assessment and personalization to help educators identify and address individual learning gaps for each student.
Digital Promise
OCTOBER 30, 2018
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.” This led to a creation of goals for the school that promote the use of performance assessments.
EdTech4Beginners
APRIL 19, 2016
Socrative is an App (or you can use a Web browser) in which quizzes, tests and assessments can be easily created by educators and subsequently completed by students. How Do I Create My First Assessment? 6) When you are happy with your assessment, save and you will return to the home page. Tagged: App , assessment , education , ipad , learning , lessons , plenary , Socrative. education App assessment ipad learning lessons plenary Socrative
EdTech4Beginners
APRIL 19, 2016
Socrative is an App (or you can use a Web browser) in which quizzes, tests and assessments can be easily created by educators and subsequently completed by students. How Do I Create My First Assessment? 6) When you are happy with your assessment, save and you will return to the home page. Tagged: App , assessment , education , ipad , learning , lessons , plenary , Socrative. education App assessment ipad learning lessons plenary Socrative
eSchool News
DECEMBER 1, 2020
Designed to end the speculation and provide guidance for educators as they address learning gaps, the report is based on the results of more than five million student assessments.
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