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Formative Assessment is Key to Being Responsive

Catlin Tucker

Unlike summative assessment, which typically occurs at the end of a learning cycle to evaluate students’ overall progress toward the unit’s desired results, formative assessment is ongoing and designed to inform instruction, indicate areas where additional differentiation is needed, and guide learning.

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Why Are We Still Personalizing Learning If It’s Not Personal?

Edsurge

It makes perfect sense why there is a push for personalized learning in our schools. As an ideal, personalized learning aims to provide instructional experiences tailored to each learner’s preferences and interests, and at a pace appropriate to their needs. Why do you think people want to use the applications?”

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3 Things Educators and Edtech Suppliers Need to Talk About

Edsurge

When building up edtech resources for any learning environment, whether it be a K-12 school district, institution of higher education or professional development, there is a lot to consider. Before acquiring a new edtech system, tool or app, technology leaders need to consider privacy and security concerns.

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The 6 principles of mastery-based learning

Neo LMS

Mastery-based learning contains two distinct but complementary elements: the learning content and the skills and behaviors students demonstrate along the way. Teaching ensures performance, personalized learning , alternative learning pathways, self-paced learning, adjustment of content, and continuous support.

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Three Ways You Can Harness Personalized Learning to Promote a Growth Mindset

Edsurge

At Edmentum , we believe that growth mindset goes hand in hand with personalized learning, an increasingly popular approach that aims to put students in control of their own learning. We’ve put a lot of thought into how best to define personalized learning.

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One Standardized Tests Provider Looks to Gaming and Personalized Learning to Innovate Exams

Edsurge

Aligning tests with the ways students learn in the classroom is one of Gorin’s goals. Her research team has been evaluating ways to consider aspects of personalized learning and gaming into their tests, a project she describes as difficult but necessary. It makes those comparisons difficult.” Help or Hindrance?

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What Lessons Does Special Education Hold for Improving Personalized Learning?

MindShift

The profiles are part of the school’s embrace of personalized learning, which centers on the belief that a teacher lecturing at the front of a classroom is a bad fit for today’s students. Personalized learning has, in recent years, become one of the most talked-about trends in education. “Can