Catlin Tucker

APRIL 22, 2024

Formative assessment is a process of gathering information about students’ understanding and their progress toward firm standards-aligned learning goals. Formative assessment helps teachers gauge how effective their instruction has been at helping students learn concepts and apply skills.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

MAY 13, 2021

As you strive to enhance your online teaching and optimize your students' learning experiences, rubrics are particularly helpful in this process. They, together with other EdTech resources we covered.read more

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Teacher Tech with Alice Keeler

APRIL 25, 2022

How to Make a Rubric with Multiple Choice Grid in Google Forms. Rubrics are great tools for evaluating student learning, Google Forms makes rubrics even better. The post How to Make a Rubric with Multiple Choice Grid in Google Forms appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JULY 28, 2021

Google Classroom has this handy feature which allows teachers to create and attach rubrics to assignments they share with students. Rubrics provide instructions and guiding criteria for assigned.read more.

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Neo LMS

MAY 16, 2017

Rote learning and studying just to get a good grade or to pass an exam are useless activities for students if all the information they learn will be forgotten sooner or later. Performance-based learning activities need performance based assessment. One great way of designing performance-based assessment is by using rubrics.

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A Principal's Reflections

MAY 5, 2024

As I engage with districts and schools regularly, they frequently inquire about ways to gauge the outcomes and efficacy of their innovative strategies, such as BYOD, 1:1, blended and personalized learning, classroom and school redesign, branding, makerspaces, and professional development.

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MiddleWeb

JANUARY 23, 2022

Teacher and coach Stephanie Farley discovered through trial and refinement that a good rubric is "a tool to provide feedback to kids about their progress toward mastery of a learning target." See her five backward planning steps and the resulting three-part writing rubric.

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MiddleWeb

MAY 2, 2022

The more students interact with the rubric, the more ownership they take over it, writes Megan Kelly. Once they feel empowered by the rubric, they can use it as a tool to accomplish their goals rather than a means of judgment, putting them on the same team as the teacher.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 5, 2024

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Last March I made my first custom GPT to assess project-based learning activities. It's not the final say in the classroom that it sure can be helpful when you have those big projects for project based learning. It's an app. It's a tool.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JULY 3, 2020

As you strive to enhance your online teaching and optimize your students' learning experiences, rubrics are particularly helpful in this process. They, together with other EdTech resources we covered.read more.

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Transform Your Classroom with Project-Based Learning and the Scientific Method We all know that hands-on exploration is the best way to engage students in the scientific method. Students learn about early ceramics as well as how to understand history and how it relates to science, as well. Research Quest sponsored this blog post.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 25, 2016

Rubrics are a well-accepted, even transformative tool for assessing student knowledge over a breadth of criteria. That changed with online rubrics. There are many online rubric creators, each with a little different twist on the norm. Rubistar is the gold standard of online rubric creators. When you’re done, submit.

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Catlin Tucker

APRIL 27, 2021

As a learning community, all members should play a role in providing thoughtful and substantive feedback. Peer Review Using Rubrics. Rubrics are like roadmaps. I believe rubrics should be provided at the start of any assignment, task, or project that will be assessed using a rubric.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 12, 2024

Because I love playing with tech and sharing! ;-) Certainly, after I use this technique today, another stormy day in South Georgia, I'll ponder and share with you what I learn and how I'll change. My rubric is this for each individual. Grading Rubric: 25 Points for contributing a well-researched and explained section.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

MAY 24, 2021

University of Wisconsin has this excellent collection of educational rubrics to use in a wide variety of educational activities. There are rubrics for managing and assessing online discussions,read more.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

As you strive to enhance your online teaching and optimize your students' learning experiences, rubrics are particularly helpful in this process. They, together with other EdTech resources we covered.read more

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Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 7, 2020

My doctoral research focused on the multidimensional motivational construct of teacher engagement in blended learning environments. Articulate Learning Objectives Articulating learning objectives creates clarity about what students are working toward in terms of understanding specific concepts and mastering specific skills.

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Self-assessment is a powerful strategy that encourages students to become more invested in their learning journeys. Self-assessment shifts the focus from a grade-centric perspective to a learning-centric one. It promotes ownership of learning, motivating students to be more engaged, active participants in their education.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

In today's post I am sharing with you an excellent rubric for science teachers. This document, which is available for free download, is shared by the University of Wisconsin. The rubric.read more

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Linways Technologies

DECEMBER 17, 2019

We have reached the third and final blog of our three-part series on Rubrics. The first blog was about getting to know what rubrics is , understanding the basics etc. The second blog covered implementation and development of a rubric for your classroom. Here’s a few pointers while designing a Rubric scale. Scale points.

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Linways Technologies

DECEMBER 12, 2019

6 steps to create a rubric for classrooms in the context of higher education. We discussed about the basics, definitions, and various types of rubrics in our previous blog; “ An Introduction to Rubrics for Higher Education ”. As we saw in that blog, a Rubric is a set of criteria/guidelines to assess and evaluate learning.

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Battelle for Kids

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

Driving Question: How can grade-appropriate rubrics foster communication? When it comes time to assess student performances as communicators, teacher adopters of Project-Based-Learning in the MIndQuest21 PBL model, follow McTighe and Wiggen's advice to start at the end. Their backwards planning helps them create guiding rubrics.

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Battelle for Kids

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

Driving Question: How can grade-appropriate rubrics foster communication? When it comes time to assess student performances as communicators, teacher adopters of Project-Based-Learning in the MIndQuest21 PBL model, follow McTighe and Wiggen's advice to start at the end. Their backwards planning helps them create guiding rubrics.

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Assessment Learning 100

Catlin Tucker

APRIL 22, 2020

Now, you and your PLC can learn together online at a time, place, and pace that works for you! Explore how blended learning can help you partner with students to reimagine learning and find a realistic work-life balance! Consider bringing Balance with Blended Learning into your professional learning community.

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Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

As I work with leadership teams, many are struggling to engage their teachers in professional learning this year. They are excited about the potential of leveraging this technology to create more dynamic, differentiated, and student-centered learning experiences. Just as with students, every teacher is unique. Co-lesson Design.

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Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Teachers Find their Role as Designer of Learning Experiences Cognitively Engaging. In my research on teacher engagement in blended learning environments, the most significant factor impacting cognitive engagement was a teacher’s work as a designer of learning experiences. Teachers as Architects of Learning Experiences.

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A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 20, 2021

We learn, and remember for that matter, from experience. They did not focus on grades and homework; instead, they focused on learning and creating experiences designed to enhance students’ learning and push our thinking. These do not reflect what has been learned. You also can’t go wrong with reading.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

APRIL 18, 2019

Quick Rubric is a new tool from the folks in Photos for Class. This is a new web based application that allows you to easily set up criterion-referenced rubrics to score your students performances.read more

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Edsurge

MARCH 18, 2024

Educators often find themselves exploring innovative approaches to enhance student learning, and one particularly creative pathway is integrating games and playfulness into the learning environment. It recognizes the importance of enjoyment, curiosity and exploration in facilitating effective learning experiences.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 12, 2019

Rubrics are teachers' Swissknives. They can be used for a variety of purposes to achieve different educational goals. For instance, you can use them to make your grading easier and quicker, assess.read more

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Students need space to try, make mistakes, and learn from those mistakes. If teachers grade the accuracy of review and practice, it creates a climate where mistakes are penalized instead of treated as opportunities to learn and grow. What did they learn about their skills from assessing their work?

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

MARCH 24, 2020

In today’s post we cover a closely related concept: rubrics. In yesterday’s post we talked about grading and we featured a number of apps to help teachers with their grading. These are.read more

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 12, 2024

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Turnitin

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Rubrics as a teaching and learning junction within assessment

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Neo LMS

APRIL 8, 2021

What we’ve learned working with institutions for over two decades is that plagiarism isn’t just an issue of cheating. This is where e-learning and edtech solutions come in. Bolstering academic integrity with e-learning solutions. The coronavirus pandemic put immense, sudden pressure on remote learning.

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Catlin Tucker

MARCH 11, 2018

I regularly work with teachers who like the idea of trying new teaching strategies, blended learning models, and technology tools, but they don’t have the time or energy to experiment. Unfortunately, that mentality robs students of opportunities to learn. A major barrier to innovation in the classroom is teacher exhaustion.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 13, 2023

School and district leaders have shared challenges that they are facing regarding the use of AI for teaching and learning. AI has the ability to expand what learning looks like within a particular discipline, introducing novel teaching strategies and applications for concepts. What Is AI Literacy?

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