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Preparing Students for Online Assessments with Digital Literacy Skills

edWeb.net

Online assessments are becoming more common, and students who have strong digital literacy skills often score higher on them. Students who lack these skills may not be able to effectively demonstrate mastery of key concepts in math, reading or writing on online assessments. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING.

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6 reasons it’s important to create your own online assessments

eSchool News

Homegrown online assessments prove invaluable to one district. Assessments are critical to our efforts to improve instruction in K-12 education. At Hopewell Valley Regional School District (HVRSD), we began the transition to online assessment more than three years ago. Online assessment saves teachers’ time.

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21 Top Professional Development Topics For Teachers Now

The CoolCatTeacher

Online Assessment. Assessment must respect learners, provide actionable feedback, and motivate. Sometimes this feels like a Herculean task, but there are best practices to help all of us get better at assessment. When you take time to improve assessment, students can improve their learning.

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20 Ways to Personalize Your Learning This Summer

The CoolCatTeacher

Teacher Collaboration Building and being part of a Professional Learning Community (PLC) is an important strategy for leveling up your teaching. As schools work to make digital assessments more effective, now is a great time to learn about how to create and plan your own for the fall. See the course 10.

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Data Driven Instruction: How Student Data Guides Formative Assessments

EdTech Magazine

MORE FROM EDTECH: Read more about adaptive learning tools teachers are using in their classrooms! Teachers Use Online Forms to Gauge Student Learning. Kathy Dyer is manager of innovation and learning, professional learning at NWEA, a research-based nonprofit organization for student assessments.

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Strengthening Schools’ Writing Instruction Through the Use of Data

edWeb.net

Degner emphasized that data about writing should not just be used to inform teachers’ interactions with students, it should also play an important role in the ongoing professional learning and evaluation of instruction across grades and schools. He also works with edWeb.net to write articles on their professional learning edWebinars.

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Inside Tips for Successfully Implementing Online Assessments

edWeb.net

Whether schools are 1:1 or still relying on computer carts, the move to online assessments creates new needs from devices to professional development to data privacy policies. Have an instructional framework centered around curriculum design before talking about assessment. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING.