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Formative Assessment is Key to Being Responsive

Catlin Tucker

We must collect formative assessment data in each lesson to understand our students’ progress and respond to their needs. Formative assessment is a process of gathering information about students’ understanding and their progress toward firm standards-aligned learning goals. Check for understanding.

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Formative Assessment: Collecting Data & Designing Differentiated Learning Experiences in Class or Online

Catlin Tucker

The more physical distance between the teacher and the learner, the more challenging it is to collect formative assessment data consistently. The more formative assessment data a teacher collects, the more effective they’ll be in differentiating learning experiences to meet a diverse group of students’ needs.

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How To Effectively Use Educational Assessment Tools

ViewSonic Education

Quick Take: Overview of educational assessment tools focusing on Summative assessment and Formative assessment. A comparison of summative assessment and formative assessment. The main components of being an educator are preparation, teaching, and assessment. How to explain summative assessment.

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How to minimize cheating in online assessments

Neo LMS

In comparison, seventy-five percent of high school students admit to doing the same. With online classes and remote learning taking over classrooms, at least temporarily, teachers worry about rampant cheating. Read more: The benefits of an empathic mindset approach to classroom management. during the night. during the day.

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Education renovation: Transforming classrooms and districts through an HGTV lens

eSchool News

The process: Assessment, design, and execution The home renovation process offers a surprisingly apt metaphor for rethinking classroom instruction and district policies. In conducting instructional audits and policy assessments, we found significant gaps in engagement, equity, and outcomes.

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HMH Launches New Generative AI-Powered Classroom Engagement Tool to Support Whole Class Instruction

eSchool News

This new functionality makes it easier for educators to use proven instructional strategies like “turn and talk ,” a common teaching method where peers discuss relevant classroom content with one another. “At HMH, we are listening to educators, and we know where the pain points lie with whole-class instruction.

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11 Ways to Add #Inquiry to Your Class

Ask a Tech Teacher

You had lesson plans to get through, standards to assess, meetings to attend, parents to council, and state-wide tests that students must do well on. Until a colleague mentioned the inquiry-based classroom, where teaching’s goal was not the solution to a problem but the path followed. Inquiry-based classrooms share knowledge.