Edsurge

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Assessments have the power to shape educational outcomes, but are we truly measuring what matters? Ensuring that assessments are fair, inclusive and meaningful for all students is a growing priority for educators. When discussing consensus and assessment goals, it’s important to consider who is at the table validating skills.

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Neo LMS

MAY 24, 2022

The consensus is that fostering student collaboration through group activities leads to more engaging and efficient learning. . However, collaborative learning is not about dividing students into groups and assigning tasks. How LMS groups enable student collaboration for better learning outcomes . What are LMS groups? .

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Iterating Toward Openness

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

In fact, if you think of generative AI as a collaborator in a group project, there’s actually quite a lot of existing practice and literature we can tap into for guidance about using generative AI effectively in the service of learning – both in how students learn and how instructors assess. Plan for each stage of group work.

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EdNews Daily

APRIL 22, 2024

That is the question we always hear from parents of children with an Autism Spectrum Diagnosis (ASD) when they come across our cognitive training and assessment programs. Autism Speaks characterizes ASD as, “a group of […] The post Using Cognitive Assessments and Cognitive Training for Autism first appeared on EdNews Daily.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Los Angeles, CA – PRP Group, a Hawke Media Company, and K20 Connect announced a strategic partnership to provide a comprehensive range of communication solutions aimed attackling challenges faced by educational institutions. Additional services include education strategy, governance, executive coaching, and education marketing.

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The Web20Classroom

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

This week we look at Formative Assessment, how it works and why it can be a powerful tool no matter what your teaching and learning looks like. Traditionally, teaching has been a one-way enterprise with the teacher dispelling knowledge for a period of time and then assessing what the students know either through a quiz or test.

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Catlin Tucker

APRIL 17, 2018

Teachers see my examples which show four separate groups and assume that all station rotations must have four groups. For example, I worked with a school in Southern California that dedicated Mondays to whole group instruction then Tuesday through Friday were rotations. Then the groups switch half way through the period.

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edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Watch the Recording Listen to the Podcast Educators want assessments to be instructionally useful and provide data they can use to help students learn, but not all assessments do that. So what do instructionally useful assessments look like? Designing instructionally useful assessments does not have to be difficult.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 3, 2024

A new research report from NWEA , a K-12 assessment and research organization, explores trends in science achievement since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Using MAP Growth assessment results for grades three to eight, NWEA researchers found a mixed story of academic recovery. .” This report analyzed data from 621 U.S.

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Edsurge

MAY 20, 2024

In the post-COVID pandemic educational setting, assessment offers ways to gain crucial insights into student thinking and learning and the areas requiring support for progress toward learning goals. The first step is to consider the idea of school culture and how it underpins the related concept of assessment culture.

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Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 29, 2018

In my book, Blended Learning in Action , I included a chapter on the Whole Group Rotation, which is a modern spin on the Lab Rotation. There are several benefits to using the Whole Group Rotation. Create time and space to work with individual students or small groups of students who need additional support, instruction, or scaffolding.

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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. What teachers can do to minimize cheating in online assessments. Read more: How to manage assessments in the blended classroom.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Does s/he work well in groups? Does s/he try to solve tech problems themselves before asking for teacher help? Does s/he use core classroom knowledge (i.e., writing conventions) in tech projects? Does s/he use the internet safely? Does s/he [whichever Common Core Standard is being pursued by the use of technology.

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Catlin Tucker

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

I invited Rabbi Elchanan Poupko , a middle school teacher, to write a guest blog and share a strategy for pairing and grouping students for after school work. Last week it dawned on me that I can assign homework to be completed in pairs and groups virtually. Growing up, once we left school at the end of the day, it was over.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Founded at Brookline High near Boston in 2009, the group now works with roughly 1,000 students from 14 nearby districts beginning in the summer after seventh grade to help them complete advanced math classes like calculus before they finish high school. When you see that, you need to throw certain student groups the life jacket,” she added.

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eSchool News

MAY 27, 2024

In a generative AI-rich world, we need to rethink how we view assessment. With generative AI now capable of handling lower-level cognitive tasks such as remembering and understanding, assessments need to challenge students to engage in higher-order thinking.

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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. Once these are in place, you devise the assessments — formative and summative — that will provide the evidence of achievement.

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MiddleWeb

JULY 30, 2024

We know group work can help middle schoolers learn, but what about their concerns? Laurie Hornik details four ways teachers can amplify the positive effects of group work and minimize the negative ones. The post 4 Tips to Support Group Work in Middle School first appeared on MiddleWeb. Who does what? How will they be graded?

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eSchool News

JULY 19, 2024

When districts have the right assessments in place, educators are better able to help measure student progress. This is why district leaders must have the right tools to weigh which assessments will best support students in their academic journeys. Why are we assessing our students?

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ViewSonic Education

MAY 28, 2019

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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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 29, 2020

It improves close reading, assesses understanding, is intuitive to roll out and use, and does much more than replace something you already have. If you use Quillionz, you have a lot of choices: Create short, focused formative assessments to determine the student level of understanding during a unit of inquiry. More about assessments.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 17, 2024

Some experts believe this new technology can have a positive impact on teaching and learning, while others fret it may weaken the teaching of critical thinking and increase bias by spreading misinformation about different groups and cultures. Does this all sound far-fetched?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 7, 2019

June 8th-10th: Discounted Group Professional Development. In this course, you will use a suite of digital tools to make that possible while addressing overarching concepts like digital citizenship, internet search and research, authentic assessment, digital publishing, and immersive keyboarding. Each $750 for up to 20 attendees.

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Part II: Transitioning from Whole Group to Small Group to Achieve Equity in Education The first blog in this series, “ Time Efficiency vs. Equity in Education ,” explored two major barriers teachers face when shifting from whole group, teacher-led, teacher-paced model to student-centered blended learning models.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Teacher Mike Roberts give five strategies that can help us with formative assessment AND classroom management. 5 Formative Assessment Strategies to Help with Classroom Management. Now, Mike, you have five ideas for us today, to do formative assessments. Formative Assessment Idea #1: High-Five Hands. And its free!

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 15, 2020

But after only a few minutes of conversation, it’s abundantly clear that Kyra Donovan and Dr. Julie Miles share a passion for learning and a strong conviction that assessment is essential to creating the best educational outcomes for students of all abilities. Classroom Solutions - Assessment. Connected Teaching and Learning.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

a market leader providing data warehousing, analytics, assessment and multi-tiered system of support (MTSS) solutions for K-12 schools. s assessment creation and analysis tools to personalize their virtual learning programs, which have proven to increase grades across core subjects by up to 56 percent in some districts. “Our

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 31, 2020

After a year of collaborative development, we are excited to announce the release of the Design, Assessment, and Implementation Principles for Educator Micro-credentials. These groups may use the principles differently. Issuers: Use these principles to design and assess your micro-credential content. Be selective!

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 1, 2020

Just having one student use it during large group while the others watch just doesn’t cut it in my opinion. Professional learning opportunities need to go beyond just how to use the device and associated software to include strategies that empower students to use it as a learning tool.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

95 Percent Group LLC, the trusted source for comprehensive, proven literacy solutions, launched 95 Phonics Core Program® Word Study, Grades 4 and 5. About 95 Percent Group Founded in 2005, 95 Percent Group is an education company whose mission is to help educators identify and address the needs of all readers.

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Marketplace K-12

MARCH 6, 2020

Advocacy groups and testing organizations urged the U.S. Department of Education to place an emphasis on equity in making awards through its innovative-assessment program. The post Innovative Assessment Pilots Should Support Equity, and Strive for Broad Impact, Groups Say appeared first on Market Brief.

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edWeb.net

JANUARY 12, 2023

We know assessment is a tool that helps teachers to inform personalized learning, differentiate instruction, accelerate learning, and ultimately support healthy learning mindsets. But all this happens only when assessments are valid and reliable. Or, more simply, when assessments are good. The Fundamental Assessment Challenge.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

He also explores how technology can aid in more accurate, unbiased, and motivational assessment methods. Technology can offer benefits in assessment by providing support for generating questions and allowing students to demonstrate their knowledge in various ways. It can help reduce the limitations of traditional assessments. ➔To

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Catlin Tucker

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

In my last blog post titled “ Part I: Maximize the Impact of Explicit Teaching with Blended Learning ,” I explored the benefits of shifting from explicit teaching as a whole class experience to a differentiated small group experience. to generate a 5-25 question multiple-choice pre-assessment. to generate. to generate.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

As most school systems have learned by now, assessing learning in a pandemic comes with all sorts of challenges, including but not limited to how (and where) to assess students and whether the data being gathered is even accurate. As assessment and curriculum leaders for two different districts, we’re still discovering the answers.

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EdNews Daily

MAY 17, 2017

Some point to the essential reductionism of the examination process , questioning the validity of the way that student learning is assessed. Others express concerns that traditional forms of assessment are measuring forms of intelligence and/or competencies that are no longer relevant. DigiExam: the future of assessment?

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American Consortium for Equity in Education

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

New digital platform pairs assessment with resources to diagnose skill gaps, group students and assign targeted instruction to move more students from intervention to reading success Today, 95 Percent Group LLC, the trusted source for proven literacy solutions, introduced 95 Keep Reading 95 Percent Group Introduces 95 Literacy Intervention System (..)

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