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Assessment and Grading in Distance Learning – How to Get Better

The CoolCatTeacher

Thomas Guskey shares insight on assessments From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Assessment expert Dr. Thomas Guskey reflects on the positives and negatives of assessments during distance learning. Subscribe to the Show Get Credit! Guskey, T. Get Set, Go!

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What Makes a Good Assessment?

The CoolCatTeacher

Assessment strategies that show what students have REALLY learned From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Assessments should cover what is taught and address important learning goals. Thomas Guskey reflects today on what makes a good assessment. Is preassessment fair?

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Instructionally Useful Assessments for Ambitious Teaching

edWeb.net

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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Empowering Community Perspectives in Evaluation Research

Digital Promise

What is equitable evaluation? As funders, government agencies, and service providers become increasingly focused on program evaluation results to make evidence-based decisions, evaluators and other researchers seek to answer this question. Why does equitable evaluation matter? .

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A Science Resource for Principals

A Principal's Reflections

I am extremely excited that my second book is now available through Solution Tree entitled What Principals Need to Know About Teaching and Learning Science. Assess your own science programs, and find tools to evaluate teachers'' preparedness for science instruction.

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Documenting and Reflecting on Learning

User Generated Education

The most powerful learning often happens when students self-monitor, or reflect. Students may not always be aware of what they are learning and experiencing. Documenting Learning. Silvia Tolisano sees documenting learning as: a process of intentional documenting serves a metacognitive purpose. a memory aid. a memory aid.

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CoSN 2019: How to Design an Effective K–12 Technology Evaluation Program

EdTech Magazine

Proper technology evaluation is a crucial element to digital innovation , said Baule, speaking at Consortium for School Networking’s 2019 annual conference. Assessments can be used to make programs more cost-effective, improve implementation, enable replication elsewhere in the district and justify more funding to administrators. .