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Standard-aligned Rubrics: Assessing Progress Toward Firm Goals While Allowing for Flexible Means

Catlin Tucker

How can we design meaningful choices that allow students to select a pathway that moves them toward the desired outcome? When we build student agency into a task or an assessment, students may produce various artifacts to demonstrate their learning. The learning objectives are what we want to assess progress toward.

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91% Proficiency: How One Teacher Transformed Reading Outcomes In Just One Year

The CoolCatTeacher

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Discover how educator Ezera Washington achieved a remarkable 91% proficiency rate in ELA assessments within a single academic year, raising her students test scores by 40%. How to use formative assessments to adapt instruction in real time.

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How LMS groups enable student collaboration for better learning outcomes

Neo LMS

Teachers are encouraged to promote collaboration in the classroom to achieve better learning outcomes. The benefits of student collaboration are backed by the social learning theory , which supports the idea that an interactive learning environment yields better student outcomes. Class groups . Team assignment groups .

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How to manage assessments in the blended classroom

Neo LMS

But one thing is certain: teachers need to consider the way they assess students in these specific conditions. Assessment is often associated with quizzes, exams, and summative assessments. However, summative assessments offer a limited perspective. There’s more to assessment that needs teachers’ attention.

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6 Strategies for Using Actionable Data to Impact Student Success

The trend to use actionable, comprehensive data—like attendance, assessments, grades, and more—is an effective way to give teachers the visibility they need to make a difference. Educators need effective tools to drive student success. Download the eBook today

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9 Ways to Use AI-Powered Quillionz to Assess Student Understanding

Ask a Tech Teacher

Here are three general guidelines: The app must improve outcomes. It improves close reading, assesses understanding, is intuitive to roll out and use, and does much more than replace something you already have. More about assessments. 12 Fresh Ways to Assess Student Learning. What is Quillionz.

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Adapting the 5E teaching model to remote classrooms

Neo LMS

A comprehensive teaching model helps educators identify strategies that motivate learners to discover new things, to explore a new field of knowledge (or continue exploring previous ones, but with more effective approaches), and at the same time, it provides a useful assessment system. Read more: Teacher tricks: Grading & assessment.

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Unlock the Power of Formative Assessment

Learn how a thoughtful formative assessment approach can help teachers better understand where students are in their learning, inform instruction, and, in turn, positively impact student learning outcomes. Get the eBook today!