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Assessment and Grading in Distance Learning – How to Get Better

The CoolCatTeacher

His research focuses on professional development and teacher change, program evaluation, assessment of student learning, grading and reporting, instructional effectiveness, and educational reform. Creating Successful Grading and Reporting Systems. Guskey, T. Get Set, Go! Bloomington, IL: Solution Tree. Guskey, T.

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

EdTech Magazine

To help administrators create effective, long-term programs, Baule outlined some best practices for technology program evaluation. 4 Key Evaluation Questions for K–12 Schools. To achieve sustainability, programs must have the appropriate support systems in place.

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Instructionally Useful Assessments for Ambitious Teaching

edWeb.net

While they are not necessarily instructionally useful, they are useful for program evaluation. So while teachers cannot use their data for instructional purposes, others within the education system can use their data for evaluative and monitoring purposes. Not all assessments are designed to inform instruction.

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How Blockchain Can Encourage Learning

Edsurge

Other emerging programs in the K12 space focus on the unique needs of hard-to-reach students. The program evaluates completion and consistency of student work, then releases digital funds accordingly. At the same time, these new learning pathways will likely face technical drawbacks.

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Fair Grades, Dropping Grades, Grading Versus Knowledge

The CoolCatTeacher

Advice From a Student Assessment Researcher About What is Fair and Unfair in Today's Grading Systems From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Thomas also talks about percentages and the flaws in the system that makes it hard for teachers to have consistent judgments on student work.

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OPINION: Black-white disparities in education correlate with teachers’ implicit biases, but it will take more than education reform to solve the issue

The Hechinger Report

The systemic oppression of Black men and women throughout U.S. Ultimately, the pro-white/anti-Black biases that reflect these systems may continue to seep into educators’ day-to-day actions in classrooms. Chin is a doctoral candidate in education policy and program evaluation at Harvard University.

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OPINION: A lack of diversity in research and analytics is not just unethical — it is dangerous

The Hechinger Report

As we reimagine policing, we must create better data systems and technology to inform our new policies. Sources of data about the depths of America’s systemic racism, and the lack of progress in addressing it, have multiplied, giving everyone a clearer sense of what’s really happening in our world.

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