eSchool News

MAY 5, 2025

These false assumptions are holding back achievement for far too many students. So how can we help students achieve positive orientations to math education? Ill never forget a particular student in my Grade 8 math class. With the right instructional approach, everyone can learn and do math. But vision alone isnt enough.

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eSchool News

JUNE 25, 2025

BOSTON – In California, third- to fifth-grade students at 525 schools using Lexia Core5 Reading (Core5) from Lexia , a Cambium Learning Group brand, made significantly higher literacy gains compared to their peers in 4,362 schools that did not use the program. points higher than their peers at the non-Core5 schools. points and 3.04

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Elevate k12

JUNE 27, 2025

Schools across the country use various versions of quality assurance (walkthroughs, observations, evaluations, learning walks, etc.) After careful calibration, we found a strong correlation between CEA scores and student performance – meaning more engaging classrooms saw higher test scores and grades. Why Classroom Engagement Audits?

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Faculty Focus

JULY 8, 2025

We can provide the guidance students want, embed analysis and evaluation into our assignments to get at that all-important critical thinking, and nudge students toward integrity. One promising solution to the triple challenge of fostering critical thinking, meaningful learning, and academic integrity is to double down on transparency.

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k12 Digest

JUNE 23, 2025

This process showed me that students flourish not only when they achieve academically but when their mental health, emotional resilience, and relationships are nurtured. Rather than evaluating teachers in isolation, we reflect on student progress together and co-create solutions.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 8, 2025

We can provide the guidance students want, embed analysis and evaluation into our assignments to get at that all-important critical thinking, and nudge students toward integrity. One promising solution to the triple challenge of fostering critical thinking, meaningful learning, and academic integrity is to double down on transparency.

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Critical Thinking Assignments Academic Integrity Intelligence 98

k12 Digest

JUNE 24, 2025

A Commitment to Excellence Achieving international recognition isn’t just a milestone for ProEd Global School—it’s a promise to students and parents that they are receiving a world-class education. Success isn’t just about grades—it’s about finding your path and feeling confident in your journey,” says Llana.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 8, 2025

This is an essential consideration for departments when evaluating the factors provided to learners at each level of the belonging social ecological model. It is crucial for faculty to consider encouraging learners to journal at the end of a class session or to include journaling as a graded activity within their course.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 8, 2025

This is an essential consideration for departments when evaluating the factors provided to learners at each level of the belonging social ecological model. It is crucial for faculty to consider encouraging learners to journal at the end of a class session or to include journaling as a graded activity within their course.

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k12 Digest

MAY 28, 2025

This program helps students turn frustration into achievement by teaching them how to manage tasks effectively and approach learning with a problem-solving mindset. Recognizing that traditional assessments dont always reflect a students progress, AEF is introducing alternative evaluations like projects and skill-based assessments.

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Skills Schools Learning Students 137

Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 11, 2025

The pressure students feel to get high grades and the pressure for teachers to give them are both real. Students know there will be consequences if they are caught cheating, but they weigh them against the consequences of not achieving. The fact that AI detection tools are not foolproof (Fleckenstein et al.,

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Academic Integrity Learning Feedback Assignments 92

Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 28, 2025

Too many students don’t reach grade-level metrics and no one can agree on the cause. To summarize, while hybrid learning models offer promising solutions, their success hinges on thoughtful execution and consistent evaluation. Something broke in American education these past years.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 29, 2025

It is natural to view students as a means to ends such as low DFW rates , good student evaluations, tenure, or a paycheck. Grades, policies, and standards are employed as tools not just for learning but for controlling behavior and projecting authority. This perspective is not inherently bad.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 29, 2025

It is natural to view students as a means to ends such as low DFW rates , good student evaluations, tenure, or a paycheck. Grades, policies, and standards are employed as tools not just for learning but for controlling behavior and projecting authority. This perspective is not inherently bad.

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Teaching Motivation Learning Outcomes Instructors 70

Catlin Tucker

MAY 23, 2017

For the last two years, I’ve been moving farther away from conventional grades. I used to grade everything and dump hundreds of points into my digital gradebook over the course of a semester. When grades were due, my gradebook spit out a percentage for each student and that was the grade he/she received.

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Grades Assignments Skills English 420

Catlin Tucker

MARCH 8, 2015

Note: For educators interested in incorporating online discussions into their curriculum, my first book Blended Learning in Grades 4-12 provides resources and strategies to support this shift. After the conversation is over, they evaluate their facilitation skills. This form asks them to track the participation of their group members.

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Discussions Achievement Students Participation 419

eSchool News

DECEMBER 31, 2024

eighth-graders learned how to conduct internet-related research tasks, such as using the internet to find information and evaluating the reliability of information, from their teachers compared to students in other systems, on average. The average U.S. score for computational thinking was lower than the international average.

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Skills Grades Internet Participation 275

Catlin Tucker

APRIL 10, 2018

For the last two years, I have published several blogs detailing my journey away from traditional grading and assessment practices. I do not believe grades should happen to students. goals they have for the grading period and describe their action plan for achieving these goals. The purpose of this shift was three-fold.

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Students Grades Achievement Evaluation 420

Edsurge

JANUARY 20, 2020

Standards-based grading (SBG)—or competency-based grading—measures student progress relative to specific learning standards. This system of evaluation isolates the learning of content and mastery of skills from other factors, such as behavior.SBG takes on many different forms across the country.

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Grades Math Culture Achievement 198

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

23, 2022 – The Arizona Department of Education (ADE) selected Riverside Insight’s Cognitive Abilities Test ( CogAT ® ), the most respected and widely used test of student ability, to screen Grade 2 students state-wide for gifted programs. CogAT in Arizona Schools.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Writing is often difficult for educators to teach, challenging for students to do, and hard for administrators to monitor and evaluate. The software automates and accelerates many aspects of the writing-evaluation process, though each teacher’s grading and feedback also remain crucial parts of the process.

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Writing Distance Learning Evaluation Feedback 285

eSchool News

OCTOBER 23, 2023

In short, it has never been more critical to understand how to support students on the path to reading proficiency by the end of 3rd grade. The efficacy research at Reading Horizons evaluates the fidelity with which teachers use their programs and the outcomes students achieve when programs are implemented as designed.

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Edsurge

JULY 21, 2022

Seeing as how art has been such a big part of Irish history and culture, I was thinking about something artistic in some way, but how on earth do I grade something creative? Do I grade a student lower if she/he isn't able to write a song or create some kind of representative artistic element? What do I do?

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Assignments Grades History Ethics 191

eSchool News

JUNE 4, 2024

Key points: Critical thinking should not be separate from and on top of what teachers are doing in the classroom How to help students build critical success skills 3 lessons on perseverance from Stoffel the honey badger For more news on durable skills, visit eSN’s Innovative Teaching hub Achievement discrepancies among U.S.

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Critical Thinking Metacognitive Skills Knowledge Achievement 335

eSchool News

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Texthelp ®, a leading education technology company focused on helping learners of all ages and abilities improve their reading, writing, and math skills, today announced the launch of WriQ ®, a cloud-based writing assessment and achievement tool. “WriQ, has been designed with those needs in mind. .”

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Writing Gamification Motivation Evaluation 256

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

million students who completed the i-Ready Diagnostic for Reading and more than 3 million students who completed the i-Ready Diagnostic for Mathematics in Grades K–7 in 2021–2022 and in Grades 1–8 in 2022–2023. But for these same students, meeting Stretch Growth led to 89 percent achieving grade level.

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Learning Grades Curriculum Achievement 313

Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

The reality is that writing support complements classroom instruction and is beneficial for all writers, no matter their grades or the quality of their writing. Tutoring practices that include non-evaluative feedback and mindful approaches support writers’ growth holistically. I listen to writers’ voices and goals; I’m their audience.

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Evaluation Feedback Writing Languages 119

Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 12, 2019

The summer break gives us time to recharge and re-evaluate why we do this challenging work. What do we hope to achieve? What are you grading and why ? Do your grades evaluate knowledge, skills, compliance? Do you feel the time you invest in grading results in improved learning outcomes for students?

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Metacognitive Skills Schools Blended Learning Evaluation 367

eSchool News

OCTOBER 8, 2024

But there’s a similar learning disability that is holding back the achievement of students in mathematics, and it’s much less widely known. Public Schools are using this tool as part of a districtwide initiative called the DCPS Road to Equity & Achievement in Math (DREAM). Public Schools.

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Math Disabilities Learning Disabilities Achievement 314

eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2024

BALTIMORE, Maryland — IXL Learning , developer of personalized learning products used by millions of people globally, has unveiled the findings of a Johns Hopkins University study that affirms IXL Math’s effectiveness in boosting student achievement. The goal of the study was to determine IXL Math’s efficacy on students in grades 3-5.

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Math Achievement English Evaluation 257

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Typically, information presented to students is either qualitative or too broad, such as during parent-teacher conferences or through course grades. This idea is well understood in grading, but not as so in feedback to students. For instance, identifying consistent issues with higher-level Bloom’s questions can guide deeper study.

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Multiple Choice Questions Feedback Students History 274

eSchool News

JUNE 15, 2022

AI and ML are being used at every step of the student and educator journey to: Build statistical models of student knowledge, evaluating student achievement and instructor proficiency Streamline recruiting and reduce unconscious bias Create a digital “paper trail” for audit purposes Organize and optimize learning materials, and continually update them (..)

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Instructors Intelligence Evaluation Achievement 257

eSchool News

JANUARY 7, 2019

Preparing students for college and a career is the mission of every public K-12 school system, and this work begins by establishing a strong foundation for success in the early grades. Students in grades 1-8 take the same assessment at least four times a year, and sometimes five, depending on their grade level.

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Textbooks Math Knowledge Middle School 279

eSchool News

JANUARY 8, 2025

Together with professional development, S mithsonian Science for the Classroom , which is published by Carolina Biological, the leading school science supplier, was shown to raise science, math and reading performance for grades 3 to 5. Students in grades 3 through 5 were part of the study from rural and diverse North and South Carolina.

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Study Science Curriculum STEM 256

eSchool News

JUNE 5, 2023

It’s clear that when one person is both a manager or coach and an evaluator, conflicts of interest can arise. Yet, in the field of education, it’s common for teachers to both instruct their students and grade their academic achievements. Inaccurate grading.

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Teaching Coaching Students Evaluation 266

eSchool News

JUNE 18, 2024

Even lengthy evaluations by specialists have all the same limitations. 11 Research evidence lacking: Despite OG/MSL’s popularity and backing, research evidence of its efficacy for students with dyslexia beyond 3 rd grade is lacking, despite almost a century of application. Worse, some screeners do not even test students’ skills.

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Disabilities Learning Disabilities Evaluation Languages 282

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

The debate over using test scores in college admissions has oscillated between requiring them and questioning their necessity in favor of relying more on student grade point averages (GPAs). While high school GPAs provide valuable insight, grade inflation can mar their reliability.

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