eSchool News

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Efficacy research is a proven method of evaluating instructional delivery decisions so teachers, parents, administrators, and students understand what practices and resources connect directly with gains in literacy achievement. A collaborative environment emphasizes peer-to-peer work.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 16, 2025

Preventing students from using AI can often limit their abilities to achieve and feel good about themselves, Clark said. Teachers should ensure students are using AI as a thought partner and for instant feedback, not simply to obtain answers to questions. Understanding the differences between Claude, Gemini, ChatGPT, etc.,

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EdTech Magazine

APRIL 4, 2019

CoSN 2019: How to Design an Effective K–12 Technology Evaluation Program. Schools must have robust evaluation if they want to continue to find success in technology integration, said Steven Baule, assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin-Superior, and former superintendent for Muncie (Ind.) eli.zimmerman_9856.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

In contrast, medical school can overwhelm students with detailed information, like longitudinal reports on multiple-choice question performance throughout the year. This raises an essential question: What kind of feedback information is genuinely useful for students?

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 17, 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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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Tutoring practices that include non-evaluative feedback and mindful approaches support writers’ growth holistically. I don’t start from a deficit approach, but rather, I listen to writers’ concerns and accompany them through their academic journey with a non-evaluative and mindful approach.

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eSchool News

APRIL 15, 2024

Matt Prusiecki, the return on investment has been “tremendous” because “the entire district team is more reflective on practice, we’ve increased teacher retention, and most importantly, raised student achievement by improving the quality of instruction.” It creates a positive environment that is more focused on coaching than evaluation.

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Catlin Tucker

JUNE 18, 2023

However, I often hear the question, “Can I use the flipped classroom if I don’t assign homework?” One way to achieve this is by rotating students from a pre-video activity into the video lesson and ending with a post-video activity. Simply showing an instructional video is not enough.

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Catlin Tucker

MAY 23, 2017

Ironically, students are rarely asked to evaluate their work and reflect on what is says about their learning. In John Hattie’s work, he states that “self-reported grades comes out at the top of all influences [on student achievement]. This makes no sense to me. Do students know what their grades will be?

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Each of us go to school with a backpack filled with very different experiences that we draw from to master content, create meaning, work in groups, share our voice, and achieve our potential.” . “Yet, if there is one takeaway from the burgeoning learning sciences research, it is that no two of us learn in exactly the same way.

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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. ” Visit our research page for more information about IXL’s studies.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Here’s how it works: a user enters a question they want the group to consider. They then send the question directly to group members or get the ideas started by listing a few options for the group to consider. Conceptboard’s template is just as straightforward as the evaluation model.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Edtech evaluation is currently the Wild West. As long as the data aligns with the edtech company’s goals, third-party evaluations can be the strongest selling point for solution providers. There are three main reasons why this occurs: Data isn’t always reliable. They don’t live and breathe the struggles educators face every day.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Invite questions to drive the next steps in learning. Authentic,hands-on experiments, like this one, will often generate questions from students. And, when students realize their questions are taken seriously and that they are invited to create testable questions, they will become more engaged in the learning process.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

As a result, there can be uneasiness in raising the question. That discomfort may be compounded by the fact that some questions can be interpreted as critical judgment of those who dedicate their lives to our students. I keep a running list of questions that we might pose much more frequently in reform-minded conversations.

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Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

It gives students a sense of direction, helping them understand what they are striving to achieve and how their current performance is positioned in relation to those objectives. The first question Hattie poses is deceptively simple yet profoundly significant: Where am I going? The second question is, How am I going there?

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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. In conventional K-12 education, teachers are expected to wear many hats.

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Edsurge

MARCH 4, 2020

MBE could also be used as an anchor in discussing instruction, assessment, equity, social emotional learning, teacher evaluation and more. FCPS teacher specialists on a break from MBE training in April 2019 (Credit: Margaret Lee) We framed our work around four questions, through the lens of research: What should we keep doing?

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eSchool News

JANUARY 11, 2024

Processes for understanding the educational benefit of a particular IEP vary widely, and in many cases include educators printing out IEPs, collecting service records, achievement and behavioral data, and lining them up side-by-side to evaluate whether students made meaningful gains towards their goals. How do we compare to last year?

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 7, 2016

Are employees evaluated using bubble-in tests to prove they know the ins and outs of their job? The questions sound a bit silly until you realize too often that’s what students take away from their education. Students can also earn extra money through academic achievements and good behavior.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 1, 2025

In my more recent students evaluations, students say they are less stressed, they are more motivated, and they understand assignment expectations at the beginning of the semester. What a good question. In evaluations, students say they are less stressed, they are more motivated, and they understand assignment expectations better.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Before adding IXL Math to the state’s grant list, the Action Center and Utah Education Policy Center (UEPC) rigorously evaluated the platform to determine its efficacy. The UEPC’s study shows that IXL can be a reliable partner in Utah educators’ efforts toward recovering learning, differentiating instruction and boosting achievement in math.”

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Tutoring practices that include non-evaluative feedback and mindful approaches support writers’ growth holistically. I don’t start from a deficit approach, but rather, I listen to writers’ concerns and accompany them through their academic journey with a non-evaluative and mindful approach.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 2, 2017

Ultimately, it helps to begin by asking three questions: Why am I exploring a digital learning ecosystem for my students? As with any complex undertaking, it helps to first take a step back, evaluate motivations from stakeholders and set flexible goals, which will continue to evolve over time. Increased student agency and achievement?

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

The key to successfully navigating this maelstrom of emotions is to start small, break the challenge down into achievable tasks, and begin with actions that will have the most impact. If you’re unsure where to begin, ask the chatbot for help brainstorming lesson ideas and then ask follow-up questions until you get something you can use.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 8, 2016

As schools begin to invest in competency-based education (CBE) and higher ed institutions set up competency-based programs, two of the big questions often unanswered become “is their focus on education or on learning ?” Competencies are the starting point for defining learning pathways that lead to well-defined achievements.

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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). Standardized tests offer an objective measure to balance GPA discrepancies, ensuring a fairer evaluation process.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Three school districts across the country will begin data-driven experiments to answer that question and more as part of a research project led by Littera Education. The districts will use the Littera TMS to design, deliver, and evaluate tutoring programs tailored to their students’ needs. Grand Forks Public Schools (N.D.),

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 31, 2024

The study raises questions about the technological savvy of students who have been dubbed digital natives, Commissioner Carr said. ICILS is sponsored by the IEA (International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement) and is conducted in the United States by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES).

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eSchool News

JULY 26, 2021

According to the National Association of Colleges and Employers and Achieve , critical thinking and problem-solving skills are two key areas in preparing students for college and career readiness. To ensure students are prepared for life beyond high school, educators must proactively incorporate the 4 Cs throughout curriculum.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

As schools become more focused on continuous improvement and the development of growth mindsets, educators continue to evaluate how they can assess their students' learning to better inform instructional practices. We need to re-evaluate our goals and how we meet them. They can see how many minutes students spend on any question.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Under the MIZ program, there are 20 districts implementing IXL to boost achievement for students in pre-K through 8th grade. IXL’s adaptive assessment, the Real-Time Diagnostic , evaluates students across every concept in the K-12 curriculum, generating an accurate portrait of students’ knowledge levels in math and language arts.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 5, 2024

Susan Uram Director of Educational Technology at Rockford Public Schools But effectively evaluating edtech products is no small feat. As part of the Benchmark project, ISTE worked with six public school districts across the United States to explore problems of practice related to assessment evaluation and selection within their districts.

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eSchool News

JUNE 16, 2022

Each lesson begins by posing a question commonly asked by young students, followed by a series of brief videos and prompts to guide class discussion. A SIIA CODiE Award win is a prestigious honor, following rigorous reviews by expert judges including educators and administrators whose evaluations determined the finalists.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 27, 2024

After the major shifts of the Covid era, the question still remains: What’s next? Some of these tasks might include replying to parent emails without emotional interference, creating differentiated assignments with ease and expertise, and creating interactive lesson components and higher order questions that probe thinking patterns.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Here are a few questions to consider when researching and evaluating AI programs for the classroom. It should also be proven by research to measurably improve students’ learning, growth, and achievement. Does the AI think like a student? Education is all about making connections with students.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 11, 2021

It is historically one of the most vexing problems in education that there is a tradeoff between scale and achievable quality of instruction : As class sizes grow larger, the ability of a teacher to provide the type of personalized guidance shown by learning science research to be most effective is diminished.

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