Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

However, assessment is more than just grading and is often misunderstood. In order to provide useful information to instructors and students about student achievement, it must be understood that student assessment is more than just a grade because it should link student performance to specific learning objectives.

Fairness 122

Fairness Instructors Feedback Evaluation 122

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 6, 2022

What is wrong with grades? Instructors and students have different ideas about what grades are supposed to measure: Should they be about how much students have learned? Grades can perpetuate bias , inequalities, and injustice, reduce student motivation and willingness to challenge themselves , and add enormous administrative burdens.

Grades 122

Grades Instructors Motivation Metacognitive Skills 122

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 29, 2024

The Assignment: Exploring Leadership Through Superheroes In this assignment, students are asked to compare five leadership styles—autocratic, democratic, laissez-faire (sometimes called free-rein style), transactional, and transformational—with the leadership qualities of at least three superheroes.

Assignments 111

Assignments Teaching Ethics Fairness 111

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

However, assessment is more than just grading and is often misunderstood. In order to provide useful information to instructors and students about student achievement, it must be understood that student assessment is more than just a grade because it should link student performance to specific learning objectives.

Fairness 109

Fairness Instructors Feedback Evaluation 109

Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

As part of the recent rush to comment on ChatGPT, this article is not weighing in on the ongoing ethical debates, nor is it offering a comprehensive how-to guide, but rather simply sharing one professor’s initial use of the AI tool and how it successfully accomplished the learning objectives and expectations for one course assignment.

Assignments 124

Assignments History Art Ethics 124

Edsurge

MAY 17, 2017

For Scott Looney, there’d be no hesitating: He would have every school switch from traditional grading to competency-based evaluations. Whether they call it competency-, mastery-, or standards-based grading, the movement aims to improve students outcomes sans As, Bs, and Cs. They just make sense.”. The MTC is not alone in its mission.

Grades 136

Grades Evaluation Feedback Communication 136

eSchool News

AUGUST 12, 2024

While my colleague was asked to lead a grade-level team, I was tapped to head up the school’s Black History Month programming. And while these assignments were mostly enjoyable, they didn’t prepare me for the next steps on my leadership journey. At some point, though, our experiences at the same Florida elementary school diverged.

Schools 330

Schools Elementary School Elementary School Fairness 330

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 29, 2024

The Assignment: Exploring Leadership Through Superheroes In this assignment, students are asked to compare five leadership styles—autocratic, democratic, laissez-faire (sometimes called free-rein style), transactional, and transformational—with the leadership qualities of at least three superheroes.

Assignments 92

Assignments Teaching Ethics Fairness 92

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 6, 2022

What is wrong with grades? Instructors and students have different ideas about what grades are supposed to measure: Should they be about how much students have learned? Grades can perpetuate bias , inequalities, and injustice, reduce student motivation and willingness to challenge themselves , and add enormous administrative burdens.

Grades 98

Grades Instructors Motivation Metacognitive Skills 98

Edsurge

MAY 6, 2024

Standards-based grading is an educational assessment approach that focuses on evaluating students’ mastery of specific learning objectives. Grades are assigned based on a student’s understanding and proficiency of essential skills and knowledge outlined in predetermined standards.

Grades 102

Grades Fairness Evaluation Assignments 102

Edsurge

AUGUST 1, 2024

It’s a fair question given the widespread concern in the field about students using AI to write their essays or bots to do their homework for them. She imagines teachers might use AI in the same way to create assignments or lesson plans. “No Should they disclose that to students? These are totally different things,” he says. “As

Teaching 217

Teaching Education Ethics Instructors 217

Teacher Mood

JUNE 1, 2025

When the Grading Stack Becomes Too Much As the classroom quiets and the last student heads out the door, you finally take a breathonly to be met with the overwhelming sight of papers piled high, waiting for your attention. If youve ever wondered whether you really have to grade everything the answer is no. But Isnt That Cheating?

Students 52

Students Peer Review Math Assignments 52

Edsurge

JANUARY 17, 2022

The original version of this article appeared in Grading for Growth. I gave only feedback on student work, with no grades on any assignment. In that whole last paragraph, notice that I didn’t say anything about grades. And again—none of this had anything to do with grades. But What About Grades?

Feedback 186

Feedback Fairness Grades Assignments 186

Teachers Pay Teachers

MAY 21, 2025

Fun Experiments for Kindergarten and 1st Grade Stir up some wiggles and wide-eyed wonder through inquiry-based learning where elementary students will marvel their way to big ideas and critical thinking. Simple 2nd and 3rd Grade Science Experiments Grab your goggles; it’s time to explore.

Elementary School 75

Elementary School Elementary School Science Schools 75

Edsurge

MAY 10, 2018

Yet more professors seem to be turning to the format these days, as teaching loads and class sizes grow, since multiple-choice quizzes and tests can be easily graded by machines. But she and her colleague argue that there is a way to assign project-based or other rich assessments without spending late nights holding a red pen.

Testing 157

Testing Multiple Choice Questions Quizzes Assignments 157

Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 2019

On the software side, several new grading functions have been added to Microsoft Teams, the company’s version of a learning management system. One new feature, Grade Sync, will automatically send grades from assignments done in Teams to the school’s student information system (SIS).

Curriculum 155

Curriculum Plagiarism Assignments Fairness 155

Edsurge

APRIL 5, 2018

At my suburban school in South Carolina, the term is used liberally to describe students who may fail the End of Course Tests, students who might not get promoted to the next grade level and those at risk of dropping out of school. Some are unmotivated to do an assignment without direct guidance.

Learning 161

Learning Assignments Students Motivation 161

eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2021

There’s a critical need for more funding for schools, including fair pay for teachers. This allows them to retain information faster, advances curriculum, and lessens the burden on teachers by alleviating the labor-intensive grading and response process. Collin Earnst, CEO, LearnWell.

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Distance Learning Hybrid Learning Accessibility Culture 362

Edsurge

JUNE 7, 2017

It started with an underwhelming science fair—the type we’re all familiar with: students standing next to handmade posters, listlessly describing their projects, usually alone. Not your typical science fair . Want to shake up your local science fair? Some tips from the pros 1. Make it cheap.

Art 161

Art Languages Language STEM 161

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

One of the critical goals of my role as a content teacher is to adapt curriculum, to design lessons and assignments to meet standards that are tailored to each learner, and to develop assessments that fairly evaluate each learner’s progress. Just the recognition of this counter narrative has changed my teaching.

English 201

English Languages Language Teachers 201

Edsurge

OCTOBER 15, 2018

boast broadband access these days, and plenty of assignments require the internet, when students head home, their connections are not quite in lockstep with schools. Alternatively, schools can assign a SmartSpot to a student or household for up to a year. While most schools in the U.S. schools to high-speed broadband nears completion.

Local Government 163

Local Government Internet Assignments Schools 163

Edsurge

DECEMBER 10, 2018

“I think every child needs to have some kind of reading intervention,” says Ballone, a former seventh-grade English teacher. “It If it means we need to give students material one, two or three grade levels above what they are reading in order for them to progress, that’s what we do.” By grade five, they were reading on grade level.

English 161

English Reading Achievement Grades 161

eSchool News

JULY 20, 2016

Each session includes expert video screencasts, classroom video clips, readings and resources, and assignments that will help participants create a strong foundation of communication within the classroom. that would use a technology-based language development and literacy program to English language learners (ELLs) in grades K-6.Approximately

Teaching 177

Teaching Exams Disabilities Learning 177

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Since he now had the opportunity to manage his own time, Ratnam had the chance to drive his children to school and after-school activities, working with their school’s PTA, volunteering for the science fair and helping with homework every evening. In class, Ratnam’s son had a resource teacher assigned to support him. TechCrunch.

Languages 167

Languages Language Assignments Reading 167

Faculty Focus

JULY 30, 2023

Similar to traditional classroom-based courses, one challenge students in an asynchronous online program face is fully understanding and meeting the requirements of assignments. To help students succeed or acquire mastery in important skill sets, some online instructors offer a second chance to redo assignments and improve their grades.

Student Engagement 98

Student Engagement Instructors Fairness Assignments 98

Edsurge

MAY 23, 2017

Today, a teacher can see if a student is not doing an assignment or struggling to complete a worksheet. That means if a teacher assigns a Quizlet and a Smithsonian video to her students, he or she can then see how long students watched each one. But these resemble the old paper gradebooks of the past, displaying only grades.

Blended Learning 146

Blended Learning Assignments Learning Outcomes Quizzes 146

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

He sees that few of the students in the course have bothered to do the interactive exercises they were assigned for homework. He jokes that he usually uses an app on his smartphone to randomly assign groups, since all human decisions involve bias. He doesn’t sweat it, though, since he has a plan to get everyone back on track.

Textbooks 129

Textbooks Lecturing Beliefs Assignments 129

Edsurge

MARCH 13, 2019

I was in my fifth year of teaching at Forest Ridge, an independent all-girls school serving students in grades 5-12 in Bellevue, Wash., With anywhere from 50-150 pieces of work to grade at a time, narrative feedback was taking days for each assignment, and half the students were tossing their feedback in the recycling bin without reading it.

Feedback 167

Feedback Culture Science Teaching 167

Faculty Focus

JULY 30, 2023

Similar to traditional classroom-based courses, one challenge students in an asynchronous online program face is fully understanding and meeting the requirements of assignments. To help students succeed or acquire mastery in important skill sets, some online instructors offer a second chance to redo assignments and improve their grades.

Student Engagement 92

Student Engagement Instructors Fairness Assignments 92

Edsurge

JUNE 27, 2017

Quizzes on Google Forms now allow for a bit more customization: Teachers can offer partial credit for answers choices while auto-grading multiple choice questions. Harrell, the CEO of the company, the new app was designed to “enable teachers to assign homework that’s fun.” The app will be ready to use starting in September.

Multiple Choice Questions 154

Multiple Choice Questions Assignments Quizzes Game-Based Learning 154

Edsurge

MARCH 6, 2020

The email, from provost Mark Richards and the chair of the faculty senate, Joseph Janes, said it is up to each professor to determine whether classes can move online, or whether there is enough student work already to assign a fair letter grade at the end of the quarter.

Exams 126

Exams Fairness Assignments Testing 126

Edsurge

JUNE 12, 2020

Aliza Strassman , a second-grade general education teacher, leveraged the educational technology specialist at her school and her knowledge of best practices under Universal Design for Learning (UDL, a framework for designing inclusive classrooms) to create a technology-based approach to creative writing, publishing and peer feedback.

Accessibility 218

Accessibility Distance Learning Learning Students 218

Edsurge

MAY 14, 2019

In 1980, 60 percent of 12th graders said they read a book, newspaper or magazine every day that wasn’t assigned for school, one study found. When he was in about third grade, we entered into what amounted to a multi-year power struggle over what he chose to read. Eighth grade was the year of choice. It’s not that they can’t.

Reading 167

Reading Essay Assignments Fairness 167

eSchool News

APRIL 6, 2022

With these resources, teachers can create and customize turnkey assignments and track progress in real-time through the platform’s Quiz tool. Student Learning Activities that feature absorbing student-led activities for every grade level.

Student Engagement 130

Student Engagement Activities eLearning Curriculum 130

Edsurge

JUNE 4, 2024

We're working on them being able to assign AI-based activities. based on the rubric for the assignment, I'd recommend Sal get a B plus on the assignment. I mean, he took calculus in seventh grade. And those have always been the kind of problems that computers have supported students fairly nimbly in solving.”

Intelligence 201

Intelligence Teaching Assistants Laboratory Assignments 201

Edsurge

AUGUST 9, 2023

Sometimes we’re assigned to a student who has an IEP outlining specific goals, and other times we’re assigned to a classroom to assist the teacher and support students. Some years, we follow a student to the next grade level, while other years, we are assigned to a new student with an entirely different set of needs.

Assignments 141

Assignments Learning Disabilities Disabilities Fairness 141

Edsurge

DECEMBER 6, 2023

These improvised or newly created tabletop games do have to go through a fair bit of testing before being introduced as a lesson plan. The facilitation, prep and instructions change when dealing with looser playing structure, or an early-grade classroom. But does better engagement improve their grades?

Teachers 215

Teachers Quizzes Testing Learning Outcomes 215