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My Greatest Teaching Problem Was Feedback. Here’s How Research Helped Me Solve It.

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I implemented writing reflections to help students recall their feedback from prior assignments and collaborated with a colleague to develop a teacher guided peer review system, which eventually yielded an app called Floop that made the peer review data visible and simpler to manage.

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How College Faculty Can Beat the Cheat

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Students cheating on assignments is hardly a new or surprising problem. In research and surveys conducted by Dr. Donald McCabe and the International Center for Academic Integrity over the span of 12 years, 68 percent of undergraduates who responded admitted to cheating on tests or written assignments.

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The Best Edtech for Students Is Backed by Research. Here’s What to Look For.

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Research databases, including Google Scholar, ResearchGate and JSTOR can serve as resources for peer-reviewed studies. Random assignment is intended to ensure the treatment and comparison groups are the same along both measurable characteristics such as test scores as well as unmeasured characteristics such as motivation to learn.

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A Growing (But Controversial) Idea in Open-Access Textbooks: Let Students Help Write Them

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The textbook that Delmar Larsen assigned his students was full of errors, and he knew it. Sometimes students will be assigned to write on a specific question in class, or to mimic a chapter of an existing textbook. Without a formal peer-review process, how is it possible to catch mistakes?

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Dozens of Online Resources for Assessment

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Here are some you can look into–and all online: Easy CBM Educreations –video a whiteboard explanation of how students are completing a task (app) Edulastic –formative assessments; work on any devices (app) Flip — record a video question from your desktop; add attachments; students respond from the app with their answer Flubaroo (app) (..)

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How U of Michigan Built Automated Essay-Scoring Software to Fill ‘Feedback Gap’ for Student Writing

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The University of Michigan’s M-Write program is built on the idea that students learn best when they write about what they’re studying, rather than taking multiple-choice tests. Each fellow is assigned to a group of students and is available to help them with the revision process.”

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Why Schools Are Superior to Startups When It Comes to Building Edtech

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They create classrooms designed to maximize student learning, and do everything from fine-tuning lesson plans and homework assignments to organizing the physical layout of their learning spaces. Our first was PeerView, an app for facilitating faculty-to-faculty peer review and feedback. Today’s teachers are expert innovators.

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