Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2025

Earlier this year, I administered a survey to my students, asking them to evaluate my classroom management skills and provide feedback on our classroom. Some students opted for a good old-fashioned test. Instead of assuming this was the case for my classroom, I did what any unsure teacher does and asked my students directly.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 22, 2025

Additionally, it cultivates intellectual and practical skills, including inquiry and analysis, critical and creative thinking, written and oral communication, quantitative literacy, information literacy, teamwork, and problem-solving. Systems thinking provides tools to evaluate the reliability and relevance of data. Richmond, B.

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k12 Digest

JUNE 23, 2025

For instance, at B.School, we designed a cross-subject project around the theme “Our Green Neighborhood,” where students from Grades 3 to 5 explored science (recycling, energy use), math (data collection), and language arts (report writing and public speaking) through hands-on fieldwork and community interviews.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 6, 2025

Political science researchers testing whether pledging to vote affected voter turnout in fact found specifically that first-time young voters were likeliest to follow through and vote when they pledged to (Costa, Schaffner, and Prevost 2018). Dr. Ben Medeiros is Assistant Professor of Communication Studies at SUNY Plattsburgh.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 6, 2025

Political science researchers testing whether pledging to vote affected voter turnout in fact found specifically that first-time young voters were likeliest to follow through and vote when they pledged to (Costa, Schaffner, and Prevost 2018). Dr. Ben Medeiros is Assistant Professor of Communication Studies at SUNY Plattsburgh.

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Elevate k12

JULY 3, 2025

Keep a record of what services were impacted, how they were maintained or modified, and what communication was provided to families. Pay special attention to roles that directly impact legal compliance, such as Special Education, ELL, or state-tested subjects. Prioritize solutions that reduce lift on your internal teams.

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eSchool News

APRIL 10, 2025

Here are five powerful resources that can transform how you evaluate student progress. Unlike traditional tests, Wakelet empowers students to demonstrate understanding in a personalized and reflective way. Reviewing their collections provides a richer, more comprehensive view of their understanding than a standard test would.

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eSchool News

MARCH 26, 2024

By prioritizing critical components like best-of-breed communication technology, school leaders can ensure their integrated safety plan will help minimize emergencies and significantly contribute to the academic growth and wellbeing of students and staff.

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Catlin Tucker

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

It helps students understand what is expected and how they will be evaluated. Testing a solution involves investigating how well it performs under a range of likely conditions. At whatever stage, communicating with peers about proposed solutions is an important part of the design process, and shared ideas can lead to improved designs.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Today’s tip: How to Evaluate Apps. Here are thirteen tips to evaluate the apps you’ll find useful in your classroom: free or small fee. stand the test of time. support the ‘4 C’s’–creativity, critical thinking, communication, collaboration. Category: Pedagogy. positive parent reports. no in-app purchases or billing.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

Pinterest boasts more than 1,000 ideas about how students can self-evaluate their own learning. How can we motivate students to want to evaluate their own learning? The first step is to reframe self-evaluation within the context of the learning environment rather than primarily as a task-oriented process. What’s In A Word?

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

It can even boost student communication and collaboration when they work in groups. We want our students to embrace the process of designing, building, testing, and refining their projects. Students design a tower, calculate the cost of materials, record its height, and then evaluate how well it performs.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Be informed before testing: Districts must thoroughly understand the tool, including its privacy practices, security measures, and contract terms, before making a commitment. Start with staff: Testing AI tools with staff, rather than students, helps avoid premature exposure of student data.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

For parents and teachers, addressing these challenges requires a multi-faceted approach that combines thorough and adequate testing, open communication, and proactivity. For example, clinicians at a Colorado-based SBHC incorporate more technology, like objective ADHD testing, to design effective accommodation plans.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 10, 2018

But it’s a tough nut to crack, because many of the skills and characteristics treasured most are in fact the hardest to evaluate. The beauty of playful assessment, she says, is that it can be done without interrupting the rhythm of learning, thereby alleviating student anxiety around testing. They have high anxiety about it, too.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 22, 2020

The first evaluates the big picture. If the program gets past Step One, I test it. It supports the ‘4 C’s’–creativity, critical thinking, communication, collaboration. It will stand the test of time. What’s your secret for evaluating new webtools, apps, or programs? Instead, I have checklists. Two of them.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

The University of Massachusetts Amherst has historically required prospective undergraduate students to submit a standardized test score as part of their applications. Even now, as testing has resumed—albeit with social distancing, face coverings and limited seating—access to testing centers is not equal, nor equitable.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Emmersion’s adaptive assessments evaluate and certify speaking, writing and reading abilities, which shorten an organization’s time-to-hire and improve customer satisfaction scores. With a mission to close the global communication gap, the company focuses on helping organizations be smarter with their global language strategy.

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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

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Moreover, it facilitates adaptive assessments, moving beyond traditional testing to evaluate critical thinking skills. Collaborative learning environments benefit from AI-driven tools, promoting communication and teamwork. Collaborative learning environments benefit from AI-driven tools that promote communication and teamwork.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 31, 2024

Basic digital literacy is a prerequisite to communicating, finding employment, and socializing. The International Computer and Information Literacy Study (ICILS) measures eighth-graders ability to use computers to investigate, create, participate, and communicate at home, at school, in their future workplace, and in their communities.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

AP courses are a time-tested way to prove academic rigor, making them an integral part of many students’ college admissions strategy–their importance for college admissions, however, comes down to what a school offers. How important are AP classes for college admission? That does not mean, however, that they are necessary.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Educators often talk about 21st-century skills and the benefits of incorporating communication, creativity, collaboration, problem-solving, and critical thinking into lessons. Past research reviewed in the report also suggests that PBL students perform better on a wide range of assessments including standardized testing.

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eSchool News

JUNE 18, 2024

These brief screeners use a sample of disconnected test items that are just as likely to miss a student’s problem areas as to find them. Even lengthy evaluations by specialists have all the same limitations. Even lengthy evaluations by specialists have all the same limitations.

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Amid the technological advancements shaping education, the emergence of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and conversational agents like ChatGPT have further expanded the possibilities for learning and communication (Alam, 2023). Include necessary background information to help the technology understand the context better.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

As educational technology companies look to place learning science at the core of their products, there are three key steps to success: aligning their teams around education outcomes, building a feedback loop, and evaluating and validating your results.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Technology can help address chronic absenteeism, personalize learning based on student needs, and strengthen communication with families. Last year, I had to adjust our schools’ bell schedule to accommodate a week of state testing. Leaders leverage tools. Leaders freeze.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2022

Much like participation in an athletic team, esports players learn how to work together as an effective team by communicating and collaborating with each other. We saw that communication between parents and educators soared during and after the shutdown. –Remco Bergsma, CEO, MiEN Company. — Keith Look, Ed.D.,

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Caitlin Smith Director of Technology, Bourbonnais Elementary School District 53, Illinois A District Perspective: Evaluating and Implementing New Technology Technology plays a crucial role in classroom success, but integrating new tools can be challenging. Shepard Elementary School. They also give out [usage] data.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 7, 2020

With this release, Riverside is also the first assessment provider to introduce an affordable subscription model that enables continued enhancements of the testing experience – from administration to reporting. It has consistently been the industry standard for early identification, offering the most comprehensive and up-to-date norms.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Refined through extensive beta testing, the new portal is designed to be more personalized and intuitive for the students and educators who use it. Integrated communication tools create close collaboration between the school team and the EmpowerU coach.

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Edsurge

MARCH 19, 2019

In 2017, Monsignor Paul Tighe may have been the only priest amidst a sea of techies at South by Southwest (SXSW), where he spoke about his past experience serving as Secretary of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications for the Catholic Church. Communications always have two parts. But he’s a teacher at heart. I was lucky.

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eSchool News

APRIL 16, 2019

Biggest challenge: Results on standardized tests revealed that about a quarter of our 9th- and 10th-grade students weren’t reading at grade level. After enrolling in the class, students take a test to establish their baseline Lexile score. Demographics: West Broward High School , located in Pembroke Pines, Fla.,

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Cult of Pedagogy

JANUARY 21, 2024

Over the last decade or so , we’ve settled into a choreographed dance around large-scale, state-mandated standardized test scores. Next, people who have nothing to do with the design, administration, taking, or scoring of the tests will then use them to critique states, districts, schools, and/or individual teachers.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 11, 2023

The heading will click through to a more detailed article on the tip: Tech Tip #167–How to Evaluate Apps. Here are thirteen tips to evaluate the apps you’ll find useful in your classroom: free or small fee. stand the test of time. support the ‘4 C’s’–creativity, critical thinking, communication, collaboration.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 14, 2024

Most tools that teachers have for this purpose are lagging indicators such as tests, quizzes, and homework. Automated grading and feedback : Automated grading systems powered by AI can significantly reduce teachers’ time evaluating assignments and exams. These lagging indicators exacerbate the issue of lack of capacity.

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Amid the technological advancements shaping education, the emergence of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and conversational agents like ChatGPT have further expanded the possibilities for learning and communication (Alam, 2023). Include necessary background information to help the technology understand the context better.

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