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. Category: Pedagogy. positive parent reports. rated ‘for everyone’ or ‘low maturity’. no in-app purchases or billing.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 28, 2016

For many schools and districts, it refers to a long, laborious process of finding and selecting technology, curriculum and other resources—oftentimes spending millions of dollars in the process. Anyone interested in giving it a test run and leave feedback can do so TKTK.

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eSchool News

JUNE 7, 2024

Before I adopted phenomena-based instruction, most of the questions students asked were some variation on, “Is this going to be on the test?” They were focused on whether they would have to memorize this fact or that process to pass a test. Instead, they are constantly asking themselves, “How does this connect to my driving question?”

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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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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 22, 2020

The first evaluates the big picture. If the program gets past Step One, I test it. 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. Step Two: Playtime (Five Minutes). Can I learn from you? –published first on NEA Today.

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eSchool News

APRIL 23, 2025

Every test score, attendance log, learning app, or digital assignment generates data. Why it matters for K-12 teachers As educators, we regularly interact with data, benchmark scores, reading levels, engagement analytics from edtech tools, and state test results. Integrating data literacy into K-12 curriculum The good news?

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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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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

In some cases, early, effective literacy instruction can shrink the gap between typical reading and dyslexia so much that it doesn’t appear on diagnostic tests. After my son’s evaluation, I knew I had to take action. Teaching dyslexic students requires more than just following a curriculum.

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eSchool News

JUNE 19, 2017

In a marketplace saturated with options, the search for curriculum and other instructional resources can be a difficult process for educators. All K-12 stakeholders from curriculum directors to classroom teachers should know the methods districts employ to discover and evaluate the resources that make it to students.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Here’s a non-comprehensive overview: Text generation : From drafting lesson plans to creating formative assessments, Gen AI can produce a wide range of written content and aid educators in curriculum development. The traditional methods of testing and evaluation must evolve to accommodate the capabilities of AI.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 24, 2020

Curriculum-Based Assessment (CBA), often equated with Curriculum-Based Measurement (CBM), is any form of assessment that measures progress toward fulfillment of a stated curriculum. CBAs are typically designed by the educator but in some cases are available for download from the curriculum provider for free or fee.

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k12 Digest

MAY 28, 2025

That vision became AEF Schools , a place designed for students who needed something differenta structured, supportive environment where learning goes beyond textbooks and tests. The Preparatory Programs support students who thrive in a structured setting without the added stress of homework or standardized testing.

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 25, 2022

The availability (open) and price (free) make OERs a great addition to an institution’s curriculum and an instructor’s cache of teaching material. Therefore, it is important not only to test that links are still active, but also to regularly check that they lead where you want your students to go to access the OERs.

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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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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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Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2018

The 26-year-old entrepreneur has set out to replace the standardized tests that are deeply entrenched in K-12 and higher education, like the SAT and ACT, and she tells EdSurge her efforts to do so are sure to spark controversy. How can you move past multiple choice tests?” Rebecca Kantar is fighting an uphill battle.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

In educational settings, data can be derived from a range of sources–student assessments, attendance records, teacher evaluations, behavioral data, etc. For instance, consider a scenario where a district uses standardized test scores to evaluate teacher performance.

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eSchool News

MAY 17, 2022

But when we look back at people throughout history who have made a significant impact on society, it’s not their school reading, math, or science test results that measure their success. Future PISA tests will include measures of creative thinking (PISA 2022).

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Past research reviewed in the report also suggests that PBL students perform better on a wide range of assessments including standardized testing. The full report includes quantitative and qualitative evaluations of students’ problem-solving abilities after implementation of a pre-built, project-based STEM curriculum in science class.

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eSchool News

JULY 2, 2024

Many district leaders and educators rose to the call—often through investments in extra tutoring and in curriculum and teacher development aimed to support students’ social and emotional needs. It’s not just about upgrading curriculum and training teachers on new methods.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 31, 2019

According to that “big” test, the PISA, math and science test scores of all U.S. and elsewhere regularly use software and curriculum developed within the past decade, often developed by small companies and former educators. So have students learned more? students have been largely flat since about 2000.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

In a study of 140,000 classrooms in K-12 schools across 39 states, more than half showed no evidence of students using technology to gather, evaluate, or use information for learning. Some solutions The good news is that it is very straightforward to weave useful technology into core curriculum in meaningful ways: Technology sometimes fails.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 8, 2019

Comprehensive analytics evaluate where students have holes in their learning and provide schools with evidence of learning for data-driven reporting. It offers twenty-five different timed tests with varied degrees of difficulty to cover each of the four operations or a mix of all. They vary in complexity, cost, and collection of data.

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eSchool News

JULY 16, 2024

Test-optional and test-blind admissions in recent years could mean a radical expansion of access to selective colleges. The patchwork of admission test policies in college admissions underscores a larger challenge—and opportunity—for both K-12 and higher education.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 9, 2023

“Ultimately, we want the students to have the skills they need to increase academic engagement and decrease their disruptive behaviors so that they can access the school curriculum.” To test the intervention, approximately 50 public high school students from Jefferson City, Hallsville and Fulton will participate.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Content and curriculum quality vary considerably. For one thing, the curriculum I was expected to teach asserted that learning English is a matter of memorization. As a Band-Aid solution, we tutors were outsourced to another company, whose curriculum was hardly better. But not all ESL programs are created equal.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Mercy’s curriculum requires at least 75 percent of a course’s assessment points to be for performance tasks addressing real-world problems. GE Appliances has also developed curriculum for that class and helped us develop our new recommendations of course pathways for STEM careers. The nonprofit already served as our accrediting agency.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Instead of snuffing out the doom scroll at its source, educators should lean into it, learn, and apply takeaways to their curriculum. When these approaches are brought together in the classroom by a teacher, it creates an environment where students feel encouraged to test ideas, make mistakes, and ask questions.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Moreover, it facilitates adaptive assessments, moving beyond traditional testing to evaluate critical thinking skills. Adaptive assessments, powered by AI algorithms, will provide a more nuanced understanding of students’ capabilities beyond conventional testing.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 6, 2016

Latest evaluation of statewide early literacy program shows high correlation with kindergarten readiness compared to control group. The state’s UPSTART program, developed by the nonprofit Waterford Institute, uses an early literacy curriculum delivered digitally in the home. Bader Reading and Language Assessment.).

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eSchool News

MAY 13, 2016

teachers say they are frustrated with testing, changing agendas, lack of influence. A new survey reveals teachers are concerned and frustrated with shifting policies, an outsized focus on testing and a lack of voice in decision-making. “It’s becoming a tougher sell as a career.”

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eSchool News

AUGUST 9, 2024

Z enny Ulloa, a curriculum support specialist at Miami-Dade County public schools, told me at ISTELive 24 that part of this creative learning process should require students to explain how they used ChatGPT or other AI tools. Then, students can evaluate the AI tool’s suggestions and bounce ideas off one another to build on AI’s suggestions.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

The wireless network needs to be agnostic, able to support whatever device and platform is brought in by the students or used in the curriculum. In addition, state testing is now done year-round. Teachers and staffs also have their own devices, and the one-to-one program may include different devices for various grade levels.

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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. The plug-and-play SEL solutions include elementary Tier 1 curriculum and Tier 2 interventions , as well as secondary curriculum and interventions for Tier 1 and Tier 2 students.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Lewin’s theory resonated with me when I wanted to integrate more STEM into our curriculum. Once the curriculum updates were successfully implemented, we had to “refreeze” our school back to stability and ensure teachers settled comfortably into the new routine. Leaders freeze.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

The first complex challenge the UW College of Education will use AI-human collaboration to tackle is co-creating and co-evaluating Individualized Education Programs (IEPs) for students with disabilities in Wyoming and beyond. Serving as the cornerstone of special education ( Yell et al., under review ).

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eSchool News

AUGUST 14, 2024

One issue facing teachers is the seemingly never-ending stream of curriculum changes and standardization. To hit the curriculum goals, teachers must set a pace for their classes that aims to hit specific lesson delivery targets during the school year. These lagging indicators exacerbate the issue of lack of capacity. First, outside-in.

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