eSchool News

JUNE 28, 2024

It’s generally easy to determine if students have used an AI tool to generate a response to a writing assignment or to generate an entire essay. We have to rethink the full-length essay as the end-all, be-all for assessing student writing skills,” Miller said. It’s intimidating. MagicSchool.AI

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Writing Essay Plagiarism Assignments 328

eSchool News

APRIL 26, 2015

For those unfamiliar, SAMR is a framework for evaluating the level at which a given technology has had an impact on teaching and learning. A class that uses Google Docs to write their essays instead of a pen and paper is at the substitution level. When using the SAMR model, educators may gloss over some important points.

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Essay Evaluation Feedback Writing 279

eSchool News

DECEMBER 20, 2024

His essay, Money Cant Buy Happiness, included valuable reflections on emotional fulfillment and references to The Great Gatsby, yet his ideas were scattered and the language needed refinement. For example, students can prompt ChatGPT with Help me outline a persuasive essay on solar energy, and it will provide a structured outline.

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English Writing Teaching Essay 300

eSchool News

AUGUST 9, 2024

For instance, instead of banning tools like ChatGPT for essay writing, teachers can encourage students to use AI in their work but clearly document how their essays evolved through multiple drafts. 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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Teaching Essay Teaching Methods Intelligence 325

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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Evaluation Feedback Writing Languages 119

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Students often demonstrate their learning through written explanations in the forms of short answer questions and essays. The traditional methods of testing and evaluation must evolve to accommodate the capabilities of AI. Gen AI is flipping this on its head.

Metacognitive Skills 339

Metacognitive Skills Ethics Critical Thinking Evaluation 339

Edsurge

JUNE 6, 2017

The university has created a way for automated software to give students in large STEM courses feedback on their writing in cases where professors don’t have time to grade hundreds of essays. Wilson researches the application of automated essay scoring. “I U-M presents a really interesting model of adoption.

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Essay Feedback Writing Assignments 136

eSchool News

JULY 1, 2024

While this flexibility can be advantageous, it may also create inconsistencies in how AI tools are utilized and evaluated across different courses. This passive approach leaves the decision to individual instructors or departments, potentially leading to varied practices within the same institution.

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Ethics Instructors Education Academic Integrity 321

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Guidelines could include what stage of writing an essay students can use AI–for example, using it to brainstorm a topic, conduct research, or to revise a conclusion. Students analyze, evaluate, and critique the technology’s answers in order to build strong information literacy skills.

Plagiarism 331

Plagiarism Education Assignments Essay 331

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Educators find it socially acceptable for a student to hire a tutor to help them write their college admission essay. Is the “process” being evaluated with the same or greater care than the final “product?” However, there are a couple of major problems with this line of thinking. The first is an equity concern.

Fairness 299

Fairness Beliefs Evaluation Essay 299

eSchool News

DECEMBER 1, 2020

With school libraries beginning to function as digital media centers, these tools enable students to explore new modes of thought and include: Planning, drafting and executing podcasts or audio essays. Teacher-Librarian – As teachers, librarians evaluate the best kind of learning practices for students, faculty and administrators.

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Schools Essay Instructors Critical Thinking 358

eSchool News

OCTOBER 3, 2017

How do you know when a student has turned in a good essay? In other words, she said, is the essay effective in communicating its ideas? In the debut episode, West-Smith described how to evaluate whether a piece of writing is effective. For instance, an argumentative essay must make an effective claim.

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Writing Essay Feedback Evaluation 198

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

This shift towards a portfolio-based assessment not only aligns with modern pedagogy but also ensures a more equitable evaluation of student achievement, regardless of their background or circumstances. However, the state tests, which heavily impact high school transcripts, do not reflect this shift towards a more holistic evaluation.

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Testing Critical Thinking Evaluation Essay 278

eSchool News

AUGUST 23, 2022

The AtomicMind platform addresses every aspect of the admissions process, from crafting compelling essays to mastering interviews to refining activity and college lists. Storage of all essential documents and information, including application essay drafts, extracurricular activity lists and school transcripts. ?

Technology 244

Technology Coaching Essay Feedback 244

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.

Evaluation 98

Evaluation Feedback Writing Languages 98

Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 23, 2024

Each group receives targeted support in writing argumentative essays, with the instruction tailored to their specific needs. Writing Support: The teacher provides scaffolding as students begin drafting their essays, offering sentence frames and transitional phrases to help them build coherent paragraphs.

Teaching 395

Teaching Writing Essay Discussions 395

eSchool News

JANUARY 17, 2024

Additionally, multimedia projects offer educators alternative ways to see evidence of student thinking.

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Teaching Critical Thinking Assignments Learning 344

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. In evaluations, students say they are less stressed, they are more motivated, and they understand assignment expectations better.

Grades 74

Grades Evaluation Assignments Instructors 74

eSchool News

MAY 8, 2017

That’s 150 essays they would have to read and respond to for every writing assignment they give. Far more than a simple grammar checker, Revision Assistant is able to read an essay and then compare how strong the writing and content is with thousands of similar papers already in its database.

Writing 191

Writing Technology Essay Feedback 191

Edsurge

MARCH 22, 2023

It’s time for handwritten essays in class without devices. In these same conversations, I hear teachers eager to revert back to timed writing by hand, the five-paragraph essay, and other formulaic approaches to writing. They scored ChatGPT’s work using the same College Board rubric their essays were evaluated against.

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Essay Writing Plagiarism Discussions 215

Edsurge

JUNE 14, 2023

We recently completed an evaluation of an AI-equipped platform through which middle school students could draft, submit and revise argumentative essays in response to pre-curated writing prompts. In terms of the overall score across all four dimensions (minimum 4, maximum 16), teachers’ average score on these 160 essays was 7.6,

Grades 175

Grades Essay Teachers Feedback 175

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

And they were eager to do that through a new tool — it gave them a chance to evaluate the hyped-up market for artificial intelligence (AI) for themselves. Then I evaluated their chat transcript for evidence that they listened and met Holden where he was. The essays were fascinating. What happened to Holden?And

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Evaluation Essay Students Questions 210

eSchool News

MARCH 11, 2025

Metacognition involves planning, monitoring, and evaluating ones understanding and strategies, which helps students become more aware of their learning processes and make adjustments for improvement (Hacker, Dunlosky, & Graesser, 2009). That made me think about how people see success differently, so I added that idea to my essay.

Essay 174

Essay Ethics Feedback Languages 174

eSchool News

JANUARY 16, 2024

Data generated by this brief questionnaire helps our educators screen, assess, guide intervention planning, monitor progress and evaluate outcomes related to SEL. In math, James could be tasked to analyze basketball stats, or in English, he could write an essay on his favorite athlete.

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Teaching English Students History 300

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Indeed, the time spent on teaching class is less than the time spent on preparation, evaluation, and feedback (grading). Perhaps it’s not ready to read a 5-paragraph essay on To Kill a Mockingbird, but it will know if a student paid attention when asked who Boo Radley is. But with AI, that is simply not the case.

Teachers 278

Teachers Textbooks Multiple Choice Questions Essay 278

eSchool News

MAY 28, 2024

Khanmigo, powered by ChatGPT technology, includes features meant to help students work through math and science problems, analyze text, chat with historical figures, navigate college admissions, and revise essays, among other features. It is also designed to help teachers create instructions for assignments and review student performance.

Schools 273

Schools Math Testing Intelligence 273

Edsurge

MARCH 1, 2023

ChatGPT adds to the suite of AI tools that might be encountered in an ELA classroom, along with automated essay scoring, writing evaluation and feedback. We wanted to understand better the relationship between teachers and the AI employed by the automated writing evaluation tool.

Grades 164

Grades Teaching Teachers Essay 164

Edsurge

MARCH 15, 2024

To be clear, this assignment would require students to analyze documents and write their own responses using evidence, which are important skills of course, but it would inevitably lead to me manically red inking papers that ultimately were written because I assigned an essay that would only ever be read by me.

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Assignments Essay History Social Studies 199

Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 16, 2023

Simple Steps for Research Paper Writing and the Importance of Samples Research papers are academic writings that offer rigorous analysis, evaluation, assessment, and interpretation of a specific topic. They are similar to essays but usually more detailed and longer. This will help to keep you motivated throughout the drafting phase.

Writing 159

Writing Essay Plagiarism Study 159

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Professors may draw on textbooks like “ Exploratory Programming for the Arts and Humanities ” and also on eclectic “texts” from a variety of media, such as the art websites of Rafaël Rozendaal, the interactive explanatory projects of Nicky Case and the visual essays published by The Pudding.

Art 211

Art Interdisciplinary History Essay 211

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

Topping our monthly Top 5 list was a look at how professors are rebooting oral exams to respond to concerns that students can now use ChatGPT and other AI tools to cheat on essays. Also making the list was an essay by a teacher launched into a leadership position at age 26 reflecting on a lack of support during the shift.

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Exams Essay Reading STEM 139

Edsurge

AUGUST 12, 2024

She encourages her students to use MyEssayFeedback, an AI tool that critiques the organization of an essay, the quality of evidence a student has included to support their thesis or the tone of the writing. Such tools can also evaluate research questions or review a student's writing based on the rubric for the assignment, she says.

Writing 200

Writing Instructors Essay English 200

eSchool News

JULY 16, 2024

Thinking Nation , for instance, a nonprofit dedicated to improving social studies education, recently switched from paying educators to grade essays based on a rubric to an AI chatbot. The chatbot is getting trained on the same rubric to instantly give students feedback on their ability to critically evaluate historical text.

Education 303

Education Testing Feedback English 303

eSchool News

MARCH 10, 2021

Educators across core subjects use lessons such as Build a movement, where students learn how data and algorithms impact something that ‘goes viral’; Outbreak, where students analyze how a virus spreads and can be contained ; and Emoji Essay, where students use abstraction to explore language and communication. “

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STEM Science Essay Learning 246

Edsurge

JUNE 25, 2020

This essay is the last of a three-part series exploring the challenges facing educators of students who learn and think differently and elevating how SEL strategies can support educators in reframing and addressing those challenges now and in the long term. In a recent essay, Drs. Wanless and Tia N.

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Special Education Disabilities Education Distance Learning 187

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 11, 2017

The first bucket of products typically boast features like chatbot capability, plagiarism detection and automated essay scoring. These are tools that may be difficult to evaluate holistically, since you have to determine whether the output makes sense on a case-by-case basis. There’s a very real human reason for this.

Essay 125

Essay Evaluation Intelligence Plagiarism 125

Edsurge

JULY 10, 2024

Ethan provided strategies and resources for teachers to use in their classrooms, and through this assignment, he learned a variety of skills including how to design compelling professional learning opportunities, how to find and evaluate sources and how to communicate his findings clearly to an audience.

High School 209

High School High School Interdisciplinary Education 209