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

eSchool News

JUNE 11, 2024

This could include science fairs, art exhibitions, or community service projects. Activities like creating portfolios, writing reflective essays, or presenting on their learning journey can be very effective. Transition plans : Develop comprehensive plans to support students as they move to the next grade level or school.

Achievement 296

Achievement Schools Counselling Feedback 296

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 111

Fairness Instructors Feedback Evaluation 111

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. As a student, you’re submitting your thing as a grade to be evaluated.The teachers, they know how to do it. Should they disclose that to students?

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Teaching Education Ethics Instructors 217

Edsurge

JULY 10, 2020

In addition to assessing students’ grades and essays, admissions officers have long looked to the SAT and ACT to help them decide who will make it in their campus settings, and beyond. But good high school grades don’t always predict timely college completion. Yet Zwick, author of the book “Who Gets In?

Fairness 217

Fairness Counselling Testing Disabilities 217

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.

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Education Testing Feedback English 297

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. It allows faculty to really streamline their grading time,” says Darby, of Northern Arizona.

Testing 156

Testing Multiple Choice Questions Quizzes Assignments 156

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Both tests were given on computer to every student in grades three through eight plus high school juniors. Smarter Balanced, by contrast, required students to manipulate some shapes and objects with a computer mouse and to type in some of their own answers, including numbers, phrases, sentences and whole essays.

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Testing Teachers Math Essay 147

Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 22, 2015

Creating an online graphic organizer on the animal kingdom doesn’t necessarily conflate with knowing how to compare-contrast (a skill mentioned thirty-eight times by Common Core between kindergarten and eighth grade). By 3rd grade, play music while students type so they learn to type in a paced rhythm. Internet use. mouse skills.

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Skills Students Plagiarism Knowledge 151

Edsurge

JUNE 12, 2020

In an earlier essay, we discussed how teachers are leaning into SEL to adapt student services and unlock opportunities that, just months ago, may have seemed impossible. While it is true that we cannot control the pandemic, we can have a causal positive impact on the lives of those around us through our work with students and families.

Accessibility 218

Accessibility Distance Learning Learning Students 218

Edsurge

MAY 14, 2019

When he was in about third grade, we entered into what amounted to a multi-year power struggle over what he chose to read. His fourth grade teacher used powerful read alouds to lure kids into loving books. Eighth grade was the year of choice. I can’t remember the last time he picked up a novel.

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Reading Essay Assignments Fairness 167

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 8, 2023

They can also help instructors to ensure that exams are fair and equitable. This standardization is crucial for fairness and equality within the course. Fairness : Blueprints eliminate the chance of subjective grading and unexpected exam questions, thereby ensuring a more equitable assessment process.

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Exams Fairness Instructors Teaching Methods 119

eSchool News

MARCH 13, 2025

Teacher saying we don’t have time for essay and I always. I mean, Jesse and I were just talking about one of her students who I think Jesse was saying, like, found purpose through essay. That fair to say. Because essay everywhere and to have 30 minutes a week in SEL. But even the teachers need SEL. Student level.

Essay 180

Essay Skills Curriculum Communication 180

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 8, 2023

They can also help instructors to ensure that exams are fair and equitable. This standardization is crucial for fairness and equality within the course. Fairness : Blueprints eliminate the chance of subjective grading and unexpected exam questions, thereby ensuring a more equitable assessment process.

Exams 111

Exams Fairness Instructors Teaching Methods 111

Edsurge

MAY 29, 2017

He worked hard, got good grades, and transferred to San José State University. Just like we can teach a five-paragraph essay, we can teach students to write a great LinkedIn profile, interview in a way that lets them shine, and communicate professionally. Jalil did all that we tell our young people they need to do in order to succeed.

Students 134

Students Essay Feedback Fairness 134

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Could an AI chatbot be integrated into an online grading platform and provide feedback to students? I repeated this experiment with a student essay and asked ChatGPT specific questions based on several defined rubric categories. That’s all good, but it also feels fairly reactive. And it misses another consideration.

Feedback 124

Feedback Writing Intelligence Attention 124

Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 17, 2017

Our literacy coach and English teacher, Heidi Crocker, found a product from Turnitin – Revision Assistant – that used a powerful technology to assess writing and would turn the data it uncovered into feedback that students could apply to their essays immediately. This is a fair criticism. We decided to give it a try.

Testing 75

Testing Essay English Writing 75

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Instead of traditional reporting through oral presentations or written essays, they can be given the chance to present it through a poem, sketch, story, song, painting, mind map, or cartoon. In addition, they have to think of ways to simplify the material so that it is comprehensible to others.

Authentic Assessment 133

Authentic Assessment Counselling Learning Outcomes Faculty Development 133

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Could an AI chatbot be integrated into an online grading platform and provide feedback to students? I repeated this experiment with a student essay and asked ChatGPT specific questions based on several defined rubric categories. That’s all good, but it also feels fairly reactive. And it misses another consideration.

Feedback 116

Feedback Writing Intelligence Attention 116

Edsurge

MAY 15, 2019

I do not imagine that our program is their only or top priority, but I also do not imagine that it is fair to let some make up months of past due work to improve a grade from a previous semester or give extra time on evaluations without medical justification. I have 22 students all on the exact same schedule. They probably are trying.

Disabilities 126

Disabilities Students Assignments Syllabus 126

Edsurge

OCTOBER 2, 2018

And it's for this reason that I was tracing what was happening with key issues of representation, ideas of fairness around communities and found what I felt were harmful ways that these technologies influence ideas about people. This is where I think of really troublesome ways of thinking about admitting students to a university.

Ethics 146

Ethics Study Essay Fairness 146

Edsurge

MAY 20, 2018

In fairness, your claim was that the map metaphor points to “the future of education” and I’m making a statement about the present. Our experience at Amplify is that rich data sets like the one you describe are noisy and idiosyncratic, especially in upper grades. Schools should use these maps more than they do.

Learning 81

Learning Essay Fairness Knowledge 81

Edsurge

AUGUST 22, 2016

Additionally, the average grade on the Final Exam was 11 points higher in the hybrid class than that on the 7 totally asynchronous (online) sections of the Spanish 1A class running in the same semester. How Did the ELLs Fair in This Hybrid Biology Course? Avg Final Grade. Bringing the Hybrid Model Into Biology. Completion %.

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Hybrid Courses Languages Language English 81

Cal Matters

MAY 14, 2025

As part of the class, she has to study a career, write a short essay about it and present it at a career fair. If she does attend one of those schools, her grade in this counseling class would be part of her official college transcript. She picked intellectual property law. A lot of people say Im assertive, she said.

Middle School 114

Middle School Middle School Counselling Schools 114

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Instead of traditional reporting through oral presentations or written essays, they can be given the chance to present it through a poem, sketch, story, song, painting, mind map, or cartoon. In addition, they have to think of ways to simplify the material so that it is comprehensible to others.

Authentic Assessment 111

Authentic Assessment Counselling Learning Outcomes Faculty Development 111

Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

In academic settings, ChatGPT can be used to produce written essays, reports, and responses when supplied with the assignment prompt. However, it did assure me that “ethical considerations, such as biases, fairness, and responsible deployment, remain important areas of concern as the technology evolves” (ChatGPT, 2023).

Assignments 124

Assignments History Art Ethics 124

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 18, 2024

Increase the workload of human instructors: Without the support of AI tools to handle certain tasks, such as grading or providing feedback, human instructors may face increased workloads and potentially struggle to meet the needs of all their students. The Review | Essay. This could lead to burnout and a decrease in teacher morale.

Ethics 111

Ethics Instructors Intelligence Critical Thinking 111

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 18, 2024

Increase the workload of human instructors: Without the support of AI tools to handle certain tasks, such as grading or providing feedback, human instructors may face increased workloads and potentially struggle to meet the needs of all their students. The Review | Essay. This could lead to burnout and a decrease in teacher morale.

Ethics 111

Ethics Instructors Intelligence Critical Thinking 111

k12 Online Schools

APRIL 28, 2025

A students GPA, course rigor, extracurricular activities, leadership roles, essays, and recommendations matter far more than whether they studied online or in-person. The Power of Personal Essays for Online Students Perhaps the biggest tool in an online student’s arsenal is the college essay.

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Catlin Tucker

MAY 27, 2025

They hired me over the phone to teach fifth grade, and I moved there, and so that was definite eye opening and a bit of a culture shock, but also the most memorable experiences I’ve ever had in teaching. And you’ve really taught like or touched or talked at taught every grade level like across the whole span. Thank you.

Schools 198

Schools Coaching Fairness Technology 198

EAB

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

We're committed to educational equity and we focus on students from 11th grade all the way through to college graduation. So I think it's a fair question that many people have. So they'll host like shared fairs or shared opportunities for like fly-in programs or stuff. What are you talking about?" JW: I guess, absolutely.

Coaching 91

Coaching Communication Essay High School 91

EAB

JULY 11, 2023

And do you feel that it's fair to say that most colleges want to diversify their enrollment and what do you expect will happen to Penn and other universities should the Supreme Court strike down affirmative action and ambitions? And they're in 12th grade and they're in algebra two. So thank you so much for sharing that.

Culture 40

Culture History Questions High School 40

Edsurge

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Since the release of ChatGPT late last year, the essay has been declared dead as an effective way to measure learning. After all, students can now enter any assigned question into an AI chatbot and get a perfectly formatted, five-paragraph essay back ready to turn in (well, after a little massaging to take out any AI “hallucinations”).

Exams 216

Exams Essay Instructors Education 216

Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 12, 2024

Is that a fair assessment of the math there? But in most cases, it’s fair to say if a student leaves, the money follows them. But I do think it’s fair to say that it’s concerning because most American kids are still going to public schools and what’s the end game there if we’re trying to discredit public education?

Schools 109

Schools Fairness History Art 109

Cult of Pedagogy

MARCH 30, 2025

Take grammar: Many students come into my classroom unable to tell me what a predicate or preposition is, and yet they are able to intuitively use both in the production of wonderful stories and essays. I also make sure that once a concept is introduced we revisit it at least five times at a minimum. To see this in action, lets take the colon.

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Language Languages English Writing 71