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 142

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APRIL 29, 2024

From the three-paragraph essay to one that lives up to the purpose of essays is a big leap both scholastically and skills-wise. Here, we delve into practical tips and strategies to transform your writing from good to great, ensuring your essays are clear, compelling, and academically rigorous.

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Essay Writing Skills Plagiarism 158

eSchool News

JULY 22, 2020

Revising in response to formative feedback is a cornerstone of effective writing instruction. Providing substantive comments on stacks of student essays, however, is highly time-consuming for busy teachers. Despite the potential of AWE systems to support writing instruction, they have not been widely adopted by schools or teachers.

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Evaluation Writing Essay Teachers 265

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APRIL 30, 2024

Explore the benefits and drawbacks of AI in essay writing, including its impact on student learning. AI and Writing Essays: Pros and Cons, How Will Students Learn to Write if an AI Writes It for Them? AI’s influence in essay writing is growing, highlighting both advantages and significant issues.

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Writing Essay Ethics Plagiarism 187

eSchool News

MARCH 5, 2024

This includes on-demand tutoring along with AI tools that offer feedback on written work. These AI tools help students fine-tune their essays before they connect with a live tutor or before they submit their assignments to teachers. AI Writing Review enables students to submit their drafts for lightning-fast feedback.

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Feedback Essay Writing Learning Styles 331

eSchool News

DECEMBER 5, 2024

While AI tools can indeed generate answers or essays, this highlights the need to rethink assessment strategies. For example, text-to-speech and speech-to-text tools support students with disabilities, while language models assist non-native English speakers. Misconceptions about AI in education 1.

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Ethics Critical Thinking Essay Students 333

Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 23, 2024

Students work through examples where they compare data before and after a reaction to determine if a chemical change has occurred, with the teacher providing targeted support and feedback. Teacher 2 might also provide feedback on their data collection methods and help troubleshoot any issues that surface during the planning phase.

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Teaching Writing Essay Discussions 395

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Language translation : Gen AI can translate educational materials for diverse language needs, making learning more accessible and inclusive. Students often demonstrate their learning through written explanations in the forms of short answer questions and essays. Gen AI is flipping this on its head.

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Metacognitive Skills Ethics Critical Thinking Evaluation 339

eSchool News

JUNE 27, 2024

It could be a video, a photo essay, a 3D rendering, or even an interpretive dance performance. Provenzano is also the 2013 winner of ISTE’s Outstanding Teacher Award. Maker education is when a person can demonstrate understanding through the creation of an artifact.

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Curriculum Failure Essay Art 304

Edsurge

JUNE 14, 2023

With the time it takes to score and give feedback on student work deterring many writing teachers from assigning lengthier writing tasks, and with the long turnaround time most students wait to receive grades and feedback, there is significant timesaving and learning potential in an AI helping grade student work. Figure 1: Teacher v.

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Grades Essay Teachers Feedback 186

Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Some students might agree, while others may see tutoring as editorial services or language support (Lockett, 2019). Tutoring can make writing less of an isolating process because students can access different audiences and, as a result, receive feedback that is in the function of its message and not only for the sake of a grade.

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Evaluation Feedback Writing Language 118

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? Co-hosted by Meredith May and Sean Tupa, the podcast explores how written language helps us communicate and engage with the world around us. It’s simply, does it work ?” Purpose and Audience.

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Writing Essay Feedback Evaluation 197

eSchool News

AUGUST 26, 2015

myON spoke with administrators, teachers, library-media specialists, and students throughout the development process to ensure their feedback was incorporated within the new design and features. The feedback from our school, district and community partners, whose input guided our work, has been overwhelmingly positive.”.

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Gamification Essay Learning Writing 232

eSchool News

MARCH 11, 2025

Teaching metacognition equips ELLs with the tools needed to navigate not only language acquisition but also the demands of various subject areas, from math and science to history and literature (Flavell, 1979; Schraw & Moshman, 1995). Translating phrases into Spanish helped him connect new terms to his native language.

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Essay Ethics Feedback Language 168

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

It can handle a variety of language tasks, including answering questions, writing essays, generating creative content, offering explanations, giving advice, and engaging in natural-sounding conversations” (as explained by ChatGPT itself). We welcome your feedback and can be contacted at jlang@tulane.edu and dustinliu@stanford.edu.

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Ethics Essay Syllabus Feedback 336

Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Some students might agree, while others may see tutoring as editorial services or language support (Lockett, 2019). Tutoring can make writing less of an isolating process because students can access different audiences and, as a result, receive feedback that is in the function of its message and not only for the sake of a grade.

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Evaluation Feedback Writing Language 96

Edsurge

AUGUST 22, 2018

Founded in 2016, Writable offers tools and templates that scaffold the writing and feedback process to help students become stronger writers. For teachers, Writable’s web-based tool offers customizable templates for common writing assignments (such as an argumentative or cause-and-effect essay, or a personal narrative).

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Writing Feedback Peer Review Plagiarism 113

Edsurge

MARCH 1, 2023

AI tools have rapidly entered Language Arts classrooms. 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. If the feedback wasn’t specific or clear enough, I helped them. argument coherence) for teachers.

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Grades Teaching Teachers Essay 173

Edsurge

JULY 24, 2023

As a case in point, Project Topeka featured an automated essay scoring tool that provided grades 6–8 students with individualized line-level feedback on argumentative essays responding to six different prompts. However, a majority also told us that students were confused about how to respond to the feedback.

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Writing Essay Teachers Feedback 148

Edsurge

JANUARY 23, 2017

But Mayfield’s true passion is language—particularly writing. Mayfield spent his grad school years studying natural language processing, computational linguistics, and machine learning. It deemphasizes the role of essay writing and communication—the stuff that in fact is probably more valuable for the majority of students.

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Achievement Writing Essay Language 165

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.

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Schools Math Testing Intelligence 261

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. The student could say, once they get the feedback, ‘No, that's not really what I want to do. Mills says.

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Writing Instructors Essay English 206

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NOVEMBER 29, 2023

In addition, many students are using AI to write coursework and essays, which has caused a lot of outrage. Automated Grading: AI can automate the scoring of assessment tests, homework, essays and other assignments. This saves teachers time, while giving students quicker feedback.

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Education Essay Critical Thinking Intelligence 183

Edsurge

DECEMBER 13, 2018

I teach middle school English Language Arts at St. But over time I’ve found many middle schoolers are not equipped to critique an essay that meets the expectations of the assignment. Since students don’t intuitively know how to craft good feedback, this was the natural place to start. Joseph School in Chester County, Pa.

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Culture Feedback Writing Assignments 167

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JULY 9, 2024

I didn’t think PDF annotation grading tools would work, not even a little but, so when my colleague, George, introduced them in his online history class, I watched amazed at how seamlessly George could highlight key points, strike through errors, and add personalized feedback on student assignments. x Interested?

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Assignments Grades Feedback Evaluation 166

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

It also allows teachers to give real-time, one-on-one feedback without singling out a student in front of the class. For example, if a student is working on an essay in a language arts class and is way off track, the teacher can pop a message on their screen that says, "Hey, this paragraph looks off-topic, try focusing on."

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Teachers Students Special Education History 200

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Provide feedback that works. West-Smith is impassioned about the importance of appropriate feedback, which she says must be timely, relevant, accessible—using language that the student understands, and actionable. Feedback is more helpful on an early draft than on a final one, she adds. Prompts, Essays and More.

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Writing Teaching Essay Feedback 138

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 more instructors experiment with using generative AI to make teaching materials, an important question bubbles up. Should they disclose that to students?

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Teaching Education Ethics Instructors 217

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

Some of her students had never finished an essay, let alone crafted sparkling prose. Their essays turned out well,” she says. “I You have to break down the language in the prompt,” DiMichele says. “You You have to break down the language in the prompt,” DiMichele says. “We OK, this is English-teacher language.

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Essay Feedback Writing English 99

Edsurge

JULY 10, 2024

My students enjoyed it so much that since then, we have participated in several including a one-pager challenge where students respond to a New York Times story, a contest where students submit an original podcast and a contest where students can share opinion essays on issues they care deeply about.

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High School High School Interdisciplinary Education 211

Faculty Focus

JUNE 1, 2025

Blum (2020) argues that grades provide minimal feedback, they deemphasize learning, and what they actually measure is inconsistent (10-14). As a TA, I even received rubrics with that language. Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture 9, no. University Press of Colorado, 2022.

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Grades Evaluation Assignments Instructors 68

Edsurge

AUGUST 22, 2016

In the past two academic years, Idaho Digital Learning Academy (IDLA), an online state school created by the Idaho Legislature, has taken proactive steps to fix a key problem: losing English Language Learner (ELL) students before high school graduation, and losing them from highly technical and content-driven courses like biology.

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Hybrid Courses Languages Language English 83

Teach Hub

MAY 19, 2025

However, its a powerful tool for guiding instruction, providing feedback, and helping students grow. Thumbs up/down : An easy visual during lessons that gives you instant feedback. Whiteboard responses : Students can solve a problem or answer a question and hold it up, great for instant feedback.

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Learning Outcomes Learning Feedback Essay 75

Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 11, 2025

Use rubrics as a shared language of the route that teachers and students can use formatively to navigate the path toward high-quality work rather than as a summative tool to justify grades. Affirm and provide feedback on (but dont grade) baseline evidence so students know that you are aware of and accept their starting point.

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Academic Integrity Learning Feedback Assignments 88

Edsurge

MARCH 28, 2017

The letters in ThinkCERCA represent the building blocks of an essay: claim, evidence, reasoning, counter argument, and audience. Once teachers choose a lesson, the program provides a six-step process to help students analyze the readings and produce a cohesive essay.

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Writing Essay Teaching Quizzes 127

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JUNE 27, 2024

Say you want to prepare effectively for the North Carolina bar test – they have multiple full-length practice MBEs and thousands of MBE practice questions, plus offer personalized feedback from an attorney for practice essays to help you succeed. Of course, all of the course material can be studied from your computer.

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Exams Study Syllabus Essay 158

Edsurge

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Whether it’s a group of retirees who cluster in the back of your corner coffee shop or the so-called Ponzi schemes of MFA programs like the famed Iowa Writers’ Workshop, assessment comes in the form of peer feedback—marginalia and discussion. For example: Describe in neutral language what the story is trying to accomplish.

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Writing Essay Feedback Instructors 113