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SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Jeryl-Ann Charlene and Asaro Valero, Teachers. One of the district’s top technology initiatives : Fifth and eighth grade students partnered on a peer-reviewed argument writing assigment. Each student had a clean hard copy of the specific essay in front of them so that the discussion would be easy.

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OCTOBER 5, 2023

It helps students recognize important lesson goals and teachers gauge understanding. While multiple choice, short answer, and essays are still proven methods, there are many alternatives teachers can use for their particular student group. Assessment of student work is a crucial aspect of learning.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Instead, I decided to enhance my approach to problem solving by incorporating peer review—letting students participate in the feedback and assessment process. I then had each review work by three other students according to a feedback rubric I created; I moderated the process throughout. Advice for effective peer review.

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MAY 25, 2022

Here is a good discussion on the pros and cons of Turnitin as well as options available, from the Ask a Tech Teacher crew: Reliable Turnitin Alternatives for K12. It was never a mystery that teachers get so many papers to check before a specific deadline that they’re often ready to drop everything and fall asleep at the end of the day.

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JUNE 12, 2020

This is the second of a three-part series looking at how social-emotional learning strategies can support teachers of students with learning differences during the pandemic. 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.

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MARCH 13, 2019

The problem teachers have with this approach is managing them. If they’re short answer or essay — the preferred way to check understanding — grading takes a long time. One important difference from teacher evaluations is that students don’t grade each other. Why peer feedback? How does this work?

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Feedback Peer Review Writing Critical Thinking 105

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OCTOBER 2, 2017

He avoids assessing creative writing altogether by assigning his students to write critical essays about their own short stories. Assess the assessment Kevin Allardice is an English teacher at Mercy High School in Burlingame, CA and the author of the novels Any Resemblance to Actual Persons and Family, Genus, Species. Use technology?

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AUGUST 22, 2018

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). Teachers can select how the feedback process will unfold. The system guides pupils through how to offer constructive feedback to their peers.

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Writing Feedback Peer Review Plagiarism 113

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APRIL 17, 2017

Last year, Sammy Spencer, a High School English teacher in Southern California, ran a pilot program using Revision Assistant in her school. We took a measured approach and piloted Revision Assistant in August 2016 with a small group of English and History teachers. We decided to give it a try. In fact, their scores did improve.

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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 the COVID-19 pandemic has led to the sudden decision by many colleges to make submitting such scores optional. They also simply may not work.

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Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Assessments will always impact how students learn, their motivation to learn, and how teachers teach. Peer review in the classroom: Student perceptions, peer feedback quality and the role of assessment. Assessment and Feedback in Higher Education: A Guide for Teachers. Dr. Carless, D., & Winstone, N.

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MARCH 30, 2025

For example, instead of traditional essays, instructors might assign reflective portfolios, oral presentations, or collaborative projects that require students to engage deeply with the material and demonstrate their understanding in ways that go beyond what AI can produce. The Reading Teacher, 67 (6), 455464. link] McCarthy, J.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Assessments will always impact how students learn, their motivation to learn, and how teachers teach. Peer review in the classroom: Student perceptions, peer feedback quality and the role of assessment. Assessment and Feedback in Higher Education: A Guide for Teachers. Dr. Carless, D., & Winstone, N.

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MARCH 30, 2025

For example, instead of traditional essays, instructors might assign reflective portfolios, oral presentations, or collaborative projects that require students to engage deeply with the material and demonstrate their understanding in ways that go beyond what AI can produce. The Reading Teacher, 67 (6), 455464. link] McCarthy, J.

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Faculty Development Teaching Instructors Academic Integrity 86

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NOVEMBER 30, 2015

When students share organic ideas and peer review projects, they build authentic knowledge that everyone takes ownership in, but the saying is easier than the doing. For lots of teachers, it’s the default strategy for all classwork. You can’t just break students into groups and expect a collaborative workflow.

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JANUARY 22, 2023

As promising as this may sound, I want to add a caveat: In over ten years of teaching freshman English, I learned that the more I policed student work, the less energy I had to be a good teacher. Peer review. Conduct a peer review and/or class discussion of AI writing. AI isn’t going away.

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Assignments Writing Plagiarism Instructors 122

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JANUARY 22, 2023

As promising as this may sound, I want to add a caveat: In over ten years of teaching freshman English, I learned that the more I policed student work, the less energy I had to be a good teacher. Peer review. Conduct a peer review and/or class discussion of AI writing. AI isn’t going away.

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Assignments Writing Plagiarism Instructors 98

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JULY 11, 2018

Among the top results: a slick animated video called “Problems in Public Education,” a rant arguing that all public education “kills creativity,” and a video essay titled “public ‘education’ has become indoctrination and distraction.” And that was just on the first page. Keskin himself is a proponent, and a product, of public education.

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