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. How will AI improve the role of education?

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eSchool News

MAY 27, 2024

Now, more than ever, educators need to focus on the four upper levels of Bloom’s 1956 taxonomy (with evaluation at the top) and the processing and applying levels of Costa’s levels. This includes analyzing data, evaluating scenarios, and creating new solutions, which AI cannot easily replicate.

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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

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Here are a few questions to consider when researching and evaluating AI programs for the classroom. Despite its benefits, AI can also bring ethical challenges to education. They should also rigorously test their programs to identify potential bias and then continually monitor them. Does the AI think like a student?

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 25, 2024

Here are a few questions to consider when researching and evaluating AI programs for the classroom. Despite its benefits, AI can also bring ethical challenges to education. They should also rigorously test their programs to identify potential bias and then continually monitor them. Does the AI think like a student?

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Listening to a lecture, writing notes, filling out worksheets, and taking tests will almost surely not be enough. If you are allowed to use an AI account at school, project it on a screen in front of the class and have students help you generate prompts, evaluate responses, and use the generated content.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 4, 2023

These next three principles provide guidance on what to consider in your AI tool evaluation. Navigate the ethics of generative AI in education. Generative AI is incredibly exciting but also opens the door to new questions about ethics and responsibility in the digital age.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

Michael Petrilli said: Last year, [Ohio] State Superintendent Dick Ross published a report on the testing load in the state’s schools that showed strikingly similar results as the new Council for Great City Schools study. To his credit, Ross proposed that districts simply dump those tests. Meaning that, alas, it has failed this test.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Memorization, cultural biases, limited real-world applications–these are just some of the reasons why traditional testing may not be an effective means of assessment and may not accurately reflect a students true understanding of a subject. These technologies enable mobility and learning anytime, anywhere.

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eSchool News

APRIL 29, 2024

This potential hinges on the responsible and ethical use of AI, taught through a framework that addresses critical concerns such as bias, misinformation, and the preparation of students for a world transformed by AI. This partnership will enable teachers across Canada to offer ethical, quality AI training to their students.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 11, 2021

The most common method is through assessment—either via homework or quizzes and tests. Each quiz contains around 10 questions, with roughly half of the questions evaluating student knowledge of topics covered in last week’s lecture, and the remaining half covering topics from earlier in the course.

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Cult of Pedagogy

JANUARY 21, 2024

Over the last decade or so , we’ve settled into a choreographed dance around large-scale, state-mandated standardized test scores. Next, people who have nothing to do with the design, administration, taking, or scoring of the tests will then use them to critique states, districts, schools, and/or individual teachers.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

They are asking themselves questions like, “Is this helping me get through this specific assignment or this specific test because I’m trying to navigate five classes and applications for internships” — but at the cost of learning? Peirce Caudell, of Indiana University, says her students have raised ethical issues with using AI tools as well.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2024

When students can bring models to life and test them in real world situations, they are expanding beyond paper and screen into the world around them. In 2024, I expect we will see big advancements towards determining the best way to use AI in both classroom and administrative settings, as well as clearly defining boundaries for ethical use.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 13, 2023

AI literacy enables educators to understand how AI works, how to evaluate it and how to best adapt it for their disciplines and learners. For example, students might train a machine learning system to recognize patterns in math class or test a text-to-speech system to see if it can differentiate between homonyms in English Language Arts.

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 1, 2023

One should note, however, careful attention must be given to ethical considerations, data privacy, the role educators play in its use, and the transparency of AI systems. Test and evaluate: Conduct testing and evaluation to assess the technology’s performance and suitability for your specific use case.

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Edsurge

MARCH 29, 2024

However, the integration of AI into higher education also raises concerns about its ethical use , including data privacy, security and the potential for bias in algorithms. We want to help institutions embrace AI in an ethical and responsible structure. We are rethinking how to test students. It is like setting up guardrails.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

However, responsible implementation and addressing ethical considerations are crucial to maximize the benefits of AI and mitigate potential drawbacks, ensuring a positive and equitable impact on students’ overall learning and development. Challenges include ensuring equitable access and addressing ethical considerations.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Another crucial aspect is ensuring that AI systems align with human values, ethics, and societal norms. Striking a balance between innovation and ethical considerations is essential to prevent unintended consequences and ensure that AI technologies contribute positively to humanity. However, challenges accompany these advantages.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Furthermore, AI can contribute to the development of adaptive assessments, offering a more nuanced understanding of students’ capabilities beyond traditional testing methods. AI algorithms could be exploited for plagiarism detection, potentially hindering students’ ethical development.

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Edsurge

JUNE 30, 2016

Regardless of the test, the impact of tech has been negative. Google is distracting, ethics are a mess.". His team at DSST looks at data like shortform student mastery checks and longform MAPP testing scores, feeding them through data analysis platform. Multiple choice tests and high-stakes assessment had few fans at ISTE.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MARCH 2, 2022

No wonder the long-term reviews of standards-, testing-, and data-oriented educational policy and reform efforts have concluded that they are mostly a complete waste. Similarly, our efforts to ‘toughen’ teacher evaluations also show no positive impact on students. Judging school success by test scores. And only test scores.

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Edsurge

MARCH 7, 2018

I don’t think that is ethical,” Herrera, now the Senior Director of Strategy and Operations at ProjectEd, told the audience at a recent panel session at the SXSW EDU conference in Austin. In general, top-down mandates to test products are taxing on teachers’ time and provide few rewards, making them somewhat burdenous.

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Edsurge

JULY 21, 2022

The concerns you have about assessing creative work seem to reflect an important (I would even say necessary) ethic you are attempting to live up to in your teaching. I feel weird about testing them on genocide.” She tweeted : “In my course on The Holocaust, I gave my students choice between a final project and a final exam.

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Edsurge

JULY 11, 2019

We had a lab with about 100 students a year” and a hefty budget to support hardware, software and a testing environment, he recalls. Raymond says the program is still evaluating exactly what fees it will charge to those outside the state but estimates the fee for the program will be less than $20 per student per month.

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 1, 2023

One should note, however, careful attention must be given to ethical considerations, data privacy, the role educators play in its use, and the transparency of AI systems. Test and evaluate: Conduct testing and evaluation to assess the technology’s performance and suitability for your specific use case.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

The two teams decided to test the conversational agent in a few episodes of “Elinor Wonders Why,” a show created by a fellow University of California at Irvine professor—Daniel Whiteson, who studies physics—and Jorge Cham, the cartoonist behind popular PHD Comics. “In Kids are smarter than we give them credit for.”

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Edsurge

APRIL 5, 2019

Harvard University’s Graduate School of Education’s Turning the Tide Campaign is a great example of an effort to help underrepresented and low-income students see themselves in a college environment while encouraging university admissions professionals to consider a broader set of experiences when evaluating applicants.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 30, 2024

This approach is particularly significant in portrait and fashion photography, where ethical considerations are paramount. Enter Competitions: Participate in photo editing contests to test your skills and gain recognition. Reflect and Adapt: Evaluate your work, adapt your style, and explore new techniques.

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MARCH 4, 2025

Technology has introduced dynamic visualization tools, allowing students to explore patterns, test hypotheses, and receive immediate feedback. Additionally, AI will continue to refine assessment methods, moving beyond traditional tests to evaluate students’ critical thinking and reasoning skills more effectively.

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Edsurge

JUNE 12, 2018

Without good assessment, it’s hard for district decision-makers to decide what resources to invest in; it’s hard for teachers to tailor instruction based on student strengths and needs; it’s hard to evaluate how students are doing in response to instruction; and it’s hard to engage in data-based continuous improvement.

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JUNE 9, 2022

citizenship/ethics/etiquette. review debate evaluation rubric. The online program starts with a pre-test to determine the level of student knowledge, then provides exercises to backfill any holes in learning. This is an exercise as much for presenters as audience, and is graded on reading, writing, speaking and listening skills.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JULY 16, 2015

teacher evaluations based on statistically-volatile (and thus unfair) ‘value-added’ assessment systems. public shaming through publication of teacher evaluations. school evaluations based primarily on bubble test scores. rollbacks of educators’ collective bargaining rights. elimination of teacher tenure.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 7, 2024

This requires thoroughly self-examining personally held biases and evaluating our social connectedness (Dewsbury & Brame, 2019). The first domain is associated with taking a team approach to maintain shared values, engage in ethical conduct, and engage in respect for each other.

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Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 12, 2023

In doing so, we should design assessments as an engaging, ongoing process for students, helping them learn and achieve their learning outcomes rather than considering it as a one-shot test or quiz and focusing merely on the score. Integrate different assessment methods to form a holistic, precise, and reasonable evaluation system.

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eSchool News

APRIL 1, 2024

Michael Trucano is a visiting fellow in the Center for Universal Education at the Brookings Institution, a global think tank based in Washington, DC, where he explores issues related to effective and ethical uses of new technologies in education. Well, of course, we’ve been using AI and asset.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

State standards for Louisiana charter schools take into account test scores, credit accumulation, attendance and enrollment. On an A through F evaluation scale, charters must maintain a ‘C’ or above for contract renewals. As charter networks ramp up their spending on data work, skeptics have raised ethical questions about such efforts.

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