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. After a writing fellow quickly reviews it, the score gets delivered to the student via the eCoach system.

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Essay Feedback Writing Assignments 138

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. Teachers can select how the feedback process will unfold. Students can do a self-reflection upon finishing the draft, and also engage in anonymous peer-reviews of each other’s work.

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Writing Feedback Peer Review Plagiarism 113

Faculty Focus

MAY 7, 2024

QM’s robust framework, encapsulated in the QM Rubric, evaluates various facets of online course design through eight categories, including learning objectives, alignment, assessment strategies, instructional materials, learner interaction, course technology, learner support, accessibility, and usability.

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Feedback Course Design Instructors Education 121

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 394

eSchool News

JUNE 9, 2021

Members of the public were also able to review the materials online for two weeks. Finally, the Commissioner of Education assessed the state and district reviewer evaluations, public feedback and cost of the materials before giving approval. Michael Conley Elementary School, Tallahassee.

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Education Blended Learning Learning Peer Review 258

Faculty Focus

MAY 7, 2024

QM’s robust framework, encapsulated in the QM Rubric, evaluates various facets of online course design through eight categories, including learning objectives, alignment, assessment strategies, instructional materials, learner interaction, course technology, learner support, accessibility, and usability.

Feedback 111

Feedback Course Design Instructors Education 111

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

There were also a variety of “honorable mentions” as upcoming trends to keep an eye on in the next few years like STEM and online labs, digital literacy and fluency, access, and feedback to name a few. Joosten also argued that the field should evaluate trends through subgroups of underrepresented students to promote equity.

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Peer Review Gamification Mobile Devices Learning 218

eSchool News

DECEMBER 7, 2023

A peer review team from Middle States member schools recommended VHS Learning for reaccreditation, and Middle States voted on the recommendation at its biannual meeting in Philadelphia. As part of the reaccreditation process, VHS Learning conducted a self-study before the peer review team’s evaluation.

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Peer Review Learning Evaluation Achievement 130

eSchool News

MARCH 26, 2018

With Writable, students learn to write to a prompt, provide and incorporate peer review effectively, and substantively revise their work based on feedback. At the end of a project, teachers can also have students evaluate peer feedback received. Price : Free to try. Grades : 3-12. Rating : 4/5.

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Peer Review Feedback Writing Evaluation 133

Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 15, 2024

The Beauty of Freewriting Engaging in creative exercises such as freewriting, mind mapping, and storytelling can foster innovation and proficiency in essay writing skills, while seeking guidance from top essay writing services can offer valuable feedback and support in refining one’s craft to achieve academic excellence.

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Essay Writing Skills Interdisciplinary 167

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

In higher education, there has been an over-reliance on administering summative assessments and simply assigning student grades, often with minimal to no feedback provided prior to the conclusion of the course. Providing student feedback on an assessment, or any assignment, provides extensive value.

Fairness 122

Fairness Instructors Feedback Evaluation 122

Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 19, 2019

Robust reports are available to identify opportunities for enrichment, deeper dives, or additional support while providing feedback on which word skills students have begun and completed. In response to this, peer feedback is growing in popularity as an approach that balances these two realities for the benefit of the student.

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Teachers Peer Review Feedback Critical Thinking 107

Edsurge

JUNE 10, 2019

Dear Bonni, Various times I get feedback from students that they find me too unsure when in front of the class. The following is the latest installment of the Toward Better Teaching advice column. You can pose a question for a future column here. What are helpful strategies to get better at this?

Teaching 167

Teaching Peer Review Course Evaluations Culture 167

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

In higher education, there has been an over-reliance on administering summative assessments and simply assigning student grades, often with minimal to no feedback provided prior to the conclusion of the course. Providing student feedback on an assessment, or any assignment, provides extensive value.

Fairness 111

Fairness Instructors Feedback Evaluation 111

EdTech Magazine

MARCH 4, 2019

The Chromebook App Hub will let users filter applications by grade level and content area, see peer reviews and comments for apps, and follow links to lesson plans that incorporate specific apps. . “It They’ll also be able to see how much apps cost and evaluate how well they would integrate with existing platforms. .

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Peer Review Teaching Methods Blended Learning Evaluation 138

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

As a result, its new certification considers only whether a product is grounded in research, and not whether the company incorporates user feedback to improve the product or can point to evidence showing that the products leads to better outcomes. The premise may sound simple. The product team shares the research behind the design publicly.”

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Education Peer Review Motivation Reading 170

Edsurge

OCTOBER 2, 2017

We provide training so they all have a good sense of how to evaluate writing and provide feedback to students.” And useful feedback is crucial. We’ve had to work,” Cotton says, “on helping our teachers provide students with actionable, growth-producing feedback they can actually do something with.”

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Writing Feedback Exams Middle School 122

Edsurge

JANUARY 3, 2023

In fact, the JAMA Network just published a peer-reviewed report that “showed enhanced cognitive performance in children who played video games vs those who did not.” Youth screen time is now being regulated in countries like South Korea and China, and other countries are evaluating similar policies.

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Game-Based Learning Learning Critical Thinking Peer Review 175

Edsurge

MAY 28, 2020

The National Council on Teacher Quality, a think tank that evaluates teacher preparation programs, doesn’t collect data related to remote learning or online education, says its director of strategic communications. You gotta be able to give really great feedback and create relationships online.” You gotta care about kids.

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Teachers Education Blended Learning STEM 216

Faculty Focus

APRIL 20, 2023

Share former students’ feedback about the course. Informally, survey students anonymously for feedback about your communication style in the classroom. Communicating with the online student: The impact of email tone on student performance and teacher evaluations. Let students know something about us. References: Bogost, I.

Culture 122

Culture Communication Writing Language 122

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Three ideas—evaluation, categorization, and ideation—for utilizing case studies to develop student questioning skills follow. Evaluation Faculty can have students critique the discussion questions associated with the case. What histories are important to consider when evaluating this case?

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Questions Study Skills Evaluation 105

Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 25, 2022

That’s quite an advantage since copied materials often come from peer-reviewed articles. After all, no machine can evaluate like humans do, considering all the factors in the rubric and beyond, giving every student personalized feedback. .

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Plagiarism Essay Instructors Peer Review 158

Faculty Focus

MARCH 30, 2025

This article addresses these questions through a three-part exploration: tracing AI’s historical development, critically evaluating its role in community college classrooms, and offering practical, evidence-based strategies for faculty. Faculty can learn to leverage AI feedback systems through peer mentoring.

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Faculty Development Teaching Instructors Intelligence 91

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. We decided to give it a try. This is a fair criticism.

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Testing Essay English Writing 84

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Three ideas—evaluation, categorization, and ideation—for utilizing case studies to develop student questioning skills follow. Evaluation Faculty can have students critique the discussion questions associated with the case. What histories are important to consider when evaluating this case?

Questions 98

Questions Study Skills Evaluation 98

Faculty Focus

MARCH 30, 2025

This article addresses these questions through a three-part exploration: tracing AI’s historical development, critically evaluating its role in community college classrooms, and offering practical, evidence-based strategies for faculty. Faculty can learn to leverage AI feedback systems through peer mentoring.

Faculty Development 86

Faculty Development Teaching Instructors Intelligence 86

Faculty Focus

APRIL 20, 2023

Share former students’ feedback about the course. Informally, survey students anonymously for feedback about your communication style in the classroom. Communicating with the online student: The impact of email tone on student performance and teacher evaluations. Let students know something about us. References: Bogost, I.

Culture 98

Culture Communication Writing Language 98

Scholarly Teacher

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

The transparent assignment format makes the faculty’s implicit knowledge more explicit by directly stating a purpose, the tasks the students need to do to complete the project, and the criteria used for evaluation purposes (Winkelmes, 2013; Winkelmes et al., Peer Review. Please use complete sentences and proper grammar.

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Assignments Students Peer Review Evaluation 52

Edsurge

DECEMBER 1, 2018

But what if we employed machine learning and peer reviews for writing evaluation? We then could help teachers build more fluent, independent writers, while freeing up teacher capacity for more targeted and meaningful feedback. This can compound the gap in writing proficiency.

Technology 167

Technology Assignments Peer Review Special Education 167

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 22, 2023

At worst, instructors with this mindset could resign themselves to grading work written by AI and hope most students are still writing their own papers and learning from feedback. Peer review. Conduct a peer review and/or class discussion of AI writing. What is AI incapable of doing in its writing?

Assignments 122

Assignments Writing Plagiarism Instructors 122

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 22, 2023

At worst, instructors with this mindset could resign themselves to grading work written by AI and hope most students are still writing their own papers and learning from feedback. Peer review. Conduct a peer review and/or class discussion of AI writing. What is AI incapable of doing in its writing?

Assignments 98

Assignments Writing Plagiarism Instructors 98

eSchool News

JANUARY 2, 2025

Unlike traditional large language models that ingest information from the Internet at large, RAG delivers AI outputs that are grounded in authoritative, peer-reviewed content, reducing the risk of misinformation while safeguarding the integrity of intellectual property. Another emerging trend is AI-driven reading practice.

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Ethics Writing Feedback Intelligence 350