Edsurge

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Giving regular feedback to roughly 100 middle and high schoolers has been my greatest challenge as an English and writing teacher, and it hit home for me sometime in 2013. My challenges with the feedback load were officially impacting my health and family life. Students were getting the feedback they needed faster.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

. — The vast majority of high school students are not financially literate but respond well to economics and personal finance courses that include digital tools in their curriculum, according to a new study by Project Tomorrow and Certell, creator of the Poptential family of free, award-winning social studies course packages.

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

Students need to get comfortable thinking about their learning and evaluating the development of specific skills. I encourage teachers to design lessons that allow them to pull feedback into the classroom so that students received focused feedback while they are working. Sustaining Effort and Persistence. ProjectChoiceBoard.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 20, 2022

What Contributed to COVID Learning Loss in Indiana’s Schools? ,” a recently published study from Ball State’s Center for Business and Economic Research (CBER), utilized Indiana Learning Evaluation Assessment Readiness Network (ILEARN) test scores from Spring 2019 to Spring 2021 as a measure of learning for Indiana public K-12 schools. “The

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

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. Tutoring practices that include non-evaluative feedback and mindful approaches support writers’ growth holistically.

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Edsurge

JUNE 10, 2021

Golden collects the results, which students give anonymously, then studies the feedback and makes a list of all the information she’s received. This practice is called early-term feedback. In general, faculty and instructors are really responsive to student feedback. What should we start doing in this class?

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Catlin Tucker

JUNE 14, 2021

The 5Es instructional model is composed of the following stages: 1) Engage, 2) Explore, 3) Explain, 4) Elaborate, and 5) Evaluate. They may conduct online research, talk to colleagues, join a Twitter chat, connect with experts on social media, and/or commit to a book study. Evaluate: Assess the Effectiveness.

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Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 4, 2014

Encourage students to form study groups to prepare for an exam. Facilitate peer feedback. Students can talk through their plans for a writing assignment or share a thesis statement and receive feedback. Practice an oral presentation and get feedback. Create discussion groups up to 5 students. Group storytelling.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

A new study from WestEd, a nonpartisan, nonprofit research agency, commissioned by Front Row Education, found that students using the adaptive, gamified and data-drive technology showed greater mathematics achievement outcomes when compared with students who did not. Today, Front Row Math is used in over 25% of U.S.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

How many hours each week do you spend on creating, sharing, monitoring, evaluating and providing feedback on student activities? An easy-to-use platform for teachers to handle the entire loop from creation to feedback can be the answer to saving time and energy. There’s a feedback option for every teacher—and every student!

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Once upon a time, educators worried about the dangers of CliffsNotes — study guides that rendered great works of literature as a series of bullet points that many students used as a replacement for actually doing the reading. Today, that sure seems quaint. As two professors put it in a recent op-ed , “Your AI Policy Is Already Obsolete.”

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 28, 2016

Department of Education’s Office of Educational Technology (Office of Edtech, for short) issued a Request for Proposal for a better way to help schools evaluate edtech tools before making a purchase and. “[We Anyone interested in giving it a test run and leave feedback can do so TKTK.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 30, 2024

A network of small public high schools in New York City is exploring whether artificial intelligence can change the way teachers receive feedback about their classroom instruction. Proponents say it could save lots of time for instructional coaches and expand access to feedback that improves the quality of teaching.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

These forms of feedback often focus on assignments and homework prior to college, where feedback becomes scarce. This raises an essential question: What kind of feedback information is genuinely useful for students? This idea is well understood in grading, but not as so in feedback to students.

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eSchool News

JUNE 15, 2016

An independent study from Johns Hopkins University shows that a program designed to reverse “summer slide” at scale showed real impact on student engagement and Lexile growth for students who read on the adaptive literacy platform LightSail for as little as 30 minutes per day. The demographics of the student cohort studied are 91.7

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Don’t get me wrong – efficacy studies are crucial when comparing edtech solutions in the procurement decision process. Edtech evaluation is currently the Wild West. As long as the data aligns with the edtech company’s goals, third-party evaluations can be the strongest selling point for solution providers.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 13, 2025

When students evaluations are viewed by instructors as a type of formative assessment to be used as a tool for instructional improvement, mid-semester feedback surveys allow instructors to immediately respond to their students needs (Chapman & Joines, 2017; Diamond, 2004). 2002; Spencer & Schmelkin, 2002). Sojka et al.

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eSchool News

APRIL 23, 2025

Students, too, interact with data daily, whether analyzing graphs in math class or using feedback from educational platforms to guide their learning. In social studies , students can interpret historical or demographic data, question sources, and discuss how data is used to shape policy.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 5, 2024

For instance, students must evaluate the accuracy and relevance of AI-generated information, distinguishing between helpful insights and misleading content. Using AI tools for editing and feedback while ensuring students critically evaluate suggestions. However, effective use of AI demands critical thinking.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

From kindergarten through college, teachers know that writers need guided practice, substantive feedback, and opportunities for deep revision. From kindergarten through college, teachers know that writers need guided practice, substantive feedback, and opportunities for deep revision.

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eSchool News

JUNE 15, 2022

Just four years ago, a study predicted that AI in education and learning would increase 47.5% However, momentum is accelerating. through 2021; as it turned out, the prediction was conservative. The current landscape.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

CoSN’s case study–The Michigan Data Hub: A Strategic Alignment and ROI Study–offers insight into these hidden costs. The study’s authors found that “data management by [Michigan] districts requires both personnel effort and technology costs totaling over $160 million per year statewide. ideal timeline, budget, etc.)

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 13, 2025

When students evaluations are viewed by instructors as a type of formative assessment to be used as a tool for instructional improvement, mid-semester feedback surveys allow instructors to immediately respond to their students needs (Chapman & Joines, 2017; Diamond, 2004). 2002; Spencer & Schmelkin, 2002). Sojka et al.

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Edsurge

JUNE 6, 2017

The University of Michigan’s M-Write program is built on the idea that students learn best when they write about what they’re studying, rather than taking multiple-choice tests. The M-Write program started in 2015 as a way to give more writing feedback to students by enlisting other students to serve as peer mentors to help with revisions.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

As educational technology companies look to place learning science at the core of their products, there are three key steps to success: aligning their teams around education outcomes, building a feedback loop, and evaluating and validating your results.

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eSchool News

APRIL 2, 2024

A science-backed and scalable solution for this mental health challenge is to provide students with an anonymous questionnaire that provides personalized feedback and supportive resources in the areas of mental health, well-being, social support, and psychosocial areas relevant to school persistence and achievement.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 28, 2025

The Rise of Online Learning Online learning has increasingly become a staple in education, with studies showing that over 30% of students now prefer it over traditional classroom settings. A study from the U.S. Department of Education found that 77% of online students reported a better balance between their studies and personal life.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 14, 2024

According to a recent study , this ratio has stayed stable for years, but teachers are under more pressure and are working more hours than ever before – an average of 52-58 hours per week. Automated grading and feedback : Automated grading systems powered by AI can significantly reduce teachers’ time evaluating assignments and exams.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

For its ©2023 update, McGraw Hill has drawn upon decades of rigorous literacy studies, collaborated with preeminent reading researchers and experts, and listened to and incorporated feedback from educators and users.

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eSchool News

APRIL 15, 2024

Key points: Video-based coaching offers insight on teacher practices and makes feedback more effective I’m a first-year teacher. Recent research highlights the value of video: A study conducted through the U.S. One group had five rounds of coaching in which they recorded themselves teaching and received feedback on the video.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Before adding IXL Math to the state’s grant list, the Action Center and Utah Education Policy Center (UEPC) rigorously evaluated the platform to determine its efficacy. The UEPC’s study shows that IXL can be a reliable partner in Utah educators’ efforts toward recovering learning, differentiating instruction and boosting achievement in math.”

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eSchool News

JULY 16, 2024

For example, to become better writers, readers, and critical thinkers, Quill.org offers low-income students an AI-powered literacy tutor that provides students real-time coaching and feedback on literacy activities that pair nonfiction reading with informational writing.

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eSchool News

JULY 20, 2017

In academic writing, this leads back to the text, where writers rethink, re-evaluate, and understand a detail or main idea more deeply. In the best classrooms, writing for learning is facilitated through collaboration with a peer or revision based on feedback from a teacher. To learn to write is to learn to have ideas.”.

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Case studies have long been heralded as an impactful and critical pedagogical approach in college classrooms. Yet there is another additional skill that is often overlooked in the implementation of case studies—the opportunity to develop questioning skills. Questions are essential components of case studies.

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eSchool News

MAY 28, 2024

The Newark Board of Education in March approved a data-sharing agreement with Khan Academy to study whether the tool was effective “in the North Ward schools,” according to the agreement. Reid studies educational technology products and reviews their efficacy in classroom instruction. Learn more about our funding here.)

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

According to McKinsey’s 2017 study , the average teacher worked 50 hours a week (a number that has grown to 54 hours post-pandemic, according to 2022 research ). Indeed, the time spent on teaching class is less than the time spent on preparation, evaluation, and feedback (grading). Here’s how. That’s over ten hours a week.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

The first complex challenge the UW College of Education will use AI-human collaboration to tackle is co-creating and co-evaluating Individualized Education Programs (IEPs) for students with disabilities in Wyoming and beyond. under review ). educators, families, students, school psychologists, and school administrators).

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