Edsurge

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

Pinterest boasts more than 1,000 ideas about how students can self-evaluate their own learning. How can we motivate students to want to evaluate their own learning? The first step is to reframe self-evaluation within the context of the learning environment rather than primarily as a task-oriented process. What’s In A Word?

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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

JULY 16, 2024

Test-optional and test-blind admissions in recent years could mean a radical expansion of access to selective colleges. The patchwork of admission test policies in college admissions underscores a larger challenge—and opportunity—for both K-12 and higher education.

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Edsurge

MARCH 13, 2019

I asked a variety of questions about their perception of the instruction and assessment practices we had shifted to, the types of feedback they received and how they felt about the class. This was the toughest feedback I have ever received, but it helped me define the problem so I could figure out what to do about it.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

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. A decision-maker should not hesitate to reach out to their nationwide network of peers to get honest, unfettered feedback.

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eSchool News

JULY 1, 2024

While this flexibility can be advantageous, it may also create inconsistencies in how AI tools are utilized and evaluated across different courses. This use of AI can enhance the quality of student submissions and provide valuable feedback that helps students learn and improve their skills over time.

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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

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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Edsurge

APRIL 29, 2024

Recommended Resources ISTE’s Advancing Edtech Evaluation and Selection page includes a set of user-friendly resources designed to help teachers and education leaders select the best edtech on the market. Convened an advisory group of experts in user experience design, learning design, equity and justice, and edtech product evaluation.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 14, 2024

The situation is made even more challenging by the lack of suitable feedback mechanisms to help teachers understand who is struggling in class and to help them quickly find the root cause of the student’s challenges. Most tools that teachers have for this purpose are lagging indicators such as tests, quizzes, and homework.

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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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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 13, 2019

Assessing student learning traditionally is accomplished with tests. A solution that has become popular is peer feedback. What exactly is peer feedback and how is it being applied to lower grades? What is peer feedback? One important difference from teacher evaluations is that students don’t grade each other.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

The University of Massachusetts Amherst has historically required prospective undergraduate students to submit a standardized test score as part of their applications. Even now, as testing has resumed—albeit with social distancing, face coverings and limited seating—access to testing centers is not equal, nor equitable.

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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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Teach Hub

OCTOBER 25, 2024

If you’ve been a teacher for a while, you already know how much standardized tests shape everything from what you teach to how you’re evaluated. These tests seem to influence how you prepare lesson plans, so you may feel pressured to “teach to the test” rather than foster a love of learning.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 31, 2019

According to that “big” test, the PISA, math and science test scores of all U.S. Feedback@edsurge.com. One of the most popular articles in EdSurge this year described demoralization among the profession, and how “systemic pressures, such as top-down initiatives or punitive evaluation systems, can deplete teacher autonomy.”

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eSchool News

MAY 28, 2024

The district was among the first in the country to test the chatbot called Khanmigo, an AI program developed by online learning giant Khan Academy that is designed for classrooms and acts as a tutor for students and an assistant for teachers. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is a Chalkbeat funder. Learn more about our funding here.)

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Refined through extensive beta testing, the new portal is designed to be more personalized and intuitive for the students and educators who use it. As we talked with EmpowerU students, we realized how much they valued the daily support of their EmpowerU coach—and they wanted an integrated way to access their feedback and encouragement.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 20, 2022

,” 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. Hicks and Faulk wrote in the study’s executive summary.

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k12 Digest

MAY 28, 2025

That vision became AEF Schools , a place designed for students who needed something differenta structured, supportive environment where learning goes beyond textbooks and tests. The Preparatory Programs support students who thrive in a structured setting without the added stress of homework or standardized testing.

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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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eSchool News

MAY 13, 2016

teachers say they are frustrated with testing, changing agendas, lack of influence. A new survey reveals teachers are concerned and frustrated with shifting policies, an outsized focus on testing and a lack of voice in decision-making. “It’s becoming a tougher sell as a career.”

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Edsurge

AUGUST 6, 2020

has been a leader in implementing stringent supervision and high-stakes evaluation for teachers, these practices are part of a national education reform movement that seeks to standardize teaching in an (ultimately ineffective) quest to boost student test scores. My experience is not unique: While D.C.

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eSchool News

MARCH 5, 2021

Standard for Success, the industry-leader in teacher evaluation software, and Stride, Inc., Our custom tool standardizes the feedback opportunities for teachers and administrators. After a school year like no other, parents, students and districts have worked hard to provide educational solutions for their students.”

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eSchool News

MARCH 27, 2018

5 essential questions to test your district’s AI readiness. What kind of feedback is the most valuable for student growth? Next page: How to evaluate your district’s data readiness for AI). For most districts, spending money on AI over the next three to five years would be money down the drain.

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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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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

Nonprofit Digital Promise agrees, and on August 9, the nonprofit launched an effort to collection and evaluate quality examples of how companies conduct and research in designing and improving their products. It’s the most honest feedback you can get.". If they don’t like something, they just tell you.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

Innovation requires tests and iteration. Pilots are a great way to test out new ways of soliciting school leader and teacher feedback. Engage educators in evaluation. Getting teachers and school leaders’ input through the procurement, implementation, and evaluation processes is critical to that success.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 17, 2023

EdSurge connected with Wieman to find out, and to hear about his more recent efforts to improve how teaching evaluations are done at colleges to make them more useful — and more equitable. And so colleges spend lots of time focusing on, ‘OK, how do we select the brains that'll absorb the most with admissions and tests and such?’

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 21, 2024

During the change stage, we strived to empower early adopters and make modifications to the rollout based on their feedback. Last year, I had to adjust our schools’ bell schedule to accommodate a week of state testing. Leaders freeze. It’s basic mathematics–until you dive deeper into the impact a single shift can make.

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Edsurge

MARCH 1, 2023

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. We wanted to understand better the relationship between teachers and the AI employed by the automated writing evaluation tool. argument coherence) for teachers.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 16, 2025

There is truly nothing more powerful–or that grows your practice morethan watching yourself on video, and the use of this technology will help our teachers engage in more meaningful self-reflection while receiving targeted feedback from coaches and coordinators.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Don’t just use video for lectures; the format can also be used to welcome students to your class, provide feedback (much preferred by students to print feedback) and walk through assignments. Fourth, be brave and conduct a mid-term, anonymous evaluation of your course. Second, you can’t employ too much video.

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Edsurge

MARCH 5, 2018

When the Opt-Out movement gained traction in 2015, more than 20 percent of New York students (about 200,000) in grades 3 through 8 declined to take state standardized exams, a statistic that raised questions about the future of such testing. Aligning tests with the ways students learn in the classroom is one of Gorin’s goals.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

Students using Front Row’s adaptive, gamified technology increased end-of-year test scores by nearly 10 percentage points over those who did not. Since launching in 2013, Front Row has continuously made new features available, along with updating the programs based directly on feedback from teachers.

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eSchool News

JUNE 9, 2021

Finally, the Commissioner of Education assessed the state and district reviewer evaluations, public feedback and cost of the materials before giving approval. With Core5, teachers are empowered to differentiate instruction for each student using meaningful data powered by Lexia’s patented Assessment Without Testing® technology.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Share these success criteria when evaluating resources so there is a mutually agreed upon goal that both parties are working toward. Make sure to include your teachers early in the process and solicit and incorporate teacher feedback frequently throughout. Don’t be distracted by features when deciding between various providers.

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