Faculty Focus

JUNE 17, 2025

We also explore the role of continuous evaluation and stakeholder engagement in maintaining an AI framework that remains true to an institution’s mission over time. Monitor and Adapt : Use feedback from experiments to refine policies and practices. Actionable Tip : Develop a stakeholder engagement plan with regular feedback sessions.

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2025

Earlier this year, I administered a survey to my students, asking them to evaluate my classroom management skills and provide feedback on our classroom. Some students opted for a good old-fashioned test. Instead of assuming this was the case for my classroom, I did what any unsure teacher does and asked my students directly.

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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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Faculty Focus

APRIL 24, 2025

In the above context, I saw my pandemic classroom as a laboratory to prototype and test new pedagogical moves, and where unexpected issues are expected to come to light. The before-action directive included the anticipation of a good deal of messiness and muddling through during classes.

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eSchool News

MAY 23, 2025

The future of neurodiverse education The promise of AI in education goes beyond improved test scores or sleek digital interfaces, its about advancing equity. This could be gamified lessons that minimize cognitive overload, voice-assisted content to reduce reading anxiety, or real-time emotional feedback to help manage frustration.

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Elevate k12

JULY 3, 2025

The result: districts are facing shortages of educators who are not only qualified to teach, but certified in areas where compliance is non-negotiable, such as delivering IEP services, bilingual content-based instruction, or state-tested core courses. Pay special attention to Title I campuses and state-tested subjects.

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Edsurge

APRIL 24, 2025

One group effort, backed by The Learning Accelerator, is the School Teams AI Collaborative, which has dozens of educators from schools across the country experimenting with and evaluating AI-enabled instruction. For example, theyre using AI to offer writing feedback and to teach students about civics by developing voter registration chatbots.

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eSchool News

APRIL 23, 2025

Every test score, attendance log, learning app, or digital assignment generates data. Students, too, interact with data daily, whether analyzing graphs in math class or using feedback from educational platforms to guide their learning. Whether we realize it or not, data is everywhere in our schools.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 10, 2017

He engaged in a fifteen-year evaluation of over 50,000 research articles and something like 240 million students — making it the biggest evidence-based education research project ever — and discovered something no one expected and few believed: Almost any approach will work if delivered well. Or not occurring. teacher clarity.

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eSchool News

APRIL 10, 2025

Here are five powerful resources that can transform how you evaluate student progress. Unlike traditional tests, Wakelet empowers students to demonstrate understanding in a personalized and reflective way. Unlike traditional tests, Wakelet empowers students to demonstrate understanding in a personalized and reflective way.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 22, 2015

GEI’s seal of endorsement process conducts product evaluations by teachers based on real-world use in their classrooms. Created specifically to serve the educational market, GEI places learning products into the hands of teachers, who evaluate them based on classroom use and a vigorous assessment process.

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Catlin Tucker

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

It helps students understand what is expected and how they will be evaluated. Rubrics also provide students with feedback, helping them understand their strengths and areas where they need to improve. Testing a solution involves investigating how well it performs under a range of likely conditions.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 24, 2015

Latest Gallup Poll reveals that many public school parents are not in favor of using student performance in teacher evaluations. Many Americans, especially public-school parents, give low marks to rating a teacher based partly on how students perform on standardized tests, according to a survey.

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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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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

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

The traditional methods of testing and evaluation must evolve to accommodate the capabilities of AI. Demonstrating learning needs to move from testing memorization to showcasing transferable skills. AI-assisted tools can provide real-time feedback, enabling personalized learning experiences that adapt to each student’s progress.

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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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Intelligence Teachers Coaching Feedback 328

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

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

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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