eSchool News

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

. — SpringMath, an award winning, complete MTSS solution for math, recently received the highest possible rating for fall classification accuracy in every grade submitted to the National Center on Intensive Intervention (NCII). SpringMath assessments build upon the decades of research around the science of curriculum-based assessment.

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Edsurge

MARCH 13, 2019

I was in my fifth year of teaching at Forest Ridge, an independent all-girls school serving students in grades 5-12 in Bellevue, Wash., With anywhere from 50-150 pieces of work to grade at a time, narrative feedback was taking days for each assignment, and half the students were tossing their feedback in the recycling bin without reading it.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

In some cases, according to Cator, the companies that didn’t get certified were able to point to peer-reviewed research but did not have that research readily accessible for users or potential customers. The product team shares the research behind the design publicly.”

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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. Grades : 3-12. Price : Free to try. Rating : 4/5.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 13, 2019

If they’re short answer or essay — the preferred way to check understanding — grading takes a long time. 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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Feedback Peer Review Writing Critical Thinking 105

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

To mitigate the risks inherent in trying out a potentially ineffective product, we suggest the time and effort spent evaluating the evidence should be proportional to the amount of time students will spend using the product. Reviewing research studies to determine effectiveness can be a complex process.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 15, 2024

Collaborative Writing and Peer Review The adage “two heads are better than one” holds true in the realm of writing, as collaborative efforts and peer review can yield invaluable insights and constructive feedback.

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Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

However, assessment is more than just grading and is often misunderstood. In order to provide useful information to instructors and students about student achievement, it must be understood that student assessment is more than just a grade because it should link student performance to specific learning objectives.

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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 135

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 145

Edsurge

AUGUST 22, 2018

If I were to use Writable to create a rubric for writing and grading funding announcements of the type you might typically see on EdSurge , it might look something like this: The K-12 writing-support tool is not (currently) designed for publications covering startups and venture capital.

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Writing Feedback Peer Review Plagiarism 113

Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 19, 2019

Learning objectives include homonyms, synonyms, expressions and phrases, picturable words, tenses, affixes, compound words, analogies, idioms, derivatives, and more — all broken down by grade level. A recognized leader in organizing peer reviews is the free online platform called Peergrade. In W.O.R.D. Everyone wins.

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Teachers Peer Review Feedback Critical Thinking 107

Edsurge

JULY 10, 2020

In addition to assessing students’ grades and essays, admissions officers have long looked to the SAT and ACT to help them decide who will make it in their campus settings, and beyond. But good high school grades don’t always predict timely college completion. The pitch: Use deeper technology to make admissions more deeply human. “I

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Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

However, assessment is more than just grading and is often misunderstood. In order to provide useful information to instructors and students about student achievement, it must be understood that student assessment is more than just a grade because it should link student performance to specific learning objectives.

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Fairness Instructors Feedback Evaluation 111

Edsurge

JANUARY 3, 2023

More than 50 years after Don Rawitsch introduced Oregon Trail in his eighth grade class, the debate continues : Can games become a legitimate tool for learning? 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.”

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Game-Based Learning Learning Critical Thinking Peer Review 184

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

The toolkit below is packed with practical resources full of new approaches and best practices to help educators at all grade levels prepare their classes for upcoming state tests. We know that educators at all levels are responsible for making big decisions based on student evaluation outcomes. Assessment For Learning.

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Testing Exams Peer Review Study 162

Edsurge

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Henry County students in grades six through nine participate in district-wide writing prompts three times a year. These prepare them for the state writing exams in eighth and tenth grades and help teachers across the district calibrate their scoring and expectations. The writing helps.” And useful feedback is crucial. New Tech Network.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 25, 2022

That’s quite an advantage since copied materials often come from peer-reviewed articles. Moreover, there’s an AI grading tool embedded in this system, but not many experienced teachers would be ready to use it. Then you can save time you could spend grading the unoriginal work or googling “ Turnitin alternative Reddit.”.

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Plagiarism Essay Instructors Peer Review 158

eSchool News

JULY 26, 2016

Peer Review and Team Review tools enabled students to easily complete and evaluate both self-assessments and team assessments, inspiring teamwork and learning integration. D2L currently serves learners in 50 countries, and the company’s track record of innovation has been widely recognized.

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Online Learning Quizzes eLearning Learning 120

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 122

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. How can it enhance teaching without diminishing faculty agency? 2023; Topol, 2019).

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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 111

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. How can it enhance teaching without diminishing faculty agency? 2023; Topol, 2019).

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Faculty Development Teaching Instructors Academic Integrity 89

Faculty Focus

APRIL 20, 2023

And lastly, we should also consider the assumptions we hold about our student audiences—their grade level, motivations, abilities, goals, backgrounds, and more. Communicating with the online student: The impact of email tone on student performance and teacher evaluations. References: Bogost, I. The Atlantic. link] Dickinson, A.

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Culture Communication Writing Languages 122

Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 17, 2017

We could also identify exemplar essays we pulled from the first Revision Assistant exercise that we used in self- and peer-review assignments. Revision Assistant, or any technology that evaluates writing, is unable to assess the human writer. The instant baseline scores allowed our team to mix-and-match units.

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Testing Essay English Writing 84

Faculty Focus

APRIL 20, 2023

And lastly, we should also consider the assumptions we hold about our student audiences—their grade level, motivations, abilities, goals, backgrounds, and more. Communicating with the online student: The impact of email tone on student performance and teacher evaluations. References: Bogost, I. The Atlantic. link] Dickinson, A.

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Culture Communication Writing Languages 98

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 6, 2024

From the initial job interview until the faculty portfolio is submitted, tenure-track professors shed the proverbial blood, sweat, and tears worrying they won’t make the grade. The tenure picture includes other aspects of your work, such as student evaluations, syllabi for courses, service to the university and to the profession.

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Learning Peer Review Ethics Evaluation 64

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

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 6, 2024

From the initial job interview until the faculty portfolio is submitted, tenure-track professors shed the proverbial blood, sweat, and tears worrying they won’t make the grade. The tenure picture includes other aspects of your work, such as student evaluations, syllabi for courses, service to the university and to the profession.

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Learning Peer Review Ethics Evaluation 52

Teaching with a Mountain View

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Help your students with these tips: Restate the Question: This technique helps students stay on track and signals to evaluators that they understood the question. Reading Flipbooks : These reading comprehension flipbooks provide students with a cohesive review of comprehension skills like POV, author’s purpose, inference, and more.

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Testing Multiple Choice Questions Math Writing 52

Edsurge

DECEMBER 1, 2018

Some of those tasks, like grading, can be time-intensive, and drain a teacher’s productivity and emotional energy. Grading these assignments assignments requires time, especially in larger class sizes, and teachers do not always have the capacity to assign ample writing practice. Take writing, for example.

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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?

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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?

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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. When we look at the education sector, the use cases are clear.

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