Faculty Focus

JUNE 22, 2025

Liberal arts education empowers individuals to become well-rounded to handle complexity, diversity, and change by providing broad knowledge of the world and in-depth study in a specific area. This knowledge is deepened by engaging with significant, both contemporary and enduring, real-world problems.

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Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2025

Diagnostic assessments, as opposed to summative assessments, measure students’ current knowledge and skills, helping educators identify gaps and areas for growth, and guide teachers and school leaders toward where students might need additional instruction, resources or support to meet learning outcomes. How would it be delivered?

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 24, 2025

However, we are often unaware of tacit knowledge that underlies our activities and actions, especially when things do not go as planned. 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. what we actually do).

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 10, 2017

That includes everything from Common Core to the IB philosophy, from Depth of Knowledge to Project-based Learning. His eight mindframes for teachers include: My fundamental task is to evaluate the effect of my teaching on students’ learning and achievement. I confess, I found it frustrating. Or not occurring. I am a change agent.

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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. Reviewing their collections provides a richer, more comprehensive view of their understanding than a standard test would.

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Catlin Tucker

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

It helps students understand what is expected and how they will be evaluated. Testing a solution involves investigating how well it performs under a range of likely conditions. This helps them to focus their efforts on the skills and knowledge that are most important.

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eSchool News

MAY 25, 2015

The needs to promote a whole child education and to reduce the overreliance on standardized testing are just two of many priorities that span all education systems across the globe,” said David Griffith, ASCD director of public policy.

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

It is a process where students evaluate their work, reflecting on what they’ve learned, how well they’ve understood complex concepts, how much progress they’ve made toward mastering key skills, and where they may need to invest time and energy to improve their concept knowledge and skill set.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 20, 2015

NCTQ releases list of education colleges most effective at preparing teachers with content knowledge. With this latest round of findings, we hope education colleges across the country can focus on giving future teachers a strong foundation for content knowledge, so that they are as prepared as possible for the reality of the classroom.”.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Let’s dive into the five key strategies that will help foster critical thinking, problem-solving, and the application of knowledge in ways that truly resonate with our students: Optimize: This first strategy is all about taking a simple craft and measuring how it performs.

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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. This shift has the potential to make assessments more engaging and more reflective of real-world skills and knowledge application.

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eSchool News

MAY 27, 2024

Now, more than ever, educators need to focus on the four upper levels of Bloom’s 1956 taxonomy (with evaluation at the top) and the processing and applying levels of Costa’s levels. This includes analyzing data, evaluating scenarios, and creating new solutions, which AI cannot easily replicate.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

In some cases, early, effective literacy instruction can shrink the gap between typical reading and dyslexia so much that it doesn’t appear on diagnostic tests. After my son’s evaluation, I knew I had to take action. My son didn’t know how to actually read; he was just smart and very good at guessing. Thankfully, there are solutions.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

If you’re an educator, the weeks leading up to state testing are likely some of the most stressful and demanding days in your year. You’re focused not only on test preparation, but also on each student’s specific needs. We know that educators at all levels are responsible for making big decisions based on student evaluation outcomes.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 10, 2018

But it’s a tough nut to crack, because many of the skills and characteristics treasured most are in fact the hardest to evaluate. The beauty of playful assessment, she says, is that it can be done without interrupting the rhythm of learning, thereby alleviating student anxiety around testing. They have high anxiety about it, too.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 8, 2024

In January 2023, about one month after the release of ChatGPT, there were already stories about colleges switching to “pen-and-paper” tests to battle the AI bots. He talked about how he dropped in on a calligraphy class, and from that knowledge he created the idea of different types of computer fonts some 10 years later.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

For parents and teachers, addressing these challenges requires a multi-faceted approach that combines thorough and adequate testing, open communication, and proactivity. .” For example, clinicians at a Colorado-based SBHC incorporate more technology, like objective ADHD testing, to design effective accommodation plans.

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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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eSchool News

DECEMBER 29, 2016

The problem is to balance the reality of today’s pressure for test scores and required teacher evaluation with the changes that can be anticipated during the next two decades. Increasingly, a teacher’s knowledge can be found online and in various learning styles. New question: How do you manage your own professional growth?

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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

MAY 17, 2022

PISA , the OECD’s Programme for International Student Assessment, measures 15-year-olds’ ability to use their reading, mathematics, and science knowledge and skills to meet real-life challenges. Future PISA tests will include measures of creative thinking (PISA 2022).

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eSchool News

JUNE 18, 2024

These brief screeners use a sample of disconnected test items that are just as likely to miss a student’s problem areas as to find them. Even lengthy evaluations by specialists have all the same limitations. Even lengthy evaluations by specialists have all the same limitations.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Emmersion’s adaptive assessments evaluate and certify speaking, writing and reading abilities, which shorten an organization’s time-to-hire and improve customer satisfaction scores. Emmersion’s cofounders, Brigham Tomco and Dr. Jacob Burdis, will remain with the company. Accurately establish language skills with AI.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 11, 2021

Identifying Student Knowledge States What we wanted to know was, for any given student in a class at any point during a semester, what material have they mastered and what are they struggling with? The set of topics that a student has mastered to date is called their “knowledge state.” This is where machine learning comes in.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

While the concept is understood–solve for one equation and substitute to solve for the missing variable–the deficiency is application, not knowledge. Students seek comprehensive understanding and application of knowledge. Let’s take an example of a middle school student struggling with systems of equations.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

How often do you test your backups? When the auditor evaluates your school’s cybersecurity awareness training, they will often ask both for the cadence or frequency of these training sessions, including if they are mandatory for all employees or staff. Does VPN use MFA? What kind of MFA is used for VPN?

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eSchool News

JANUARY 4, 2017

Studying a zebrafish might be the key to increasing students’ science knowledge and attitudes toward science education–at least, that’s what a five-year evaluation of 20,000 K-12 students indicates. Of eight knowledge questions, elementary students demonstrated significant positive gains on seven.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 12, 2024

When we pair a tested, research-based framework like UDL with AI, it brings us a step closer to the goal of true inclusion of all learners in CS classes. What components of this lesson assume similar prior knowledge to me, the instructor, or what components are….

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eSchool News

JULY 19, 2016

Through this initiative we aim to increase STEM instruction practices in preschool classrooms, increase children’s exposure to STEM, and ultimately improve children’s curiosity, knowledge, and skills in STEM.”. A pilot test of the entire curriculum is planned for September 2017 in Montachusett Opportunity Council preschools.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 16, 2025

In a time when we are expecting students to graduate with authentic learning experiences and real-world skills in addition to academic knowledge, vibrant learning projects like this will become much more popular and widespread. Students are engaged and invested in a project that has local benefits!

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eSchool News

JANUARY 17, 2025

Gales 2025 MLA platinum award winners include: Gale Presents: Petersons Test and Career Prep (platinum award) : offers a comprehensive set of tools to support individuals on their educational and professional journeys. Gale has 500 employees globally with its main operations in Farmington Hills, Michigan.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Questions such as these can help guide the conversation: What do you need to learn about AI, and how can you gain that knowledge? Listening to a lecture, writing notes, filling out worksheets, and taking tests will almost surely not be enough. What potential benefits and challenges might AI present to teaching and learning?

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eSchool News

JUNE 13, 2016

The problem is to balance the reality of today’s pressure for test scores and required teacher evaluation with the changes that can be anticipated during the next two decades. Increasingly, a teacher’s knowledge can be found online and in various learning styles. New question: How do you manage your own professional growth?

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 20, 2024

MindPrint assessments evaluate nine key cognitive skills in the areas of executive functions, reasoning, memory, and processing that influence performance across all academic subjects and impact standardized test scores. MindPrint identifies areas of giftedness as well as potential learning barriers.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 5, 2023

By integrating real-world content relevant to their students’ lives, educators can bridge the gap between theoretical knowledge and its practical application. When these approaches are brought together in the classroom by a teacher, it creates an environment where students feel encouraged to test ideas, make mistakes, and ask questions.

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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. So the norm is really this paradigm of, you've got a brain, and it's a sort of fixed thing, and you fill it up with knowledge. Why that topic?

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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. The approach combines SEL lessons with evidence-based reflection, support and customized coaching to help students internalize new knowledge and skills.

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