Edsurge

MAY 13, 2025

Dominguez had a longer term vision for the remaining rounds of pandemic emergency funding: Hire teaching assistants for early elementary classrooms to help the districts youngest learners, who were struggling with math and reading as a result of uneven exposure to school during remote learning. Their data show their bets are paying off.

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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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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

If you’re evaluating math programs at your school, a good option to consider is ORIGO Education’s Stepping Stones. Here’s one educator’s story about how Stepping Stones made a big difference with his students’ math skills: How Magnolia ISD has ‘leveled the playing field’ for students in math.

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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. In math , students can move beyond computation to analyze real-world datasets.

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Primary Punch

OCTOBER 25, 2020

I have recently started back with face to face speech evaluations and they have been going well. But, I had a few evaluations with some energetic, busy little ones and was a bit rusty. So, I decided I needed a busy box full of all my go-to’s that I usually reach for to grab their attention when testing fatigue sets in.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Key points: Standardized tests aren’t inclusive and often lead to unnecessary stress Educators should shift focus from standardized tests to ensuring students become independent learners See related article: What’s the state of K-12 assessment? This shift, while intended to improve test performance, comes at a cost.

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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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eSchool News

OCTOBER 7, 2016

Are employees evaluated using bubble-in tests to prove they know the ins and outs of their job? Why is the culture to drill facts into students’ heads just to pass a test? I’ve never been a big believer in teaching to a test. Do they learn and use new skills one at a time in a vacuum?

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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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eSchool News

DECEMBER 28, 2016

Are employees evaluated using bubble-in tests to prove they know the ins and outs of their job? Why is the culture to drill facts into students’ heads just to pass a test? I’ve never been a big believer in teaching to a test. Next page: Classroom tips and test scores).

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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. In addition to the Front Row math program, the company also provides a language arts program through Front Row ELA, which include both writing and reading components.

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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 8, 2025

Together with professional development, S mithsonian Science for the Classroom , which is published by Carolina Biological, the leading school science supplier, was shown to raise science, math and reading performance for grades 3 to 5. The difference for female students was statistically significant. Lapp and Anne B.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 30, 2024

Judy Cappuccio, a math teacher and instructional coach at Urban Assembly Institute of Math and Science for Young Women in Downtown Brooklyn, said she’s “open” to the idea of assistance from the AI tool, but has a “healthy amount of skepticism.” I think it’s a tally that would be interesting,” she said.

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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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Edsurge

JANUARY 8, 2024

A number of instructors in the math department at San Diego Mesa College, where she's a professor, had started exploring how to weave standards-based grading — an approach that evaluates students on how effectively they have mastered content — into the way they teach calculus.

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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. If a math teacher gives you a set of problems to solve, why not leverage Khanmigo to help you solve them? Widespread fear gave way to some hesitant acceptance.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

DreamBox Learning ®, the K-8 digital math company that pioneered Intelligent Adaptive Learning technology, announced today that the South Carolina Department of Education (SCDE) has selected DreamBox Learning Math to support teaching and learning during the COVID-19 pandemic and mitigate student learning loss.

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EdTech Magazine

APRIL 4, 2019

CoSN 2019: How to Design an Effective K–12 Technology Evaluation Program. Schools must have robust evaluation if they want to continue to find success in technology integration, said Steven Baule, assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin-Superior, and former superintendent for Muncie (Ind.) eli.zimmerman_9856.

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eSchool News

JUNE 7, 2024

Before I adopted phenomena-based instruction, most of the questions students asked were some variation on, “Is this going to be on the test?” They were focused on whether they would have to memorize this fact or that process to pass a test. My students understand chemistry better.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 9, 2024

But is asking generative AI to do math or engage students in a tutoring relationship really the best way to use this incredibly powerful technology? For example, answers provided by generative AI chatbots can sometimes be misleading when it comes to subjects like math, where a student’s solution to a problem is either right or wrong.

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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. How does Khanmigo work?

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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

MAY 17, 2022

But when we look back at people throughout history who have made a significant impact on society, it’s not their school reading, math, or science test results that measure their success. Future PISA tests will include measures of creative thinking (PISA 2022).

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eSchool News

APRIL 18, 2025

test and quiz questions) (34 percent), animations (e.g., This edition, which surveyed over 3,000 higher-ed students and instructors and over 1,000 K-12 teachers and administrators, found similarities among higher-ed instructors and K-12 teachers optimism for GenAI specifically. textbook readings) (30 percent) and visuals (e.g.,

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 8, 2019

Math used to be a tedious memorization of facts and formulas. Thousands of students found out, to their surprise — and often, their parents — that they loved math. Thousands of students found out, to their surprise — and often, their parents — that they loved math. Interactivate.

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eSchool News

MAY 15, 2024

Here’s what educators have to say about the 2023-2024 school year: Improving engagement and test scores with phenomena-based curricula April Pence, Edison High School Last year was my first time using phenomena-based units aligned with the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) in chemistry. Learning can happen in many ways!

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Dangerously Irrelevant

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

Michael Petrilli said: Last year, [Ohio] State Superintendent Dick Ross published a report on the testing load in the state’s schools that showed strikingly similar results as the new Council for Great City Schools study. To his credit, Ross proposed that districts simply dump those tests. Meaning that, alas, it has failed this test.

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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

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. About Emmersion.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

In fact, students recently told Hawkins about “doing science in math class,” referring to a nuclear decay and radioactivity assignment they’d completed for pre-calculus. For especially math-heavy lessons, Hawkins asks a math interventionist from our resource center to sit in on her class.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Challenge encourages game-based learning to help kids learn to have fun with math. That’s the idea behind the national K-12 Game-a-thon, which invites students to let their imaginations and problem solving run wild as they design, build and share their own math games. Kids all across the country are already having fun with math.”.

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eSchool News

MARCH 18, 2016

Sony Global Education sims to build a new, widely applicable educational infrastructure that enables diverse methods of evaluation, open sharing of academic proficiency and progress records. As education paradigms evolve, technological innovation is expected to diversify the ways in which tests are designed and individuals are evaluated.

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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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Edsurge

DECEMBER 31, 2019

According to that “big” test, the PISA, math and science test scores of all U.S. 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 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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