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Rethinking student assessment: Tools and strategies for meaningful evaluation

eSchool News

Here are five powerful resources that can transform how you evaluate student progress. The pre-made quizzes also offer instant feedback, helping students reflect on their learning process. I love that I can find a library of pre-created quizzes or create my own. I love the ability to assess comprehension in real-time.

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How 4 districts use AI tools to transform education

eSchool News

The Gems evaluate the uploaded information and offer a review of the district’s current curriculum. Educators in Miami-Dade County Public Schools use Gemini to generate quizzes and answer keys, and students are creating study materials aligned to concepts they’re struggling with for personalized tutoring and support.

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Grading Less in a District that Requires a Minimum Number of Grades

Catlin Tucker

I encourage teachers to think about the purpose of the work students are doing and evaluate whether it makes sense for them to invest their time and energy grading that work. If my students wrote an informative paragraph about a topic or issue, I would evaluate that paragraph for specific standard-aligned skills.

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Formative Assessment is Key to Being Responsive

Catlin Tucker

Unlike summative assessment, which typically occurs at the end of a learning cycle to evaluate students’ overall progress toward the unit’s desired results, formative assessment is ongoing and designed to inform instruction, indicate areas where additional differentiation is needed, and guide learning. Check for understanding.

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Book Talks with Benny Launches as AI-powered Teacher’s Assistant

eSchool News

Today, Beanstack announces the addition of Book Talks with Benny, an AI-powered teachers assistant that promotes reading integrity without the need for quizzes or grading. This information allows educators to evaluate the conversation and make the final decision about how best to ensure reading accountability.

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5 news literacy resources for students

eSchool News

NLP’s resource library includes lesson plans, classroom activities, posters and infographics, quizzes, and more for educators teaching news literacy. Civic Online Reasoning focuses on the idea that students are confused about how to evaluate online information–in fact, most people are.

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Course Evaluations as a Tool for Growth

Faculty Focus

I expected a reckoning on my course evaluations, but the results were way worse than I expected. Like any good millennial, I started by googling “how to recover from poor teaching evaluations” and “is tenure still possible after low evaluations” but found nothing. Then I close the book on that set of evaluations.