Edsurge

MAY 3, 2024

Texas is turning over some of the scoring process of its high-stakes standardized tests to robots. News outlets have detailed the rollout by the Texas Education Agency of a natural language processing program, a form of artificial intelligence, to score the written portion of standardized tests administered to students in third grade and up.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

College admissions trends have followed suit, especially regarding standardized testing. The debate over using test scores in college admissions has oscillated between requiring them and questioning their necessity in favor of relying more on student grade point averages (GPAs).

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Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2018

After politics and religion, few issues are as contentious as standardized tests. To some, standardized testing overwhelms our schools and helps eradicate differences between students. Whatever your thoughts, there’s no denying that students are taking lots of tests. students were taking about eight tests a year.

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Catlin Tucker

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Rubrics identify specific criteria relevant to the assignment, along with corresponding levels of performance that allow for more precise grading. Using rubrics helps teachers stay focused during the grading process and ensures that grading is objective, consistent, and fair. How does using rubrics benefit students?

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

23, 2022 – The Arizona Department of Education (ADE) selected Riverside Insight’s Cognitive Abilities Test ( CogAT ® ), the most respected and widely used test of student ability, to screen Grade 2 students state-wide for gifted programs. ITASCA, Ill. –

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Catlin Tucker

MAY 9, 2019

I spent hours reviewing notes that spanned an entire semester because it was all “fair game.” It also saves teachers time because they do not have to grade every question they develop for every child. As a student, I remember the stress of preparing for final exams.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Oregon teachers wish they didn’t have to give their students Smarter Balanced English and math tests because the tests take too much time, have confusing directions and are unfair for students who don’t have computers at home or who have inadequate technology at school.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 29, 2025

Teachers find AI tools that grade assignments, create lesson plans, and offer personalized student support. Some AI assistants grade papers, while others spot students who might need extra help. When papers need grading or test scores need tracking, AI steps in. Will AI replace teachers?

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Edsurge

MAY 10, 2018

They’re often ineffective as a teaching tool, they’re easy for students to cheat, and they can exacerbate test anxiety. Yet more professors seem to be turning to the format these days, as teaching loads and class sizes grow, since multiple-choice quizzes and tests can be easily graded by machines.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 23, 2023

Did you know that a 5th grade teacher is expected to guide students to mastery of 200 standards each year? Consider implementing the following categories and grading them on a scale of 1–5: Building Block: How much future learning is dependent on this standard? Given a typical school year of 180 days, that’s 1.1 standards a day!

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eSchool News

JANUARY 29, 2019

There is a fair amount of research into the impact of classroom design on student learning. The renovated classroom and colorful mobile chairs and desks provided by the grant have literally transformed my practice, my seventh-grade language arts students, and their families.

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eSchool News

MARCH 14, 2025

To be fair, its a valid question. Theyll argue that the information is important because its on an upcoming test, which typically leaves students feeling frustrated and disengaged. I challenged my 5 th grade students to create a solution using the engineering design process. This is a question every educator has faced before.

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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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eSchool News

OCTOBER 28, 2015

When we have our STEM Fair each year, parents are amazed by what they see and hear from the students. As students plan investigations to answer a question posed to them, they conduct tests, record and analyze data, and communicate their results. They’re actually “doing science,” not just memorizing terms and concepts for a test.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 27, 2021

This virtual field trip is appropriate for students in grades 6-12. This virtual field trip is appropriate for students in grades 7-12. This virtual field trip is appropriate for students in grades 6-12. This virtual experience is appropriate for students in grades 5-9.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Seventh-grade students in Jeanne Halderson’s social studies and English language arts class and Liz Ramsay’s science and mathematics class are the first to field-test the green screens in the schoolwork. It gives kids more freedom and more choices,” she said. “It It becomes more meaningful and the kids own it more.”.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 23, 2023

Did you know that a 5th grade teacher is expected to guide students to mastery of 200 standards each year? Consider implementing the following categories and grading them on a scale of 1–5: Building Block: How much future learning is dependent on this standard? Given a typical school year of 180 days, that’s 1.1 standards a day!

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Connect to students through your heart My daughters 5th grade substitute teacher stepped in this past fall, when the school had a last-minute vacancy to fill. The mind of a young student is wired to sniff out fairness, or lack thereof. We connect with our hearts, our muscles, and our minds.

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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

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

They also were required to pass a test on national and state civil rights laws and professional ethics, as well as a rigorous state test required for the grade-level and subject-matter area. “I had to study for it,” Durfey said of the science test. “It was like going back to school again.

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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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Cult of Pedagogy

JANUARY 21, 2024

Over the last decade or so , we’ve settled into a choreographed dance around large-scale, state-mandated standardized test scores. Next, people who have nothing to do with the design, administration, taking, or scoring of the tests will then use them to critique states, districts, schools, and/or individual teachers.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

While 2019 NAEP scores show just under half of white fourth-grade students were reading at or above proficiency, the number drops to 18 percent , or roughly one in six, for Black students. For Hispanic or Latino students, fourth-grade reading proficiency is 23 percent, or just under one in four students. Several efforts are underway.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 4, 2019

Outcomes, Testing and Grading Which methods of assessment best measure learning and ability? Are standardized tests a fair gauge for predicting college success?

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Edsurge

MARCH 31, 2021

One student, standing up and projecting his voice, declared: “Virginia objects to New Jersey demanding that She give away Her fair and right voice in the new government. Therefore, it is right and fair we have more influence on the actions of government.” We have a larger population. A student on the opposing side retorted: “No way.

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Edsurge

MARCH 5, 2018

When the Opt-Out movement gained traction in 2015, more than 20 percent of New York students (about 200,000) in grades 3 through 8 declined to take state standardized exams, a statistic that raised questions about the future of such testing. Aligning tests with the ways students learn in the classroom is one of Gorin’s goals.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Medina: Well, the brain rules start out with a fair amount of skepticism. This has been tested at every age group and wherever it has been tested has been found to be the same result. Is it fair to say your solution to challenges in the American education system is more P.E.? Exercise improves cognition.

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eSchool News

MARCH 16, 2016

billion for career and technical education programs in grades 7-12 and in post-secondary institutions. Successful makerspaces will focus not only on the tools (there are no requirements for specific pieces of technology) but on the process of manufacturing, testing, and demonstrating ideas. .”

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eSchool News

MAY 3, 2016

But tracking how well her students were meeting specific grade-level standards at any moment during the year wasn’t an option for her at that time, nor was looking at larger trends until after the school year had ended. Based on the programs I was using, I could evaluate how to differentiate instruction for my students,” she said.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

School leaders hope that will be enough time to teach students key skills they missed and boost test scores. “We Kane’s research into district-level learning loss found that Cicero students in third to eighth grades lost the equivalent of a third of a year in reading from spring 2019 to 2022, and a little less than half a year in math.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

To Truman, the worksheets, which were meant to fill a bit of time in the morning, had become a form of timed testing, presenting him daily with a task he couldn’t complete. In Tennessee, Vanderbilt University researchers found that academic gains made by students in the state’s scaled-up pre-K program had vanished by third grade.

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eSchool News

JUNE 9, 2021

Not only will I be able to better analyze situations, but I can also create better predictions for myself in the real world and put my problem-solving skills to the test,” she said. Ruizhe (Fair) Shen from the Fontbonne The Early College of Boston in Massachusetts. So, I did this with the microeconomic framework.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 1, 2024

Many teachers and professors are spending time this summer experimenting with AI tools to help them prepare slide presentations, craft tests and homework questions, and more. It’s a fair question given the widespread concern in the field about students using AI to write their essays or bots to do their homework for them.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 24, 2024

Having students reframe their feelings as excitement rather than anxiety or having them journal about their anxiety before taking a test may help, some researchers suggest. Some argue that instructional methods like timed tests aggravate anxiety. I mean, to me, this is not fair to students,” she says.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

During Engineers Week, engineering societies, universities, companies, and other organizations organize workshops, competitions, seminars, outreach programs to schools, career fairs, and networking events.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2016

The Innovation Lab , at New Jersey’s Fair Haven school district , is our 5th and 6th grade STEAM creation. Today, we use FH Gizmos to expose Fair Haven students to entrepreneurship. In our elementary school, FH Gizmos is a third-grade-run pop-up store. Chris Aviles is the Edtech Coach for Fair Haven, N.J.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Now, he and Baselice collaborate to create and test games and are actively trying to gather evidence that these activities aren’t just good for engagement, but for long-term learning. When I’m testing a game, I have no way of knowing if it's going to be blocked by the school’s servers,” Angie says.

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