Faculty Focus

JUNE 24, 2025

At our institution, low-tech and familiar options like phone calls and photos worked well to meet students’ needs for immediate feedback with a low level of stress. We’d like to share some examples of personalized actual course documents feedback that contribute to decreased stress levels for students and faculty.

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eLearning Students Assignments Feedback 69

Faculty Focus

JUNE 24, 2025

At our institution, low-tech and familiar options like phone calls and photos worked well to meet students’ needs for immediate feedback with a low level of stress. We’d like to share some examples of personalized actual course documents feedback that contribute to decreased stress levels for students and faculty.

eLearning 67

eLearning Students Assignments Feedback 67

Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 28, 2025

Too many students don’t reach grade-level metrics and no one can agree on the cause. Without face-to-face communication, building relationships with peers and instructors becomes challenging, hindering collaboration and support. Something broke in American education these past years. Passive learning is no longer acceptable.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 15, 2025

Instead, it is an educator’s responsibility to design cooperative learning structures that facilitate comfort and collaboration regardless of grade level. When considering a teacher’s pedagogical content knowledge, eliciting student feedback is paramount.

Assignments 61

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k12

JULY 10, 2025

Encourage Feedback and Conversation: Feedback is key to growth, both for students and teachers. Encourage your child to listen to teacher feedback; if they feel something isn’t working, teach them how to share that respectfully. These conversations foster independence and improve the overall learning experience.

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Cal Matters

JUNE 25, 2025

Photo by Louis Bryant III for CalMatters Grade inflation in high school contributed to those pandemic-era gaps, said Lesley Davidson-Boyd, associate vice president of California State University, San Bernardino. Some high school seniors graduated at the time with stellar grades but below-average test scores in math and English, she said.

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Math English Lecturing High School 88

eSchool News

OCTOBER 6, 2017

According to one of our Grade 6 teachers, Shannon Diven, her students could read but could not pull out details from the text to expand answers, explain answers, or to develop a piece of writing around the text (basically, reading comprehension). The instructor can leave comments for students (i.e., But achieving that goal isn’t easy.

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Reading Technology Feedback Instructors 427

Edsurge

MARCH 19, 2020

The executive director and founder of the journal “ Hybrid Pedagogy ” has spent two decades researching and experimenting with alternatives to traditional methods of assessing students , and he’s concluded that the As, Bs and Cs that instructors mete out can do more harm than good, even under ideal circumstances. Giving each other feedback.

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Grades Questions Instructors Motivation 217

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Giving regular feedback to roughly 100 middle and high schoolers has been my greatest challenge as an English and writing teacher, and it hit home for me sometime in 2013. I just get up and grade papers. My challenges with the feedback load were officially impacting my health and family life. The other mom looked sympathetic.

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eSchool News

JUNE 11, 2020

elementary school classrooms, announced the launch of Osmo Live, a new interactive platform for live learning that offers engaging, hands-on Bootcamps for children in grades K-5. Taught by some of the best elementary instructors in the U.S., Personalized Feedback. Interactivity. Online / Offline Integration.

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Catlin Tucker

APRIL 28, 2023

Additionally, using a digital format creates space for students to document their learning and for teachers to provide feedback. Teachers can also use the document or slide deck to provide feedback by commenting directly on the document or recording audio notes with Mote and attaching them to the document or slide deck.

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Blended Learning Feedback Universal Design Art 436

Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 29, 2016

I believed that team teaching and sharing the same population of students in a shared space would allow us to make important cross-curricular connections, delve into more meaningful project-based learning, and provide more individualized support and feedback. We approach feedback and assessment as a team.

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Teaching English Feedback Assignments 386

Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 9, 2024

I didn’t think PDF annotation grading tools would work, not even a little but, so when my colleague, George, introduced them in his online history class, I watched amazed at how seamlessly George could highlight key points, strike through errors, and add personalized feedback on student assignments. x Interested? x Interested?

Assignments 166

Assignments Grades Feedback Evaluation 166

Edsurge

MAY 9, 2023

And the way the grading system in education works has long bothered him. After that, this professor vowed never to use traditional grades on tests again. As Talbert soon discovered, there’s a whole world of so-called alternative grading systems. Robert Talbert is a math professor, so numbers are his thing.

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Grades Exams Feedback Testing 198

eSchool News

JUNE 15, 2022

AI and ML are being used at every step of the student and educator journey to: Build statistical models of student knowledge, evaluating student achievement and instructor proficiency Streamline recruiting and reduce unconscious bias Create a digital “paper trail” for audit purposes Organize and optimize learning materials, and continually update them (..)

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Maybe you were curled up by the fire, reading a good book, and perhaps considering how you were going to integrate feedback, change up your courses, and add some jazz, flavor, and maybe a little bit of spice to your courses. So, I facilitated peer-to-peer workshops. online chat, discussion boards).

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

I ’m a writing instructor in higher education. The reality is that writing support complements classroom instruction and is beneficial for all writers, no matter their grades or the quality of their writing. Tutoring practices that include non-evaluative feedback and mindful approaches support writers’ growth holistically.

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Evaluation Feedback Writing Language 119

Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

With all the time students and teachers are spending with iPads, Turnitin Feedback Studio ‘s new iPad app is a welcome addition to their toolkits. Students can submit papers, analyze similarity reports (to check for originality), and review instructor feedback on the go. I love it.”.

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Feedback Instructors Assignments Grades 107

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 6, 2022

What is wrong with grades? Instructors and students have different ideas about what grades are supposed to measure: Should they be about how much students have learned? No wonder many students and faculty dislike grades! They go by names such as curving, ungrading, contract grading, and specifications grading.

Grades 122

Grades Instructors Motivation Metacognitive Skills 122

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. Wilson says ATA’s critics dislike the systems because they seem to remove the human element from essay grading—a traditionally personal act.

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Essay Feedback Writing Assignments 141

Faculty Focus

MAY 7, 2024

The template features an intuitive layout and essential components such as a syllabus, clear assignment guidelines, feedback and grading policies, detailed discussion forums, and links to student support services. The process of integrating feedback from QM course reviews into the course templates is systematic and reflective: a.

Feedback 121

Feedback Course Design Instructors Education 121

Edsurge

JULY 17, 2018

Instructors can then use Drive and Google Docs to grade assignments and share course materials. Last week, Microsoft launched the Surface Go , designed for kids in grades 3-5, along with new classroom management tools. The first allows instructors to embed their course materials from Google Drive directly into the LMS.

Feedback 109

Feedback Assignments Instructors Writing 109

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

Turnitin ’s Feedback Studio for iPad app has merged the benefits of mobile technology with the power of learning and engagement through feedback. This release gives students the power to submit papers, analyze similarity reports (to check for originality), and review instructor feedback on the go.

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Mobile Devices Instructors Feedback Math 201

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

But that advice also applies to online instructors. grade 10 papers). So, if you don’t enjoy grading, get it out of the way first; then you can focus your mental energy on the more enjoyable aspects of online teaching. Monday 9:00–9:45 a.m.: Put the worst first. There are some teaching tasks we love. and others that we hate.

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Instructors Activities Motivation Attention 104

Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

I ’m a writing instructor in higher education. The reality is that writing support complements classroom instruction and is beneficial for all writers, no matter their grades or the quality of their writing. Tutoring practices that include non-evaluative feedback and mindful approaches support writers’ growth holistically.

Evaluation 98

Evaluation Feedback Writing Language 98

Faculty Focus

MAY 7, 2024

The template features an intuitive layout and essential components such as a syllabus, clear assignment guidelines, feedback and grading policies, detailed discussion forums, and links to student support services. The process of integrating feedback from QM course reviews into the course templates is systematic and reflective: a.

Feedback 110

Feedback Course Design Instructors Education 110

eSchool News

AUGUST 19, 2022

From the beginning, we have always relied on student and teacher feedback to help us build and improve Paper,” said Philip Cutler, Paper co-founder and CEO. Included in the Paper ESS at no additional cost, Paper Math helps improve math comprehension and confidence for students of all grades.

Essay 258

Essay Feedback Math Assignments 258

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.

Writing 113

Writing Feedback Peer Review Plagiarism 113

Edsurge

OCTOBER 22, 2020

To stave off this potential defection, how can we instructors promote virtual community? One of the most empirically supported best practices of online education is for the instructor to “be present.” In an online-only world, it’s imperative for students to see you as a human being, not merely as an instructor.

Instructors 210

Instructors Lecturing Course Evaluations Feedback 210

Edsurge

AUGUST 1, 2024

As more instructors experiment with using generative AI to make teaching materials, an important question bubbles up. But there are other activities he says are more core to teaching where disclosure should be made, like when AI grading tools are used. Should they disclose that to students?

Teaching 217

Teaching Education Ethics Instructors 217

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

But that advice also applies to online instructors. grade 10 papers). So, if you don’t enjoy grading, get it out of the way first; then you can focus your mental energy on the more enjoyable aspects of online teaching. Monday 9:00–9:45 a.m.: Put the worst first. There are some teaching tasks we love. and others that we hate.

Instructors 93

Instructors Activities Motivation Attention 93

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 6, 2022

What is wrong with grades? Instructors and students have different ideas about what grades are supposed to measure: Should they be about how much students have learned? No wonder many students and faculty dislike grades! They go by names such as curving, ungrading, contract grading, and specifications grading.

Grades 98

Grades Instructors Motivation Metacognitive Skills 98

Faculty Focus

APRIL 17, 2025

In my mind, the purpose of learning was to get good grades. Grades were everythingsymbols of success and a source of validation. I continued this pattern in college, focused solely on grades and making my parents proud. Feedback-Only: No Points I do not attach points to any assignments. Instead, I provide rich feedback.

Grades 97

Grades Social Studies Learning Feedback 97

eSchool News

APRIL 18, 2016

Write the World is a global online writing community that lets teens submit their own work and get feedback from peers, writing instructors, and professional writers. Grades : 8-12. Click here to read the full app review. Write the World. What’s It Like? Price : Free/subscription. Rating : 4/5.

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Writing Essay Feedback Instructors 181

eSchool News

OCTOBER 22, 2015

GEI reviewers submit their qualitative and quantitative feedback for review and analysis by the executive team, which then determines whether or not the product is awarded a GEI Seal of Endorsement. Products seeking the GEI Seal of Endorsement are judged using an in-depth evaluation rubric, designed by members of the GEI executive team.

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Evaluation Teachers Feedback Instructors 232

Edsurge

JUNE 12, 2018

Students may feel relief as they hand in an exam, but the moment marks the beginning of stress and anxiety for instructors and teaching assistants, who may need to grade hundreds of tests in a short time. And so he began building a prototype for an automated online grading tool that today has grown into his company, Gradescope.

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Grades Exams Instructors Teaching Assistants 95

eSchool News

MARCH 6, 2019

It’s more abysmal in the younger grades, with only six states giving all K-12 students access. Meredith Hoover, robotics instructor, Nicholas County (WV) Schools. Lauren Marrone, 11th-grade physics & zoology teacher, North Paulding High School, Dallas, Georgia. Beverly Sklar.

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