eSchool News

JUNE 9, 2021

Members of the public were also able to review the materials online for two weeks. Finally, the Commissioner of Education assessed the state and district reviewer evaluations, public feedback and cost of the materials before giving approval. Michael Conley Elementary School, Tallahassee.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 15, 2024

The Beauty of Freewriting Engaging in creative exercises such as freewriting, mind mapping, and storytelling can foster innovation and proficiency in essay writing skills, while seeking guidance from top essay writing services can offer valuable feedback and support in refining one’s craft to achieve academic excellence.

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Edsurge

MAY 8, 2018

Startups have their advantages, but they face unique challenges, such as the catch-22 of product testing , in which schools won’t buy untested products, but the startups can’t test their products if no schools will buy them. Our first was PeerView, an app for facilitating faculty-to-faculty peer review and feedback.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

Without a formal peer-review process, how is it possible to catch mistakes? Anyone with an editable account can fix mistakes instantly, and everyone else can point out mistakes through a feedback function at the bottom of the page. That’s another model,” he says, “but it’s still peer review.” ‘A

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

In research and surveys conducted by Dr. Donald McCabe and the International Center for Academic Integrity over the span of 12 years, 68 percent of undergraduates who responded admitted to cheating on tests or written assignments. Reducing students’ test anxiety can help, Millet said. Incorporating peer review into their courses.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

As a result, its new certification considers only whether a product is grounded in research, and not whether the company incorporates user feedback to improve the product or can point to evidence showing that the products leads to better outcomes. Last fall, Digital Promise invited about 100 companies to participate in beta testing.

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Edsurge

JULY 15, 2016

Instructor video feedback has also been shown to improve social presence, which is correlated with the development of an instructor-student relationship. It fuels human connection when students learn in physical isolation from one another and reduces the likelihood of hurt feelings that result when written exchanges are misunderstood.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 17, 2017

By the time we were finished with a pilot test, we discovered that a technology tool helped us and our students in some unexpected ways. We could also identify exemplar essays we pulled from the first Revision Assistant exercise that we used in self- and peer-review assignments. We decided to give it a try.

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Teach Thought

JULY 16, 2025

Administrators Giving Teachers Feedback On Lessons Several years ago, I remember creating a unit and submitting it for ‘approval’ by administrators. What about strategies that haven’t had peer-reviewed studies done on them? To test theories? How was that study done, exactly? So reduce that transfer.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 19, 2019

which by the way, is fee-based), students start with a placement test to determine their comprehension level and be sure they are challenged by assignments without being frustrated. In response to this, peer feedback is growing in popularity as an approach that balances these two realities for the benefit of the student.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 2, 2017

We provide training so they all have a good sense of how to evaluate writing and provide feedback to students.” And useful feedback is crucial. We’ve had to work,” Cotton says, “on helping our teachers provide students with actionable, growth-producing feedback they can actually do something with.”

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Edsurge

MAY 28, 2020

It’s an opportunity for the future teachers who are enrolled at the college to apply what they learn in class in a practical setting, testing out lesson plans with real elementary students. She’s the co-founder and co-editor of the Journal of Online Learning Research , which publishes peer-reviewed studies about K-12 online education.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 25, 2022

Many instructors and administrators prefer a time-tested solution over something new and unknown. That’s quite an advantage since copied materials often come from peer-reviewed articles. This is the only service that can access the libraries like Elsevier/Scopus and Springer & Nature.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 20, 2025

Students were able to ask questions and get immediate answers or feedback, which was particularly satisfying and gave them confidence to move forward. She has presented research and workshops on topics ranging from Marketing Destinations to Online Curriculum culminating with numerous publications in peer-reviewed journals since 2013.

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Student Engagement Instructors Students Feedback 93

Edsurge

APRIL 4, 2017

CoSN also continues to build out handbooks on topics including cybersecurity, data privacy and gives a glimpse of the future via its Horizons Report.

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Technology Peer Review Math Internet 69

Faculty Focus

MARCH 4, 2025

Oppositely, small classrooms allow for more intimate interactions, personalized feedback, and flexible teaching methods (Wang & Calvano, 2022). Regular feedback loops, like short quizzes or reflective journals, can also help instructors gauge understanding and adapt their teaching as needed. References Beatty, B. EdTech Books.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 4, 2025

Oppositely, small classrooms allow for more intimate interactions, personalized feedback, and flexible teaching methods (Wang & Calvano, 2022). Regular feedback loops, like short quizzes or reflective journals, can also help instructors gauge understanding and adapt their teaching as needed. References Beatty, B. EdTech Books.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 20, 2025

Students were able to ask questions and get immediate answers or feedback, which was particularly satisfying and gave them confidence to move forward. She has presented research and workshops on topics ranging from Marketing Destinations to Online Curriculum culminating with numerous publications in peer-reviewed journals since 2013.

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Student Engagement Instructors Students Feedback 66

EAB

AUGUST 9, 2023

This knowledge has been argued for over a decade now and is supported by evidence and data published in the peer-reviewed literature, some of which could be argued that if the experiments analyzed had been conducted as randomized controlled trials of medical interventions, they may have been stopped for the benefit.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 1, 2018

But what if we employed machine learning and peer reviews for writing evaluation? We then could help teachers build more fluent, independent writers, while freeing up teacher capacity for more targeted and meaningful feedback. This can compound the gap in writing proficiency.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 2, 2025

Additionally, AI is poised to play an even larger role in education, particularly in test preparation and course planning. In 2024, surveyed K-12 educators reported already using AI to create personalized learning experiences, provide real-time performance feedback, and foster critical thinking skills.

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