Edsurge

MAY 9, 2023

And the way the grading system in education works has long bothered him. Gradually these quizzes and tests and timed assessments and the way it all fits together with points and averaging, it just wore her down,” Talbert says. After that, this professor vowed never to use traditional grades on tests again.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

AI can help students write stronger essays, solve tricky math problems, and even manage their stress levels, all while giving TAs more time to focus on what matters most–building meaningful connections with students. Such software can help with parental communications as well.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

You can create quizzes for the books your students are reading and assign collections to your students. Vooks : Vooks is a wonderful resource for the PK-2 grade teacher. For the primary grades it has read aloud stories with lessons provided to go with the story. I have been able to use it at every level I have taught.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 8, 2024

Your history teacher wants you to write about the Gettysburg Address: Why not have ChatGPT give you some of the main points? The larger problem is that grading overemphasizes students’ final product of learning instead of their process of learning. If so, why? This creates scenarios in which cheating is almost inevitable.

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Quizzes Learning Testing Intelligence 311

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. based company.

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Writing Feedback Peer Review Plagiarism 113

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

NEW YORK — Tutor.com , one of the world’s largest and most innovative online tutoring organizations, announced today that it has been selected by the South Orange & Maplewood School District to provide round-the-clock online tutoring for students in grades 3 through 12 at no cost to them.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

You might want to share a feedback score on persuasive writing clarity, or some other feedback you’re giving to your class, like from a rubric grade. Here are some examples of how you might want to collect information, or give feedback: Online assessments (Google Forms now allows teachers to create and grade quizzes ).

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Feedback Technology Quizzes Essay 208

eSchool News

MARCH 16, 2021

On the backend, each learning assessment item in TEL courses, such as quizzes, assignments, and quiz questions, is aligned to metadata that indicates specific learning outcomes and Mastery Standards connected to the item, as well as a difficulty level.

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Learning Education Students Quizzes 269

Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 10, 2023

Sure, it does when students are just starting, but by third grade students should be comfortable enough with key placement to be working on speed. The ‘pages in a single sitting’ starts in 4th grade with one page and continues through 6th where it’s increased to three–see CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.6.6 45 wpm is good. for example.

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Quizzes Grades Art Knowledge 167

eSchool News

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Thinglink allows you to make photographs and videos interactive, enabling embedded quizzes, hyperlinks, and branching (choose your own adventure) activities. I personally cannot remember where I put my car keys, but I can still remember how to sing about my lover’s blue butterfly eyes in French, thanks to Madame Moakley in 10 th grade.

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Quizzes Lecturing Learning Styles High School 312

Edsurge

MARCH 28, 2017

In order to meet these goals while also responding to testing demands, I needed a new resource: one that would provide my students with a strong framework for writing and use technology as the primary composing tool. Fortunately, I found everything I was looking for (and more) in the online reading and writing program ThinkCERCA.

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Writing Essay Teaching Quizzes 125

eSchool News

APRIL 3, 2024

One tool I’ve used and recommend is Turnitin, which has been around for more than 20 years to promote academic integrity, streamline grading, deter plagiarism, and improve student outcomes. Turnitin recently launched an AI writing detection tool to help educators identify text that may have been prepared by Bard, Gemini, and other AI tools.

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Academic Integrity Intelligence Essay Plagiarism 242

Edsurge

MAY 10, 2018

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. After all, she notes, “you’re never going to encounter multiple-choice quizzes on the job somewhere.”

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Testing Multiple Choice Questions Quizzes Assignments 157

Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Here’s an overview of keyboarding for grades K-8: Kindergarten Kindergarten is about mouse skills, getting hands on the keyboard and learning good posture. 1st grade Review mouse skills while focusing on key placement and posture, getting hands on the correct side of the keyboard. Online keyboarding websites.

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Quizzes Grades Knowledge Questions 173

eSchool News

MARCH 26, 2020

Dictionary.com announced today it has launched the Dictionary.com Learning At Home Center , offering free, educator-reviewed materials and resources for kids from pre-K through 12th grade and their parents. Written by the Dictionary.com editors with the help of educators from around the U.S.,

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Quizzes Education Middle School Middle School 139

Edsurge

OCTOBER 25, 2017

However, not everyone feels the same about the famous (or in some people’s opinion, infamous) writing style guide, which is over 50 years old. Writing in The Chronicle of Higher Education in 2009, Geoffrey K. She views it as a suggested style guide for how to write in an engaging voice.

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Writing Textbooks English Assignments 107

eSchool News

MAY 16, 2016

iTooch 6th Grade Language Arts. iTooch 6th Grade Language Arts is a resource for middle school language arts classrooms. Its five sections offer lessons, practice questions, and quizzes on a wide range of topics, including reading comprehension, grammar, composition skills, vocabulary, and communication. Grades : 5-8.

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Middle School Middle School Quizzes Art 131

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

It can handle a variety of language tasks, including answering questions, writing essays, generating creative content, offering explanations, giving advice, and engaging in natural-sounding conversations” (as explained by ChatGPT itself).

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Ethics Essay Syllabus Feedback 339

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

I vary both the number and type of questions I use on the quizzes. The grading scheme I use allows students to choose how much the quiz will count. If the class meets three days a week, I allow three points for attendance and students get those points simply by writing the numeral 3 beside their name on the quiz.

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Quizzes Lecturing Course Evaluations Exams 104

Edsurge

JANUARY 7, 2022

How do we get students to do pre-class work without giving a grade to everything? Instructors first need to consider how we use grades in our teaching—and then explore what kinds of intrinsic and extrinsic motivations exist and persist for our students. You can pose a question for a future column here.

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Motivation Reading Instructors Assignments 200

Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 2018

They seek opportunities and time to illustrate scientific and social concepts with a real world understanding and have students apply their knowledge and express their understanding through writing. Challenge: Between lesson planning, grading and leading their class, most teachers work a 12-16 hour day.

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Teachers Writing Feedback Assignments 166

Edsurge

DECEMBER 6, 2023

The facilitation, prep and instructions change when dealing with looser playing structure, or an early-grade classroom. The assignment itself could be simple — like using Legoss to build a bridge — but is tied to an activity like writing. With each piece of the bridge students build, they have to write a paragraph. “I

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Teachers Quizzes Testing Learning Outcomes 214

eSchool News

MAY 28, 2024

Khanmigo was launched last year in grades 5-8 and used in core content areas, which are typically math, reading, writing, and science, according to the district. In 2020, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation committed $12 million to Khan Academy to support the continued development of the organization in grades 3-12 math.

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Schools Math Testing Intelligence 272

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

I vary both the number and type of questions I use on the quizzes. The grading scheme I use allows students to choose how much the quiz will count. If the class meets three days a week, I allow three points for attendance and students get those points simply by writing the numeral 3 beside their name on the quiz.

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Quizzes Lecturing Course Evaluations Exams 96

Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

It used to be simple to post grades. Here are factors I consider when I’m posting grades for my tech students: Does s/he remember skills from prior lessons as they complete current lessons? writing conventions) in tech projects? I have a grade! I’m already thinking ahead to the next grading period.

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Quizzes Critical Thinking Knowledge Testing 142

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

And for the first half of his 9th grade year, he did enough to pass, earning Cs and Ds. The day grades were due, I pulled Ray aside at the end of the class and lauded his accomplishments. Using Quizzes & Assignments for Collaborative Assessments Test day can be an opportunity for collaboration rather than competition.

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Distance Learning Culture Gamification Learning 218

Edsurge

JULY 9, 2021

As part of the experiment, students at randomly selected colleges were shown encouraging messages after choosing an incorrect answer during online quizzes, and Pearson later published a paper on its “social-psychological interventions.” software with or without encouraging messages, she writes. “If

Ethics 206

Ethics Knowledge Testing Learning 206

Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2018

Yet every year I see these same students soar and complete the class with high grades. And how can we teach that poor grades don't indicate failure, but rather that we haven’t found the correct learning strategy? I’d randomly choose five things we learned the day before and ask them to write what they could recall. The purpose?

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Teaching Failure Quizzes Learning 168

EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 16, 2018

A skilled teacher can re-direct instruction based on feedback that they are receiving from their students throughout the flow of a lesson,” writes Alexis Roesser, an English teacher and department chair at Salamanca High School in New York. Microsoft Forms is flexible enough to support formative assessments of an entire grade.

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Quizzes Students Elementary School Elementary School 155

Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

Sure, it does when students are just starting, but by third grade students should be comfortable enough with key placement to be working on speed. Consider the academic need to: write reports. take online quizzes (like PARCC, SB). Keyboarding Quizzes. 20 wpm means they know most key placements by touch. 45 wpm is good.

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Quizzes Grades Art Discussions 119

Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 9, 2022

This is an exercise as much for presenters as audience, and is graded on reading, writing, speaking and listening skills. demonstrate good command of writing and speaking conventions. Reading, writing, research, speaking/listening. Write an Ebook. write the book. write the book. analytical thinking.

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Activities Schools Writing Knowledge 202

Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 20, 2017

How many times have you experienced teachers who based report card grades on how well students complete classwork, homework, and quizzes? What is Standards-based Grading. To accomplish this, many schools and Districts have turned to Standards-based Grading. Click for a free Standards-based Grading Guide.

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Grades Assignments Quizzes Writing 71

Edsurge

JULY 24, 2018

Louis showed dramatic benefits on student achievement —even increasing students’ grades from a C to an A. quizzes, clickers and flashcards), rather than cramming information into students heads (e.g., If they’re writing down a quick response to a prompt before pairing up, they’re using retrieval practice.

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Science Feedback Gamification Learning 165

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 5, 2023

This utilization is often compared to utilizing Grammarly, or meeting with a writing tutor. Like Grammarly or writing tutors, students can take time to learn from AI’s corrections and suggestions. AI can also generate short content, such as answers to take-home quizzes or un-proctored multiple-choice exams.

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Intelligence Plagiarism Quizzes Academic Integrity 144

Edsurge

AUGUST 31, 2017

This past April, while administering the 5th grade ELA standardized test in Louisiana, I did as I was supposed to—I circulated and stuck to the script. Somehow Mike scored ‘Approaching Basic,’ which is not the lowest score, but is below the grade level standard. And this was a mistake because kids are motivated by goals—not grades.

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Testing Students Motivation Assignments 168

Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 26, 2017

However, he never did learn how to write, claiming that he never quite got the hang of it, and he left that to the monastic scribes. However, he never did learn how to write, claiming that he never quite got the hang of it, and he left that to the monastic scribes. It can improve both reading and writing skills.

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Writing Reading Teaching Quizzes 79

Edsurge

JUNE 28, 2018

Fractions covers math standards for grades 3-6 and features a storyline and what the company calls “personalized feedback” through an online tutor. video, quizzes) and share them publicly with other users. McGraw-Hill introduces a new English language arts software for grades 2-7 called Redbird Language Arts & Writing.

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Quizzes STEM Art Language 141