eSchool News

JUNE 9, 2021

Rigorous review process confirms Lexia Core5 Reading and PowerUp Literacy programs are strongly aligned to Florida’s newest standards. Core5 provides all students—from at-risk to on-level and advanced—a systematic and structured approach to six areas of reading, from phonological awareness to comprehension.

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Education Blended Learning Learning Peer Review 258

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

I implemented writing reflections to help students recall their feedback from prior assignments and collaborated with a colleague to develop a teacher guided peer review system, which eventually yielded an app called Floop that made the peer review data visible and simpler to manage.

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Feedback Peer Review Teaching Writing 218

Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 23, 2024

Example: Two Teacher-Led Stations – One Differentiated, One Guided Reading and Discussion Reading Standard: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.3.2 Teacher 1: Differentiated Instruction Station At this station, students are grouped by their reading comprehension levels.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Databases provide full-text access to a wide range of content, including books, magazines, primary sources, images, charts, and peer-reviewed articles by credible authors representing diverse perspectives. They serve as trustworthy alternatives to internet searches, where the information surfaced can be unreliable, untrue, and unsafe.

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Peer Review Essay Skills Critical Thinking 278

eSchool News

JUNE 28, 2024

We can assess their understanding of what they read and their ability to write through shorter bursts of writing. “We have to rethink the full-length essay as the end-all, be-all for assessing student writing skills,” Miller said. It’s intimidating.

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Writing Essay Plagiarism Assignments 328

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Try asking a Gen AI chatbot such as ChatGPT to customize text to a specific reading level. Project-based assessments, peer reviews, and interactive simulations offer students opportunities to demonstrate their understanding in diverse and meaningful ways.

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Metacognitive Skills Ethics Critical Thinking Evaluation 339

Faculty Focus

MAY 11, 2025

He said that students could read much of the content off our PowerPoint slides and in the assigned readings without AI. They could always find and read the content on their own. He said that college instructors are not needed to give information to their students, at least not the foundations, definitions, etc., Saucier, Ph.D.

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Instructors Motivation Critical Thinking Students 98

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

With Clever Library, educators easily browse learning applications by subject or grade level and read peer reviews. In just a few clicks, teachers safely install applications for students — and districts see what resources have been installed, who’s using them and how frequently they’re used.

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Education Peer Review High School High School 239

Edsurge

JANUARY 9, 2019

This past semester, each student submitted reading notes as an assignment in the LMS. one question they had for others who read the same chapter. The only thing that was cumbersome on my end was grading student participation since there wasn’t a way to include scores within the peer review framework on Canvas.

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Instructors Syllabus Peer Review Students 165

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Instead, I decided to enhance my approach to problem solving by incorporating peer review—letting students participate in the feedback and assessment process. I then had each review work by three other students according to a feedback rubric I created; I moderated the process throughout. Advice for effective peer review.

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Feedback Peer Review Critical Thinking Assignments 134

eSchool News

MARCH 6, 2016

Research indicates math, reading achievement in early grades also influences later science achievement. Math and reading achievement also were associated with science achievement in those grades, which suggests that improving math and reading skills in lower-performing students might help improve their science achievement gaps.

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Achievement Science Elementary School Elementary School 190

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

But only one group spent time actually putting that training into practice, through an exercise that asked them to read passages about scientific claims—like the one in the first paragraph of this article—and answer multiple choice questions about possible problems in the logic. The data is publicly available online.

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Critical Thinking Multiple Choice Questions Peer Review Testing 217

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

Collectively, the free textbooks have around 200 million page views, and they have been read, for a combined total of over 500 years. Without a formal peer-review process, how is it possible to catch mistakes? But at the same time, he’s optimistic about LibreText’s nontraditional, crowd-sourced review structure.

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Textbooks Writing Accessibility Peer Review 166

Edsurge

JULY 25, 2023

Professors often spend years writing a paper or a book, he adds, and then it takes years or months to get published, and then read by very few people. Or read a partial transcript below, lightly edited for clarity. Because let's say a student essay of 2,000 to 3,000 words, you can't easily read that out on a podcast.

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Teaching Peer Review Essay Knowledge 148

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

In some cases, according to Cator, the companies that didn’t get certified were able to point to peer-reviewed research but did not have that research readily accessible for users or potential customers. The product team shares the research behind the design publicly.” As a result, they’re more likely to perform better in school.

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Education Peer Review Motivation Reading 170

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

Read an excerpt from Jonathan A. Theranos technology, which was shrouded in secrecy and had never been validated by the FDA or peer-reviewed journals, was flawed and eventually the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services banned Elizabeth Holmes from the blood-testing business for at least two years.

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Failure Peer Review Learning Science 154

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

And professors have other ways to share their classroom tips: Publishing research about their teaching in peer-reviewed scholarly journals. The Cal State system hopes that the portfolios it’s requiring could turn out to be a rough draft for articles in peer-reviewed journals.

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Teaching Portfolio Teaching Syllabus Peer Review 167

Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 15, 2024

Embracing the Art of Reading One of the most effective and time-honored methods for honing one’s writing skills is to immerse oneself in the works of accomplished authors and essayists. By exploring the interplay between text and visual or auditory components, writers can develop a more holistic and immersive approach to their craft.

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Essay Writing Skills Interdisciplinary 167

eSchool News

JUNE 26, 2023

The SIIA CODiE Awards are the industry’s only peer-reviewed awards program. Educators and administrators serve as judges for the first-round review of all nominees. The winners were presented during a virtual awards celebration hosted on the NewSky XR secure online platform on June 22. Founder of BrainPOP.

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Educational Technologies Technology Peer Review Education 141

eSchool News

MARCH 26, 2018

Click here to read the full app review. With Writable, students learn to write to a prompt, provide and incorporate peer review effectively, and substantively revise their work based on feedback. What’s It Like? . Teachers can use Writable as a kind of project management platform for the writing process.

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Peer Review Feedback Writing Evaluation 133

eSchool News

MAY 16, 2023

The SIIA CODiE Awards are the industry’s only peer-reviewed awards program. Educators and administrators serve as judges for the first-round review of all nominees. “Their innovations stand to improve the teaching and learning experience for teachers and students here in the U.S. and globally.

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Educational Technologies Technology Peer Review Education 152

Edsurge

OCTOBER 5, 2020

says Lisa Guernsey, director of the teaching, learning and tech program at New America and author of the books “Screen Time” and “Tap, Click, Read: Growing Readers in a World of Screens.” “All “What matters is, what is the content on the screen and the context of the watching and the playing and what are the needs of the child?”

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Study Peer Review Coaching Science 195

Model Teaching

MARCH 17, 2025

The science of reading is a collection of the currently available reading research that explains positive results in reading performance. The post The Big Five Within the Science of Reading appeared first on Model Teaching.

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Reading Science Peer Review Study 52

Edsurge

MARCH 12, 2021

Nor are they made aware of the peer-review process in which scientists in the field who were not involved with the research critically evaluate the study design and conclusions. These experiences in school science sometimes give students the unrealistic perspective of science as a set of facts rather than a dynamic human endeavor.

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Science Peer Review Knowledge Learning 174

Edsurge

MARCH 13, 2019

After reading “The Power of Feedback,” a research report by John Hattie and Helen Timperley, we concluded that frequent and focused feedback was the key to empowering students to take charge of their learning. Students use peer feedback to quickly revise their work and pose at least one question before I provide in-app feedback.

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Feedback Culture Science Teaching 167

Edsurge

JUNE 3, 2022

Teachers often found it hard to monitor attendance and assess students’ understanding: one study found that the impact of the pandemic left students on average five months behind in mathematics and four months behind in reading by the end of the school year. This must change.

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Peer Review Evaluation Science Study 187

Edsurge

OCTOBER 22, 2021

So I tell students, ’Don't read chapter 9, follow this link and read this part that I’ve written, and then follow this link to this quiz that I wrote and then go watch this video at Colorado State University,’” said Feldstein.

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Textbooks Syllabus Instructors Peer Review 170

Edsurge

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Making sure the approach to reading and writing across materials created by a bunch of different people is hard. Making sure the approach to reading and writing across materials created by a bunch of different people is hard. The Big History Project’s approach to the teaching of reading comprises four components.

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History Writing Social Studies Peer Review 146

Edsurge

AUGUST 12, 2019

Facilitators provide continuous support and encouragement through moderated discussions and by providing thorough peer feedback. Recommended reading from Participate. Read more tips on leading with empathy. Continue to build trust with your learners through meaningful feedback and peer review.

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Teachers Learning Styles Feedback Participation 165

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Edmentum was honored to have Marzano Research peer review a research project we conducted for our classroom practice and assessment program, Study Island; Marzano confirmed the effectiveness of using Study Island for online practice. Read the success story from Lincoln K-8 Choice School in Rochester, MN.

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Testing Exams Peer Review Study 160

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Research databases, including Google Scholar, ResearchGate and JSTOR can serve as resources for peer-reviewed studies. Finding Existing Evidence Your first step in this process is locating any available evidence of impact, including research, evaluation or impact studies done on the product you are considering.

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Study Testing Students Peer Review 215

Edsurge

JULY 17, 2017

Michael Kennedy, an associate professor at the University of Virginia, was relatively sure he knew the answer to this research question: “When making, purchasing and/or adoption decisions regarding a new technology-based product for your district or school, how important is the existence of peer-reviewed research to back the product?”

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Peer Review Education Math Questions 143

Edsurge

JUNE 10, 2019

If we gathered all the stories of people reading this column together, we would have a tapestry of diverse people who all had unique approaches to contributing to others’ growth. My confidence was shaken, but not broken. Think of someone who contributed to your learning in a meaningful way at some point in your life.

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Teaching Course Evaluations Peer Review Culture 167

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 15, 2023

For example, some of our instructors have folders for each week with readings and assignments, while others choose to organize by chapters or units. Peer review and sharing: Offer peer review opportunities where faculty can share LMS courses with colleagues and receive valuable feedback.

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Syllabus Instructors Peer Review Lecturing 126

Edsurge

JUNE 6, 2017

After a writing fellow quickly reviews it, the score gets delivered to the student via the eCoach system. The student then has an opportunity to revise and resubmit the piece based on the combination of feedback from the assigned writing fellow, the ATA system, and peer review.

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Essay Feedback Writing Assignments 138

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

I do this as a Black non-binary person with multiple chronic illnesses, who is read as an able-bodied Black woman. I’m a Black non-binary person who most people read and treat as a Black woman. For a selected list of peer-reviewed articles, research and data studies referenced in this story, click here.

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Education Disabilities Participation Peer Review 198

Edsurge

MAY 2, 2017

When social media site Academia.edu hit the scene in 2008, it was hailed by some scholars as an alternative to pricey academic publishing and peer-review models. Professors and researchers could use the social platform to share their work, findings and ideas—most importantly, at no cost.

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Peer Review Lecturing Accessibility Science 95