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Pre-assessment is Key to Designing with Intention

Catlin Tucker

This inquiry always prompts me to reflect: How many educators gather pre-assessment data before crafting their lesson plans? Such preliminary insights, whether through pre-assessments, diagnostics, or activities aimed at accessing prior knowledge, can illuminate the diverse range of skills, abilities, and needs within a classroom.

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8 Ways surveys help school leaders make better decisions

Neo LMS

Thankfully, there is one way to gather feedback without having to jump through hoops: school surveys. As we’ve often seen during the lockdown, the most effective way to constantly check in on students, teachers, and even parents is by sending surveys. 8 Surveys that help school leaders make better decisions. Class evaluations.

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New National Survey Analyzes Impact of COVID-19 on Teaching and Learning

Digital Promise

Highlights from the survey include: Keeping Up Academically and the Digital Divide : Eighty-two percent of teachers say it’s been difficult for their students to keep up academically during the pandemic, though only 45 percent of parents have the same concern for their own child. Lessons Learned to Move Forward. Digital Divide.

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10 Good Tools to Create Free Surveys and Polls

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

The purpose of this post is to share with you this collection of handy tools to use to create surveys and polls. These tools are simple and easy to use and offer a wide variety of features that enable you to design different types of surveys and polls. Zoho Survey enables you to easily create your own surveys.

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How to manage assessments in the blended classroom

Neo LMS

But one thing is certain: teachers need to consider the way they assess students in these specific conditions. Assessment is often associated with quizzes, exams, and summative assessments. However, summative assessments offer a limited perspective. There’s more to assessment that needs teachers’ attention.

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20 Ways to Assess Prior Knowledge

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

In this post, we delve into various strategies educators can use to assess students’ prior knowledge. From interactive classroom activities like quizzes and mind maps to reflective practices like learning logs and self-assessments, these methods offer a diverse range of ways to gauge what students know and how they think.

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How we reached student success with assessment proficiency

eSchool News

We use observations, quick formative assessments, longer summative assessments, and long-term benchmark assessments. The problem is that these assessments come in a variety of ways, depending on where you teach. Many districts utilize pre-built assessments from curricular resource companies. The short answer is no.