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AI Tools in Education: Doing Less While Learning More A Q&A with Mark Frydenberg By Mary Grush 07/10/23 What do students need to know, to use AI tools effectively? How does AI affect assessment? What ...
Richard J. Stiggins, an advocate of classroom assessments in the service of learning, identifies misconceptions about formative assessment.
A pilot project by MIT Playful Journey Lab using “playful assessments” seeks to discover and keep track of whether maker education works ...
Selecting tools to use in an assessment process can be a surprisingly challenging endeavor. Part of the challenge is how many tools are on the market, and the other challenge is getting enough ...
Effective assessment tools should be used for any as-sessment, whether formal or informal. The assessment should be valid and reliable. Assessment questions should be clear and unambiguous, and ...
A 2016 Education Week Research Center survey found that 83 percent of district or school leaders said their teachers were using one or more digital tools for conducting formative assessments ...
Rather than tinkering with the tools that measure student outcomes, Ryan Walters should focus on impactful early literacy and math policy.
This article in the Medical Education series provides a conceptual framework for and a brief update on commonly used and emerging methods of assessment, discusses the strengths and limitations of e ...