Download or read book Transforming School Systems Through Assessment Technology and Non Traditional Learning Methods written by Yünkül, Eyup and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2024-08-26 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In todays rapidly changing education landscape, integrating assessment, technology, and non-traditional learning methods is essential for fostering student success. Data-driven assessments allow educators to tailor their strategies to meet each students unique needs, while advanced technologies enhance accessibility and engagement. Non-traditional methods promote critical thinking and real-world problem-solving skills. By implementing these innovative approaches, education can be transformed for a more inclusive future for all students. Transforming School Systems Through Assessment, Technology, and Non-Traditional Learning Methods explores these pivotal changes, providing a comprehensive understanding of how they are reshaping school systems globally. This book gathers insights, research, and practical applications that highlight the transformative power of these elements in creating more effective, inclusive, and engaging learning environments. Covering topics such as change management, learning through play, and teacher leadership, this book is an excellent resource for educators, school administrators, researchers, academicians, policy makers, education consultants, technology developers, edtech developers, graduate students, and preservice teachers.
Download or read book National Education Technology Plan written by Arthur P. Hershaft and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Education is the key to America's economic growth and prosperity and to our ability to compete in the global economy. It is the path to higher earning power for Americans and is necessary for our democracy to work. It fosters the cross-border, cross-cultural collaboration required to solve the most challenging problems of our time. The National Education Technology Plan 2010 calls for revolutionary transformation. Specifically, we must embrace innovation and technology which is at the core of virtually every aspect of our daily lives and work. This book explores the National Education Technology Plan which presents a model of learning powered by technology, with goals and recommendations in five essential areas: learning, assessment, teaching, infrastructure and productivity.
Download or read book Transforming Teaching Learning and Assessment for the Digital Natives written by Ashwak Abdulsalam Yousif and published by . This book was released on 2020-05-13 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The changes that have been taking place in the digital age due to the advancements in technology are extensive. The impact of technology has been more intensive on the young generation that was born after the 1980s. New labels have been used to describe the young people who were born after the 1980s, such as 'digital natives, ' 'the Internet generation, ' 'Google generation, ' or 'the millennials.' These young people are more comfortable with the use of technology since they were born and grew up in the digital age. Wherever they go and whatever they do, they use their digital devices. Everything has changed due to the use of technology, but teaching, learning, and assessment procedures, to some extent, have very slight changes. Most young learners go to schools, sit in the classroom to receive knowledge from one or more teachers. The use of technology has transformed our factories, hospitals, communication, and transportation, etc.. However, the integration of technology in teaching and learning is still floundering, especially in K12 education in many countries around the world. What can educational technologies provide to our education systems, and how can educators meet the needs and capabilities of the digital natives? What teaching, learning, and assessment approaches that fit the learners in the digital era?The purpose of this series is to provide non- traditional perspectives and solutions to some of the current educational problems such as academic dishonesty, academic dropout, lack of motivation, absence, etc. Transforming teaching, learning, and assessment approaches using digital technologies has the potential to improve the communication between the digital natives and immigrants. The series will explore different educational problems in K12 and higher education institutions. Suggested solutions that focus on what must educators and academics do to transform the traditional teaching, learning, and assessment approaches will be provided. How can educational technologies give a hand to establish sound and better communication between digital immigrants and digital nativ
Download or read book Assessment 3 0 written by Mark Barnes and published by Corwin Press. This book was released on 2015-01-28 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throw out gradebooks and meet the assessment system of the future! Most educators take for granted that "A-through-F" grades are the best measure of learning. But Mark Barnes’s formula for feedback, titled SE2R (Summarize, Explain, Redirect, Resubmit), has delivered stunning results to the forward-thinking schools that have tried it. Now you can tap into the power of SE2R to supercharge student learning and accountability. The method in this book will loosen and then break your classroom’s dependence on traditional grading systems that do little more than silence student voices. Delving into what really motivates students, the book covers: How GPA is a classic example of "the tail wagging the dog" Utilizing mobile devices and social networks to maximize the benefits of SE2R Addressing and overcoming bureaucratic resistance to change Real-life case studies proving SE2R’s viability Your greatest responsibility is to your students. Don’t wait another day to start dismantling the grading system that is currently "failing" them all. "Revolutionary. Why? Tossing out grades does not equate tossing out learning. We spend a lot of time talking about data and growth. In Assessment 3.0, Mark Barnes focuses on the revelation and growth of the Independent Learner- our students. This is a great read for any teacher or administrator." —Creed Anthony, Teacher/Writer of "Your Parent-Teacher Conference" weekly column on LifeofDad.com "Mark Barnes is a leader and revolutionary voice in the movement to rid our educational system of an outdated assessment model. In Assessment 3.0, he delivers a persuasive pitch that current grading practices are both poor reflections of learning and damaging to students. Not only does he clearly define the problem, he offers a powerful solution with his SE2R model and delivers a blueprint for implementation that can transform classrooms and schools." —Dave Burgess, Educator, Professional Development Speaker, and Author of Teach Like a Pirate "Barnes is bold, insightful and right! It is time to not only throw out your grade books, but all the misinformation in your brains that supports the need for grades! None of us became teachers so we could have color-coded grade books. We became educators to make a difference in the minds of our students. This book shows us how!" —Russell J. Quaglia, President/Founder Quaglia Institute for Student Aspirations "This text contains outstanding resources for communicating to stakeholders who care about how assessment systems can impact student behaviors and performances. If you are interested in changing how students and teachers view traditional grading systems, this book is a must read. Assessment 3.0 can be a revolutionary tool." —D. Allan Bruner, National Board Certified Teacher Colton High School, Colton, OR "Mark has done something important in writing this book. He argues--clearly and with hope--for specific, actionable change right now in our early 21st century classrooms. Here′s the potential, here′s the problem, and here′s a way forward. This is a practical model for ed reform in general." —Terry Heick, Director of TeachThought "Nothing destroys a student’s creativity and passion for learning as fast or as completely as grades. Mark Barnes examines how that happens In Assessment 3.0, but he does much more than simply critique standard assessment tools, which have remained virtually unchanged in America for over 100 years. The veteran teacher guides readers through a fascinating investigation of how throwing out grades, while embracing digitally-enhanced independent learning, fosters a superior learning environment—one that also does a far better job of developing real-world skills that prepare students to excel in the world of tomorrow. This book has completely transformed how I approach teaching, and I can’t recommend it highly enough to anybody interested in the future not just of education but also our nation." —David Cutler, National Association of Independent Schools Teacher of the Future ontributor, The Atlantic and Edutopia
Download or read book Handbook of Research on Innovations in Non Traditional Educational Practices written by Keengwe, Jared and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2020-12-11 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While many school districts and institutions of higher education still cling to the traditional agrarian school year with a factory model delivery of education and Carnegie units based on seat time when most people are no longer farmers, factory workers, or reliant on learning in a classroom, there are bursts of promising practices that buck the norm by questioning the educational value of these traditions. Though researchers have investigated the potential of students learning in their own homes via personalized instruction delivered by computers rather than attending traditional institutions, the status quo in education has remained stubbornly resistant to change. Mixed-reality simulations, year-round schooling, grouping students by competencies instead of age, and game-based teaching are just a few of the educational innovations that seek to maximize learning by recognizing that innovation is essential for successfully teaching students in the modern era. The Handbook of Research on Innovations in Non-Traditional Educational Practices is a comprehensive reference source that examines various educational innovations, how they have developed workarounds to navigate traditional systems, and their potential to radically transform teaching and learning. With each chapter highlighting a different educational innovation such as experiential learning, game-based learning, online learning, and inquiry-based learning and their applications in all levels of education, this book explores the issues and challenges these educational innovations face as well as their impact. It is intended for academicians, professionals, administrators, and researchers in education and specifically benefits academic deans, vice presidents of academic affairs, graduate students, faculty technology leaders, directors of teaching and learning centers, curriculum and instructional designers, policymakers, principals and superintendents, and teachers interested in educational change.
Download or read book Transforming Assessment written by Jens Dolin and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-10-14 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reports the results of a research project that investigated assessment methods aimed at supporting and improving inquiry-based approaches in European science, technology and mathematics (STM) education. The findings were used to influence policy makers with guidelines for ensuring that assessment enhances learning. The book provides insights about: - The concept of competence within the STM domains and its relevance for education - The conceptualisation and teaching of four key competences: scientific inquiry, mathematical problem-solving, design processes, and innovation. - Fundamental aspects of the two main purposes of assessment, formative and summative, the relations between the two purposes and ways of linking them. - The main challenges related to the uptake of formative assessment in daily teaching-learning practices in STM and specifically, the usability of formative on-the-fly dialogue, structured assessment dialogue, peer assessment and written teacher feedback. - The systemic support measures and tools teachers need in order to integrate formative assessment of student learning into their classroom practices and how it can conflict with summative assessment practices. - How research-based strategies for the formative use of assessment can be adapted to various European educational traditions to ensure their effective use and avoid undesirable consequences. - How relevant stakeholders can be invited to take co-ownership of research results and how a productive partnership between researchers, policy makers, and teachers can be established. - Concrete research vistas that are still needed in international assessment research.
Download or read book Knowing What Students Know written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2001-10-27 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Education is a hot topic. From the stage of presidential debates to tonight's dinner table, it is an issue that most Americans are deeply concerned about. While there are many strategies for improving the educational process, we need a way to find out what works and what doesn't work as well. Educational assessment seeks to determine just how well students are learning and is an integral part of our quest for improved education. The nation is pinning greater expectations on educational assessment than ever before. We look to these assessment tools when documenting whether students and institutions are truly meeting education goals. But we must stop and ask a crucial question: What kind of assessment is most effective? At a time when traditional testing is subject to increasing criticism, research suggests that new, exciting approaches to assessment may be on the horizon. Advances in the sciences of how people learn and how to measure such learning offer the hope of developing new kinds of assessments-assessments that help students succeed in school by making as clear as possible the nature of their accomplishments and the progress of their learning. Knowing What Students Know essentially explains how expanding knowledge in the scientific fields of human learning and educational measurement can form the foundations of an improved approach to assessment. These advances suggest ways that the targets of assessment-what students know and how well they know it-as well as the methods used to make inferences about student learning can be made more valid and instructionally useful. Principles for designing and using these new kinds of assessments are presented, and examples are used to illustrate the principles. Implications for policy, practice, and research are also explored. With the promise of a productive research-based approach to assessment of student learning, Knowing What Students Know will be important to education administrators, assessment designers, teachers and teacher educators, and education advocates.
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology written by Mehdi Khosrow-Pour and published by IGI Global Snippet. This book was released on 2009 with total page 4292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This set of books represents a detailed compendium of authoritative, research-based entries that define the contemporary state of knowledge on technology"--Provided by publisher.
Download or read book Empowering India Through Digital Literacy Vol 2 written by Dr. S. Kalaivani & Dr. K. Saileela and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bringing Schools into the 21st Century written by Guofang Wan and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-01-15 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shift happens: Emerging technologies and globalization have resulted in political, social and cultural changes. These changes have a profound impact on all aspects of human life, including education. Yet while society has changed and continues to change, schools are slow to keep up. This book explores issues related to transforming and modernizing our educational systems, including the impact of societal shifts on education, the efforts at various levels to bring schools into the 21st century, the identification of 21st century skills, the reformation of the curriculum, the creation of alternative models of schooling, the innovative use of technology in education, and many others. It addresses questions like the following: Should schools systems adapt to better meet the needs of tomorrow’s world and how should this be accomplished? How can society better prepare students for a changing and challenging modern world? What skills do students need to lead successful lives and become productive citizens in the 21st century? How can educators create learning environments that are relevant and meaningful for digital natives? How can the school curriculum be made more rigorous to meet the needs of the 21st century? This book encourages readers to transcend the limits of their own educational experience, to think beyond familiar notions of schooling, instruction and curriculum, to consider how to best structure learning so that it will benefit future generations. It encourages a deeper analysis of the existing education system and offers practical insights into future directions focused on preparing students with 21st century skills.
Download or read book Transforming Schools and Systems Using Assessment written by Anne Davies and published by . This book was released on 2012-11-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leadership is a continuous work in progress. Leaders must not only move toward success purposely and thoughtfully but also ensure that others are working toward their vision as well. When trying to incorporate system change, leaders will encounter obstacles that may divert their focus from the end goal. Staying on track toward success is difficult in the face of change and, at times, resistance, but assessment for learning provides the foundation and processes that leaders need in order to plan next steps and move from where they are to where they want to be. Using the same steps that enable students to achieve, leaders can employ assessment for learning techniques to plan for, implement, gather feedback about, and collect evidence of change for learning. The goal is organizational learning constant, informed change. Transforming Schools and Systems Using Assessment shows leaders how to engage in system change using the principles of assessment for learning by exploring subjects such as: systemic focus and alignment professional development resistance parents and community quality feedback standards-based reporting Whether the system is a school, a cluster of schools, or an entire district, this book will help leaders put into practice the principles and big ideas of assessment for learning to lead the way to system change at all levels of education.
Download or read book Transformative Assessment written by W. James Popham and published by ASCD. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Testing expert W. James Popham cuts through the jargon and the hype to provide the definitive nuts-and-bolts introduction to formative assessment, a process with the power to completely transform teaching and learning. In his inimitable style, Popham explains the research supporting formative assessment's effectiveness and why familiarity with this research is the key to preserving both teacher sanity and district funds. You'll find step-by-step guidance on how to build frameworks for formative assessment and how to carry out each of the process's four levels: teachers' instructional adjustments, students' learning tactic adjustments, a classroom climate shift, and schoolwide implementation. This book is the place to start for educators considering formative assessment, curious about why their school system is embracing formative assessment, or wondering why the "formative assessments" they're using now aren't producing the desired results. Here, you'll learn what formative assessment is and isn't, what it can do and what it can't, and the practical way to reap its very real rewards: better teaching and better learning.
Download or read book Resources in Education written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Digital Disruption in Teaching and Testing written by Claire Wyatt-Smith and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-04-28 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a significant contribution to the increasing conversation concerning the place of big data in education. Offering a multidisciplinary approach with a diversity of perspectives from international scholars and industry experts, chapter authors engage in both research- and industry-informed discussions and analyses on the place of big data in education, particularly as it pertains to large-scale and ongoing assessment practices moving into the digital space. This volume offers an innovative, practical, and international view of the future of current opportunities and challenges in education and the place of assessment in this context.
Download or read book Rethinking Education in the Age of Technology written by Allan Collins and published by Teachers College Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The digital revolution in education is well under way, with more and more learners plugged into the online world. How can schools make the most of both the technology and the learning potential of today’s “born digital” students? In this new edition of their groundbreaking book, Collins and Halverson argue that new technologies have transformed our workplaces, our lives, and our culture and it is time we take the next step to transform learning—in and out of schools. The authors show how, over time, public schooling was so successful that it became synonymous with education. But new technologies risk making schools obsolete and this book explains why and how today’s educators, policymakers, and communities must adapt to provide all learners with access to the new learning tools of the 21st century. “Allan Collins and Richard Halverson are not by any means arguing that teachers or schools should go away. Rather, they are saying that they should open their doors and windows, connect to other real and virtual places, be crucial tour guides, and send their children on flights of fancy through our modern memory palaces.” —From the Foreword by James Paul Gee, Arizona State University “The most convincing account I’ve read about how education will change in the decades ahead—the authors’ analyses are impressive, fair-minded, and useful.” —Howard Gardner, Harvard Graduate School of Education (from first edition)
Download or read book Transformational Teaching written by Spencer Barnard and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2005-10 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spencer Barnard, the father of five self-actualizing children, is a lifelong educator with experience as a classroom teacher, principal, district level administrator, educational publisher and college administrator. In this latter position he guided the development of an innovative master's degree program designed to advance the professional skills of K-12 teachers in the use of discovery-type learning experiences, enriched to accomodate students' differing learning styles and develop their higher order thinking skills. More than 1,000 in-service teachers have so far completed this program. Numerous classroom tests of discovery learning units developed by small teams of teachers in this program consistently showed improvements in students' attitudes and classroom performance levels. Barnard currently serves as Executive Director of the Discovery Learning Institute, a non-profit organization dedicated to advancing the use of active learning methods in the nation's K-12 schools. He can be reached at this e-mail address: [email protected].
Download or read book Adaptive Educational Technologies for Literacy Instruction written by Scott A. Crossley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-06-17 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While current educational technologies have the potential to fundamentally enhance literacy education, many of these tools remain unknown to or unused by today’s practitioners due to a lack of access and support. Adaptive Educational Technologies for Literacy Instruction presents actionable information to educators, administrators, and researchers about available educational technologies that provide adaptive, personalized literacy instruction to students of all ages. These accessible, comprehensive chapters, written by leading researchers who have developed systems and strategies for classrooms, introduce effective technologies for reading comprehension and writing skills.
