Automated Invisible Assessment with metacog

By Ronit Carter | November 18, 2016

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The Problem: Open-ended Tasks Are Underutilized We have been blogging about performance tasks for several years. One thing we have heard many times from publishers and educators alike: “I’d use performance tasks more often if I didn’t have to score them.”

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Design: The Secret Behind Effective Digital Learning Experiences–Part 2

By Ronit Carter | February 4, 2016

In our first blog on this topic, we began to reveal the secret behind the magnetic allure of games, simulations, and other online performance-based digital learning experiences. We showed you a well-aligned, well-designed simulation-based science performance task. In this blog, we’ll show you how the design of a digital performance task directly influences the richness of…

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Design: The Secret Behind Effective Digital Learning Experiences – Part 1

By Ronit Carter | May 5, 2015

The emerging world of simulations and game-based learning is gaining traction with students, teachers, and designers of digital learning environments. Why?

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Talking to the Test: The Learning Continuum

By Ronit Carter | January 15, 2015

Picture this: An urban middle school is on a new journey this year – project-based learning (last year it was standards-based grading). But this initiative is here to stay, the administrators promise. With little background and a whole lot of excitement, teachers engage in weekly team collaboration time. Through a grant, every teacher gets a…

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