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Give instructors the freedom to assess their own students using in-course exams and grading or secondary rubrics—which exist in their Blackboard Learn course.
Empower assessment professionals to automate the collection and evaluation of student work–based on assignment submissions in Blackboard Learn — aligned to learning outcomes across sections and disciplines.
After your LMS administrator sets up the Portfolium LTI application, You will then have access to create new assignments.
When you click on an LTI assignment in the LMS, the application auto-logs into the Portfolium EDU Platform. If you are new to the EDU Platform, you will be taken through the on-boarding flow to establish your account. After your account is created, you will be taken to the assignment setup page.
The EDU Platform requires you to enter the following fields to create your assignment.
In Blackboard, you will access the EDU Platform, by going to the “Course” and “Assignment” you would like to assess.
You will be sent to the assignment detail page within the EDU Portal. This page shows the list of students associated with their assignments and the assignment status. Those assignments with a status of “submitted “are ready to be assessed. Click on the “ Score ” button.
Within the LMS, the feedback and scoring you provided via Portfolium are pulled directly into the gradebook.
Research has also shown that the best predictor of a teacher’s effectiveness is his or her past success in the classroom. Most other factors pale in comparison, including a teacher’s preparation route, advanced degrees, and even experience level (after the first few years). The lesson is clear: to ensure that every child learns from the most effective teachers possible, schools must be able to gauge their teachers’ performance fairly and accurately.
School leaders should evaluate every teacher at least once a year. Annual evaluation is the only way to ensure that all teachers—regardless of their ability level or years of experience—get the ongoing feedback on their performance that all professionals deserve. This approach recognizes that a teacher’s effectiveness and developmental needs may change over time, and it sends a message to school leaders that they are accountable for helping all
Each teacher should earn one of four or five summative ratings at the end of each school year: for example, “highly effective,” “effective,” “needs improvement” or “ineffective.”
The New Teacher Project (TNTP) works to end the injustice of educational inequality by providing excellent teachers to the students who need them most and by advancing policies and practices that ensure effective teaching in every classroom. A national nonprofit organization founded by teachers, TNTP is driven by the knowledge that although great teachers are the best solution to educational inequality, thenation’s education systems do not sufficiently prioritize the goal of effective teachers for all. In response, TNTP develops customized programs and policy interventions that enable education leaders to find, develop and keep great teachers and achieve reformsthat promote effective teaching.
Student work during the course of the lesson (e.g., “Do Nows,” checks for understanding, guided and independent practice, exit slips) shows that nearly all students at all skill levels mastered the lesson objectives . (Specific, student-centered, little room for inference)