Naiku Blog: News, White Papers, and Case Studies
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Student Reflection and Confidence
Read MoreDiscover how confident students are about their understanding and let them engage by reflecting on their incorrect answers.
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Sharing and Collaboration
Read MoreCollaboration is fundamental. Teachers can share assessments with other teachers at their school, district, or the Naiku world if they wish, making it easy to deliver common assessments.
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Quick Question Student Response
Read MoreAdd instant student response with our free-for-teachers virtual clicker.
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Balanced assessment isn’t sexy
Read MoreIn the era of 1:1, assessment is the often overlooked stepchild Growth of 1:1 The renewed wave of interest and implementation of 1:1 projects in schools recently has been obvious – all over schools are evaluating iPads and other tablets, netbooks, and, given the continued price point decline, laptops. BYOD, once a quickly dismissed subject […]
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Naiku – The Missing Piece of the Puzzle
Read MoreThis is a special guest article from one of our Naiku Star teachers. Len Beard is mathematics teacher at Scott Highlands Middle School in Apple Valley, Minnesota. NAIKU- The Missing Piece of the Puzzle I’ve been ‘flipping’ my classroom for nearly a decade. I pre-test and post-test each chapter and use the pretests as a […]
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The Teenage Mind and Naiku
Read MoreIn the October, 2011 issue of National Geographic, David Dobbs explains what’s happening in the brains of 12 – 25 year-olds. His observations are based on a National Institutes of Health (NIH) project that studied over a hundred young people as they grew up during the 1990s . The study provides some rationale for why teenagers act the […]
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Naiku Participates in Edmodo Launch of App Store
Read MoreEdmodo, a social learning platform for teachers, announced the launch of its app store. The opening of its API to third-party web developers enables the creation of educational apps on the social platform. Naiku is excited to be among the first 35 companies allowed to develop on the platform. Naiku already has a Community Page […]
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Why do we still have computer “labs?”
Read MoreLately I have been wondering why the “computer lab” is still so prevalent, and I wonder how long these groups of computers (in what could be used as classroom space) are going to last. Is it the beginning of the end for the computer lab? I did a little research on how the computer lab started, […]
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Two Stages of Metacognition: Prediction and Reflection
Read MoreIn Naiku, metacognition is a big deal! I often wonder how metacognition came to play such an important role in the Naiku Assessment Platform. Is it because I spent roughly two years doing research on the feeling-of-knowing, an important metacognitive decision-making process (Nhouyvanisvong & Reder, 1998) as a psychology graduate student at Carnegie Mellon University and have […]
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Data Driven Instruction with Naiku
Premier educators such as Dr. Paul Bambrick-Santoyo (Driven By Data 2.0: A Practical Guide to Improve Instruction) and Dr. John Hattie (Visible Learning) promote the use of data in enhancing instruction and student learning. In this linked white paper, Dr. Adisack Nhouyvanisvong discusses these techniques and showcases how to implement them using Naiku.
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Achieving Visible Learning with Naiku
Visible Learning is an excellent resource illustrating the effectiveness of student-centered learning which Naiku wholeheartedly supports. In Visible Learning and Visible Learning for Teachers, Dr. John Hattie (2009, 2012) synthesizes research studies involving hundreds of millions of students to show the effectiveness of different approaches to improve learning. Dr. Hattie found that student-centered learning strategies have the highest […]
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Use ACT Quick Checks for Progress Monitoring
Naiku provides over 50 ACT Quick Checks for teachers to use for student progress monitoring in all ACT test subjects. ACT Quick Checks are short, topic-focused, formative assessments; typically 6-12 questions in length. Each Quick Check contains questions from a single topic, such as Math-Functions, so teachers can use to easily monitor progress between benchmark […]