EdLight: Using Student Work to Drive Equitable Feedback Loops
Joined 2024
Partners
Valley View School District 365-U (IL)
Leading Educators
ImpactSTATS
What are we building?
New features for the EdLight tool, including:
Automated grading so that teachers can repurpose their time for more meaningful activities
Insights tool to identify conceptual errors shared among a group of students and actionable small-group instruction steps for teachers to address those errors
Next Steps Dashboard to provide teachers with actionable just-in-time information for their classes
What are we learning?
How teachers repurpose their time to better support students when they are relieved from some of their grading tasks
How teachers experience the Insights and Next Steps tools and teacher recommendations for improvements
Impact of these features for student learning
Evolution of teacher confidence around using insights from student work to inform instruction
Products
Research-aligned feedback protocols that promote equity
Tools embedded in instructional practice for capturing, analyzing, and improving feedback on handwritten student work
Design principles for equitable, culturally grounded math instruction