A New, Evidence-Based Decision Making AI Tool for Educators
There is clearly a lot of angst surrounding AI in education at the moment. Many folks are excited, but just as many are nervous. As one English teacher put it in our Short Answer Teacher Community recently, “It’s all moving SO fast. I’m having a hard time keeping up!” New tools seem to come out every […]
Case Study: Short Answer Presents at MACE 2023
Short Answer co-founder Adam Sparks had the privilege of leading an interactive session titled Peer Feedback, Wine Tasting, and More Effective Formative Assessment at the 2023 Mid-American Association for Computers in Education (MACE) spring conference in Manhattan, Kansas. In this case study, we share highlights, feedback, and implications for school districts interested in leveraging similar strategies […]
Case Study: Boosting Formative Assessment with Papillion La Vista Community Schools
Papillion La Vista Community Schools (PLCS) is a diverse educational community outside Omaha, Nebraska. As the fourth-largest school district in the state, PLCS serves approximately 11,600 students in 2 high schools, 3 middle schools, 16 elementary schools, and 2 learning academies. It is one of the most consistently innovative districts in the state, always seeking […]
Why we call ourselves Short Answer.
“Why did you call it Short Answer?” We get it all the time. Or, as a teacher friend put it recently: “IT’S CALLED SHORT ANSWER!? Dude, your last name is SPARKS, HOW did you not start there?” It’s the latest in a long line of…let’s call it skepticism….towards our name. It’s two words and three […]
Preventing ChatGPT Plagiarism: A Solution for the Copy-Paste Challenge in ELA
I attended the NE Future Ready conference earlier this week and, as expected, AI dominated the conversation. AI is something we’re thinking a lot about at Short Answer, and we’ve got some exciting AI features in the pipeline to keep an eye out for this fall. That said, based on the conversations at the conference, […]
Initial Short Answer Efficacy Report
Short Answer’s theory of change was crafted in the Learning Design and Technology master’s degree program in the Stanford Graduate School of Education under the guidance of Dr. Karin Forsell, Dr. Sarah Levine, Dr. Bruce McCandliss, and many others (see Acknowledgments section below). Initial efficacy research was conducted over the summer and fall of 2022 […]
Teacher Appreciation Week 2023
We are excited to kick off our very first Teacher Appreciation Week as Team Short Answer! This week, we will be highlighting the voices and experiences of some of the teachers who have supported us at every step of the way as a way of saying thank you. Teachers, we are grateful for the opportunity […]
