Judging Criteria

Judging for both challenges will be based on how well you persuade judges of the effectiveness of your use of content, pedagogy, and technology.

Proposal Categories	How effective?	How innovative?
Content What you teach	Did you show the importance of this content for student learning and explain why it is a critical challenge?	Did you address a difficult challenge in creative and innovative ways?
Pedagogy How you will teach	Did you show how your choice of teaching methods aligns with the content and why your way of teaching it is effective ?	Is your pedagogy innovative?
Technology Tools for Teaching	Did you show why your choice of technology or technologies are appropriate to and effective for the pedagogy and content?	Is your use of technology innovative?

Proposal Categories	How effective?	How innovative?
Data	Are these data really useful? How important are the new actions teachers could take if they had access to these data?	Are these data typically collected and used by teachers? If so, are you proposing to use them in a novel way?
Tool and Process	Can a “normal” teacher really gather the data in question using the tool and process you’ve designed?	How inexpensive and easy to implement are your tool and process?
Screens and visualizations	Is it intuitively obvious how a teacher using your dashboards or visualizations can access the information needed to make the important decisions identified above?	Many data dashboards are overly cluttered, complicated, and difficult to read. How clean and simple is your visual design for supporting teacher decision-making? Have you created a novel technique for displaying data?

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