eSchool News

APRIL 2, 2025

In college, assignments were purposeful, designed to deepen my understanding of the material rather than simply reinforce rote memorization. These assignments provided valuable opportunities to fail, seek help, and ultimately grow from the experience. This wasnt a sign of failure; it was an essential part of learning.

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Failure Assignments Education Secondary Education 177

eSchool News

APRIL 3, 2025

Do you support student use of AI in school and/or for assignments? How this leads to cheating : In environments where grades are the primary focus, students may be more inclined to take shortcuts–such as using AI–if they feel it will help them achieve the grade they desire.

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Academic Integrity Failure Students Culture 207

Faculty Focus

JULY 23, 2023

Post-secondary students often have a plan in mind for what they want to achieve during their academic journey. In such situations, it is important for these students to remember that they are not alone and that there are ways to navigate setbacks and still achieve success. In many classes (e.g., References Abdullah, M. link] Brady, S.,

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Failure Students Achievement Motivation 98

Faculty Focus

JULY 23, 2023

Post-secondary students often have a plan in mind for what they want to achieve during their academic journey. In such situations, it is important for these students to remember that they are not alone and that there are ways to navigate setbacks and still achieve success. In many classes (e.g., References Abdullah, M. link] Brady, S.,

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Failure Students Achievement Motivation 98

eSchool News

MARCH 26, 2019

Biggest challenge: Our school is required to enforce a series of standardized tests every year to assess a student’s achievements and knowledge learned in the grade level. Students were correcting their work as they read out loud, which translated to better writing the next assignment.

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Essay Failure Students Writing 200

Edsurge

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Students earn points by completing a much wider variety of assignment and assessment pathways than what is typically seen in most higher education courses today. Students also have autonomy to choose what they want to do within that wide variety of assignments and assessments. We don’t want you to be a failure.

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Failure Assignments Quizzes Motivation 165

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

The study, which occurred over three semesters, randomly assigned students to either learning through lectures, the old-school way, or through “active” calculus instruction that emphasizes student engagement. Failure could mean potential biologists, mathematicians or engineers being pushed out of the field.

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Instructors Lecturing STEM Study 202

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

However, research from the last decade shows only 28 percent of community college students who take a developmental education course earn a degree within eight years, and many students assigned to developmental courses drop out before completing their sequence and enrolling in college-level courses.

Education 203

Education Failure Students Exams 203

Edsurge

APRIL 5, 2018

To be prepared for success, struggling students need just as many opportunities to participate in self-directed learning and to develop autonomy as high-achieving students. My hesitation was rooted in three main assumptions I made about my students: They lack the focus needed to complete self-directed assignments.

Learning 161

Learning Assignments Students Motivation 161

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

For example, a contract between Cengage and Central Washington University gave Cengage the right to terminate its inclusive access program if the university failed “to achieve purchases for at least eighty-five percent (85%) of the students enrolled” in relevant courses.

Textbooks 168

Textbooks Accessibility Confidentiality Instructors 168

Edsurge

JUNE 6, 2019

This does not necessarily make MOOCs a failure. At Acumen, where I design online courses, we’ve also been offering selective cohort-based programs for the past year that achieve completion rates of 85 percent. In many MOOCs, students feel like their assignments end up being submitted into a void. Make students feel seen.

Assignments 167

Assignments Teaching Assistants Motivation Failure 167

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Unsurprisingly, concerns over the expected “COVID slide” began to take shape almost as quickly as the emergency response plans, with the learning loss projected to be especially dire for those students already at risk of failure. submitted assignments, logging on to watch a video, etc.) is in learning management systems (LMS).

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Participation Communication Failure Hybrid Learning 216

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

You enter and on the board is your first assignment: create something—a drawing, a model of a house, a sketch of a new product, a sculpture. And tells you your next assignment is to pick up the pieces (including yourself) and make something new. You’re not taking English or history or pre-calculus; the sign on the door says “Obstacles.”

Education 167

Education Schools Art History 167

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Unfortunately, DPS follows a nationwide trend where Black students are overrepresented in discipline and underrepresented in academic achievement. She started to see mistakes not as failures but as opportunities to learn and grow. Although there is progress, it still has not made good on its promise when it comes to student learning.

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Math Beliefs Students Failure 215

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 3, 2024

E-portfolios are digital collections of student work that showcase achievements and learning progress and have the power to transform the educational experience for students. Some examples of content may include academic work, projects, and personal achievements.

Student Engagement 126

Student Engagement Motivation Students Failure 126

Edsurge

MARCH 20, 2023

The Learning Ally Audiobook Solution As children age and learning shifts from learning to read to reading to learn, support can mean the difference between learning from reading or suffering sustained academic failure.

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Reading Failure Motivation Study 168

Edsurge

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Studies show that parental involvement in a student’s education is the most accurate predictor of academic achievement. Researchers at Columbia University went further to study the impact of weekly automated alerts to parents about their student’s missed assignments, grades and class absences.

Failure 174

Failure Communication Study Change Management 174

eSchool News

AUGUST 27, 2024

Some of these tasks might include replying to parent emails without emotional interference, creating differentiated assignments with ease and expertise, and creating interactive lesson components and higher order questions that probe thinking patterns. The most time consuming or emotionally taxing items can be processed via prompts.

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Schools Coaching STEM Evaluation 333

eSchool News

JULY 2, 2024

Key points: When it comes to K-12 innovation, change isn’t a consideration–it’s an imperative Students know best when it comes to transforming education Schools must embrace these 4 innovative focus areas to avoid failure For more news on K-12 transformation, visit eSN’s Educational Leadership hub Across the U.S.,

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Education Internet Interdisciplinary Testing 300

Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 4, 2018

She didn’t try to be my best friend and she didn’t make excuses for my third-grade failures. Effective teachers care about the student, their goals, and their achievement of goals. It was a challenge to correct her without having her shut down, declare herself a failure, and move on. You see it right away.

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Teachers Failure Quizzes Knowledge 136

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 20, 2023

Showing up to lectures and completing class assignments are essential ingredients for success in most college courses. Goals could include achieving a certain GPA, mastering specific subjects, or acquiring relevant skills for their desired profession. Failure should be viewed as part of the learning experience.

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Failure Students Lecturing Feedback 98

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 20, 2023

Showing up to lectures and completing class assignments are essential ingredients for success in most college courses. Goals could include achieving a certain GPA, mastering specific subjects, or acquiring relevant skills for their desired profession. Failure should be viewed as part of the learning experience.

Failure 98

Failure Students Lecturing Feedback 98

Edsurge

DECEMBER 4, 2020

To determine placement in college-level or remedial courses, the students were randomly assigned either to a control group that used standardized exam scores—the normal procedure—or to an intervention group that used an alternative method: an algorithm. But the results were more impressive for English classes than math classes.

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Exams English Math Instructors 174

Faculty Focus

APRIL 25, 2023

I do not understand how to do assignments.” As educators in the field of higher education today, we are led towards several questions, the most important of which is: Is there a failure to understand the crucial and circular cause-effect relationship between emotions, cognition, and academic success? I solved everyone’s problems.

Teaching 116

Teaching Failure Instructors Motivation 116

Faculty Focus

JULY 30, 2023

Similar to traditional classroom-based courses, one challenge students in an asynchronous online program face is fully understanding and meeting the requirements of assignments. To help students succeed or acquire mastery in important skill sets, some online instructors offer a second chance to redo assignments and improve their grades.

Student Engagement 98

Student Engagement Instructors Fairness Assignments 98

Edsurge

AUGUST 22, 2018

Failure to include all stakeholders in the vision-setting process can lead to inconsistency, or what Anthony Principe refers to as a roulette of school models. Include experiences to build empathy among parents: When it comes to building a community vision, family matters.

Failure 129

Failure Learning Elementary School Elementary School 129

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

I was fortunate because a large majority of the students showed a genuine interest in this assignment. This skill also encourages critical thinking, as students must evaluate the type of input needed to achieve a desired outcome, troubleshoot issues in responses, and refine their prompts for better results.

Collaborative Research 108

Collaborative Research Writing Failure Students 108

Faculty Focus

JULY 30, 2023

Similar to traditional classroom-based courses, one challenge students in an asynchronous online program face is fully understanding and meeting the requirements of assignments. To help students succeed or acquire mastery in important skill sets, some online instructors offer a second chance to redo assignments and improve their grades.

Student Engagement 97

Student Engagement Instructors Fairness Assignments 97

Edsurge

JULY 10, 2019

The cloud can serve as a force multiplier in achieving this goal, putting additional tools to enhance student learning directly into the hands of educators. Driving student success in the classroom and beyond Ivy Tech can now predict with 84 percent accuracy which students are at risk of dropping out within the first two weeks of enrollment.

Education 167

Education Intelligence Failure Testing 167

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 3, 2024

E-portfolios are digital collections of student work that showcase achievements and learning progress and have the power to transform the educational experience for students. Some examples of content may include academic work, projects, and personal achievements.

Student Engagement 98

Student Engagement Motivation Students Failure 98

Edsurge

AUGUST 1, 2016

to, “I can tell you worked hard on that assignment!” I knew I had to openly set goals for myself (with my class), and worked to achieve them all week (with the support of my class). Those names are just a few in the pool of “famous failures”—and in this case, the “failure” part is more important than the “famous” part.

Science 113

Science Failure Teachers History 113

Dangerously Irrelevant

AUGUST 27, 2018

Jason Glass said: I have an assignment for you. That “those” kids “need” a test-prep education so they can get higher test scores and close our “achievement gap.”. In my book, there is no greater moral failure for us as professional educators. The achievement gap v. The soft bigotry of low expectations.” via [link].

Testing 91

Testing Failure Achievement History 91

Faculty Focus

JUNE 15, 2023

Knowing these exist provides students with the reassurance that the stress of missing assignments can be alleviated. Assessments that are heavily weighted can be broken down into smaller assigned weightings and distributed across the term to prevent learners from becoming overwhelmed.

Lecturing 105

Lecturing Instructors Assignments Failure 105

Faculty Focus

APRIL 25, 2023

I do not understand how to do assignments.” As educators in the field of higher education today, we are led towards several questions, the most important of which is: Is there a failure to understand the crucial and circular cause-effect relationship between emotions, cognition, and academic success? I solved everyone’s problems.

Teaching 98

Teaching Failure Instructors Motivation 98

Edsurge

APRIL 4, 2018

Playful Learning Image Credit: Sean Arnold There are a number of reasons I use games for instruction , but the most compelling is the power games have to shift student incentives and redefine failure. Bartle defined the four main categories as achievers, explorers, socializers and killers.

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Motivation Students Special Education Math 146

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

I was fortunate because a large majority of the students showed a genuine interest in this assignment. This skill also encourages critical thinking, as students must evaluate the type of input needed to achieve a desired outcome, troubleshoot issues in responses, and refine their prompts for better results.

Collaborative Research 91

Collaborative Research Writing Failure Students 91

Edsurge

MARCH 1, 2018

Faculty told me they hated it,” Feleccia Moore-Davis, provost and vice president for academic affairs at the college, said during a session at Achieving the Dream’s national conference last week. Students with two or more flags were then assigned to an advisor for follow-up. “We Beginner’s (Un)Luck. Sheri Rowland.

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Counselling Failure Instructors Coaching 120