k12 Digest

MAY 28, 2025

That vision became AEF Schools , a place designed for students who needed something differenta structured, supportive environment where learning goes beyond textbooks and tests. Instead of pressuring students with high-stakes exams, AEF focuses on mastery-based learning.

Skills 144

Skills Schools Learning Students 144

Edsurge

JULY 22, 2020

The latest results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress found that scores for eight-grade students on civics, history and geography exams all dipped from 2014 to 2018. Often these are assignments, exercises and drills that resemble what one may find in a textbook. And perform worse on tests.

Science 210

Science Teachers History Learning 210

Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 14, 2024

Teaching students the intricacies of anatomy via AR is already heightening their spatial reasoning and making it easier to internalize advanced concepts textbooks and videos can’t bring to life as vividly. Bringing concepts to life in the real world using augmented reality is also gaining traction.

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Gamification Hybrid Learning Education Motivation 167

Edsurge

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Since the days of “Oregon Trail,” educational games have teased at the possibility that learning in school can be freed from the doldrum of textbooks and tests. In 2013, it created an educational version of SimCity , the classic city-building franchise owned by Electronic Arts.

Learning 163

Learning Middle School Middle School Testing 163

Edsurge

AUGUST 4, 2021

High-stakes entrance exams determine which students are admitted to the top high schools, then the top colleges, then the top jobs in cities that citizens view as “ first-tier.” Parents push for intense studying out of the belief that even a single point on these exams can make a difference in their child’s fortures, Hu says.

Culture 162

Culture English Exams Cognitive Development 162

Edsurge

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Founded in 1986, the company is perhaps best known for its Accelerated Reader and Accelerated Math programs, along with its STAR formative assessments that help teachers and students prepare for their end-of-year state exams. The company claims to service a third of U.S. schools and more than 90 countries.

Schools 99

Schools Failure Exams Learning 99

Edsurge

MARCH 18, 2019

If students can really cruise on their own, we’d give them 12 years of textbooks and have them study the entire content at home,” Arbaji says. At the end of the program, students take an exit exam to see how much they’ve improved since the start. Students weren’t completing lessons on their own outside of school. But that doesn’t work.”

Schools 107

Schools English Exams Testing 107

k12 Online Schools

APRIL 23, 2025

This continuity is particularly beneficial for students preparing for high-stakes exams like the IGCSEs, A-levels, SATs, or IB assessments. Courses include not just live or recorded lessons, but assignments, projects, tests, and exams, just like traditional school. Todays platforms are dynamic, interactive, and designed for engagement.

Schools 52

Schools Exams Assignments Culture 52

Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

Reading back over a textbook or taking lecture notes with a highlighter at the ready is often done by students, for instance, but these practices have proven of limited merit, and in some cases even counterproductive in aiding recall. As a result, teaching is, to use another building metaphor, not up to code.

Education 218

Education Learning Textbooks Instructors 218

Faculty Focus

JULY 9, 2023

Students in these classes study for multiple-choice exams from well-established textbooks in a similar way to their peers for the last century. Not dissimilar are the college classrooms of smaller, liberal arts colleges. In my classroom exams, I no longer test for memorization of content.

Technology 122

Technology Teaching Exams Lecturing 122

Faculty Focus

JULY 9, 2023

Students in these classes study for multiple-choice exams from well-established textbooks in a similar way to their peers for the last century. Not dissimilar are the college classrooms of smaller, liberal arts colleges. In my classroom exams, I no longer test for memorization of content.

Technology 98

Technology Teaching Exams Lecturing 98

Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 17, 2015

Textbooks sugar coat realities a bit. Virtually every sector of the population has to take standardized exams. Like in other states, here in Iowa high stakes exams start in 3rd grade. In wealthy neighborhoods in New York, there are strong parent movements to opt out their kids from the exams. The media does this too.

Education 91

Education Exams Testing Fairness 91

Edsurge

MAY 26, 2022

But she’s equipping herself with martial arts and theater training. The class meets in a gleaming performing arts center at the top of a hill. That was a time of expensive science textbooks and long lectures in big halls. In 2017, Jackie took board exams required to become a nurse. She did well on one.

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Art Exams Textbooks Lecturing 173