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AVID has huge benefits for high school students

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16 in the peer-reviewed journal Pediatrics , suggest that the Advancement via Individual Determination (AVID) program, aimed at increasing educational opportunities for under-represented and economically disadvantaged students, also significantly reduces substance use. The findings, published Dec.

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Five Ways to Make Peer Feedback Effective In Your Classroom

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When students weren’t solving assignments or giving presentations, I was able to spend my time interacting with them one-on-one. That’s 150 students = 10 assignments in 13 weeks = 5 pages per assignment). Peergrade —a free online platform to facilitate peer feedback sessions with students. The class operated smoothly.

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How Can Online Instructors Get Students to Talk to Each Other?

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Dropbox Paper or Google Docs : these mainstream collaborative word-processing tools let instructors invite students to collaborate on assignments or group work. All of these tools can be embedded into the learning management system your school uses, so students never have to leave their familiar environment in order to participate.

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A Growing (But Controversial) Idea in Open-Access Textbooks: Let Students Help Write Them

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The textbook that Delmar Larsen assigned his students was full of errors, and he knew it. Since it began at UC Davis, it has expanded to involve participants at over 35 institutions, and now covers a range of disciplines beyond chemistry. Without a formal peer-review process, how is it possible to catch mistakes?

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Increased Screen Time May Indicate Family Stress, Pandemic Study Suggests

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Determining whether it’s screen time or low socio-economic status and the stress it causes parents (or some other factor) that is responsible for those outcomes would require randomly assigning kids to watch hours of TV and studying the results, Hartshorne says—not an experiment in which many parents want to participate.

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Self-Checking Student Work to the Rescue!

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Not only is it okay to stop grading every single assignment , but there’s also a smarter way to ensure your students are learning and growing: self-checking student work. Math Fluency Practice Without the Grading Drain You assign a daily math warm-up with 50 addition facts. Thats where self-checking student work comes in.

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Evidence Is Mounting That Calculus Should Be Changed. Will Instructors Heed It?

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At least, that’s according to a randomized study recently published in the peer-reviewed journal Science. 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.