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SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

For example, if you’re studying for a biology exam, tagging relevant documents with terms like “photosynthesis” or “cell division” can help you quickly retrieve the information you need. Start by identifying the subjects or topics that require the most attention.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 17, 2018

The study , published in the journal Educational Psychology, found that when students divide attention between electronic devices and a classroom lecture, they still followed the lecture in the moment, but that long-term retention was reduced, resulting in lower grades on unit and final exams.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 18, 2024

Two Languages Not Equally Valued One “leak” in the pipeline of bilingual students potentially becoming bilingual teachers starts with how they are treated during grade school, according to the paper. Interviewee “Esmeralda” started third grade in the U.S. Because [the supervisor] doesn’t speak Spanish.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 15, 2024

Some reasons why you may find these tools beneficial are: Organization: organize lesson plans, assignments, and resources efficiently Communication: between teachers, students, and parents to foster a collaborative relationship, keep everyone informed Student Engagement: to make learning more interesting and interactive Time Management: schedule reminders, (..)

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Catlin Tucker

APRIL 3, 2024

Simultaneously, choice boards free teachers to focus their time and attention on working with individual students or small-group instruction, providing more personalized support or challenge. They ensure students engage with content that aligns with the subject area and grade-level standards.

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k12 Digest

MAY 28, 2025

Small class sizes ensure that every student receives the individual attention they need. Instead of pressuring students with high-stakes exams, AEF focuses on mastery-based learning. Here, learning goes beyond grades and test scores. This approach reduces stress, fosters confidence, and promotes long-term academic success.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

What if instead of having to compete with peers for the sun’s attention, it had room to grow in its own way, at its own pace? And, like her peers nationwide, her transition to first grade in the fall of 2021 was a challenging one. It’s every kid in this grade,” her teacher said. Fast forward to this school year.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2020

During “testing season,” I make sure to pay extra attention to her emotional state. I currently teach a second and third grade split classroom where my students take the NWEA MAP and CPS REACH performance tasks twice a year, TRC/Dibels Literacy Assessment three times a year and the PARCC in the spring.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JANUARY 4, 2021

Students who just don’t learn well by sitting still and who decide not to pay attention. Teachers grading assignments that have been carelessly or sloppily prepared. Students who cram for the test but then forget everything as soon as the exam is over. .

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Edsurge

JUNE 8, 2022

And so they’ve designed systems, strategies and tools to better hold the attention of their students, many of whom are working adults. These institutions may pay attention not only to ordinary life circumstances that can derail students but also to emergencies like the pandemic. You want to avoid that.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 23, 2025

For instance, an often cited study showed that first-grade teachers with math anxiety passed it to their female but not their male students. It also leads to disparities, because it reduces performance in math to a number on an assessment exam, Su says. Students pick up misleading notions of math ability early on, she says.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Both struggle to pay attention regardless of how innovative and engaging are the lesson plans. The lower the grade level, the less panels you should expect. If I had time, I’d play it every grading period. Tie-ins: This is an excellent gamified review for semester tests, final exams, or other summative assessments.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2025

This is an urgent and growing national problem, and immediate attention is needed to help these students who likely missed the benefits of an evidence-based curriculum for foundational literacy skills in early elementary school, especially during the COVID crisis. Success will no longer be measured only by grades or course completion.

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Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 15, 2024

But as I write this article in mid-December, the reality is there are papers and projects to grade, events to attend, holidays to celebrate, and a short break before spring courses commence. But Im not talking about a list of chapters or exams and papers with their due dates. I highly recommend their work.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

She was teaching fourth grade when a new integrated curriculum focused on careers was introduced district-wide—and it was making her lessons more relevant to the real world. It’s here that Brandt teaches, at the Cajon Valley Union School District, which serves about 16,000 students through eighth grade.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

With SEL, students not only experience less anxiety, less hyperactivity, and less aggression, they’re generally happier and more attentive, too. With heart pounding, palms sweating and flashes of a failing grade in his mind, 13-year-old Jake is all stressed out because he forgot about his Monday morning science exam with Mr. Bunting.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 10, 2021

In general terms, you want them to know you’ll do your best to make their summer experience worthwhile, get them through the material, and help them pass the required exams with the grades they need. The biggest impact on productivity came from simply paying attention to the workers and their environment.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Both struggle to pay attention regardless of how innovative and engaging are the lesson plans. The lower the grade level, the less panels you should expect. If I had time, I’d play it every grading period. Tie-ins: This is an excellent gamified review for semester tests, final exams, or other summative assessments.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

We didn’t necessarily want attention,” Hernandez says, even though they got plenty from the media. “We The school dropped the learning program for 11th and 12th grade students, because teachers of those grades didn’t receive any professional development for Summit. A few days later, on Nov. Some changes have come.

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Edsurge

MARCH 5, 2020

She didn’t really pay attention to the goal of the site—which is for students to share their notes and other class materials. But some professors say that in practice, the site is full of exams and test answers that professors simply don’t realize have been posted there. Rutgers professor Kristen S. I found some homework questions.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

That is the clearest takeaway from survey results published this month by the ACT Center for Equity in Learning, an arm of the nonprofit best known for its college entrance exam. They are in kindergarten and first grade so they need a teacher. It is harder to learn new topics at home.”

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Whether a feature film or an instructional video, the ‘80s and ‘90s were a ‘press-play’ culture that expected students to sit still, absorb and retain, while the educator sat in the back grading. In other words, too often we merely administer a high stakes exam or a pop quiz to check whether they watched a video.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

We have divided mathematics, Chinese, English and physics learning into a large number of abilities, and we hope to help students not only to improve grades but also cultivate their inquiry, critical thinking and other skills through our innovative Modes of Thinking, Capacity, and Methods (MCM) model.” That’s where AI comes into play.

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Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2018

Do exams still serve a purpose? How do we move beyond grades to more meaningful demonstrations of learning? Where there’s an alternative there must be a standard, so we started our chat creating a list of what those standard assignment are: exams, quizzes, essays, reports, lab manuals and the like. Yes exactly.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2018

Yet every year I see these same students soar and complete the class with high grades. And how can we teach that poor grades don't indicate failure, but rather that we haven’t found the correct learning strategy? They obtained a large federal grant and asked to conduct research in my classroom. Of course I said yes. The purpose?

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EdTech Magazine

JUNE 21, 2018

While teachers may always be the best line of defense for students falling behind, busy schedules don’t always permit the special attention and feedback that students need. One of the key differences between the two exams was the elevated level of conceptual understanding among the students. eli.zimmerman_9856. Thu, 06/21/2018 - 15:06.

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Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 17, 2023

But as I write this article in mid-December, the reality is there are papers and projects to grade, events to attend, holidays to celebrate, and a short break before spring courses commence. But I’m not talking about a list of chapters or exams and papers with their due dates. I highly recommend their work.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Because this class is so integral to future careers, and because they’re so grade-motivated in order to have the best applications possible, I think you're going to see a lot of students on task and engaged,” she said. I had another exam that day that I was trying to finish my study guide for,” she later explained.

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Edsurge

APRIL 13, 2018

It’s going to improve the level of engagement, which is what correlates directly to better grades,” claims Echo360 CEO and founder Fred Singer. For students who are not deaf, he says, reading on-screen text in addition to watching a professor give a lecture could make it difficult to pay attention.

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Accessibility Lecturing Exams Language 141

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 17, 2023

But as I write this article in mid-December, the reality is there are papers and projects to grade, events to attend, holidays to celebrate, and a short break before spring courses commence. But I’m not talking about a list of chapters or exams and papers with their due dates. I highly recommend their work.

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Exams Syllabus Course Outline Attention 105

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 15, 2024

But as I write this article in mid-December, the reality is there are papers and projects to grade, events to attend, holidays to celebrate, and a short break before spring courses commence. But Im not talking about a list of chapters or exams and papers with their due dates. I highly recommend their work.

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Syllabus Exams Course Outline Attention 91

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2024

After four decades of such reflection, I am keenly aware that understanding effective teaching strategies, the students I serve, and how learning works requires my constant attention. At the time, I go over any written assignment, I provide students with clear and detailed instructions, as well as the rubric I will use for grading their work.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 25, 2023

A math teacher has a better chance of holding students’ attention during class time if they make technology part of the lesson. Web-based Applications Teachers can use the many web-based educational tools to plan and deliver lesson plans, activities, homework, and even exams. And it’s a great way to get more done.

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Math Student Engagement Teachers Mobile Devices 147

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

Even in my district, which fully supports digital portfolios, they are a thing we stack on top of a traditional system of grading and assessment—they’re an activity we do on Fridays if we have time. As measured by traditional metrics such as ACT scores and AP exams, Madison City Schools is a very successful district.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 28, 2024

Research indicates that such captions improve comprehension, retention, and attention (Gernsbacher, 2015). Assigning a small number of points associated with the pre-lab quizzes allows students to accumulate “low-stakes” points, potentially benefiting their overall grade. 2006; Saxena et al., 2006; Greene, 2020; Topping, 2014).

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Laboratory Teaching Exams Quizzes 123

Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2018

Moulton has worked in the field for about 15 years with a small family-run company called Educational Data Systems , which makes exams for local districts and high stakes tests for the state of California. If the questions are graded on scale of one to 10, then it doesn’t provide much benefit. It’s a reasonable trend.

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Testing Fairness Multiple Choice Questions Exams 167

Edsurge

JUNE 29, 2017

We are using iPads for our fourth to ninth grade students, and we are looking for apps and websites for our students to learn [on the devices with],” says Najera. The after-school learning centers (such as TAL Education Group ) where students study for exams and get extra tutoring, is where Chen focuses most of her coverage.

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