eSchool News

DECEMBER 8, 2023

In a new analysis, the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ) finds that most states (29 states and the District of Columbia) use a weak elementary teacher reading licensure test, meaning that they do not effectively measure teachers’ knowledge of scientifically based reading instruction prior to entering the classroom.

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Essay Exams Testing Reading 287

eSchool News

JANUARY 16, 2023

Too many warnings can numb end users into assuming the IT department is crying wolf and they may stop paying attention to warnings. Testing needs to occur with outside systems and partner organizations. Make sure the warnings provided to end users are significant as well.

Accessibility 356

Accessibility Exams Communication Attention 356

eSchool News

MARCH 20, 2019

Teacher prep programs are failing to pay attention to the content knowledge teacher candidates need, and an astonishingly high number of elementary teacher candidates fail professional licensing tests teach year, according to a new report. Read more: 5 big ideas for innovation in 2019.

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Teachers Exams Knowledge History 240

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. The Preparatory Programs support students who thrive in a structured setting without the added stress of homework or standardized testing.

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Skills Schools Learning Students 138

eSchool News

AUGUST 14, 2024

Teachers can’t slow down the lesson plans for the entire class to accommodate a few struggling students, and can’t provide individualized attention to all the students who need it to stay on track. Most tools that teachers have for this purpose are lagging indicators such as tests, quizzes, and homework.

Teaching 325

Teaching Gamification Feedback Intelligence 325

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

The pandemic is changing the way tests and quizzes are conducted at colleges across the country, with the rapid adoption of new tools that proponents say catch cheating, but in ways that many students say amount to an unacceptable invasion of their privacy. In that model, colleges are typically charged on a per-test basis.

Plagiarism 218

Plagiarism Exams Confidentiality Testing 218

Dangerously Irrelevant

APRIL 5, 2017

It’s standardized testing season again in American schools. And that means it’s also time for many schools to bribe and punish their children into submission because those tests are ones they don’t want to take. Over the past couple of decades, the political stakes attached to standardized testing have accelerated greatly.

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Testing Exams Motivation Participation 92

Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

homework, lecture notes, practice tests). 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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High School High School Study Exams 167

Edsurge

MARCH 25, 2021

There’s a high-stakes exam that’s created an entire industry selling test-preparation products and services to people willing to shell out big bucks for help honing their skills and strategies. It’s the exam to become a licensed construction contractor. A full collection of exam books can cost thousands of dollars.

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Exams Testing Attention Skills 149

Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 4, 2018

If you’re one of the many who must take the IELTS test, one of our Ask a Tech Teacher contributors has come to your rescue. Here are five great websites to prepare you: The classroom is not the only place you can prepare for your IELTS exam. Stress has been taken out of your IELTS exam prep. IELTS Simon.

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Exams Instructors Testing Quizzes 74

EdTech Magazine

JULY 10, 2019

Increase Cross-Curriculum Communication with Standardized Exams. In supplemental education, it is common practice to conduct comprehensive testing to assess new students upon intake and design a personalized plan using that information. . Schools across the nation already do annual assessments through standardized testing.

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Teachers Exams Motivation Learning 162

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.

Multiple Choice Questions 132

Multiple Choice Questions Exams Lecturing Attention 132

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

For the assessment mavens at Educational Testing Service ( ETS ), these evolving capabilities present both a challenge and an opportunity, says the organization’s Markku “Mark” Häkkinen. Amazon Polly supports SSML, which helps you create lifelike speech that will attract and hold the attention of your audience.

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Accessibility Disabilities Assistive Technology Learning Disabilities 167

Edsurge

JANUARY 18, 2024

Rather, Spanish speaking is treated as a barrier to overcome, Gauna says, and schools try to get students into all-English classes by third grade, when standardized testing starts. she [didn’t] pay as much attention as she pays when observing someone in English,” she told researchers. Because [the supervisor] doesn’t speak Spanish.

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English Languages Language Teachers 215

Dangerously Irrelevant

JANUARY 4, 2021

Students who just don’t learn well by sitting still and who decide not to pay attention. Students who cram for the test but then forget everything as soon as the exam is over. . Teachers handing out ‘busy work’ to keep students occupied and in their seats.

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Exams Textbooks Attention Classroom Management 139

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. Too Much Help—Or Not Enough?

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Student Engagement Instructors Hybrid Courses Exams 194

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

workforce, citing hostile work conditions, high-stakes testing, diminished autonomy, and lack of planning time as prevailing reasons. With SEL, students not only experience less anxiety, less hyperactivity, and less aggression, they’re generally happier and more attentive, too. The impact on teachers is no less profound. Lucky, Jake.

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Teachers Exams Schools Students 163

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. Use disruptive tools.

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Motivation Schools Syllabus Students 154

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 4, 2018

The country regularly ranks among the highest in mathematics, science and reading on international tests like the PISA exam. Yet that comes at a cost: immense academic pressure to do well on exams, which critics believe is a factor that fuels bullying in schools. Education is serious business in Japan.

Disabilities 132

Disabilities Exams Attention Education 132

Edsurge

DECEMBER 26, 2017

As the bubbly enthusiasm in the democratizing power of platforms like Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) and Khan Academy quietly wanes, we’ve seen more attention to digital inequity like the homework gap and gender discrimination in coding careers. and globally.

Culture 149

Culture Failure Exams Attention 149

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. Yet building learning games—and selling them—is an expensive endeavor that tests patience and wallets, as several startups have learned. “We

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Learning Middle School Middle School Testing 165

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 15, 2024

But Im not talking about a list of chapters or exams and papers with their due dates. While many of my colleagues administer tests immediately before break, I schedule the third exam three weeks later. Note that some chapters are omitted from the exam and some textbook pages are skipped entirely.

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Syllabus Exams Course Outline Attention 111

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. I found some quizzes and tests,” she said, noting that plenty of those materials and PowerPoint slides from other professors were easily found on Course Hero about the subject she was teaching, biomaterials.

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Study Exams Quizzes Academic Integrity 132

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

While enthusiasm can fade with age, at Qualcomm he noticed middle school students would still snap to attention when it came to the jobs they could one day have, the money they could make and their own interests. At the end, test-takers are given three such interest codes—the first of which, known as the “leading” code, is the most important.

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Counselling Middle School Middle School Testing 213

Edsurge

MAY 16, 2019

A story in the Wall Street Journal today brought national attention to a program by the College Board that assigns what the newspaper calls an “adversity score” to students who take the SAT. The numbers are provided only to admissions officials, and not visible to test takers. The score is a number from 1 to 100, where 50 is average.

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Exams Fairness Testing Evaluation 129

Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2018

Learning How to Learn I’ve often heard students tell me they studied for hours on a test only to fail. For too many students, that aha-moment happens while they’re taking the big test. As the research became clear to me, I realized students weren’t getting much out of copying homework and taking tests. And by then it’s too late.

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Teaching Failure Quizzes Learning 168

Edsurge

JANUARY 12, 2024

When the Northwestern freshman excitedly shared how the excerpt we were reading connected to Ta-Nehisi Coate’s “Between the World and Me,” , my seniors nodded attentively before building on what she shared in discussion. I know too many teachers and students in America feel the same.

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Schools Testing Evaluation Exams 151

Edsurge

JUNE 26, 2017

The study recognized agency as potentially “…as important an outcome of schooling as the skills we measure with standardized testing.” Learning about things that fascinate them helps them pay closer attention, process more efficiently, and engage in critical thinking. Here are three steps to get you started: 1.

Exams 114

Exams Testing Students Achievement 114

Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Both struggle to pay attention regardless of how innovative and engaging are the lesson plans. Tie-ins: This is an excellent gamified review for semester tests, final exams, or other summative assessments. Using these seven suggestions, you can make sure the learning continues even as Thanksgiving pulls their attention away.

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Activities Learning Art Failure 172

Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Both struggle to pay attention regardless of how innovative and engaging are the lesson plans. Tie-ins: This is an excellent gamified review for semester tests, final exams, or other summative assessments. Using these seven suggestions, you can make sure the learning continues even as Thanksgiving pulls their attention away.

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Activities Learning Failure Essay 174

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 15, 2024

But Im not talking about a list of chapters or exams and papers with their due dates. While many of my colleagues administer tests immediately before break, I schedule the third exam three weeks later. Note that some chapters are omitted from the exam and some textbook pages are skipped entirely.

Syllabus 100

Syllabus Exams Course Outline Attention 100

Edsurge

JANUARY 27, 2017

In 2015, fewer than 10 girls of any race took the AP Computer Science exam in ten states, and not a single African-American student took the exam in nine states, including Mississippi, where 50 percent of high school graduates are African-American. In 2013, among B.A.

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Science Beliefs Exams STEM 144

Edsurge

JUNE 29, 2017

According to Chen, strict regulations on government funded schools have spurred innovators to focus their attention on after- and private schools—which is big business in China since parents, who mostly only have one child as a result of government policies, invest heavily.

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STEM Exams Culture English 151

Edsurge

DECEMBER 26, 2019

The following stories offer a glimpse into how teachers, school leaders and researchers are using what we know about how people learn to improve schools and student outcomes that go beyond test scores, such as suspension rates and even the number of hours kids sleep at night. So why has it attracted so much attention and action lately?

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Exams Counselling Motivation Essay 127

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 17, 2023

But I’m not talking about a list of chapters or exams and papers with their due dates. While many of my colleagues administer tests immediately before break, I schedule the third exam three weeks later. Note that some chapters are omitted from the exam and some textbook pages are skipped entirely.

Exams 111

Exams Syllabus Course Outline Attention 111

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.

Math 147

Math Student Engagement Teachers Mobile Devices 147

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. AI Solutions Drive Higher STEM Test Scores. One of the key differences between the two exams was the elevated level of conceptual understanding among the students.

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Teachers Teaching Assistants Intelligence Math 153