Edsurge

DECEMBER 3, 2019

And for those who have closely followed the international test, which is delivered to 15-year-olds in developed countries every three years, the top-line results won’t offer many surprises. Compared to the previous test in 2015, the scores stayed flat. The latest PISA scores are out. coming in 10th.

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Testing Exams Intelligence Failure 140

Edsurge

JUNE 7, 2021

There was also a common belief among higher ed leaders—as there still is—that building online infrastructure is far too costly. Not until the health crisis forced campuses to close physical classrooms did so many colleges see the cost of their failure to act sooner.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

I felt like a failure. I also turned to a different kind of professional reading that shaped my beliefs about students, learning and the purpose of education. In her book “Other People’s Children,” the author Lisa Delpit writes that, “We do not really see through our eyes or hear through our ears, but through our beliefs.”

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Similar concerns have prompted community colleges to reconsider their own versions of entrance assessments: the placement tests they’ve traditionally used to determine whether students are “ready” for college-level learning or should instead start their pursuit of higher education in remedial math or English classes.

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Exams English Math Instructors 168

Teach Thought

JULY 17, 2025

The short answer is that a culture of learning is “a collection of thinking habits, beliefs about self, and collaborative workflows that result in sustained critical learning.” Show them Model the “thinking habits, beliefs about self, and collaborative workflows that result in sustained critical learning.” Can you cause this to happen?

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Beliefs Culture Students Critical Thinking 94

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 19, 2023

Although they don’t often call it self-efficacy, most teachers regularly see how beliefs about ability affect behavior. Miller explains how students with fixed mindsets think about tests and graded assignments. They see tests as being designed to measure how smart they are, and so those exams become “anxiety- provoking ordeals.

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Motivation Beliefs Students Assignments 116

Edsurge

JUNE 1, 2020

What he found was that the right messages, delivered at the right time, can boost attendance and reduce course failure, as results published in The Journal of Human Resources in 2019 showed. And it will let him test and refine other ideas for interventions to support students. Course failures dipped by 28 percent.

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Failure Students Assignments Beliefs 112

Teach Hub

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Students need to learn that when they encounter a negative belief, they must think back to their past for something that will help them believe it will turn out okay. Instead of seeing a bad grade as a failure, frame it as an opportunity to learn and improve. Help them understand that failure is part of learning.

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Failure Beliefs Students Math 81

Edsurge

JANUARY 7, 2019

As a guy who lives on the cutting edge of technology, I found it very frustrating to see how far behind the school was, not just in terms of their use of one-off tech and old-school tools, like clickers and white boards, but their failure to connect the dots between better outcomes and using things like big data and mobile technologies.”

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Study Lecturing Assistive Technology Exams 164

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 19, 2023

Although they don’t often call it self-efficacy, most teachers regularly see how beliefs about ability affect behavior. Miller explains how students with fixed mindsets think about tests and graded assignments. They see tests as being designed to measure how smart they are, and so those exams become “anxiety- provoking ordeals.

Motivation 98

Motivation Beliefs Students Assignments 98

Edsurge

JUNE 12, 2017

His compromise [in education] was around how much time should we give people to take standardized tests. In this world, would there be such a thing as failure? His view of intelligence said intelligence was [a function of] how fast your brain formed connections and he believed that genetics determined that speed. Who’s that good for?

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Intelligence Failure Science Beliefs 144

Edsurge

APRIL 24, 2023

I felt kind of like a failure. You're testing a lot of limits. You're questioning a lot of things, and you're building your own belief system. That's kind of how I was after that first year of college. I felt really defeated. I didn't do well in my classes because I didn't have a clear vision.

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Teachers English History High School 148

Faculty Focus

APRIL 25, 2023

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? These opposing mindsets created “different psychological worlds” (Dweck, 2008).

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Teaching Failure Instructors Motivation 116

eSchool News

AUGUST 27, 2024

For some, this may be a struggle to embrace due lack of access or belief that paper is better. I’ve seen a number of tools that pass the privacy tests and offer tutoring on specific national and state standards and exams which are very attractive to schools if the price is right.

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Schools Coaching STEM Evaluation 335

Faculty Focus

APRIL 3, 2025

Early failures and failed first trials are not interpreted as a diagnosis of what could be done , and are instead seen as proof of what cant (Yeager & Dweck, 2020). 2020), entrepreneurs become comparatively more successful when failures are absorbed and used as a means for diagnosing what needs to be changed.

Teaching 59

Teaching Failure Feedback Knowledge 59

Faculty Focus

APRIL 25, 2023

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? These opposing mindsets created “different psychological worlds” (Dweck, 2008).

Teaching 98

Teaching Failure Instructors Motivation 98

Faculty Focus

APRIL 3, 2025

Early failures and failed first trials are not interpreted as a diagnosis of what could be done , and are instead seen as proof of what cant (Yeager & Dweck, 2020). 2020), entrepreneurs become comparatively more successful when failures are absorbed and used as a means for diagnosing what needs to be changed.

Teaching 52

Teaching Failure Feedback Knowledge 52

Edsurge

JANUARY 7, 2019

As a guy who lives on the cutting edge of technology, I found it very frustrating to see how far behind the school was, not just in terms of their use of one-off tech and old-school tools, like clickers and white boards, but their failure to connect the dots between better outcomes and using things like big data and mobile technologies.”

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Study Lecturing Assistive Technology Exams 97

Edsurge

APRIL 18, 2017

Increasingly, students are going to college with the belief that it's a pathway to a better job. But I would say that the failure of ideals doesn't mean that the ideal is bad or unworkable. We need major changes at the policy level that, hopefully, point to some of the innovations that are being tested.

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Gamification Art Beliefs Achievement 114

k12

MAY 2, 2025

Like their brick-and-mortar peers, their influence goes far beyond textbooks and test scores, leaving a lasting imprint on students lives. How a teacher handles conflict, treats others, or responds to failure sends powerful messages to students. These everyday moments can shape a students values and beliefs in subtle but lasting ways.

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Teachers Education Failure Beliefs 52

EAB

MAY 23, 2023

Five strategic priorities for admissions teams in a time of exceptional change The remarkable convergence of crises our nation has faced since the start of the pandemic has amounted to a stress test for higher education, revealing strengths and vulnerabilities that previously went unnoticed, were underestimated or were perhaps misunderstood.

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Failure Beliefs Testing Study 52

EAB

JANUARY 30, 2023

Enrollment teams are sharpening their competitive tools The pandemic era has seen the convergence of several factors boosting competition between colleges, including a shrinking pool of college goers, growing consumer price sensitivity, widespread adoption of test-optional admissions, and a more general reduction in barriers to applying.

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Testing Failure High School High School 52

Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2018

His continuous failure—or iteration, as we’d call it today— taught him to innovate. Discuss how despite repeated failures, all heroes complete their journey. This belief makes it difficult to instill the idea that SEL concepts can be taught. Help Students Find Their Voice Students today are a part of a unique generation.

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Failure Motivation History Learning 138

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

I’ve had to develop a guide for myself to teaching and loving children knowing you may lose them and grappling with the white savior beliefs and practices that made me believe I could save them. It has not been possible for me to continue to teach unchanged by these losses and the structural reality that ensures they will continue.

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Teaching Students Failure Beliefs 164