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AUGUST 28, 2024

Wow, you guys are quick studies.” Such a position can help frame classroom assignments as interdisciplinary tasks and projects that require knowledge from other classes and other subjects. It can compel students to tap into different intelligences and develop the habit of synthesizing knowledge. That is correct!” “Wow,

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MARCH 21, 2025

It provides learners with the opportunity to synthesize knowledge by exploring topics and ideas through multiple lenses. For instance, principles from science can be linked to literature they are studying in English class. Similarly, concepts from physics can be applied to understand advancements in medical studies.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

colleges and universities as part of a larger study on how people living in America encounter and respond to climate change news and information. In that study, seven in 10 respondents to our survey said they had learned of news about a range of topics in discussions with professors during the preceding week.

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Beliefs Attention Students Discussions 201

eSchool News

AUGUST 18, 2023

of students in grades 6-12 actively seek external support for their homework and study needs. Brainly’s users also seek help in science (18.84%), social studies (17.2%), and English (16.3%). About Brainly Brainly is a leading learning platform worldwide with the most extensive knowledge base for all school subjects and grades.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Most teachers who work in education today have studied — or at least are familiar with — VARK , a learning theory first introduced by Neil Fleming in 1987. VARK suggests that students can best accelerate their knowledge acquisition via one of four core learning styles: visual (V), aural (A), read/write (R) or kinesthetic (K).

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Technology Learning Styles Instructors Learning 204

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Adaptive Educators By constantly adapting our curriculum, we have the ability to critically examine the culture we’re sharing and work to change the beliefs and messages schools transmit. I could pour even more energy into helping kids learn how to build community if AI helped them build their academic skills.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2025

CLEPs assess college-level knowledge and passing scores on the exams are accepted as credit at more than 2,900 colleges and universities. It took me wading in and really examining how the course modules aligned with my own Social Studies curriculum to figure out how to incorporate it best.

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DECEMBER 8, 2023

Pro-censorship groups do not represent the vast majority of parents or guardians in their beliefs about librarians, reading, education, and civil society.” Licensure exams, if rigorous and aligned to the science of reading, can serve as an important guardrail for making sure teachers have this critical knowledge.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Everest Knowledge Through Experience The influence of constructivist theories has been instrumental in shaping PBL, from Jean Piaget's theory of cognitive development, which argues that knowledge is constructed through experiences and interactions , to Leslie P. According to video documentation in the study, U.S.

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Problem-Based Learning Math Education Learning 196

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JANUARY 7, 2019

This practice helps to keep students engaged, allows them to test their knowledge without impacting their grades , and provides Dr. Perumal with valuable insights into what material students are struggling with. And it’s this service that makes it possible for our system to turn a classroom lecture into a study guide.

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Study Lecturing Assistive Technology Exams 100

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FEBRUARY 23, 2022

In college, I had the opportunity to travel to the tribal headquarters of various Native Nations to learn directly from tribal leaders through the Native American studies program. A central belief of Lakota people, and many other Indigenous communities, is the idea that we are all related.

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Beliefs Motivation Classroom Management Culture 194

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MAY 10, 2019

But studying how the brain learns doesn’t necessarily mean memorizing proteins and brain chemistry. When I was studying at Hopkins, my professor knew I was interested in this. Studies have shown that gaps in reading grow larger among low-income students over summer, while middle class students experienced gains between spring and fall.

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OCTOBER 26, 2016

But Michael Miller, a UC Santa Barbara professor, began to study how the human brain retrieves memory and realized there was no single brain that looked like this mythical average. “We Our current industrial model is rooted on the belief that there is an average student,” Rose said. “In Jaggedness" as it applies to IQ.

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Science Textbooks Beliefs Knowledge 165

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MARCH 9, 2023

Alongside colleagues from universities across the country, our team systematically analyzed over 400 studies from the last 13 years, representing the experiences of over half a million K-12 students from more than 50 countries. Among more than 400 studies, none reported data on student sexual orientation.

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Disabilities Schools Study Ethics 218

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FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Students who took multiple community college courses that used only free or low-cost OER materials earned more credits over time than their peers who took classes that used traditional course materials such as textbooks, according to a new study. Students saved an average of $65 per OER course at colleges participating in the study.

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Textbooks Instructors Education Participation 198

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APRIL 21, 2023

It takes content knowledge to design a learning experience where students make connections among different mathematical ideas and to determine which significant features of the math topics should be emphasized while de-emphasizing others. It takes content knowledge to evaluate and select effective curriculum materials.

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Math Accessibility Education Knowledge 168

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JANUARY 30, 2020

As more colleges face the reality of a declining traditional student population, there’s a common belief that adult students are where the growth is. As it turns out, the share of American higher ed enrollment that is made up of adults or those who study part-time peaked in the early 1990s at 44 percent of all higher ed enrollment.

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Learning Beliefs Feedback Study 214

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JANUARY 27, 2017

Knowledge is the new currency, and it’s out of reach for many. This staggering lack of diversity in the technology industry is driven by two challenges: Poor access to high-impact knowledge and skills for all students, particularly underrepresented students. The Startling Stats Between 2000 and 2010, the proportion of U.S.

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Science Beliefs Exams STEM 148

eSchool News

AUGUST 4, 2016

The company, which now counts over 10 million students who use its platform to supplement their class work with course-specific study materials, also announced the release of Course Hero for Educators to help educators save time in preparing their courses. Our most valuable resource, aside from our knowledge and love of teaching, is our time.

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Teachers Beliefs Education Learning Styles 133

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FEBRUARY 22, 2021

When considering students as individuals and trying to identify the root causes of their perceived disengagement I find it useful to consider the variables of performance success—knowledge, skills, an environment conducive to learning and the motivation to learn. Missing just one of these variables can have a profound impact on engagement.

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Student Engagement Learning Students Middle School 218

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JANUARY 17, 2023

But in the end, the results almost beggared belief, according to those at the college. Chiefly, students seemed to appreciate the effort, and LS 30 has shown steady growth over the past five years, according to figures cited in a study published in February 2022.

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Math Science Teaching STEM 207

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JULY 7, 2023

As an English language teacher in an international primary school and a language learner myself, I often think about how many K-12 students in the United States are given the opportunity to study another language in school. Nationwide research is also relatively infrequent — the most recent in-depth study of U.S. The answer?

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Language Languages Education English 178

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DECEMBER 17, 2020

In such programs, students work on real-world projects that enable them to apply their academic knowledge, while learning professional skills and technical skills. Culturally sustaining pedagogies within experiential learning utilize student and community knowledge and can bring new ways of solving problems and creativity within industry.

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JUNE 9, 2022

They tie arguments to class reading, general knowledge as well as evidence from research. Explain that some students might be debating positions opposite to their beliefs. Expect them to read closely, but work quickly, and make decisions based on their knowledge of reliable websites. Educational Links. Khan Academy.

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Activities Schools Writing Knowledge 202

Faculty Focus

JUNE 30, 2024

Like most articles that synthesize the results of many studies, it’s long, detailed, and liberally peppered with educational jargon. If students don’t have the knowledge and skills necessary to accomplish the task, how can they acquire those? Adaptive attributions and control beliefs motivate students. It needs to be accurate.

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Motivation Beliefs Exams Students 111

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MARCH 17, 2022

I spent days pinpointing various times that I contradicted my beliefs. Study how children of color experience schooling in the United States. Honor and implement the knowledge gained from Black scholars. As I sat with the quote, I began to wonder: What contradictions did I embody? What was I negotiating?

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Culture Failure Beliefs Students 189

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MARCH 3, 2020

Despite these differences, there was little disagreement about Kwan’s description of making as “messy” or “chaotic” and Flamm’s belief that making approaches could teach “outside-the-box” thinking through student-directed activity and collaboration. In other cases, they found no evidence that making could teach these skills.

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Coaching Participation Failure Beliefs 182

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OCTOBER 7, 2021

There’s long been a belief that a more perfect civic education can lead to a more perfect union. Laurent Dubois, who directs democracy programs at the University of Virginia, takes it back further, to the period he studies, the Age of Enlightenment. The very process of studying “can really embody some democratic ideals,” Dubois adds.

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Fairness Participation Study Activities 178

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JULY 14, 2023

Citizen scientists come from all walks of life and have made invaluable contributions to scientific knowledge and understanding. From pondering over simple natural processes such as the transitions between day and night to complex genomic studies , science has come a long way.

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Science Participation Laboratory Interdisciplinary 144

eSchool News

JUNE 21, 2018

I assumed many children were not listening, not taking good notes, or not studying. As teachers and adults, it is easy to suffer from the “curse of knowledge,” or the incorrect assumption that everyone has the same background knowledge when teaching a new topic. This attitude created a very negative atmosphere in my classroom.

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Teaching Beliefs Questions Knowledge 121

Faculty Focus

MAY 4, 2025

Armed with markers and paper, they work collaboratively to connect concepts like anxiety, depression, and trauma responses, discovering links they might have missed studying alone. In my traditional classes, I divide students into small groups to create concept maps exploring the relationships between different psychological disorders.

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Active Learning Activities Learning Minute Papers 62

Faculty Focus

JUNE 30, 2024

Like most articles that synthesize the results of many studies, it’s long, detailed, and liberally peppered with educational jargon. If students don’t have the knowledge and skills necessary to accomplish the task, how can they acquire those? Adaptive attributions and control beliefs motivate students. It needs to be accurate.

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Motivation Beliefs Exams Students 105

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Entrepreneurship studies are not solely for business course students (Hall, 2021). The proposed cross-curricular enterprise study emphasizes developing practical skills and self-awareness for starting a business, rather than integrating abstract academic studies of entrepreneurship into different degree programs. and Ray Land.

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Education Beliefs Study Essay 122

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 19, 2023

Studies of motivation number in the thousands. Whole careers are devoted to its study. It is the study of the mechanisms that put you in motion, pushing you toward certain things and pushing you away from others” (p. If there’s good news about mindsets, it’s that they are based on beliefs and beliefs can be changed.

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Motivation Beliefs Students Assignments 116

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DECEMBER 22, 2016

The Kauffman report highlights how entrepreneurship “naturally and authentically draws together subjects usually taught and studied separately.” He’s not alone in that belief. He claims, “a lot of schools focus on the study of entrepreneurship.

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Beliefs Art STEM Study 151

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JANUARY 24, 2019

Richard confirmed my hunch that learning by teaching is a newer and under-studied strategy that more teachers should take advantage of. Perhaps most interestingly, learning by teaching has one of the largest effect sizes of the strategies he has studied. That’s going to be motivating to see themselves as competent learners.”

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Teaching Learning Students Assignments 168

eSchool News

JUNE 21, 2018

I assumed many children were not listening, not taking good notes, or not studying. As teachers and adults, it is easy to suffer from the “curse of knowledge,” or the incorrect assumption that everyone has the same background knowledge when teaching a new topic. This attitude created a very negative atmosphere in my classroom.

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Teachers Beliefs Knowledge Math 111