eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2019

We knew there were a lot of free apps that teachers swore were responsible for raising test scores and lots of others that I believed were actually hindering results. Without any real data to support these beliefs, decision making was a challenge. But at the end of the day, we don’t believe that’s what it’s all about.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Good Housekeeping, a coveted source for all parents seeking quality children’s products, has turned to its in-house panel of experts to test and review hundreds of building toys over the course of the year.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

I also make Modern States (and taking the CLEP test) optional for my students–but I do give extra credit for passing the exam. Passion and belief in their potential go a long way. If your school isnt a CLEP testing center yet, I encourage you to explore the process. History I CLEP passed, and 92 percent passed U.S.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 30, 2019

The middle of the year is cold, the holidays are over, and we are looking at the high-pressure demands of preparing students for standardized testing. It’s fairly standard belief that professional development (PD) must go deeper than the one-and-done workshop; it must be more sustained, more relevant, and offer tangible takeaways.

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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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eSchool News

AUGUST 29, 2017

As such, we all—regardless of community, economy, demographic, age or any other data point—are compelled by one factor: belief. Education is the business of learning; we are not product-based, but instead, are people-, interest-, and demonstration-driven. As professionals, we’re pretty darn good at the “whats.” These are no small feats.

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eSchool News

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.” One state, Iowa, requires no reading licensure test at all. Far too many states are using these weak tests.

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eSchool News

MARCH 26, 2025

Creativity, leadership, innovation, and collaboration matter as much as standardized test scores and have a much greater impact on their future careers. Kids who feel brilliant at something–anything–carry that belief into their struggles. Lets expand what we value so our kids know success has many faces.

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eSchool News

MAY 10, 2016

This perception of intellectual “haves” and “have nots” is one that Lang Chen, a postdoctoral fellow in cognitive psychology and neuroscience at Stanford University, recently tested. After then giving them a set of problems to solve, they found that students who had a positive view outperformed the children who didn’t.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 9, 2024

In my graduate-level education course, I gave students the opportunity to create their own AI applications and test them out with teachers or learners. So what might playful learning with AI tools look like in practice? For one, it can involve students getting hands-on with AI.

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eSchool News

MARCH 7, 2025

A meta-analysis of studies, including data from 145,000 students in 33 nations, tell two notable truths: By age six, kids already see girls as worse than boys at computing and engineering Kids see girls as far superior in reading and writing by age eight, a belief that strengthens over time. Find out by taking a test designed to measure bias.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 20, 2024

MindPrint assessments evaluate nine key cognitive skills in the areas of executive functions, reasoning, memory, and processing that influence performance across all academic subjects and impact standardized test scores. MindPrint identifies areas of giftedness as well as potential learning barriers.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 5, 2023

When these approaches are brought together in the classroom by a teacher, it creates an environment where students feel encouraged to test ideas, make mistakes, and ask questions. This leads to a culture of experimentation, creation, and inquiry. Try, fail, learn, repeat.

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Edsurge

MAY 20, 2024

School culture is the set of implicit assumptions, beliefs and expectations that drive the activities and behaviors within a school. Similarly, assessment culture is shaped by the underlying beliefs and expectations that students, educators and leaders have about assessment practices.

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2025

As much as the sentiment of students standing up to the powers that be warms my punk rock heart, it’s hard to balance my beliefs in authority with the need to always be the leader in control at the front of the classroom. Some students opted for a good old-fashioned test. Some students created Canva presentations and Google Slides.

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Edsurge

JULY 27, 2020

During the panel, research on the prevalence and perspectives of cheating was presented by Jarret Dyer, coordinator of testing services at College of DuPage, a community college of more than 28,000 students in Illinois, and Steve Saladin, director of testing and assessment at the University of Idaho, a public school of more than 9,000 students.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

As more and more students were educated with their peers, we started to realize that having all students read the same book and take the same test doesn’t work. The UDL framework starts with the belief that every student is different and that’s the norm. We call these differences “variability” and we embrace it.

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Edsurge

APRIL 12, 2021

We want the assessment that goes with that teaching approach to be formative, where teachers are able to assess kids as they do this important work, not only in a short test at the end. There is also a very strong belief in our society that you can do maths or you can’t—that you're kind of hardwired to be good at maths or not.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 21, 2024

One of my most eye-opening experiences was watching a teacher use technology to point out the parts of a leaf on screen rather than taking her first-graders outside to explore the pile of leaves right outside her window–all because the district ingrained in her the belief that technology was a non-negotiable.

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eSchool News

JUNE 8, 2016

The study examined Dreambox Learning and the individual test scores of nearly 3,000 students in grades 3-5 during the 2013-14 and 2014-15 school years in two districts, Howard County Public School System (HCPSS) in Maryland and Rocketship Education in California. Tim Hudson, vice president of learning at DreamBox Learning.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

IQ tests, the traditional methods of measuring a person’s intelligence, do not measure the critical skills for the future. We need EQ, empathy, and understanding to collaborate with people from other cultures and belief systems and we need entrepreneurial thinking to come up with the solutions.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 27, 2015

The perception that good teachers reject textbooks and design their own curriculum has been a persistent belief of educators over the years. Well-designed materials are based on research findings and undergo rounds of field testing and revision. This map is informed by knowledge of content and research on learning.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Honing STEM acumen Mercy’s test scores are consistently ahead of state and national averages. This work is about commitment to beliefs and values rather than compliance with a mandate. The interventionist’s presence mentally prepares the students to do math.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 23, 2024

Quijada said his teacher’s belief that he could succeed allowed him to challenge himself in ways he might not have otherwise considered. State test math scores remain a cause for concern, as Newark’s overall passing rate sits at 15% for students in grades 3 to 9. Now, Quijada channels that positivity into his lessons.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

my students informed me, running over after their latest test. “Is If we have always taught our kids that every test must be an A+, then how do we support them when it isn’t? It’s the belief that the process of creating is what teachers should be assessing, rather than the final product. Bycraft, our robot goes backward!”

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eSchool News

AUGUST 18, 2023

Brainly’s student population relies on the app for help when they can’t understand a teacher’s explanation, for additional information on a topic or to double-check their test prep. However, while homework help – especially in math – is a top reason students access Brainly, it’s not the only one.

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Edsurge

MAY 18, 2021

He said he has nothing against traditional tests, but he doesn’t think that should be the last three hours that instructors spend with their students. But this semester, Crider found himself toning down his usual approach, on the belief that students were “tired of surprises.”

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Edsurge

APRIL 16, 2020

As the reality sinks in that the shift to online education will continue indefinitely—and some of it permanently—now is a particularly good time to re-examine our beliefs about effective teaching. But very few of these training programs teach faculty how to test and interrogate the principles themselves.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

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.” It is not always easy to do.

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k12 Digest

APRIL 3, 2025

That belief fuels my passion for driving change in education. Curriculum must be more agile, adapting quickly to workforce needs rather than being slowed by rigid regulations and outdated standardized testing. The structures, testing, and rigid frameworks of our system remain outdated, never built for equity or individuality.

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Edsurge

MARCH 2, 2019

Even popular culture, where robot teachers and wired students have been a staple of science fiction for decades, demonstrates our tendency to project current beliefs that schools should “leverage” (i.e., be built around) those technologies perceived as representing the latest form of modernity. An “Age of Achievement” (1983-?)

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eSchool News

JULY 7, 2016

“Tests include things like working with a wild horse, learning an instrument, and studying a passion in-depth for years. Because of his unschooling, he’s much more confident in his beliefs and personality.”. He also uses Logic as well as Minecraft several times a week while also hunting, cooking, farming and traveling. “It’s

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 25, 2016

That includes Maine educator Julie Willcott, who concedes that some of the most informative data she has used came not from summative tests or graded assignments, but rather from assessments she used to identify students’ learning preferences at the beginning of a semester. “In Dan Ryder, an English teacher at Mt.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 26, 2016

Our current industrial model is rooted on the belief that there is an average student,” Rose said. “In Take IQ: While two students could test as having the same IQ, the specific elements of what make up that IQ—knowledge of vocabulary, reading comprehension, quantitative skills—can, and always is, different.

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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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Edsurge

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Schools and districts are tasked with many challenges—from classroom management and test scores to student safety and emotional well-being. At GoGuardian , our philosophical belief is that students are inherently curious, and it’s a matter of supporting teachers and schools to enable the right set of educational experiences.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

It is continuously tested as new ideas are added, either causing long-held beliefs to evolve or be replaced. Traditional classes include prescribed assessment where constructivism calls for the elimination of grades and standardized testing. Constructivism is not a pedagogy or a theory. Guiding Principles of Constructivism.

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