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Teaching Courses that Provoke Student Anxiety

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Those of us concerned about student anxiety in our courses have history on our side. The pressure to solve problems, answer multiple-choice question, and write essays on an exam scares them. Two recent articles (see the references) explore the anxiety associated with social science statistics courses.

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Teaching Courses that Provoke Student Anxiety

Faculty Focus

Those of us concerned about student anxiety in our courses have history on our side. The pressure to solve problems, answer multiple-choice question, and write essays on an exam scares them. Two recent articles (see the references) explore the anxiety associated with social science statistics courses.

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School’s Out for the Latest Y Combinator Batch, and Here’s What Its Edtech Graduates Are Up to

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Investors and founders packed into the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif. Here’s what that one classroom-facing company is offering, and what the other six edtech startups hope to accomplish off the school campus. The five-hour long test comes with about 100 questions.