Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 26, 2015

US News blamed math knowledge for a 33% failure rate by Oklahoma high school seniors on their exit exams. In a world where teachers still suffer too often from tech failures, this is a welcome change. In fact, Forbes reported that 82% of public high schoolers in the well-to-do Montgomery County Maryland failed Algebra.

Math 146

Math Failure Gamification Knowledge 146

Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Tie-ins: This is an excellent gamified review for semester tests, final exams, or other summative assessments. The Crossing – student attempts to cross a gorge and experiences failure as well as success. At the end of the Challenge, the team with the most points gets a prize appropriate to your school culture. Students love this game.

Activities 174

Activities Learning Attention Failure 174

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

You may be familiar with some of the common refrains: “Everything we teach is essential for students to know” and “We are dumbing down the curriculum if we eliminate content for students” were just a couple. A reduction in the failure rate on their end-of-unit exam from a typical 15 to 20 students to just two.

Failure 145

Failure Exams Questions Evaluation 145

Faculty Focus

APRIL 2, 2023

None of us were prepared to move an entire nursing curriculum to a virtual environment. Students are required to work with me if they are on probation due to a course failure, and they are recommended to see me if they fail an exam or are deemed to be at risk for failure. Nursing students also weren’t prepared.

Coaching 98

Coaching Exams Failure Learning Styles 98

Faculty Focus

APRIL 2, 2023

None of us were prepared to move an entire nursing curriculum to a virtual environment. Students are required to work with me if they are on probation due to a course failure, and they are recommended to see me if they fail an exam or are deemed to be at risk for failure. Nursing students also weren’t prepared.

Coaching 98

Coaching Exams Failure Learning Styles 98

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

But maybe there can be—if I find a way to ensure the curriculum maintains a high level of rigor. That will continue the cycle of failure. For those of us tasked with overcoming massive learning gaps and bringing success to at-risk students who have known nothing else but failure, this type of compromise might be the only way to do it.

Failure 108

Failure Learning Testing Assignments 108

Dangerously Irrelevant

DECEMBER 24, 2016

He shared with me that he taught earth science, that there was a mandatory segment of the curriculum on rock identification that was a significant component of the state exam, and that every year students were less than enthused about the unit (to be charitable). and compulsory exams (accountability!)

Failure 0

Failure Exams Students Culture 0

Edsurge

JANUARY 19, 2017

Students work through the TTO curriculum at their own speed via 90 minute digital math lessons. This was problematic, since these results are used by the program to assess a student’s performance to create their next day’s curriculum. Is mixed data enough to call a program a failure? That's one of the hallmarks on our community.”

Learning 144

Learning Multiple Choice Questions Math Evaluation 144

Edsurge

OCTOBER 12, 2016

Rather than creating online degree programs from scratch, Noodle is outsourcing various aspects—recruitment, curriculum design—to other companies and bundling together the services for universities. Perhaps the university wants to outsource recruitment and analytics for its online program but handle the curriculum design internally.

Curriculum Design 126

Curriculum Design Failure Exams Course Design 126

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 3, 2023

Figure 2: Screenshot of the Social Engagement section in the User Experience Research Project Final Reflection document Trial and Error is about giving students the opportunity to learn through failure. Students can often learn more from productive failure than from success (Sinha & Kapur, 2021). link] Canales, A. 2023, April 17).

Failure 98

Failure Academic Integrity Assignments Universal Design 98

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 3, 2023

Figure 2: Screenshot of the Social Engagement section in the User Experience Research Project Final Reflection document Trial and Error is about giving students the opportunity to learn through failure. Students can often learn more from productive failure than from success (Sinha & Kapur, 2021). link] Canales, A. 2023, April 17).

Failure 98

Failure Academic Integrity Assignments Universal Design 98

Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 1, 2018

Depending upon the level of service subscribed to, students can view videos, take practice quizzes and exams, and get credit for classes passed through a proctored exam. All they need is an internet connection and a webcam (for proctored exams). Take quizzes and proctored exams available in your subscription.

Exams 74

Exams Quizzes Textbooks Mobile Devices 74

eSchool News

AUGUST 27, 2024

Informing students about industry trends and showing how current practices are incorporated into the curriculum gets them excited and eager to learn. However, those that have focused on supporting new and novice teachers through high-quality curriculum and content-based professional learning are positioned to thrive.

Schools 333

Schools Coaching STEM Evaluation 333

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Dropping out sounds like it’s some failure of the student,” says Julie Ajinkya, vice president of applied research at the institute. We know these are competencies you can accumulate in general studies or liberal arts, which are teaching you a general curriculum.” Really what we’re looking at is systemic problems.

Students 144

Students Failure Testing Art 144

Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Tie-ins: This is an excellent gamified review for semester tests, final exams, or other summative assessments. The Crossing – student attempts to cross a gorge and experiences failure as well as success. At the end of the Challenge, the team with the most points gets a prize appropriate to your school culture. Students love this game.

Activities 122

Activities Learning Critical Thinking Attention 122

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 22, 2023

We often feel pulled in multiple directions – with service commitments and research projects on top of teaching responsibilities – so finding time to grade student papers, exams, projects, and in-class work can feel challenging. The important thing to remember is to consider your time, energy, and focus.

Grades 114

Grades Interdisciplinary Evaluation Feedback 114

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 1, 2023

Should you change the way you give exams and design assignments? Banning the use of technology for exams can create an inaccessible, discriminatory learning experience. Banning the use of technology for exams can create an inaccessible, discriminatory learning experience.

Academic Integrity 98

Academic Integrity Plagiarism Exams Syllabus 98

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 1, 2023

Should you change the way you give exams and design assignments? Banning the use of technology for exams can create an inaccessible, discriminatory learning experience. Banning the use of technology for exams can create an inaccessible, discriminatory learning experience.

Academic Integrity 98

Academic Integrity Plagiarism Exams Syllabus 98

Cult of Pedagogy

OCTOBER 14, 2024

The most common way to do this is with some kind of a test, which traditionally happens at the end of a unit — a final exam of some kind. ” Marshall shares an acronym used by educator Jeff Howard to normalize mistakes: “He has a thing called FADAF: Failure and difficulty are feedback. And is it being done well?

Multiple Choice Questions 129

Multiple Choice Questions Culture Questions Grades 129

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 22, 2023

We often feel pulled in multiple directions – with service commitments and research projects on top of teaching responsibilities – so finding time to grade student papers, exams, projects, and in-class work can feel challenging. The important thing to remember is to consider your time, energy, and focus.

Grades 111

Grades Interdisciplinary Evaluation Feedback 111

k12

MAY 2, 2025

While curriculum , technology, and school infrastructure are important, teachers truly shape the educational journey of young people. 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.

Teachers 52

Teachers Education Failure Beliefs 52

Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

Tie-ins: This is an excellent gamified review for semester tests, final exams, or other summative assessments. The Crossing – student attempts to cross a gorge and experiences failure as well as success. At the end of the Challenge, the team with the most points gets a prize appropriate to your school culture. Students love this game.

Activities 71

Activities Learning Critical Thinking Attention 71

Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

Tie-ins: This is an excellent gamified review for semester tests, final exams, or other summative assessments. The Crossing – student attempts to cross a gorge and experiences failure as well as success. At the end of the Challenge, the team with the most points gets a prize appropriate to your school culture. Students love this game.

Activities 71

Activities Learning Critical Thinking Attention 71

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Noticing the AP classes on his current schedule, I suggested that if he passed his diagnostic exams, he would have the freedom to accelerate through the curriculum at his own pace on his own schedule.I had just joined MAPs a few months earlier, and I didn’t know what to say to Ray. But I knew I needed to do right by this kid.

Schools 152

Schools Students Testing Coaching 152

Edsurge

DECEMBER 12, 2017

We had to lay down a science curriculum, and the three mature sciences were biology, chemistry, and physics, so they made the cut. And so, even though students hate cumulative exams, those are the ones that actually force them to keep encountering the material repeatedly over the course of a year in order to make sure that it gets in there.

Teaching 148

Teaching Laboratory Motivation Testing 148

k12 Online Schools

MAY 6, 2025

Parental Pressure We often feel guilty when our kids are bored, interpreting it as a failure to engage them. In highly structured, exam-focused systems, any form of “free time” is viewed as wasted time. Reflection time is built into the curriculum, allowing the mind to pause, wander, and process.

Intelligence 52

Intelligence Evaluation Interdisciplinary Writing 52