eSchool News

JUNE 4, 2019

Whether it’s studying for an exam, completing a college essay, or finishing a social studies project, all students will inevitably find themselves procrastinating at some point in their academic careers. Triggers may include social interactions, academic pressures, or fears of failure. Procrastination is something we all experience.

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Failure Essay Exams Schools 278

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

When students feel safe and valued, they become empowered to take charge of their education and future. In that moment, I began forging my own educational path. I opted to leave the traditional high school setting and registered late for a 12-week program to help prepare me for the General Education Development (GED) Test.

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Failure Exams Teachers English 246

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Nearly 20 million students were projected to attend an institution of higher education in the United States during the fall 2020 semester, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. This, understandably, presented a grave concern for business and industry, legislators, educators and ultimately students.

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Education Failure Students Exams 202

eSchool News

AUGUST 12, 2024

Key points: With the right AI tools, teachers can enhance their classroom instruction Tracking AI in education Enhancing learning through AI and human educators For more on AI in education, visit eSN’s Digital Learning hub Teaching is an uphill battle that grows harder and more exacting as the years roll by.

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Quizzes Lecturing Ethics Exams 291

eSchool News

JANUARY 30, 2023

Not to mention their further education when the time comes to write dissertations and other research papers: Afraid of poor grades and stipend loss, ESL students get tempted to plagiarize from others or use writing services from third parties to prevent failures and get the desired diploma.

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Writing Skills Essay Languages 281

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

He racked up credits in education courses, inching closer to his degree, but could not, despite his every effort, seem to clinch that math exam. Anderson was by all accounts a great student with enormous potential as an educator, says Tony Latiker, interim dean of the college of education at Jackson State and adviser to Anderson.

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Exams Teachers Testing Math 194

Edsurge

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Colleges and universities in the United States are increasingly integrating technology into developmental education programs, which are designed to bring underprepared students up to college level. Policymakers in Tennessee and Texas, for example, have explicitly encouraged the use of technology in developmental education reform.

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Technology Education Syllabus Counselling 152

Edsurge

DECEMBER 5, 2023

And that can make it hard for students to get used to solving their own problems and learning from the small failures that are meant to happen in school, says Devorah Heitner, an author who advises schools on social media issues. And I just think nobody ever really thought about that with online grading. Maybe you should just be at AP U.S.

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Failure Assignments Communication Grades 208

Edsurge

DECEMBER 20, 2017

Eva Moskowitz, the founder of New York City’s Success Academy, set the tone for this year’s NY Edtech conference by telling the crowd of 1,400 techies, entrepreneurs, researchers and educators that she may have some “unpopular perspectives” on edtech. I think there is a tendency to see edtech as the savior of American education.

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Educational Technologies Technology Failure Education 119

Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2018

A few years ago I had a student named Abby in my history class, who had always been in self-contained special education classrooms. Every time I hear this, I am faced with the gut-wrenching realization that the student has internalized failure by age eleven. They learned how to learn. And that’s a skill you don’t quickly forget.

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Teaching Failure Quizzes Learning 168

Edsurge

JULY 17, 2018

For a couple of decades, I championed online learning for its ability to uproot entrenched ideas in education, especially by engaging students in active learning, a pedagogical style rarely practiced on campus. Is online the educational and economic game changer I thought it was? Or so I thought. community colleges.

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Education Students Hybrid Courses Blended Courses 143

Edsurge

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Pandemic-era disruptions have played a role, but so has the broader worry that a reliance on standardized admissions exams may exacerbate disparities among students of different races and income levels. So over the past few years, researchers, educators and policymakers have been working to reform community college developmental education.

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Exams English Math Instructors 172

Edsurge

JUNE 5, 2017

The most profound shifts driven by changes in education policy often go unnoticed and tend to lag behind the hype cycles and headlines about federal policy and politics. While the proposed cuts to the federal education budget have taken the. While the proposed cuts to the federal education budget have taken the.

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Failure Education Secondary Education Exams 106

Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2025

Other assessments such as the critical thinking-focused international PISA exam have also indicated declining math abilities. But surprisingly, the most notable failure was in graduate programs, which performed far worse than their undergraduate counterparts, even though they are preparing prospective teachers for the same job.

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Elementary School Elementary School Math Teachers 199

Edsurge

JUNE 8, 2022

What those campuses don’t have is the student-lifecycle infrastructure for that kind of education, to support that kind of flexibility,” says Marni Baker Stein, provost and chief academic officer at Western Governors University, an online institution that offers self-paced courses. “It

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Student Engagement Instructors Hybrid Courses Students 200

Edsurge

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Estonia and Finland, whose education systems are often held in high esteem, also placed high. Stagnant scores breed plenty of hand-wringing and questions over the value of efforts like Common Core and investments in education reform and technology. And the Americans? In the U.S., that included 4,800 students from 215 schools.

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Testing Exams Intelligence Failure 134

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

It eventually expanded into high school, scaling up its challenges like levels in a video game and borrowing elements from game design—such as its approach to final exams, which are interactive and structured like “final boss” levels. minimizing failure and providing immediate feedback for students. The takeaway?

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Skills Critical Thinking Game-Based Learning Failure 168

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

That’s the case for Bonni Stachowiak, dean of teaching and learning at Vanguard University and host of the long-running Teaching In Higher Education podcast. Ken Bain, the author of “What the Best College Teachers Do,” talks about this a lot—this idea that failure is a part of learning. So there should be failure in all of our classes.

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Failure Feedback Students Exams 148

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

As the chief technology officer and assistant dean of the Stanford Graduate School of Education, Paul Kim spends more time than most pondering how artificial intelligence (AI) can impact education. He believes most educators don’t think about it enough, and those who do worry too much about it. AI making human teachers obsolete.

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Teachers Intelligence Coaching Failure 166

Edsurge

DECEMBER 26, 2017

Echoing wider soul searching over technology’s polarizing role in politics and society, the education technology scene has been doing its own reckoning. Here’s some of what we learned about the challenges and opportunities in mobilizing new technologies to address educational equity.

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Culture Failure Exams Attention 146

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

APRIL 2, 2023

There is no doubt that educating nurses during the pandemic was a challenge, unlike anything we had ever experienced. While some may have taken a pre-requisite course via online format, none were prepared for the purely virtual education that they were to receive. Nursing students also weren’t prepared.

Coaching 98

Coaching Exams Failure Learning Styles 98

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. Dimension U is much closer to typical gaming than the usual math education fare, including edgy avatars, mystical journeys, and leaderboards. Educational Applications. Educational Applications.

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Math Failure Gamification Knowledge 146

Faculty Focus

APRIL 2, 2023

There is no doubt that educating nurses during the pandemic was a challenge, unlike anything we had ever experienced. While some may have taken a pre-requisite course via online format, none were prepared for the purely virtual education that they were to receive. Nursing students also weren’t prepared.

Coaching 98

Coaching Exams Failure Learning Styles 98

Edsurge

AUGUST 22, 2017

However, school leaders Sarah Pedrotti and Jessica Torres are on a mission to flip the failure narrative and rebrand their school by motivating their teachers through personalized professional development. Each year students in Texas are required to take the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness exam, also known as the STAAR exam.

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Exams Elementary School Elementary School Schools 109

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

This means that educators should work on all four critical questions within the span of a single unit and that this cycle should repeat itself four or five times during the course of a single year. A reduction in the failure rate on their end-of-unit exam from a typical 15 to 20 students to just two.

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Failure Exams Questions Evaluation 145

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. The basic construct refers to beliefs about the causes of success and failure and how much perceived control one has to bring about outcomes or to control one’s behavior.” (p. References Pintrich, P.

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Motivation Beliefs Exams Students 111

Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Tie-ins: This is an excellent gamified review for semester tests, final exams, or other summative assessments. At the end of the Challenge, the team with the most points gets a prize appropriate to your school culture. Students love this game. If I had time, I’d play it every grading period. Click to view slideshow.

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Activities Learning Art Attention 171

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

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. The basic construct refers to beliefs about the causes of success and failure and how much perceived control one has to bring about outcomes or to control one’s behavior.” (p. References Pintrich, P.

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Motivation Beliefs Exams Students 103

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

Michael transferred to our alternative education school because the general education program he was attending didn’t provide the level of support he needed. That will continue the cycle of failure. And though many of my students were programmed to accept failure, their successes are what I’d focus on.

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Failure Learning Testing Assignments 108

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 3, 2023

For instance, in the User Experience Research Project mentioned above, students have to find 3-5 peers to conduct usability testing of an educational digital tool and they present this data in their final report. Students can often learn more from productive failure than from success (Sinha & Kapur, 2021).

Failure 98

Failure Academic Integrity Assignments Universal Design 98

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 3, 2023

For instance, in the User Experience Research Project mentioned above, students have to find 3-5 peers to conduct usability testing of an educational digital tool and they present this data in their final report. Students can often learn more from productive failure than from success (Sinha & Kapur, 2021).

Failure 98

Failure Academic Integrity Assignments Universal Design 98

eSchool News

AUGUST 27, 2024

Here are some back-to-school tips, advice, and valuable insights from educators, stakeholders, and industry experts: As I reflect on two decades of work in the clean energy education space, I become increasingly convinced that the key to impacting students is people.

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Schools Coaching STEM Evaluation 333

Edsurge

JUNE 26, 2018

Yet, after seeing data from the California School Dashboard and learning that close to one-fifth of McClymonds’ students were not graduating, he mentally shifted some accountability to the school, seeing a systemic failure to meet the needs of all students. 126 on the waiting list.

Local Government 140

Local Government Schools English Exams 140

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Some experts think institutions of higher education—not former students—are partly to blame. Through Degrees When Due , a project of the Institute for Higher Education Policy, nearly 200 two- and four-year colleges are digging through data and auditing administrative policies to figure out how many such students they’ve lost, and why.

Students 144

Students Failure Testing Art 144

Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 1, 2018

Study.com (formerly called Education-Portal) is a distance learning portal that provides over 70,000 lessons in fifteen subjects (including algebra, calculus, physics, chemistry, macro- and microeconomics, and more) aligned with popular textbooks. All they need is an internet connection and a webcam (for proctored exams).

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Exams Quizzes Textbooks Mobile Devices 74