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.

Writing 290

Writing Skills Essay Language 290

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.

Exams 196

Exams Teachers Testing Math 196

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.

Technology 155

Technology Education Syllabus Counselling 155

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.

Failure 210

Failure Assignments Communication Middle School 210

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.

Educational Technologies 124

Educational Technologies Technology Failure Education 124

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.

Education 147

Education Students Hybrid Courses Blended Courses 147

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.

Teaching 168

Teaching Failure Quizzes Learning 168

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.

Failure 109

Failure Education Secondary Education Exams 109

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 174

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.

Elementary School 200

Elementary School Elementary School Math Teachers 200

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

Student Engagement 201

Student Engagement Instructors Hybrid Courses Exams 201

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 137

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.

Failure 149

Failure Feedback Students Exams 149

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?

Skills 168

Skills Critical Thinking Game-Based Learning Failure 168

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.

Culture 149

Culture Failure Exams Attention 149

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.

Teachers 167

Teachers Intelligence Coaching Failure 167

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.

Math 152

Math Failure Gamification Knowledge 152

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.

Motivation 111

Motivation Beliefs Exams Students 111

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 165

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.

Exams 113

Exams Elementary School Elementary School Schools 113

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

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

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.

Failure 151

Failure Exams Questions Evaluation 151

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.

Motivation 105

Motivation Beliefs Exams Students 105

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.

Activities 172

Activities Learning Art Failure 172

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

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.

Failure 111

Failure Learning Testing Assignments 111

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 83

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

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 142

Local Government Schools English Exams 142

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.

Schools 338

Schools Coaching STEM Evaluation 338

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 145

Students Failure Art Testing 145

Edsurge

OCTOBER 12, 2016

Online education was once considered a distant second to in-person classes. Most OPMs are for-profit companies, though at least one nonprofit provider—Educators Serving Educators—exists. The other two are Noodle.com, which he calls “The TripAdvisor for education,” and Noodle Markets, a K-12 procurement business.

Curriculum Design 128

Curriculum Design Failure Exams Course Design 128

Faculty Focus

APRIL 25, 2023

As educators in the field of higher education today, we are led towards several questions, the most important of which is: Is there a failure to understand the crucial and circular cause-effect relationship between emotions, cognition, and academic success?

Teaching 116

Teaching Failure Instructors Motivation 116

Edsurge

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Schoolzilla claims its tools help address issues like absenteeism, course failures and disproportionality in suspensions. Today, Schoolzilla’s data-driven dashboards use multiple sources of student data, including attendance, suspensions and grades, to monitor progress toward school and district goals. schools and more than 90 countries.

Schools 99

Schools Failure Exams Learning 99

Edsurge

JANUARY 19, 2017

I want my 5th grader to be well-educated… Tapping away at multiple choice questions is not high level math,” another parent said. For starters, the 58 percent figure came from the CAASPP, while the 52 percent figure came from an entirely different assessment, the Northwest Evaluation Association Measure of Academic Progress (MAP) exam.

Learning 147

Learning Multiple Choice Questions Math Evaluation 147