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JUNE 16, 2022

Silver Spring, MD (Thursday, June 16, 2022) – The Discovery Education K-12 learning platform won the Best Education Platform award for PK-20 and the Mystery Science service earned the Best Science Instructional Solution award for Grades PK – 8 as part of the recent 2022 SIIA CODiE Awards. Twitter and? LinkedIn.?.

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MARCH 12, 2021

To make these decisions, we need information and a way to distinguish credible sources from the rest—and that starts with a solid understanding of basic science. Too often, though, this understanding we’re using to make decisions is obtained solely from our experiences in school science settings.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 20, 2020

It can often take well over a year between the time a paper is submitted to a peer-reviewed journal, and when that article is published. So a group of professors have built a preprint server for education research, with the hope of speeding up the pace of research and reaching communities of teachers and parents.

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Edsurge

MARCH 13, 2019

Little did I know that by 2019 I would find a way to apply the data science strategies I learned as a geologist to bring joy and engagement back to my classroom. This Class is Unfair The pivotal class I was teaching at the time was a physical science course, consisting of three sections of 15 to 17 eighth graders.

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eSchool News

JUNE 16, 2022

. – June 16, 2022 – Gale , part of Cengage Group, is thrilled to announce that its Political Extremism and Radicalism series has been named the best Library Reference or Educational Database of 2022 as part of the annual SIIA CODiE Awards. For more information on the Political Extremism and Radicalism series, visit its webpage.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

I implemented writing reflections to help students recall their feedback from prior assignments and collaborated with a colleague to develop a teacher guided peer review system, which eventually yielded an app called Floop that made the peer review data visible and simpler to manage.

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eSchool News

JUNE 9, 2021

Dozens of peer-reviewed research studies have proven that Lexia’s literacy solutions are some of the most effective in the country. Cambium Learning® Group is the education essentials company, providing award-winning education technology and services for K-12 markets. Michael Conley Elementary School, Tallahassee.

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APRIL 27, 2021

The study has been cited in other peer-reviewed journals more than 1,200 times, according to Google Scholar, and it has been pointed to in op-eds and other popular articles as well. Miller has been looking into what learning science says about all kinds of narratives that float around technology and teaching these days.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

It turns out that cultivating critical thinking skills can be difficult, even though many educators believe “that’s the point of what we’re training our students to be able to do,” says Ben Motz, a research scientist in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Indiana University. The data is publicly available online.

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Edsurge

MARCH 6, 2017

Without proof of success, many school districts have opted not to adopt new technologies. students who played edgames outperformed their peers on standardized tests. From the beginning, the study was intended to be rigorous enough to be published in a peer reviewed academic journal regardless of the outcome.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

Education technology is similarly beset by high-profile failures. In “ Why For-Profit’s Fail in Education ,” which is just out, Jonathan A. Knee recounts the tales of several doomed education ventures, including those emerging from Michael Milken’s Knowledge Universe. We know this story ends badly. All passed.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Three years ago I was teaching a graduate computer science course with 20 students. Instead, I decided to enhance my approach to problem solving by incorporating peer review—letting students participate in the feedback and assessment process. Peergrade —a free online platform to facilitate peer feedback sessions with students.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Gale In Context student databases : 7 multidisciplinary, multi-source type databases covering elementary, middle, high school, environmental studies, biographical info, science and a wide range of viewpoints on todays social issues. Gale Business: Entrepreneurship : covers all aspects of starting, financing and operating a business.

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Edsurge

JUNE 3, 2022

A national survey of 515 school and district leaders who make edtech purchasing decisions, conducted by a working group convened at the EdTech Efficacy Research Academic Symposium, found that just 11 percent demand peer-reviewed research. This must change.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 5, 2020

These results have not yet been peer reviewed and published by a scientific journal, but are available through a pre-print server in order to get feedback from the research community. You’re put at a real disadvantage to do what science says you should be doing with your children.”

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Calculus is a critical on-ramp to careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). At least, that’s according to a randomized study recently published in the peer-reviewed journal Science. But getting to those careers means surviving the academic journey.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

It was 2007, and Larsen was teaching a physical chemistry for life sciences course at the University of California at Davis. I can write a physical chemistry for life sciences textbook,” says Larsen. Without a formal peer-review process, how is it possible to catch mistakes?

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Edsurge

JUNE 25, 2019

On one hand, entrepreneurs and foundations are rushing to offer higher education via new models and price points. Meanwhile, college researchers and innovators are diving into learning science and experimenting with new teaching methods. We are on the other side of the moon from the educational research establishment.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 20, 2017

Marc Pedersen Paulding County High School Students At Paulding County High School in Dallas, Georgia, science classes are messy and alive. Students must be high achievers in middle school with recommendations from math and science teachers, in addition to high test scores. Then each topic gets intertwined with biotechnology. “I

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Edsurge

APRIL 11, 2017

Nobody ever published scholarly monographs in the humanities and social sciences to get rich. Still, colleges and universities expect professors in humanities and social sciences to write and publish monographs to prove their professional worth. (In In other words, it’s still publish or perish.)

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Edsurge

JULY 25, 2023

Like this sort of science you used to get on mainstream media used to be this very short thing, you know, and it was never really deep and complex because there was always a time pressure. And for that to be counted as such, people are also going to want to subject it to the rigor of different forms of peer review.

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Edsurge

MAY 28, 2020

On an ordinary June morning, kids descend on the campus of Auburn University to try science experiments at the college of education’s annual STEM camp. Today, much of that research is produced by a small community of academics based in education schools, says Archambault. This year, camp is canceled due to COVID-19.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Just look on popular Facebook groups and Reddit threads for tips on getting into selective colleges, and you’ll likely find posts recommending that students participate in intensive research or compete in science competitions as a way to stand out on college applications. No peer reviewed journal would publish this work, she adds.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 1, 2017

“The idea that some of these sites are for-profit raises questions about whether our work is really going to be available to the public, or if we’re doing it for free for a corporation,” says Fatima Espinoza Vasquez, assistant professor at the University of Kentucky’s School of Information Science. “It It also raises copyright issues.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 3, 2023

Catalyzed through such initiatives as the Games, Learning and Society group at UC Irvine, MIT Game Lab, the US Department of Education Ed Games Expo, Games for Change and a wide variety of organizations around the world, research is demonstrating the pedagogical value of games in both formal and informal learning channels.

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Edsurge

MAY 3, 2021

The goal of the Teacher Run Experiment Network isn’t to get teachers to publish full peer-reviewed studies in reputable journals, Picou says, although a few might. To support the flexibility of online students, teachers mark students present as long as they check in at some point during the day.

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JULY 10, 2020

“I think this is going to be more heavily relied on, with less access to students in person, test scores, and reliable grades, at least for the spring semester and even going forward next year,” says Marci Miller, an attorney who specializes in education law and disability rights. They also simply may not work.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Edmentum was honored to have Marzano Research peer review a research project we conducted for our classroom practice and assessment program, Study Island; Marzano confirmed the effectiveness of using Study Island for online practice. Marzano-Validated Best Practices for Online Practice. Study Island New Game-Based Group Sessions.

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AUGUST 7, 2018

Grounded in decades of research into positive youth development and funded by the Institute of Education Sciences , our framework is a comprehensive set of assessment tools that help schools evaluate students’ mental health, social and emotional well-being, as well as several important risk factors. How Easy Is It To Administer?

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 9, 2019

So two years ago, the Association of American Universities, Association of Research Libraries and Association of University Presses designed a pilot project to more effectively disseminate humanities and social sciences research. Supporting Longform Scholarship Books are the currency of the humanities and social sciences.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Owning All of Their Identities Despite assumptions that Black women are monolithic, these educators discuss how they intentionally celebrate the fullness of who they are. Another participant, a fifth-year middle grades science teacher in Virginia explained how she’s reconciled the dichotomy of her intersecting identities.

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Edsurge

MAY 2, 2017

When social media site Academia.edu hit the scene in 2008, it was hailed by some scholars as an alternative to pricey academic publishing and peer-review models. Professors and researchers could use the social platform to share their work, findings and ideas—most importantly, at no cost.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

They must be peer-reviewable. They must be challengeable so that we can, as we're entering higher education into the space, the decisions about pedagogical decision-making that are being made, are being made by folks who know how to make those kinds of decisions. They must be transparent.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 21, 2019

We are districts that were already using MAP Growth, and we really like that, but it wasn't developed to pass federal peer review,” explains Michael Huneke, the director of assessment at Marietta City Schools, a GMAP member district. “We A plan is also underway to develop a through-year science exam for the state.)

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 2, 2017

As an educator, Jared Cotton has worn nearly as many hats as Dr. Seuss’s Bartholomew Cubbins—elementary math and science teacher, assistant principal, principal, district director of assessment and accountability, assistant superintendent, superintendent. Students must make the time to practice and to peer-review each others' work.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 7, 2023

From this perspective, educational podcasting allows each student to develop creative content centered around a facet of science that interests them while concurrently giving them access to other student-generated work that may play an important role in filling in knowledge gaps (Zurcher et al., He completed an eight-year Ph.D.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Jud Dunham, director of product management for Elsevier, said in an email interview that he expects the main use case will be for professors to take personal notes on digital scholarly journal articles, though the company hopes professors will also use the feature in the peer review process as well.

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