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AUGUST 18, 2021

[by LightField Studios / Shutterstock] The unusual school, work and home conditions that so many Americans have faced during the pandemic have given researchers new opportunities to study the causes and consequences of family stressors and behaviors. It’s hard to be a really warm, actively engaged parent if you are struggling yourself.

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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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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

10, 2022) – The personalized literacy solution Lexia® Core5® Reading (Core5) from Lexia® Learning, a Cambium Learning® Group company, has received the highest rating of Tier 1 from the Louisiana Department of Education (LDOE). BOSTON (Feb. The Tier 1 rating means that the LDOE has designated Core5 as “exemplifying quality.”

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eSchool News

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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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. She also found the work of U.K.-based

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Another major study is going on led by the University of Colorado and the University of Maryland.) Typically, experiments like this would go through careful peer review before being published. Goble talked to EdSurge about how the study works, what the initial findings reveal and why it’s important to keep the band playing on.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

As researchers focusing on education technology, we see this often: interactive whiteboards covered in posters, desktop computers holding up plants, older devices that do not work with a newer assessment system. Making Time for Research The promise of media and technology to transform student learning has led schools in the U.S.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

The primary trends identified by the team were: adaptive learning, open education resources (OER), gamification and game-based learning, MOOCs, LMS and interoperability, mobile devices, and design. Dellinger, dLRN , recently sat down with Joosten to ask her about the results of the study. We need to move.to

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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. About Cambium Learning Group, Inc.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

After all, it’s based on an experiment that used a “precise” scale, studied a decent number of subjects and measured change over time. Perhaps education has been missing a key ingredient when it comes to teaching students to detect faulty reasoning: practice. Is that claim accurate, or faulty? lack of control. overgeneralization.

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Edsurge

MARCH 6, 2017

Now a soon-to-be released study from Vanderbilt University demonstrates the impact of rigorous, peer reviewed research into curricular tools, in this case showing that students who played edgames outperformed their peers on standardized tests. Minecraft —Teaches kids how to code through play. Full size image here.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 14, 2021

When instructors make videos where they use their presence in the video well, the researchers argue in a recent peer-reviewed paper , it can “contribute to greater engagement, promote generative learning, direct efficient integration of the instructional material, and lead to better post-test performance.”

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Edsurge

MARCH 16, 2023

And among educators from 14 different schools studied by a Harvard researcher for the 2019 book “ Where Teachers Thrive ,” most teachers said they did not have enough time to accomplish the “essential” duties of their jobs. I work at least one day every weekend. I grade papers at night.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Instead, I decided to enhance my approach to problem solving by incorporating peer review—letting students participate in the feedback and assessment process. I then had each review work by three other students according to a feedback rubric I created; I moderated the process throughout. Advice for effective peer review.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

At least, that’s according to a randomized study recently published in the peer-reviewed journal Science. The study, which occurred over three semesters, randomly assigned students to either learning through lectures, the old-school way, or through “active” calculus instruction that emphasizes student engagement.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Through anonymous surveys, focus groups, longitudinal interventions, and interviews, we’ve learned with educators and school personnel across the nation (more than 20,000 and counting!) Across our studies, the results are clear: Saying SEL is a priority is not enough to support educator well-being. over the past nine months.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2017

Without a formal peer-review process, how is it possible to catch mistakes? She points to a study Larsen conducted in 2014: He taught two back-to-back chemistry classes—but one used a traditional textbook, while the other used LibreText. That’s another model,” he says, “but it’s still peer review.” ‘A

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Edsurge

APRIL 23, 2017

Education technology providers dangle the promise of transforming classrooms and equipping previously disengaged students with the skills to become lifelong learners. In the case of education technology, this misguided approach rarely addresses the real needs of students and teachers.

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Edsurge

JUNE 3, 2022

Teachers often found it hard to monitor attendance and assess students’ understanding: one study found that the impact of the pandemic left students on average five months behind in mathematics and four months behind in reading by the end of the school year. This must change.

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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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Dangerously Irrelevant

JANUARY 2, 2023

I saw this post a while back in an educational technology forum: I have been given roughly an hour for PD on January 4th to work with teachers on anything that I’d like. Flawed, ideological, non-peer-reviewed studies should not rebut decades of anti-retention research.

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Edsurge

MAY 28, 2020

Today, much of that research is produced by a small community of academics based in education schools, says Archambault. She’s the co-founder and co-editor of the Journal of Online Learning Research , which publishes peer-reviewed studies about K-12 online education. Sometimes we have to really recruit manuscripts.”

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Edsurge

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. Ace the Test with Study Island. Study Island New Game-Based Group Sessions.

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Edsurge

MAY 5, 2023

Some educators may feel overwhelmed by adding projects to their already busy curriculum, but Caldwell and Fielding offer two strategies that can greatly reduce stress and time: use rubrics for assessment and incorporate peer reviews. Trowbridge encourages educators to take those implicit skills and make them explicit.

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Edsurge

MARCH 12, 2021

Nor are they made aware of the peer-review process in which scientists in the field who were not involved with the research critically evaluate the study design and conclusions.

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 15, 2023

Washington (2019) studied the face-to-face instructor experience, and we already had anecdotal information, along with some survey data, from our own faculty regarding their use and preferences regarding the LMS. Easy access to lecture materials and study guides added to their convenience. 

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Edsurge

MAY 3, 2021

And more than 40 other teachers are conducting studies of their own, exploring topics such as “looping,” where teachers see students multiple years in a row, and how learning about the biology of skin color affects students' perceptions of race. Competitive Engagement For Diy, the study itself is rather simple.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

In an effort to help educators, parents and other education technology consumers make better choices about the products they use, Digital Promise spent the last year developing a “research-based design” product certification. It’s hard to design an efficacy or impact study without that.” Merriman explains.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Linda Edgecomb National studies bear out Edgecomb’s insights. Gehsmann, who is professor and chair at the Department of Literacy Studies, English Education, and History Education at East Carolina University in Greenville, NC, says efficiency is one important piece of the silent reading and literacy development puzzle.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 20, 2017

In that class, two students choose a peer-reviewed article and lead seminars every Friday. They are not expected to be experts on the topics, but they are expected to lead the learning process for themselves and their peers. “You So now he’s studying epilepsy and antiepileptic drugs, using the model yeast.”

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 15, 2023

Washington (2019) studied the face-to-face instructor experience, and we already had anecdotal information, along with some survey data, from our own faculty regarding their use and preferences regarding the LMS. Easy access to lecture materials and study guides added to their convenience. 

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Edsurge

JUNE 12, 2020

Aliza Strassman , a second-grade general education teacher, leveraged the educational technology specialist at her school and her knowledge of best practices under Universal Design for Learning (UDL, a framework for designing inclusive classrooms) to create a technology-based approach to creative writing, publishing and peer feedback.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Other students will try to submit their work for publication without the proper elements of an academic paper, such as a background literature review or a methods section. No peer reviewed journal would publish this work, she adds. One student hoped to submit a paper that didn’t even include a research question, Hale says.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

She recalled one instructor who told her that 11 students in her class of 35 turned in the exact same assignment using materials from Course Hero, a website where students can share and access course study materials. Incorporating peer review into their courses. Faculty can also shake up how they assess students. One option?

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 30, 2017

BHP, dubbed a “social studies course that runs on jet fuel”, covers nearly 14 billion years of history for middle and high school students. This led to a conversation about TextGenome and our work developing technology to improve reading comprehension with Drs. Over sandwiches and iced tea, we talked about the challenges of OER.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

We examine the influence of the intersections of race, gender, sexual orientation, disability and migration on these Black women educators’ experiences based on the seen and unseen elements of the participants in this study. Adding one’s personal identity to these eternal negotiations is exhausting and preventable.

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Edsurge

JUNE 6, 2017

The University of Michigan’s M-Write program is built on the idea that students learn best when they write about what they’re studying, rather than taking multiple-choice tests. After a writing fellow quickly reviews it, the score gets delivered to the student via the eCoach system.

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