eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

It is easier to tell a 6 th grader that he has a hard time with systems of equations than tell a high school student he doesn’t understand the second World War. Implementing systems like ExamSoft or Canvas for online exams can facilitate this. High school educators should prepare students for college by building these habits.

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Multiple Choice Questions Feedback Students History 272

eSchool News

DECEMBER 9, 2020

The district is home to eight National Blue Ribbon Schools and serves a large bilingual and English language learner population. Laredo ISD began piloting IXL in 2019 to complement its high school English language arts instruction and to identify areas where students were struggling. ” IXL’s impact in Texas.

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English Exams Languages Language 217

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Specifically, the research demonstrated that high school students in AP classes who engaged in hands-on, inquiry-based projects with real-world applications performed higher than their peers on AP U.S. Government and Politics and AP Environmental Science exams. In year one of a randomized controlled trial in five U.S.

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Teachers Coaching Participation Exams 225

Edsurge

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Even before the pandemic, a mental health crisis among high schoolers loomed. According to a survey administered by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 2019, 37 percent of high school students said they experienced persistent sadness or hopelessness and 19 percent reported suicidality.

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Exams Students Testing Learning 197

eSchool News

MAY 11, 2021

In addition, those students also showed regular annual growth in proficiency on both Partnership for the Assessment of College & Career Readiness (PARCC) evaluations and the Multi-State Alternate Assessment (MSAA). Previously, Larkin served as the Director of Academic Programs for DCPS’ Office of Special Education from 2011 to 2016.

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Education Special Education Disabilities Exams 246

eSchool News

APRIL 16, 2019

Demographics: West Broward High School , located in Pembroke Pines, Fla., Many of those struggling were English-language learners (ELLs) whose English proficiency wasn’t at the level needed to comprehend challenging texts within these exams. serves more than 2,000 students in grades nine through 12.

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English Languages Language Learning Disabilities 211

Edsurge

MARCH 6, 2024

Each year, some students do not meet these expectations, and as a result, they are told they have not earned a high school diploma and aren’t able to walk across the stage with their peers. Today, as our children leave high school and enter the so-called “real world,” they are facing a world changing at an unprecedented pace.

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Multidisciplinary Counselling Multiple Choice Questions Exams 206

Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 27, 2023

The first big tip: College is not like High School. Excellent college preparation makes you self-aware and helps you evaluate what you’d love to do in school. If you already know the career path you want to follow, choose your high school classes based on your areas of interest.

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Exams High School High School Art 145

eSchool News

APRIL 29, 2024

An Interactive Program Rich in Educational Content Experience AI offers a series of six lessons and additional educational resources in French and English, which are tailored to high school teaching and enable students to explore the basics of AI, understand its practical applications and acquire essential AI and computational thinking skills.

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Intelligence Exams Ethics Learning Styles 256

eSchool News

MAY 12, 2016

I’ve evaluated many programs, and none are as good as CodeCombat. The CodeCombat curriculum is designed to cover more programming skills than any other curriculum, including not only middle- and high-school state standards, but also the AP computer science exam and even elite programs such as a Stanford undergraduate computer science course.

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Science Teaching Exams Instructors 181

eSchool News

AUGUST 27, 2024

However, many high school classrooms still use outdated college and career preparation models, which can leave high school graduates feeling unprepared for their future. This highlights the increasing need for high schools to incorporate career-connected learning.

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Schools Coaching STEM Evaluation 333

Edsurge

JANUARY 18, 2024

Despite growing up with Spanish-speaking parents, Oscar eventually lost proficiency in the language and decided to take Spanish classes during high school. “In Esmeralda said she felt pressured to teach in English to get a good evaluation from a supervisor, even though her students wouldn’t understand the lesson.

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English Languages Language Teachers 215

Edsurge

APRIL 20, 2022

So the Society for Human Resource Management designed an experiment to see how hiring managers and HR professionals evaluate resumes with varying college degrees and/or alternative credentials. Putting Alternative Credentials to the Test Asking people about their beliefs doesn’t always yield insight about how they act.

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Evaluation Beliefs Exams Assignments 176

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

With schools and testing centers closed across the country, COVID-19 has prevented at least one million students in the high school class of 2021 from taking the ACT or SAT exams. Many hundreds of thousands of students are still waiting to take an exam. Both exams were canceled. Is There a ‘Better Way’?

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Testing Exams Internet Fairness 162

eSchool News

DECEMBER 10, 2015

TeachCS addresses critical shortage of qualified computer science teachers by connecting high school educators with computer science curricula. Both requirements will be evaluated through a fellowship application to be launched in early 2016 through which any public high school teacher in the nation can apply. “By

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Science Exams High School High School 141

Edsurge

JUNE 5, 2020

Try high school students. These aren’t concepts found in most high-school math textbooks. It’s wildly outside what most students get exposed to in school,” says von Oy. The others were evaluated based on visual details and creative use of math formulas and animation features.

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Art Math Curriculum Beliefs 218

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

We know that educators at all levels are responsible for making big decisions based on student evaluation outcomes. Students know that a lot is riding on state exams, and inevitably, students who experience test anxiety feel the extreme pressure to do well. Creating a Personalized Learning Environment at Penn High School.

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Testing Exams Peer Review Study 160

Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2018

It was much like her high school experience, she says: “Lots of work, but not lots of development.” There were a number of questions she wanted to answer back then, questions she’s still asking now: “How do you change a high school curriculum, and why is it so hard to change?” “How It’s already happening , surveys show.

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Testing Teaching Exams Evaluation 154

Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 8, 2024

Whether they are having trouble getting to grips with core concepts, or they need a little extra assistance with exam prep, there are all sorts of reasons to take this route. Evaluating Tutor Qualifications and Certifications Choosing an online tutor for your child starts with verifying their qualifications.

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Exams English Participation Intelligence 158

Edsurge

JANUARY 30, 2020

The demands of raising her daughter made it challenging for Terrero, who has a high school education, to find stable work that fit her child care schedule. She worked part time at a beauty salon for awhile, but her child care needs were too high, so she had to quit her job and was unemployed. I was meant to be in this field.”

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Special Education Teachers Education Exams 184

eSchool News

OCTOBER 20, 2022

District leaders formed the Jones Curriculum Council (JCC), a committee of teachers tasked with researching and evaluating top-tier curriculum solutions. A shy student in high school, Neal credits the positive impact his band teacher had on him when he was growing up, which helps guide him today in his role.

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Education Exams Motivation Elementary School 265

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

With a primary to high school student base of nearly two million, the company has generated huge data sets that allow it to find deep patterns on concepts—be they algebraic equations or noun-verb agreement—that are difficult for certain types of students at certain levels. Students at a Squirrel AI Learning center. Source: Squirrel AI.

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Teachers Intelligence Coaching Failure 166

Edsurge

MARCH 19, 2019

Fast forward two decades and Prester is a popular business and technology teacher at Mansfield High School in Massachusetts, working to give students real-life financial skills. It also gives the Department of Education the authority to hire experts to evaluate and make recommendations for curriculum. I don't teach to the exam.

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Teachers Students Exams Curriculum 165

k12 Online Schools

APRIL 22, 2025

Introduction High school is a defining period in a teenagers life. But over the last decadeand especially in recent yearsan alternative model has emerged: online high schools education. But over the last decadeand especially in recent yearsan alternative model has emerged: online high schools education.

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High School High School Exams Schools 52

Edsurge

JANUARY 12, 2024

Last year, ss homecoming and winter holidays were upon us, recent alumni came by the school to check on the place they couldn’t wait to leave six months before. This is one of my favorite phenomena of teaching high school. Whether they are just feeling nostalgic or genuinely miss me, it’s always nice seeing their faces.

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Schools Testing Evaluation Exams 150

Edsurge

MAY 16, 2019

The goal of this is to be used by admissions officers at higher-ed institutions to evaluate the context from which a student is coming from—so the community, the school, et cetera,” Singer said. “An An SAT score of 1400 in East L.A. is not the same as a 1400 in Greenwich, Connecticut.

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Exams Fairness Testing Evaluation 135

Edsurge

MAY 16, 2022

Thus this latest shot across the bow, which comes courtesy of a new report from ACT , the nonprofit behind the college entrance exam. In it, ACT researchers found evidence of grade inflation over the past decade—namely, that the average high school GPA increased 0.19 grade points, from 3.17 in 2010 to 3.36

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Grades Testing Interdisciplinary STEM 161

Edsurge

DECEMBER 15, 2020

She pursued a PhD in Educational Research, Measurement and Evaluation. Summative: the more comprehensive tools used to measure what a student has learned at the end of a school term, such as exams and final projects. Dr. Julie Miles decided that she could better serve the educational world from outside of the classroom.

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Education Quizzes Exams Textbooks 213

Edsurge

MAY 22, 2017

For instance, a high school freshman might undertake a service learning project that lasts until his graduation. Summative Assessments—Data Points Unlike formative assessments, summative assessments are evaluative in nature—taking place after instruction is complete and gauging mastery of a skill or competency.

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Authentic Assessment Game-Based Learning Learning Evaluation 117

eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2022

–Lisa Cumming, Science Teacher, Olmsted Falls High School. Some of our kids haven’t been in school for two years and are having a hard time adjusting to being back in the classroom. Technology will be better equipped to evaluate threads across time as well as single point-in-time measures.

Learning 363

Learning Communication Hybrid Learning Languages 363

Faculty Focus

MAY 19, 2024

Consider this scenario (one you have likely experienced): Student: I failed the first exam. Educator: Why did you fail the first exam? If the student changes their environment to support their goal of learning, the outcome on future exams may be different. It keeps their brains flexible in terms of what to expect on an exam.

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Student Engagement Exams Learning Students 119

Edsurge

JULY 10, 2020

Back before the internet made it possible—and popular—for people to document their lives in real time, teenagers found themselves preserved between the pages of their high school yearbooks—forever young. We encourage schools to define success as four-year, or slightly longer, graduation rates,” Schaeffer explains.

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Fairness Counselling Testing Disabilities 217

eSchool News

DECEMBER 10, 2015

TeachCS addresses critical shortage of qualified computer science teachers by connecting high school educators with computer science curricula. Both requirements will be evaluated through a fellowship application to be launched in early 2016 through which any public high school teacher in the nation can apply. “By

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Science High School High School Exams 100

Edsurge

JULY 29, 2019

We had three schools performing academically in the bottom five percent in the state—they were the lowest of the lowest. And this past year two of those schools came off the list! Our middle school and elementary school are no longer priority schools. We’re going to go from the bottom to the top.

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Students Exams Learning Styles Culture 156

Faculty Focus

MAY 19, 2024

Consider this scenario (one you have likely experienced): Student: I failed the first exam. Educator: Why did you fail the first exam? If the student changes their environment to support their goal of learning, the outcome on future exams may be different. It keeps their brains flexible in terms of what to expect on an exam.

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Student Engagement Exams Learning Students 109

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Earlier this month, a group of high school students in New York City took to the streets to protest their school’s online program, Summit Learning. Students at the Secondary School for Journalism in Brooklyn had become increasingly frustrated with Summit Learning.

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Students Learning Disabilities Exams 167

Edsurge

AUGUST 7, 2018

I wish there were better ways of sharing my concerns other than at the end of the semester when you fill out those [teacher evaluations]. Do students take those evaluations seriously or do faculty take those evaluations seriously? I see for example some professors doing an informal course evaluation midway of the semester.

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Teaching Course Evaluations Students Evaluation 117