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5 strategies to close the critical thinking gap

eSchool News

Most academic interventions focus on core knowledge and basic skills: Let’s practice two-digit addition. These kinds of exercises can help students make marginal gains in reading, math, and general content knowledge, but they don’t address the root of the problem: learning how to think and how to learn. Review the parts of the cell.

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The Power of Claim-Evidence-Question

Catlin Tucker

Part IV: Thinking About Thinking This is part four of a five-part series focused on using thinking routines to drive metacognitive skill building. To recap, metacognition is a cognitive ability that allows learners to consider their thought patterns, approaches to learning, and understanding of a topic or idea.

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5 ways educators can shrink the critical thinking gap

eSchool News

Most academic interventions focus on core knowledge and basic skills: Lets practice two-digit addition. These kinds of exercises can help students make marginal gains in reading, math, and general content knowledge, but they dont address the root of the problem: learning how to think and how to learn. Review the parts of the cell.

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The Power of Connect, Extend, Challenge

Catlin Tucker

Part II: Thinking About Thinking Series This is part two of a five-part series focused on using thinking routines to drive metacognitive skill building. Metacognition is a cognitive ability that allows learners to consider their thought patterns, approaches to learning, and understanding of a topic or idea.

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What are Tools and Techniques in Education?

eSchool News

Assessment strategies in education encompass various methods used to evaluate student learning and progress. Summative assessment, on the other hand, evaluates student learning at the end of a unit, semester, or academic year. What are the four kinds of assessment?

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Can We Improve Grading by Collaborating with Students?

Faculty Focus

However, grades are not going away as a tool for evaluation, sorting, and gatekeeping by institutions and employers, and as a measure of success by students. On average, I may also be a harder or easier grader than other professors with respect to specific factors such as grammar, math, reasoning, or content. Student self-grading.

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Can We Improve Grading by Collaborating with Students?

Faculty Focus

However, grades are not going away as a tool for evaluation, sorting, and gatekeeping by institutions and employers, and as a measure of success by students. On average, I may also be a harder or easier grader than other professors with respect to specific factors such as grammar, math, reasoning, or content. Student self-grading.

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