eSchool News

JUNE 4, 2019

Whether it’s studying for an exam, completing a college essay, or finishing a social studies project, all students will inevitably find themselves procrastinating at some point in their academic careers. Triggers may include social interactions, academic pressures, or fears of failure. Procrastination is something we all experience.

Failure

eSchool News

MARCH 9, 2023

Effective instructional design models and psychometrics generally anticipate that students can master an end-of-course exam with a 70 to 80 percent score. Exams that do not reflect that criteria may have been poorly designed. Otherwise, instructional challenges or lack of student engagement could be to blame.

Grades

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

Many said they weren’t really ready and worried the increase in computer-based standardized tests would chew up class time, limit students’ ability to go online for class work, lead to technology failures and hurt students unfamiliar with the tools of online exams.

Testing

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Growing up, an unsteady family life meant that I frequently moved from school to school, and such an upbringing left me with no desire to focus on schoolwork, feeling like a failure because I lacked the foundation a consistent education would have given me. Despite having only seven weeks to study for the exam, I passed with flying colors.

Failure

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

eSchool News

AUGUST 12, 2024

Teachers can use AI-powered tools like MagicSchool.ai , ChatGPT , and Chatterbot AI to create quizzes and exams that align with their course materials. Teachers and educators should aim to use a combination of these tools, opting to choose tools that offer greater usability and ease of creation to supplement their work.

Quizzes

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. Latiker points out, “but he couldn’t teach elementary education because of his performance on the Praxis math exam.” We don’t need a standardized exam for that.

Exams

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 GPS systems in smartphones and watches let families pinpoint their locations at all times.

Failure

Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2018

Every time I hear this, I am faced with the gut-wrenching realization that the student has internalized failure by age eleven. This raises two questions for me: How can we turn eleven-year-olds who have internalized failure into students like Abby who retain information for years? They learned how to learn.

Teaching

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Failure to do so will only compound the disparities present, particularly with our low-income communities. Reforming Developmental Education According to the Community College Research Center, developmental education is essentially a “reteach” of high school and junior high school reading, writing, and math.

Education

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. These days more four-year colleges are dropping their SAT and ACT requirements. It did not use demographic data. The algorithm worked.

Exams

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

Edsurge

JUNE 8, 2022

To test this out, the institution partnered with researchers from Brown University and edtech company Mainstay to select an online political science course that has high enrollment—and high rates of failure—because every student is required to take it. It’s not getting them the answers when taking the midterm exam.

Student Engagement

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

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

. … Unfortunately there are things like stereotype threat, in which the research will show that historically marginalized populations, when they go in there thinking, “Oh, I’m not good at math because of X, Y, or Z …, ” that stress of a high-stakes exam will, statistically speaking, have a negative academic effect on them.

Failure

Edsurge

DECEMBER 3, 2019

In the latest edition, 600,000 students in 79 education systems across the world took the two-hour PISA exam. On the PISA 2018 exam, the countries where the most students disagreed with that statement hail from Europe (led by Estonia, Denmark and Germany), with the U.S. In the U.S., that included 4,800 students from 215 schools.

Testing

Edsurge

DECEMBER 20, 2017

Panel at NY Edtech Week At Success’ 46 schools in the New York area, students perform at the top 5 percent on math, English and science state exams, and Moskowitz’s words carry weight in the city. Yet what failure looks like, and how that can be accepted in schools where the collateral is students, led to debate.

Educational Technologies

Faculty Focus

APRIL 2, 2023

Students are required to work with me if they are on probation due to a course failure, and they are recommended to see me if they fail an exam or are deemed to be at risk for failure. I would also review individual exams with students to determine why they weren’t being successful.

Coaching

Faculty Focus

APRIL 2, 2023

Students are required to work with me if they are on probation due to a course failure, and they are recommended to see me if they fail an exam or are deemed to be at risk for failure. I would also review individual exams with students to determine why they weren’t being successful.

Coaching

Edsurge

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Another form of the technology is “early warning” or “early alert” programs, which monitor how students are doing in class, identify nonacademic impediments to student success, and target students in danger of failure for extra counseling or other assistance.

Technology

Edsurge

DECEMBER 26, 2017

Source: Hansen and Reich (2015) Bright Spots That Rekindle Hope Our report describes what we’ve learned from our failures, as well as promising equity-enhancing innovations and approaches. Despite the sobering findings, 2017 offered some notable bright spots.

Culture

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Studies have shown that people who’ve had one-on-one tutoring score higher on a final exam than 95% of the students who haven’t had one-on-one tutoring,” says Tom Mitchell, the Interim Dean of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University and Squirrel AI’s chief AI officer. More information about Squirrel AI.

Teachers

Edsurge

JUNE 5, 2017

NCLB asked districts to invest in supplemental interventions for students who were at-risk of not achieving grade-level proficiency, according to the state’s math and reading exams. Failure to do so is a failure to rebut the administration’s argument that these funds are unnecessary.

Failure

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. In a world where teachers still suffer too often from tech failures, this is a welcome change. In fact, Forbes reported that 82% of public high schoolers in the well-to-do Montgomery County Maryland failed Algebra.

Math

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

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

A reduction in the failure rate on their end-of-unit exam from a typical 15 to 20 students to just two. The results of that one activity from September? Quite frankly, all they did was clarify the targets students needed to learn. From there, they created some graphic organizers to help kids with that content.

Failure

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.”

Study

Faculty Focus

JUNE 30, 2024

“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. If the student comes to class, does the homework, and studies for the exam, will that produce a high score?

Motivation

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

Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Tie-ins: This is an excellent gamified review for semester tests, final exams, or other summative assessments. The Crossing – student attempts to cross a gorge and experiences failure as well as success. At the end of the Challenge, the team with the most points gets a prize appropriate to your school culture. Students love this game.

Activities

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!) Dr. Richard Elmore , Gregory R.

Failure

Faculty Focus

JUNE 30, 2024

“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. If the student comes to class, does the homework, and studies for the exam, will that produce a high score?

Motivation

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

That will continue the cycle of failure. For those of us tasked with overcoming massive learning gaps and bringing success to at-risk students who have known nothing else but failure, this type of compromise might be the only way to do it. Suddenly there were silver linings.

Failure

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 3, 2023

Figure 2: Screenshot of the Social Engagement section in the User Experience Research Project Final Reflection document Trial and Error is about giving students the opportunity to learn through failure. Students can often learn more from productive failure than from success (Sinha & Kapur, 2021). link] Sinha, T., & Kapur, M.

Failure

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 3, 2023

Figure 2: Screenshot of the Social Engagement section in the User Experience Research Project Final Reflection document Trial and Error is about giving students the opportunity to learn through failure. Students can often learn more from productive failure than from success (Sinha & Kapur, 2021). link] Sinha, T., & Kapur, M.

Failure

Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 1, 2018

Depending upon the level of service subscribed to, students can view videos, take practice quizzes and exams, and get credit for classes passed through a proctored exam. All they need is an internet connection and a webcam (for proctored exams). Take quizzes and proctored exams available in your subscription.

Exams

Edsurge

JULY 17, 2018

Work and family obligations often undermine their studies, leading to a cascade of failures and dropouts. Commonly, faculty track academic achievement, but student services help remote students get through their stressful daily lives.

Education