Exams Failure Intelligence 
Ask a Tech Teacher
OCTOBER 21, 2015
Too often, students–and teachers–believe learning comes from success when in truth, it’s as likely to be the product of failure. Here are ten ways to teach through failure: Use the Mulligan Rule. Anecdotally assess their daily efforts and let that count as much as a summative exam that judges a point in time.
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.
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eSchool News
AUGUST 12, 2024
This predicament is only exacerbated by the recent breakthroughs in the fields of artificial intelligence (AI) and technology, which are accelerating scientific and mathematic discoveries, leading to rapid changes in every field’s accepted pedagogical and theoretical practices.
Edsurge
NOVEMBER 4, 2019
As the chief technology officer and assistant dean of the Stanford Graduate School of Education, Paul Kim spends more time than most pondering how artificial intelligence (AI) can impact education. EdSurge: How Much Artificial Intelligence Should There Be in the Classroom? More information about Squirrel AI.
Edsurge
DECEMBER 3, 2019
In the latest edition, 600,000 students in 79 education systems across the world took the two-hour PISA exam. For one, believing in a growth mindset, or the idea that intelligence is not fixed, but rather malleable and can be improved with effort, leads to improved outcomes, according to the 2018 results. In the U.S., coming in 10th.
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.
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.
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