eSchool News

MARCH 9, 2023

To build a strong, meaningful grading policy, instructors must choose the approach that best fits the course design and student learning outcomes. Effective instructional design models and psychometrics generally anticipate that students can master an end-of-course exam with a 70 to 80 percent score.

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Grades Teachers Instructors Exams 265

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

They begin to fulfill their learning potential. . 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.

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Failure Exams Teachers English 246

Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2018

One day I had been planning to discuss metacognition—a learning strategy I teach to my middle-school students. Every time I hear this, I am faced with the gut-wrenching realization that the student has internalized failure by age eleven. Students go from “I’m not smart” to “I just haven’t learned that.yet.” Enter research.

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Teaching Failure Quizzes Learning 168

eSchool News

JANUARY 30, 2023

Learning a new language is challenging, requiring a student to master four basic skills–listening, reading, speaking, and writing–from scratch. Not only do they learn a language but they also have to deal with other school subjects in it. And it becomes even more challenging for ESL learners.

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Writing Skills Essay Language 281

eSchool News

AUGUST 12, 2024

Key points: With the right AI tools, teachers can enhance their classroom instruction Tracking AI in education Enhancing learning through AI and human educators For more on AI in education, visit eSN’s Digital Learning hub Teaching is an uphill battle that grows harder and more exacting as the years roll by.

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Quizzes Lecturing Exams Ethics 291

Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

As a result, I’ve come up with fun ways to support learning while students power through the last few days of school. Tie-ins: This is an excellent gamified review for semester tests, final exams, or other summative assessments. You can find her resources at Structured Learning. I’ve been there often.

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Activities Learning Art Attention 171

Edsurge

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Learning management systems send alerts to parents about missed assignments and grades. 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.

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Failure Assignments Communication Grades 208

Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 15, 2021

As a result, I’ve come up with fun ways to support learning while students power through the last few days of school. 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.

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Activities Learning Attention Failure 174

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

It is important to note that there are many co-req models for consideration, including those that offer paired courses, extended instructional time, accelerated learning programs, academic support services, and technology-mediated supports. With an undeniably large number of U.S.

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Education Students Failure Exams 202

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. Moving away from standardized tests as the sole predictor of success has been one key tactic. It did not use demographic data.

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Exams English Math Instructors 172

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. Were they working too much?

Coaching 98

Coaching Exams Failure Learning Styles 98

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. Were they working too much?

Coaching 98

Coaching Exams Failure Learning Styles 98

Edsurge

JANUARY 19, 2017

Like all district administrators, Dr. Ayindé Rudolph, superintendent at Mountain View Whisman School District (MVWSD), wants to see students improve, be challenged and get excited about learning. We are committed to personalized learning, but can't continue a program that does not meet the needs of all of our students.”

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Learning Multiple Choice Questions Math Evaluation 144

Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2025

Other assessments such as the critical thinking-focused international PISA exam have also indicated declining math abilities. Inadequate instruction undermines students' attempts to learn math before they even enter the classroom, says Heather Peske, president of the National Council on Teacher Quality.

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Elementary School Elementary School Math Teachers 199

Edsurge

JUNE 8, 2022

But declining student participation may also stem from the challenges inherent to remote and hybrid learning. I learned over the pandemic that a personal email to a student that says, ‘Hey how are things going?’ It gives the mentor the reins as the learning scientist in the room,” Baker Stein says.

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Student Engagement Instructors Hybrid Courses Students 200

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Research has shown our brains are “ wired for pleasure ,” and that games are an effective way to learn because they simulate adventure and keep our brains engaged and happy. But what exactly do we learn from them? But make no mistake: game design is very important for learning. The takeaway?

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Skills Critical Thinking Game-Based Learning Failure 168

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

I explain to him how I desperately need the data this test will provide so I can design the class around his learning needs. That will continue the cycle of failure. But this approach requires that we collect, interpret and use data to guide each learning experience on a regular basis—and that can be daunting.

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Failure Learning Testing Assignments 108

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

That’s the case for Bonni Stachowiak, dean of teaching and learning at Vanguard University and host of the long-running Teaching In Higher Education podcast. And I was so fed by that moment to try to find ways as a learning community to figure out when we are engaged. So there should be failure in all of our classes.

Failure 148

Failure Feedback Students Exams 148

Faculty Focus

APRIL 17, 2025

No matter how hard I tried, I couldnt recall learning any of the material. My Learning Experience: From a Model Student to Getting Lost I grew up in China in the 1980s as the only child of factory workers. In my mind, the purpose of learning was to get good grades. It was the same nightmare that had haunted me for over a decade.

Grades 98

Grades Social Studies Learning Feedback 98

Edsurge

DECEMBER 3, 2019

In the latest edition, 600,000 students in 79 education systems across the world took the two-hour PISA exam. To reinforce the importance of seeing the bigger picture, he adds: “Often we understand our own language better by learning a foreign language.” In the U.S., that included 4,800 students from 215 schools. coming in 10th.

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Testing Exams Intelligence Failure 134

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

One edtech company that has embraced an AI-plus-human-teacher approach is Squirrel AI Learning , a Chinese company that has opened over 2000 after-school learning centers in more than 400 cities across China in the past three years. Students at a Squirrel AI Learning center. Students at a Squirrel AI Learning center.

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Teachers Intelligence Coaching Failure 166

Edsurge

DECEMBER 26, 2017

Here’s some of what we learned about the challenges and opportunities in mobilizing new technologies to address educational equity. 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.

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Culture Failure Exams Attention 146

Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 11, 2020

As a result, I’ve come up with fun ways to support learning while students power through the last few days of school. 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.

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Activities Learning Critical Thinking Attention 122

Edsurge

DECEMBER 20, 2017

“While that may be heresy, I believe education is a fundamentally human endeavor that involves motivating and inspiring students to develop a passion for learning. Yet what failure looks like, and how that can be accepted in schools where the collateral is students, led to debate. In that sense, edtech is not the answer.”

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Educational Technologies Technology Failure Education 119

Edsurge

JANUARY 7, 2019

The real issue is that the teaching and learning process in class is not engaging students via technology that is an integral part of their lives. “My My son has learning issues, and when I walked into his classroom, I began to see it through his eyes,” he says. But his current venture is something of a personal mission.

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Study Lecturing Assistive Technology Exams 164

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.

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Technology Education Syllabus Counselling 152

Edsurge

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Schoolzilla, the company perhaps best known for its Mosaic dashboard product, has found a new home with Renaissance Learning , a Wisconsin Rapids, Wisc.-based Schoolzilla claims its tools help address issues like absenteeism, course failures and disproportionality in suspensions. So she opened the Oakland, Calif.-based

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Schools Failure Learning Exams 96

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. Land of Venn is easy to use, with no learning curve. Con–which became a Pro. – See more at: [link].

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Math Failure Gamification Knowledge 150

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

DuFour and Dr. Robert Eaker are the two co-founders of the Professional Learning Communities (PLC) at Work movement. Approaching Professional Learning Communities — In Theory What I shared with DuFour was our plan to implement the four critical questions of a PLC, as detailed by Solution Tree , systematically throughout the district.

Failure 145

Failure Exams Questions Evaluation 145

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. Kindergarteners in Mrs. Shuler's classroom learning how to implement their learning stations! Jessica Torres. “We

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Exams Elementary School Elementary School Schools 109

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. 673) Related to the previous finding but with a different focus, the issue here is the context in which the learning occurs. All rights reserved.

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Motivation Beliefs Exams Students 111

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.

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Failure Education Secondary Education Exams 106

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. 673) Related to the previous finding but with a different focus, the issue here is the context in which the learning occurs. All rights reserved.

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Motivation Beliefs Exams Students 109

Dangerously Irrelevant

DECEMBER 24, 2016

I talked a lot about the power of student agency and tried to give numerous, concrete examples of student-directed project- and inquiry-based learning in practice. We also have to create organizational systems that foster ongoing innovation cultures rather than momentary risk-taking, including educator resilience and learning from failure.

Failure 0

Failure Exams Students Culture 0

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 3, 2023

It stands for: Transparency Real World Applications Universal Design for Learning Social Knowledge Construction Trial and Error Transparency refers to making the purpose and requirements for the assignment as clear as possible. To learn more about this framework, read UDL: A Powerful Framework and explore the UDL on Campus website.

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Academic Integrity Failure Assignments Universal Design 98

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 3, 2023

It stands for: Transparency Real World Applications Universal Design for Learning Social Knowledge Construction Trial and Error Transparency refers to making the purpose and requirements for the assignment as clear as possible. To learn more about this framework, read UDL: A Powerful Framework and explore the UDL on Campus website.

Academic Integrity 98

Academic Integrity Failure Assignments Universal Design 98

Edsurge

JULY 17, 2018

From the start, access has been the defining achievement of online learning. For a couple of decades, I championed online learning for its ability to uproot entrenched ideas in education, especially by engaging students in active learning, a pedagogical style rarely practiced on campus. Or so I thought.

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Education Students Hybrid Courses Blended Courses 143