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.

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Testing Failure Exams Schools 232

eSchool News

AUGUST 12, 2024

To keep up with this breakneck pace of innovation in virtually every sphere, educators must employ the very tools that are enabling it, using AI to create classes that are not only up-to-date but are also engaging, intellectually stimulating, and accessible to their students.

Quizzes 291

Quizzes Lecturing Ethics Exams 291

Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2018

Sometimes the details former students recall from class is nothing short of amazing. A few years ago I had a student named Abby in my history class, who had always been in self-contained special education classrooms. One day I had been planning to discuss metacognition—a learning strategy I teach to my middle-school students.

Teaching 168

Teaching Failure Quizzes Learning 168

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Nearly 20 million students were projected to attend an institution of higher education in the United States during the fall 2020 semester, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. This is especially true for students from lower-income families. According to the Center for American Progress, students paid $1.3

Education 200

Education Failure Students Exams 200

Edsurge

JUNE 8, 2022

As the pandemic progresses, professors are sharing stories about what feels to them like widespread student disengagement. In their anecdotes, fewer students are showing up to class and turning work in on time (or at all). But declining student participation may also stem from the challenges inherent to remote and hybrid learning.

Student Engagement 200

Student Engagement Instructors Hybrid Courses Exams 200

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. Meanwhile, these students are paying for courses that rarely provide them with college credit.

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Exams English Math Instructors 172

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. Without a passing score, he could not participate in the requisite student teaching experience nor, as a result, finish his degree. Photo by Elgin Whavers for Lamar Images.

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Exams Teachers Testing Math 192

Edsurge

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Students these days can feel like they’re constantly trailed by a kind of digital-era paparazzi. 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.

Failure 206

Failure Assignments Communication Grades 206

Faculty Focus

JUNE 12, 2025

She was the first to model what it means to truly be there for students, during both their triumphs and their hardest moments. Set the Bar High “Set the bar high, and students will strive to reach it.” When we show students that we believe in their capabilities, they rise—not just to meet the challenge, but often to surpass it.

Beliefs 101

Beliefs Education Motivation Failure 101

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Bonni Stachowiak : What has surprised me the most is that everything I’ve ever learned about gauging students—ways to tell how engaged they are in their learning—kind of has to go out the window. About half of my students don’t turn their cameras on. So there should be failure in all of our classes.

Failure 148

Failure Feedback Students Exams 148

Faculty Focus

JUNE 30, 2024

Recently I had reason to revisit Paul Pintrich’s meta-analysis on motivating students. It’s still the piece I most often see referenced when it comes to what’s known about student motivation. Adaptive self-efficacy and competence perceptions motivate students. Adaptive attributions and control beliefs motivate students.

Motivation 107

Motivation Beliefs Exams Students 107

Faculty Focus

JUNE 12, 2025

She was the first to model what it means to truly be there for students, during both their triumphs and their hardest moments. Set the Bar High “Set the bar high, and students will strive to reach it.” When we show students that we believe in their capabilities, they rise—not just to meet the challenge, but often to surpass it.

Beliefs 95

Beliefs Education Motivation Failure 95

Faculty Focus

JUNE 30, 2024

Recently I had reason to revisit Paul Pintrich’s meta-analysis on motivating students. It’s still the piece I most often see referenced when it comes to what’s known about student motivation. Adaptive self-efficacy and competence perceptions motivate students. Adaptive attributions and control beliefs motivate students.

Motivation 94

Motivation Beliefs Exams Students 94

Faculty Focus

APRIL 2, 2023

Nursing students also weren’t prepared. The loss of in-person education and communication, accompanied by the other stressors of being quarantined during the pandemic, had a devastating effect on some nursing students, leading to them not being successful in their courses. The way I assisted students changed during the pandemic.

Coaching 98

Coaching Exams Failure Learning Styles 98

Faculty Focus

APRIL 2, 2023

Nursing students also weren’t prepared. The loss of in-person education and communication, accompanied by the other stressors of being quarantined during the pandemic, had a devastating effect on some nursing students, leading to them not being successful in their courses. The way I assisted students changed during the pandemic.

Coaching 97

Coaching Exams Failure Learning Styles 97

Edsurge

JULY 17, 2018

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. Then came several new studies concluding that low-income students at U.S. Community colleges in the U.S.

Education 141

Education Students Hybrid Courses Blended Courses 141

Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2025

When it comes to math, students are struggling. Other assessments such as the critical thinking-focused international PISA exam have also indicated declining math abilities. But many elementary school teachers are uncomfortable with math in a way that can pass on to students. That has consequences.

Elementary School 199

Elementary School Elementary School Math Teachers 199

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. During one of our conversation periods a secondary science teacher said to me, “I tried giving my students some agency two years ago and it didn’t work.”

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Failure Exams Students Culture 0

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Some experts think institutions of higher education—not former students—are partly to blame. Through Degrees When Due , a project of the Institute for Higher Education Policy, nearly 200 two- and four-year colleges are digging through data and auditing administrative policies to figure out how many such students they’ve lost, and why.

Students 143

Students Failure Art Testing 143

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Instead of learning from a combination of books, lectures and software, as students do at most schools, the primary mode of instruction for kids attending Quest to Learn is games. Quest students learned skills like problem solving at a much faster rate than students in college. The takeaway?

Skills 168

Skills Critical Thinking Game-Based Learning Failure 168

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 19, 2023

Every teacher knows it’s essential, and every teacher tries to motivate students. But it’s just as true that all teachers have experienced those days when they don’t feel particularly motivated, when the content seems old and tired, and when students (sometimes the whole class) are clearly anything but motivated by what’s happening in class.

Motivation 115

Motivation Beliefs Students Assignments 115

Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 1, 2018

These web-based classes offer motivated students a self-paced, self-directed path to achieving their college dreams in an affordable, flexible, quality ecosystem that prepares them for future careers in fields they love. All they need is an internet connection and a webcam (for proctored exams). How to get started.

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Exams Quizzes Textbooks Syllabus 82

Edsurge

DECEMBER 3, 2019

students placed in the middle of the pack, scoring slightly above average on reading and science and a little below in math. the bottom 10th percentile of students fell further behind, and the gap between them and top performers widened. that included 4,800 students from 215 schools. And the Americans? In the U.S.,

Testing 131

Testing Exams Intelligence Failure 131

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. Each game is designed with unique features to bring out distinct academic and strategic skills in students. In a world where teachers still suffer too often from tech failures, this is a welcome change. Land of Venn.

Math 152

Math Failure Gamification Knowledge 152

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. She also noted that audio books have done a lot to spark literary interest in her students, and encouraged entrepreneurs to invest in that space. Where is it helpful?

Educational Technologies 117

Educational Technologies Technology Failure Education 117

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Squirrel—so named because, like the furry, nut-gathering rodent, it is fast, agile, plans ahead and “cracks tough nuts,” according to founder and CEO Derek Haoyang Li—uses an AI adaptive learning system and human instructors to give students a personalized education on subjects ranging from Chinese language to physics. Source: Squirrel AI.

Teachers 166

Teachers Intelligence Coaching Failure 166

Edsurge

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Colleges and universities in the United States are increasingly integrating technology into developmental education programs, which are designed to bring underprepared students up to college level. Our interviewees described numerous examples of technology use in developmental education instruction and student support.

Technology 150

Technology Education Syllabus Counselling 150

Edsurge

DECEMBER 26, 2017

Here are a few causes for concern that we highlighted: Same Technology, Unequal Schools: In his dissertation at UC Irvine, Matt Rafalow studied three high schools in Southern California serving different populations of students. This was despite the fact that all three schools had the same levels of technology access.

Culture 143

Culture Failure Exams Attention 143

Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Students and teachers alike are ready for a break. As a result, I’ve come up with fun ways to support learning while students power through the last few days of school. This is also a fun and authentic way for students to practice keyboarding. Tell students your expectations and other pertinent information.

Activities 172

Activities Learning Art Attention 172

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 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. But the phones aren’t the problem.

Study 164

Study Lecturing Assistive Technology Exams 164

Edsurge

JUNE 5, 2017

spotlight , how districts craft the new local agency plans required by the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) will more directly impact how schools operate and what support services and tools they will need. Failure to do so is a failure to rebut the administration’s argument that these funds are unnecessary.

Failure 105

Failure Education Secondary Education Exams 105

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 9, 2024

And, as headlines since the pandemic continue to remind us, our students have never felt more isolated and alone. Supporting student well-being is not about going through the motions of an icebreaker or a “get to know you” exercise. Since the turn of the millennium, with the publication of How People Learn (Bransford et al.,1999),

Course Design 128

Course Design Feedback Instructors Students 128

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Year One: What do we want students to know and be able to do? We were taking too much time planning — too much time in the realm of theory instead of practice and too much time not directly impacting student learning through implementing all four critical questions of a professional learning community.

Failure 142

Failure Exams Questions Evaluation 142

Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Students and teachers alike are ready for a break. As a result, I’ve come up with fun ways to support learning while students power through the last few days of school. This is also a fun and authentic way for students to practice keyboarding. Tell students your expectations and other pertinent information.

Activities 174

Activities Learning Failure Essay 174

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. No one was hearing about the students and their achievements.”. BrAveLearns pic.twitter.com/O5co6gC4Ni. Jessica Torres.

Exams 107

Exams Elementary School Elementary School Schools 107

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 19, 2023

Every teacher knows it’s essential, and every teacher tries to motivate students. But it’s just as true that all teachers have experienced those days when they don’t feel particularly motivated, when the content seems old and tired, and when students (sometimes the whole class) are clearly anything but motivated by what’s happening in class.

Motivation 95

Motivation Beliefs Students Assignments 95

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 3, 2023

I came up with the TRUST model to serve as a pedagogical tool for redesigning assignments so that students will be less likely to turn to AI for cheating. Students have always questioned the value of the content, assignments, and activities in their courses (“Why do I have to learn this?!”).

Failure 98

Failure Academic Integrity Assignments Universal Design 98