Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2018

It had been more than a year and a half since she had studied Mesopotamia, yet she was able to pull it out of memory without a second thought. Every time I hear this, I am faced with the gut-wrenching realization that the student has internalized failure by age eleven. Many studies had been conducted in university labs.

Teaching 168

Teaching Failure Quizzes Learning 168

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. That difference in attitude showed up in the study results. It did not use demographic data. The algorithm worked.

Exams 164

Exams English Math Instructors 164

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 94

Study Lecturing Assistive Technology Exams 94

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 168

Skills Critical Thinking Game-Based Learning Failure 168

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 191

Elementary School Elementary School Math Teachers 191

Edsurge

OCTOBER 16, 2017

The research, part of a larger study into the programs and practices related to developmental education assessment and instruction, included interviews with 127 people from 42 colleges and 41 higher education systems across the United States.

Technology 154

Technology Education Syllabus Counselling 154

Edsurge

DECEMBER 26, 2017

As an anthropologist and learning scientist who has studied many edtech movements over the years, I recognize a familiar pattern of technology-fueled optimism being squashed by entrenched social and cultural structures. He found that only the school serving elite students embraced the more creative and personally empowering use of technology.

Culture 149

Culture Failure Exams Attention 149

Faculty Focus

JUNE 30, 2024

Like most articles that synthesize the results of many studies, it’s long, detailed, and liberally peppered with educational jargon. 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.

Motivation 111

Motivation Beliefs Exams Students 111

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. It’s something that we want to study further.” In the U.S.,

Testing 141

Testing Exams Intelligence Failure 141

Faculty Focus

JUNE 30, 2024

Like most articles that synthesize the results of many studies, it’s long, detailed, and liberally peppered with educational jargon. 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.

Motivation 109

Motivation Beliefs Exams Students 109

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

The greatest pain in traditional education is that every child is required to study at a fixed time and at a fixed rate,” he says. Likewise, with two million students, says Mitchell, “our algorithm will see vastly more student successes and failures than a human tutor can see in a 100-year career.” Source: Squirrel AI.

Teachers 167

Teachers Intelligence Coaching Failure 167

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 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.

Coaching 98

Coaching Exams Failure Learning Styles 98

Edsurge

JUNE 8, 2022

“This is almost replacing the high-touch engagement students are used to having in high school,” says Katharine Meyer, a researcher at Brown University who helped to run the chatbot study. “It Students could access chatbot quizzes ahead of exams to help assess their level of understanding.

Student Engagement 194

Student Engagement Instructors Hybrid Courses Exams 194

Edsurge

JULY 17, 2018

Then came several new studies concluding that low-income students at U.S. So I decided to take a close look at a handful of recent studies measuring online against face-to-face at U.S. community colleges may not be as well served online as their residential peers. Is online the educational and economic game changer I thought it was?

Education 146

Education Students Hybrid Courses Blended Courses 146

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

To be clear, we focused only on the next unit and not an entire year’s study. 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.

Failure 147

Failure Exams Questions Evaluation 147

Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Click the link for an example of Abraham Lincoln to align with study of the American Civil War or this one of the American Revolution. Tie-ins: This is an excellent gamified review for semester tests, final exams, or other summative assessments. This is also a fun and authentic way for students to practice keyboarding.

Activities 172

Activities Learning Art Attention 172

Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Click the link for an example of Abraham Lincoln to align with study of the American Civil War. 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. Click to view slideshow.

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. 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 112

Exams Elementary School Elementary School Schools 112

Faculty Focus

APRIL 17, 2025

But this came with a constant fear: the fear of failure, of disappointing my parents, and of falling short of expectations. I studied relentlessly under immense pressure, and my hard work paid off when I was accepted to my desired university. In my confusion, I began reading for curiosity rather than exams. Where was my future?

Grades 101

Grades Social Studies Learning Feedback 101

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.

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Exams Quizzes Textbooks Syllabus 83

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!)

Failure 0

Failure Exams Students Culture 0

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 3, 2023

For example, in an Ancient History class, students could design social media videos to excite interest in the topics they are studying (see “ Teens Are Going Viral With Theatrical History Lessons on TikTok ”). Students can often learn more from productive failure than from success (Sinha & Kapur, 2021). Whalen, J., & Mouza, C.

Failure 98

Failure Academic Integrity Assignments Universal Design 98

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 3, 2023

For example, in an Ancient History class, students could design social media videos to excite interest in the topics they are studying (see “ Teens Are Going Viral With Theatrical History Lessons on TikTok ”). Students can often learn more from productive failure than from success (Sinha & Kapur, 2021). Whalen, J., & Mouza, C.

Failure 98

Failure Academic Integrity Assignments Universal Design 98

Edsurge

JANUARY 19, 2017

A few days later, at a study session with parents on Jan. Not every child responds to learning on a computer,” one mother said at the study session. Is mixed data enough to call a program a failure? 17 study session. “We Don’t experiment with our children.” “I Communication is Key Still many questions and lessons remain.

Learning 146

Learning Multiple Choice Questions Math Evaluation 146

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Dropping out sounds like it’s some failure of the student,” says Julie Ajinkya, vice president of applied research at the institute. General studies and liberal arts associate degrees are most likely to be “left on the table” by students who intend to pursue other options, Ajinkya says.

Students 137

Students Failure Art Testing 137

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. This experience pushed me to look at data in a different way. Suddenly there were silver linings.

Failure 111

Failure Testing Learning Assignments 111

Faculty Focus

APRIL 25, 2023

As educators in the field of higher education today, we are led towards several questions, the most important of which is: Is there a failure to understand the crucial and circular cause-effect relationship between emotions, cognition, and academic success? These opposing mindsets created “different psychological worlds” (Dweck, 2008).

Teaching 116

Teaching Failure Instructors Motivation 116

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 19, 2023

Studies of motivation number in the thousands. Whole careers are devoted to its study. It is the study of the mechanisms that put you in motion, pushing you toward certain things and pushing you away from others” (p. There is much to be learned about motivation. The problem is that learning about motivation isn’t all that easy.

Motivation 116

Motivation Beliefs Students Assignments 116

Edsurge

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Schoolzilla claims its tools help address issues like absenteeism, course failures and disproportionality in suspensions. Today, Schoolzilla’s data-driven dashboards use multiple sources of student data, including attendance, suspensions and grades, to monitor progress toward school and district goals. schools and more than 90 countries.

Schools 103

Schools Failure Exams Learning 103

Faculty Focus

JUNE 15, 2023

Knowing that certain paperwork is needed for a makeup exam or an extension helps so students knows what to do upfront. Inform your students about laptop use and possible warning signs of technical failure. Saadiqa Khan currently serves as program dean for general education studies at Cipriani College of Labour and Co-operative Studies.

Lecturing 105

Lecturing Instructors Assignments Failure 105

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 22, 2023

We often feel pulled in multiple directions – with service commitments and research projects on top of teaching responsibilities – so finding time to grade student papers, exams, projects, and in-class work can feel challenging. The important thing to remember is to consider your time, energy, and focus. Dr. Stephanie B.

Grades 116

Grades Interdisciplinary Evaluation Feedback 116

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 22, 2023

We often feel pulled in multiple directions – with service commitments and research projects on top of teaching responsibilities – so finding time to grade student papers, exams, projects, and in-class work can feel challenging. The important thing to remember is to consider your time, energy, and focus. Dr. Stephanie B.

Grades 111

Grades Interdisciplinary Evaluation Feedback 111

Faculty Focus

APRIL 25, 2023

As educators in the field of higher education today, we are led towards several questions, the most important of which is: Is there a failure to understand the crucial and circular cause-effect relationship between emotions, cognition, and academic success? These opposing mindsets created “different psychological worlds” (Dweck, 2008).

Teaching 98

Teaching Failure Instructors Motivation 98

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 19, 2023

Studies of motivation number in the thousands. Whole careers are devoted to its study. It is the study of the mechanisms that put you in motion, pushing you toward certain things and pushing you away from others” (p. There is much to be learned about motivation. The problem is that learning about motivation isn’t all that easy.

Motivation 98

Motivation Beliefs Students Assignments 98

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 1, 2023

Should you change the way you give exams and design assignments? Banning the use of technology for exams can create an inaccessible, discriminatory learning experience. Banning the use of technology for exams can create an inaccessible, discriminatory learning experience.

Academic Integrity 98

Academic Integrity Plagiarism Exams Syllabus 98

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 1, 2023

Should you change the way you give exams and design assignments? Banning the use of technology for exams can create an inaccessible, discriminatory learning experience. Banning the use of technology for exams can create an inaccessible, discriminatory learning experience.

Academic Integrity 98

Academic Integrity Plagiarism Exams Syllabus 98