Edsurge

DECEMBER 3, 2019

And for those who have closely followed the international test, which is delivered to 15-year-olds in developed countries every three years, the top-line results won’t offer many surprises. Compared to the previous test in 2015, the scores stayed flat. The latest PISA scores are out. In the U.S., coming in 10th.

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Testing Exams Intelligence Failure 140

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Even as Anderson excelled in his coursework at Jackson State University, he struggled to pass one of the licensure tests required in Mississippi to gain full admittance into the teacher preparation program at his school. Latiker points out, “but he couldn’t teach elementary education because of his performance on the Praxis math exam.”

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Exams Teachers Testing Math 193

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.

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Writing Skills Essay Language 278

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? And by then it’s too late.

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. It’s definitely part of the same conversation: How much of an emphasis do we put on a single test?” It did not use demographic data.

Exams 168

Exams English Math Instructors 168

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.

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.

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Elementary School Elementary School Math Teachers 196

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 150

Culture Failure Exams Attention 150

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.

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Student Engagement Instructors Hybrid Courses Students 198

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.

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Educational Technologies Technology Failure Education 122

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. One quick example.

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Failure Feedback Students Exams 145

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 155

Technology Education Syllabus Counselling 155

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. 2017; Merritt, 2021; Myles, 2018).

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. 2017; Merritt, 2021; Myles, 2018).

Coaching 98

Coaching Exams Failure Learning Styles 98

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

Two weeks into the school year, I have students who are still struggling with the diagnostic test, which is designed to see where the students are in reading comprehension and writing for 11th grade literature. This particular diagnostic is meant to mimic the Georgia state milestone test they will be taking at the end of the semester.

Failure 111

Failure Learning Testing Assignments 111

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.”

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Study Lecturing Assistive Technology Exams 164

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.

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Exams Elementary School Elementary School Schools 113

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 171

Activities Learning Art Attention 171

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. Holiday Poll.

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Activities Learning Attention Failure 174

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. These can be specific math courses or even swim tests. Such students could have taken a computer skills exam instead to test out of the class, but that option also cost money.

Students 141

Students Failure Testing Art 141

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 3, 2023

For instance, in the User Experience Research Project mentioned above, students have to find 3-5 peers to conduct usability testing of an educational digital tool and they present this data in their final report. Students can often learn more from productive failure than from success (Sinha & Kapur, 2021). The Conversation.

Failure 98

Failure Academic Integrity Assignments Universal Design 98

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 3, 2023

For instance, in the User Experience Research Project mentioned above, students have to find 3-5 peers to conduct usability testing of an educational digital tool and they present this data in their final report. Students can often learn more from productive failure than from success (Sinha & Kapur, 2021). The Conversation.

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Failure Academic Integrity Assignments Universal Design 98

Edsurge

JANUARY 19, 2017

At the end of the session, a personalized five-question assessment (known as an “Exit Slip”) is given to test concepts they individually worked on that day. Is mixed data enough to call a program a failure? First, Rudolph says they will rethink their sample size and not test a program across an entire grade level.

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Learning Multiple Choice Questions Math Evaluation 148

Edsurge

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Schoolzilla claims its tools help address issues like absenteeism, course failures and disproportionality in suspensions. In 2017, an independent researcher discovered a flaw in how Schoolzilla stored personal information including test scores and social security numbers. The company claims to service a third of U.S.

Schools 102

Schools Failure Exams Learning 102

Cult of Pedagogy

OCTOBER 14, 2024

The most common way to do this is with some kind of a test, which traditionally happens at the end of a unit — a final exam of some kind. We call these two kinds of testing summative assessment , the kind that happens at the end, and formative assessment , the kind that happens during the learning cycle.

Multiple Choice Questions 129

Multiple Choice Questions Culture Questions Grades 129

Faculty Focus

APRIL 17, 2025

I found myself sitting in a classroom, staring at a test I couldnt answer. But this came with a constant fear: the fear of failure, of disappointing my parents, and of falling short of expectations. This fear intensified in high school, where frequent tests ranked students publicly. I had no clear direction or career.

Grades 97

Grades Social Studies Learning Feedback 97

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 9, 2024

High-stakes exams may in fact do a better job of measuring how well students cope with test taking, rather than assessing actual learning. As the team found, small but critically timed interventions like this can make the difference between success and failure. But not just any feedback. Educational Psychology Review.

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Course Design Feedback Instructors Students 128

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 74

Exams Quizzes Textbooks Syllabus 74

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 19, 2023

They believe “that people have a set amount of intelligence that is essentially unchangeable,” as contrasted with those who carry a “growth mindset” believing “that intelligence (1) isn’t set in stone and (2) isn’t the main determinant of success or failure.” (pp.

Motivation 116

Motivation Beliefs Students Assignments 116

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

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

eSchool News

AUGUST 27, 2024

I’ve seen a number of tools that pass the privacy tests and offer tutoring on specific national and state standards and exams which are very attractive to schools if the price is right. The excitement comes from the possibility of both success and failure. This kind of playful experimentation is essential in the classroom.

Schools 331

Schools Coaching STEM Evaluation 331

Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 11, 2020

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. Holiday Poll.

Activities 122

Activities Learning Critical Thinking Attention 122

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 9, 2024

High-stakes exams may in fact do a better job of measuring how well students cope with test taking, rather than assessing actual learning. As the team found, small but critically timed interventions like this can make the difference between success and failure. But not just any feedback. Educational Psychology Review.

Course Design 111

Course Design Feedback Instructors Students 111

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 97

Study Lecturing Assistive Technology Exams 97

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 19, 2023

They believe “that people have a set amount of intelligence that is essentially unchangeable,” as contrasted with those who carry a “growth mindset” believing “that intelligence (1) isn’t set in stone and (2) isn’t the main determinant of success or failure.” (pp.

Motivation 98

Motivation Beliefs Students Assignments 98