Edsurge

JULY 22, 2020

The latest results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress found that scores for eight-grade students on civics, history and geography exams all dipped from 2014 to 2018. The second type of resources are practice materials focused on content knowledge. And perform worse on tests. But motivation is not enough.

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Edsurge

JULY 30, 2021

Cofounder Byju Raveendran built a reputation as a compelling and successful tutor, helping students gear up to take India’s Common Admission Test, the entrance exam for the country’s top graduate management schools. Rapid Growth Byju’s got its start by delivering what students and their families would readily pay for: Test prep.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

In high school, he reasoned, students might take vocational training courses, intern at local businesses or meet with guidance counselors to discuss their future. For others, he says, “We have to bring that into the school, into the family’s life, so they can see that their child can absolutely compete.”

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Edsurge

AUGUST 27, 2019

Sara Rowe and Lennelle Gilpin, who teach middle school geography in Wentzville, Mo., Michael Milton, a high school history teacher in Burlington, Mass., The sweet spot for Carmen has always been pegged at about middle school, when kids are just old enough to get the puns and the geography.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 12, 2018

middle-school market. middle school market, which the nonprofit was targeting, lacked “an appetite to sustain our work,” says Lindl. While her team invested in getting researchers and game developers, GlassLab never built a sales team to reach schools and districts. Launched in 2012 with a three-year, $10.2

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Edsurge

JANUARY 23, 2025

When she was in middle school, she wanted to try for the advanced math track. Much later, as a middle school math teacher, Robinson would cram before teaching a lesson; she was still hearing that long-ago teachers voice in her head saying she couldnt grasp the material. Robinson had to sort through her own math trauma.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 26, 2015

Most elementary age kids I know love math, but that changes when they matriculate to middle school. And that opinion doesn’t improve in high school. US News blamed math knowledge for a 33% failure rate by Oklahoma high school seniors on their exit exams. Fee or subscription. Land of Venn.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 10, 2018

With insight and oversight from MIT and Maker Ed (a nonprofit partner of MIT), and funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF), two dissimilar schools are implementing a new set of assessment tools designed to gauge student mastery in making. “We They believe it could eventually replace traditional math exams.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Her work is innovative and pushes boundaries–and she’s great at sharing her knowledge with others! As a result, she positively influenced student results on high-stakes exams, all while mentoring new teachers. In 2021, she made a huge impact on a project working to better prepare students for high-stakes state exams.

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Cal Matters

MAY 14, 2025

In summary The San Jose Evergreen Community College District offers a course at a local middle school, and plans to offer more in the future. the regular school day at August Boeger Middle School had already ended, but one class is about to start. The college faculty union worries that the students are too young.

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Edsurge

JULY 26, 2016

In 2015, the number of students taking the AP CS exam increased by nearly 24 percent. The exam has traditionally suffered from a lack of racial and gender diversity; conventional CS concepts were not adaptable to ethnically diverse students. in effect transferring local knowledge into the realms of math and computing.

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EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 16, 2018

When it comes to assessing student knowledge levels, data has empowered more schools to choose formative assessments versus summative assessments. . When the learner’s understanding is deep enough, the skills and knowledge transfer to new situations. The evidence gathered should provide information about that transfer.

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Edsurge

APRIL 28, 2020

I was able to lead a discussion in each class on “things we know about complex numbers” and have each student give one new fact from their list until the collective knowledge of the class had been exhausted and was written out on my Smartboard. I used this as a formative assessment for my classes. And what did we miss?”

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Edsurge

JULY 29, 2019

We had three schools performing academically in the bottom five percent in the state—they were the lowest of the lowest. And this past year two of those schools came off the list! Our middle school and elementary school are no longer priority schools. What are your goals for Allendale going forward?

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

On a Quest A decade ago, Salen helped design and open a Manhattan middle school with a unique proposition. 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. The takeaway?

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Edsurge

MAY 22, 2017

Formative Assessments—Happening in Real Time CBE takes students on a journey to demonstrate their knowledge, helping them prepare for the world and jobs that await them. When teachers use formative assessments to measure that knowledge, they gather information necessary to adjust teaching and learning as needed.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 27, 2024

By implementing these strategies, CTE educators can expect a vibrant, engaging learning environment where students can obtain skills and knowledge for a successful future. More students than researchers previously thought struggle to decode or, use their knowledge of letter sounds to sound out complex, multisyllabic words.

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Edsurge

APRIL 9, 2017

Unlike the Laurel School, whose programs are open to self-selecting, entrepreneurially-minded students, Louisville Collegiate pushes entrepreneurial thinking into much of its curricular offerings. In the lower and middle-school grades, for example, developing an entrepreneurial mindset is the key to student success.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 7, 2018

I took a law and policy class my senior year of high school, and so at the end of the year instead of having a final exam, we each were tasked with finding a problem related to policy, government, law of politics and coming up with a way to fix it. What knowledge regarding this topic are you familiar with?” Simmons: Sure.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 7, 2016

This app is perfect not only for students but immigrants, visitors, and citizens who want to brush up on their coast-to-coast knowledge. This app adds fun to what often is the stressful task of preparing for SAT exams. This included a click-the-right-answer skill builder followed by games to test my knowledge. Conclusion.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 10, 2018

I’m an inner city, level 4 middle school teacher that provides free daily breakfasts and lunches to a diverse student population. Each student team had 2 weeks to construct their knowledge using an application of their choice. I know they’ll have a great time attending high school and college.

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Scholarly Teacher

JANUARY 29, 2025

LAs can increase their own content knowledge and intellectual competence (Gomez Johnson et al., The Influence of Learning Assistantships on Community College Students Confidence and Competence The support LAs received and the resulting increased content and pedagogical knowledge led increased confidence. 2021; Close et al.,

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The Hungry Teacher Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

4 Assess Their Knowledge Early in my teaching career, I used to forget to check in and make sure students actually learned the material. Theres also a review game and study guide lesson to bring the unit to a close and prepare students for the upcoming exam. There are done-for-you activities for every mini-lesson. #4 Dont be like me!

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EAB

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Many of our partners landed on equitable grading , with its emphasis on measuring pure content knowledge rather than non-academic criteria that do not reflect learning gains (e.g., Not only does equitable grading prioritize student content knowledge, it also avoids the 0-100 grading scale entirely, either through a new scale (e.g.,

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Teach Thought

MAY 18, 2025

The goal is not the acquisition of knowledge via the expert; the aim is student understanding via active thinking out loud and probing of ideas by all students.” Some educators count it as a summative assessment, similar to an exam, essay, or project. We’ve even seen teachers use it as a final exam.

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Critical Thinking Coaching Discussions Evaluation 52

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Last year, Jung co-authored a report investigating the Civics Education Initiative, the standardized civics test that at least 18 states now require in the hopes it will leave students with a “bare minimum” of civics knowledge, preparing them to become active in shaping their communities. Still, the path was winding and not limited to school.

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Edsurge

APRIL 16, 2017

Spring means one thing to many elementary and middle schools across the country: test prep. Students across the country are gearing up to take federally mandated, state-administered exams, and teachers, administrators and parents all feel the heat.

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