eSchool News

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

A study of public schools in Texas found that those using IXL Math or IXL English Language Arts outperformed other schools on STAAR exams by as much as 11 percentile points in math, 17 percentile points in reading and 8 percentile points in writing. IXL’s TEKS alignment has been independently reviewed by Learning List.

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Distance Learning Exams English Math 246

eSchool News

DECEMBER 9, 2020

A study of public schools in Texas found that those using IXL Math or IXL English Language Arts outperformed schools without IXL on STAAR exams by as much as 11 percentile points in math, 17 percentile points in reading and 8 percentile points in writing. IXL’s personalized learning platform.

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English Exams Languages Language 213

Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

With increasing coursework and extracurricular activities, a structured approach to studying helps manage time effectively, reduces stress, and boosts learning outcomes. For example, if you have a math test coming up, you might dedicate more time to reviewing formulas and practicing problems in the days leading up to the exam.

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High School High School Study Exams 167

Edsurge

OCTOBER 10, 2024

“Lots of these augmented reality applications build on the notion of active learning and experiential learning naturally.” This year in Tokyo, for instance, an 18-year-old allegedly used smart glasses to try to cheat on a university entrance exam. Cheating Glasses?

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Exams Testing Ethics Activities 194

eSchool News

AUGUST 14, 2024

This can significantly enhance learning outcomes by ensuring students receive the support they need to master the material. Automated grading and feedback : Automated grading systems powered by AI can significantly reduce teachers’ time evaluating assignments and exams.

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Teaching Gamification Feedback Intelligence 325

eSchool News

JUNE 28, 2016

As education policy moves away from the much-maligned No Child Left Behind and toward new legislation focusing on learning outcomes, technology-enabled formative assessments are moving to the foreground as a way to gauge student learning in real time. “[Districts] are really looking to publishers to help them with that.

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Multiple Choice Questions Exams Coaching Motivation 189

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. In the U.S., that included 4,800 students from 215 schools.

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Testing Exams Intelligence Failure 140

Edsurge

JULY 9, 2021

You see an opportunity to make a small change that might improve their learning outcomes, so you roll it out to a group of students who don’t know they are part of the sample. In June, Dartmouth College dropped a cheating investigation into medical students following the dubious use of Canvas to track perceived activity during exams.

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Ethics Knowledge Testing Learning 206

Catlin Tucker

APRIL 3, 2024

This can lead to better learning outcomes for everyone. Review and practice: These boards reinforce previously learned vocabulary, concepts, and skills. They are great for exam preparation, spiral review, spacing practice, and interleaving or mixing multiple topics to improve student learning.

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Blended Learning Math Exams Attention 195

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2024

If you are like most of those with whom I work, you spend hours identifying the desired learning outcomes, essential understandings and skills, and appropriate materials. This then leads to countless hours of designing assessments and learning experiences. This is critical work. These assessments must be valid and reliable.

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Syllabus Exams Students Motivation 132

eSchool News

APRIL 15, 2024

The recognition supports Virginia schools in a multi-year effort to improve early learning outcomes for students who are below proficiency levels in reading.

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Exams Education Learning Reading 141

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 28, 2024

For optimal effectiveness, these videos should align with the student learning outcomes, aiming to inform, excite, and prepare students for their upcoming laboratory activities. Effective pre-lab videos must have well-defined learning outcomes. 2006; Greene, 2020; Topping, 2014).

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Laboratory Teaching Exams Quizzes 124

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. Quest students learned skills like problem solving at a much faster rate than students in college.

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Skills Critical Thinking Game-Based Learning Failure 168

Edsurge

JANUARY 11, 2021

When I started teaching data science and artificial intelligence in Duke University’s Pratt School of Engineering, I was frustrated by how little insight I actually felt I had into how effective my teaching was, until the end-of-semester final exam grades and student assessments came in.

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Teaching Instructors Quizzes Intelligence 213

Edsurge

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Summative: the more comprehensive tools used to measure what a student has learned at the end of a school term, such as exams and final projects. This line of thinking led ICLE and HMH to develop a resource called Bridge and Grow Pathways , a roadmap to help teachers prioritize learning outcomes.

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Education Quizzes Exams Textbooks 213

Faculty Focus

APRIL 16, 2024

For optimal effectiveness, the pre-course purpose should be clearly defined with student learning outcomes that inform, excite, and prepare students for their upcoming course material. After the student learning outcomes have been defined, the creation of the pre-course does not have to be complex.

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Exams Quizzes Students Course Design 115

Faculty Focus

MAY 9, 2024

As educators and students grapple with what is allowed when using generative AI (GenAI) tools, I have compiled five tips to help you design or redesign academic integrity statements for your syllabus, assignments, exams, and course activities. Banning GenAI tools is not the solution Many students use GenAI tools to aid their learning.

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Academic Integrity Writing Syllabus Exams 137

Faculty Focus

APRIL 18, 2023

Using and copying a master course will support new educators, retain course quality across sections, and help meet course learning outcomes (CLOs) and program learning outcomes (PLOs) as it will guide educators on what they need to teach and do each session. Flexible student attendance. Flexible (UDL) assignment design.

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Exams Course Design Assignments Learning 111

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 28, 2024

For optimal effectiveness, these videos should align with the student learning outcomes, aiming to inform, excite, and prepare students for their upcoming laboratory activities. Effective pre-lab videos must have well-defined learning outcomes. 2006; Greene, 2020; Topping, 2014).

Laboratory 110

Laboratory Teaching Exams Quizzes 110

Edsurge

JANUARY 7, 2019

And as I began to research this issue, I discovered that most of the technology investment in educational institutions really doesn’t impact learning engagement for learning outcomes. Why have a laptop policy if there is not software to go with it? How does classroom video capture technology address this issue?

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Study Lecturing Assistive Technology Exams 164

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

OER have the potential to offer more equitable and accessible learning experiences because they can be tailored to meet the needs of the students, including learning outcome alignment, accessible formatting, diverse learning materials, and diverse assessments.

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Accessibility Exams Learning Peer Review 98

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Learning Management Systems With learning management systems now installed at nearly all higher education institutions here and abroad, instructors can create course materials, assess student progress and generate custom exams. Most authoring software also integrates assessment tools, testing learning outcomes.

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Online Learning Lecturing Learning Instructors 156

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

OER have the potential to offer more equitable and accessible learning experiences because they can be tailored to meet the needs of the students, including learning outcome alignment, accessible formatting, diverse learning materials, and diverse assessments.

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Accessibility Exams Learning Peer Review 93

Dangerously Irrelevant

OCTOBER 15, 2021

This work often involves extremely sophisticated proficiency scaling of desired learning outcomes, student leveling diagnostics, and individualized instruction and student interventions. Learning modality matters A LOT. ’ The authors of Powerful Teaching do say that “these strategies apply for … critical thinking” (p.

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Quizzes Learning Lecturing Students 143

Edsurge

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Second, we focus on learning impact, assessing not only inspiration but also the meaningful and practical knowledge gained. Our ongoing efforts ensure that we consistently deliver positive learning outcomes.

Education 183

Education Science Internet Accessibility 183

Faculty Focus

APRIL 18, 2023

Using and copying a master course will support new educators, retain course quality across sections, and help meet course learning outcomes (CLOs) and program learning outcomes (PLOs) as it will guide educators on what they need to teach and do each session. Flexible student attendance. Flexible (UDL) assignment design.

Exams 98

Exams Course Design Assignments Learning 98

Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 14, 2023

Its array of question styles, including multiple choice, true/false, short answer, and fill-in-the-blank, facilitates swift quiz and exam question creation from various document formats such as PDFs, DOCs, and PPTs. This personalized approach empowers students to focus on areas requiring more practice, optimizing learning outcomes.

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Quizzes Gamification Teaching Methods Feedback 148

eSchool News

JANUARY 25, 2016

The new, personalized solution provides students with an adaptive curriculum, robust assessment engine, interactive instructions, engaging games and insightful analytics that help improve proficiency in core learning objectives tested on the ACT exam.

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Testing Exams Learning Outcomes High School 107

Edsurge

AUGUST 8, 2016

Acumen , we have been increasingly looking for business models with the potential to improve learning outcomes for the poor. Counterintuitively, we’re seeing that even the most creative and idealistic entrepreneurs might need to start by building relatively boring products to improve exam scores. Start with test prep.

Exams 107

Exams Secondary Education Testing Achievement 107

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2024

If you are like most of those with whom I work, you spend hours identifying the desired learning outcomes, essential understandings and skills, and appropriate materials. This then leads to countless hours of designing assessments and learning experiences. This is critical work. These assessments must be valid and reliable.

Syllabus 100

Syllabus Exams Students Motivation 100

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

at the end of a unit of study) Focuses on assessment for learning Focuses on the assessment of learning Informs ongoing instruction to improve student learning outcomes in real time Evaluates how well the instruction worked in the past Usually covers discrete content (e.g.,

Fairness 122

Fairness Instructors Feedback Evaluation 122

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

What Schools Can and Can’t Quantify In 2017, after the first two years of implementation, data indicated that the new approach was improving learning outcomes in the cohort schools. The school that didn’t—Ignacio Zaragoza Elementary—saw the greatest improvements in student progress. Their math scores improved only marginally.

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Learning Math Elementary School Elementary School 167

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

Laptops and tablets can be powerful learning aids, but many faculty feel uneasy about the role such devices play in their classrooms. they may be a distraction and deter from learning outcomes. How, then, can we be sure that digital tools are integrated into the higher education experience in ways that encourage deeper learning?

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Lecturing Exams Assignments Textbooks 157

eSchool News

APRIL 5, 2024

Summative assessment, on the other hand, evaluates student learning at the end of a unit, semester, or academic year. Examples include standardized tests, final exams, and end-of-course projects, which measure student achievement against predetermined criteria and provide a snapshot of overall learning outcomes.

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Textbooks Metacognitive Skills Education Teaching Methods 130

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

When students are in class, they can solve problems with their peers and their professor, applying what they have learned in new contexts and new problems. We can immediately correct misconceptions or misapplication of data rather than waiting until students make the errors in homework or on exams. What was difficult for you?

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Learning Problem-Based Learning Students Lecturing 122

Edsurge

JANUARY 12, 2024

Recommended Resources: Explore Kolibri Donate to Learning Equality About Learning Equality Want to get started with Kolibri? Start with the Kolibri Wizard For example, our next version of Kolibri features the ability for learners to practice taking old exams as a tool for self-assessment.

Education 164

Education Internet Accessibility Feedback 164

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

at the end of a unit of study) Focuses on assessment for learning Focuses on the assessment of learning Informs ongoing instruction to improve student learning outcomes in real time Evaluates how well the instruction worked in the past Usually covers discrete content (e.g.,

Fairness 111

Fairness Instructors Feedback Evaluation 111