eSchool News

MAY 12, 2016

CodeCombat was designed to make learning to code as easy as playing a game. The computer science learning tool has students typing real code from day one, and CodeCombat enables teachers without any CS background to teach a course on coding. CodeCombat is also helping boost student interest in computer science careers.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Another paid offering, an English proficiency exam for higher-ed admissions, has seen a 15-times growth in the number of test takers this year, with countries like India driving this business. According to a company official, Duolingo currently has around 40 million monthly active users, and over 1 million subscribers who pay $6.99

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Edsurge

JULY 30, 2019

Staff members work with student fellows and faculty to design curricula, dive into education data and develop personalized-learning tools. Having an in-house innovation team allows the university to draw on the expertise of faculty residents and student fellows when designing tools intended for their use.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Now you can use Zoom, but take attendance, hand out assignments, give tests or quizzes, proctor those exams, and talk one-on-one with the students,” he says. “We The plan when the company started was to start with higher education and K-12 and later expand into the corporate learning market. I could never even build that,” he said. “I

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EdTech Magazine

MARCH 29, 2018

We’re doing pretty complicated analytical work on everything from the kids’ scores to specific questions on our exams,” says BASIS.ed based 21st Century Cyber Charter School (21CCCS), teachers and administrators rely on learning tools such as Edmentum’s Study Island , Blackboard Collaborate and Moodle to identify student needs and trends.

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Edsurge

MARCH 12, 2018

Steph YoungGonzaga YoungGonzaga’s favorite online learning tools. Can virtual labs help students succeed in exams? Along with standard banks of test questions on the material, certification exams very often have their own virtual lab components that students must configure and troubleshoot in order to pass the tests.

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Edsurge

MARCH 3, 2020

But the San Francisco-based company focused on helping older learners—high-school pupils, college students and working professionals—prepare for standardized exams for English as a foreign language, like the TOEFL. AI-powered language-learning tools have recently attracted venture capital.

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Edsurge

JUNE 29, 2017

He says the tools from Spain have quality content for Spanish speakers, and for English tools, tech providers such as Pearson and Mcgraw Hill have sufficed in the past, but he is looking for more STEM learning tools now. “I You know education is not a big business in Mexico. schools is live video applications.

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Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2018

Do exams still serve a purpose? How do we move beyond grades to more meaningful demonstrations of learning? On Tuesday, April 24 the #DLNchat community got together to discuss and debate: How Can Alternative Assignments Effectively Assess Student Learning? But why, then, do so many courses still rely on exams?

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 28, 2024

Multiple studies in anatomy education show that even limited use of these videos can improve quiz and exam scores (Al-Khalili & Coppoc, 2014; DiLullo et al., Positive, statistically significant correlations were found between average pre-lab quiz score and exam score. 2006; Greene, 2020; Topping, 2014).

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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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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

ETS is best known for offering assessments like the GRE and TOEFL exams. It bought Edusoft, an English language-learning tool, in 2011 and purchased assessment provider Questar for $127.5 And ETS contracts with OECD, which creates the global education assessment benchmark test known as PISA. With more than $1.3 million in 2017.

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EdTech Magazine

AUGUST 27, 2019

New solutions such as Brightspace Insights are designed to capture, aggregate and analyze data from multiple sources , allowing teachers to gain student insight “based on the entire ecosystem of learning tools” according to Nick Oddson, senior vice president of product development for D2L, the creator of Brightspace.

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EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 16, 2018

Summative assessments, such as final exams, can be a great way to assess the efficacy of a curriculum within a school , offering a view of an entire class in order to judge what materials or classroom structures may need to be adjusted for the next year. . Teachers Use Online Forms to Gauge Student Learning.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 28, 2024

Multiple studies in anatomy education show that even limited use of these videos can improve quiz and exam scores (Al-Khalili & Coppoc, 2014; DiLullo et al., Positive, statistically significant correlations were found between average pre-lab quiz score and exam score. 2006; Greene, 2020; Topping, 2014).

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EdTech Magazine

JUNE 21, 2018

“[Happy Numbers] is the most comprehensive and effective technology teaching tool I have ever used for my Kindergarten and First Grade classes,” Regan says as part of a case study conducted by Happy Numbers. “I One of the key differences between the two exams was the elevated level of conceptual understanding among the students.

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Edsurge

JULY 29, 2019

Now, teachers teach to a variety of learning styles, differentiate learning for our students with twice-weekly Response to Intervention time and give opportunities for student collaboration—such as STEM projects and our Spark literary and visual arts magazine. We’re also a 1:1 district where every student has an iPad.

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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 102

Edsurge

APRIL 2, 2025

Similarly, interoperability standards like Caliper Analytics and Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI) ensure that edtech tools can work together without disruption when institutions switch vendors or adopt new technologies. Can you share specific examples of how improved data access has positively impacted learner success?

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eSchool News

APRIL 5, 2024

What are tools and techniques in education? From traditional classroom learning tools like textbooks and whiteboards to innovative techniques such as flipped classrooms and educational software, these resources aim to optimize educational outcomes and engage students effectively.

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Textbooks Metacognitive Skills Education Teaching Methods 130

Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 25, 2023

Learners achieve higher achievement scores in math One 2016 randomized study by Roschelle et al found that students attained higher achievement scores when teachers combined one-on-one attention and web-based homework tools. And as learners interact with and manipulate these tools, they become more involved and engaged in the lesson.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 27, 2024

The nature of artificial intelligence tools is that they are able to improve the more they are used so the price points have lowered on many of these tools as companies try to gain a larger stake in the growing market and improve the tools they have to offer.

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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2020

Even the College Board, maker of the SAT, advised colleges to be flexible about requiring the test in the upcoming admissions cycle because of challenges students face getting to in-person tests and glitches in the group’s efforts to administer exams remotely.

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Edsurge

APRIL 3, 2017

Vadim wanted to create enough curriculum games so they would be effective daily learning tools in schools. I had one big question: Would using games as a primary learning tool actually improve my students’ performance? Many of the teachers described the games as “transformative.”.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 17, 2025

In my confusion, I began reading for curiosity rather than exams. He argued that modern education prioritized memorization over true understanding, with grades and diplomas replacing the real purpose of learning. I believe that mistakes are one of the most powerful learning tools. I had no clear direction or career.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 31, 2017

They are short — three to five minutes — and formative in nature, to determine student knowledge and inform the next learning step. Discussion boards are a familiar learning tool in education. Answers are shared with all students and often serve to crowdsource learning as a test review or preparation for a new unit.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 27, 2023

Over time, they have also become learning tools in educational contexts–especially for note-taking, brainstorming, and studying for exams (Erdem, Farrand, Bandera, Mugnai). Mind maps for business: using the ultimate thinking tool to revolutionise how you work (2nd edition). Mind Maps as a Lifelong Learning Tool.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 2, 2023

For example, students with dyslexia can use a text-to-speech tool to improve their reading comprehension. Similarly, expressing themselves efficiently with assistive technologies can improve their grades on exams, papers, and presentations, resulting in good academic performance.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 27, 2023

Over time, they have also become learning tools in educational contexts–especially for note-taking, brainstorming, and studying for exams (Erdem, Farrand, Bandera, Mugnai). Mind maps for business: using the ultimate thinking tool to revolutionise how you work (2nd edition). Mind Maps as a Lifelong Learning Tool.

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Group work Culture Instructors Language 98

EAB

AUGUST 25, 2023

Leaders are looking for ways to support their student bodies beyond the traditional college application or exam anxiety and to create a school environment where students feel supported and prepared to succeed. Student wellness requests by subtopic All requests fell into one of the below categories.

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Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

“Instrumenting” classrooms means being able to track what students are doing as they go through learning materials, such as digital textbooks and online labs, and seeing which behaviors tend to lead to the best performance on quizzes, exams or other measures of student learning.

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