eSchool News

APRIL 18, 2016

But math also becomes challenging to teach and learn, and many students–especially girls–lose interest in mathematics beginning in middle schools. When it comes to mathematics learning technology, students want: Help preparing for tests and exams; 77 percent of instructors provide practice problems or practice tests.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Let’s take an example of a middle school student struggling with systems of equations. Implementing systems like ExamSoft or Canvas for online exams can facilitate this. In contrast, listing the student’s deficiencies can seem overwhelming and not give the student a road to success.

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eSchool News

APRIL 26, 2016

Years ago, application meant a comprehensive exam or essay. Walking into one of our four STEM classrooms at Huntingdon Area Middle School, you won’t see students working quietly on worksheets. A STEM rotation model engages students in multifaceted projects with real-world implications.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

For example, if you’re studying for a biology exam, tagging relevant documents with terms like “photosynthesis” or “cell division” can help you quickly retrieve the information you need. Tools like Google Calendar or My Study Life are popular among high school students for their user-friendly interfaces and customization options.

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eSchool News

MAY 30, 2024

Available as part of the Brainly mobile web and desktop platform, Test Prep is purpose-built to help students prepare for the tests specific to their classroom learnings or subject curriculum, expanding on teachers’ lessons during the school day. By optimizing their study routines, Learners can also optimize their academic success.”

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EdTech Magazine

APRIL 17, 2019

Make drone maintenance part of the class and teach students to repair the drones, says Ray Sevits of North Middle School in Colorado Springs, Colo. K–12 Schools Have Students Take Pilots' Exams. The Colorado Springs and Tacoma Public Schoo l districts plan to expand their drone programs in more schools in the near future.

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Edsurge

MARCH 18, 2020

Name: EduRev HQ: Gurgaon, India Founded: 2017 This startup aims to help students in India between 15 and 23 years old study for a variety of entrance and occupational exams. Now, he leads the team at Pahamify , which provides an app for college entrance exam test prep for students in Indonesia.

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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

OCTOBER 3, 2023

A parent from Iowa : “As it happens my daughter is a freshman in ME taking Calc 2 this semester and I was helping her study for her first big exam last night. While the content of the course has changed almost completely since I took it 40 years ago, in my opinion it is still way too based on memorizing dozens of formulas for the exams.

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eSchool News

APRIL 8, 2022

Chosen by a panel of NSTA-appointed experts, this year’s winners—one middle school educator and two high school educators—showed innovative uses of data-collection technology to engage students in STEM learning. Category: Middle School. Eric Sullenberger, Russia Local School, Russia, OH.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Kids shouldn't be able to during the school day, if you're sitting in one class and you can get your grades in another class. I just saw a really interesting tweet from a young person in college [complaining about being] at a party and an exam grade comes in. And no one ever said starting high school was easy.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2025

. — Sue Kowalski, PhD, Lead Research Scientist, NWEA As we approach 2025, the impact of COVID-19 on academic gains and achievement continues to be a concern, especially in the area of middle school literacy. It’s no longer about relying on traditional exams or a checklist for graduation.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

In 2013, no females took the exam in Mississippi, Montana, and Wyoming, and 11 states had no black students engage in the exam. Across all AP exams, there was a marked variation in the percentage of high schools students who scored a 3 or higher on an AP exam. That’s typically considered the passing grade.)

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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. And perform worse on tests. Of course, like every other subject, the true test and value of civics and history extends far beyond academics and assessments.

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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

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

MARCH 19, 2019

Jacqueline Prester was a self-proclaimed hustler in middle school. se that offers a financial literacy certification exam. I don't teach to the exam. Mowing lawns, babysitting—she took the initiative to earn her own money. Back then, her friends rolled their eyes when she tried to share her financial savvy.

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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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eSchool News

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Originally an elementary school music teacher and site lead technology educator, Neal Kellogg is the Director of Educational Technology Services for Oklahoma City Public Schools (OKCPS)—serving 34,000 K–12 students across 33 elementary schools, 12 middle schools, 8 high schools, 4 alternative schools, and 6 charter schools.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 2, 2017

But it really kicks in during middle school. What we find in our middle schools is that students are starting to develop their own voices as writers,” Cotton says. These prepare them for the state writing exams in eighth and tenth grades and help teachers across the district calibrate their scoring and expectations.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 7, 2020

As a Black student in a predominantly white school, he says he excelled in his studies in elementary school. But after doing poorly on a math placement exam in middle school, he was placed in a math class for students with learning disabilities.

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Edsurge

JUNE 5, 2020

states , as well as the ACT, SAT and International Baccalaureate exams, now rely on Desmos to power its online graphing tools. The company licenses its calculator to publishers and other edtech developers for use in their software. Luberoff says that end-of-year assessments in 35 U.S.

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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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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

MAY 13, 2019

She was talking about computer science—the subject at the core of the middle school she founded in Southeast D.C. Computer science-focused schools are not so rare anymore. The computer science curriculum is doing more than teaching underserved middle school students how to code.

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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

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Of the district’s 230 schools, 36 expressed interest in being a test school, eight participated in the pilot and five ultimately received funding and support to launch the wall-to-wall model in Fall 2015. Their math scores improved only marginally. It’s tricky to determine causation here, Watkins says.

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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. This isn’t new.

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Edsurge

APRIL 3, 2017

This spring we are launching 900 middle school science games on our content platform. Vanderbilt’s research confirmed these anecdotal observations, finding that students in the games group provided more detailed answers to the complex questions found at the end of unit exams. The Hero of Middle School.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 20, 2019

One way school districts are ensuring this is by introducing career topics and studies to middle school students. According to the Association for Career and Technical Education , middle school is the time when students are the most likely to become disengaged from learning.

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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

APRIL 28, 2020

In fact, the Saxon math curriculum my teachers used when I was in middle school over 25 years ago leveraged interleaving. The process that I use for my retrieval practices and my cumulative exams allows me to implement the spacing effect without any additional planning or effort. This approach isn’t new.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 1, 2018

a district middle school located in the Bronx. At least that’s what Jean Dalton Encke, the principal of the school thought. Students were expected to finish the exam in about two hours. When school was dismissed at 2:45 pm, Dalton set off to check on students, confident that they were headed home.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2017

Since passing a test isn’t necessarily representative of student growth, it is also our responsibility to seek out alternative methods for gauging growth that may not be demonstrated on a state exam. Schools in less economically challenged parts of the district had average scores of 90% or higher. Something didn’t add up.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2018

One day I had been planning to discuss metacognition—a learning strategy I teach to my middle-school students. While many of them had modifications like extra time and study aids for exams themselves, they always took the same formative assessments as their peers using clickers.

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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. We’re going to go from the bottom to the top.

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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. .

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