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OCTOBER 30, 2024

Schools also tend to rely on spoken communication to teach and written exams to assess learning. Students were tested before and after they played the game either on a desktop or through immersive virtual reality, with researchers comparing their scores to see whether the game helped the students better grasp the material.

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OCTOBER 24, 2023

Cultivating an early interest in STEM There is a stigma surrounding math and science that typically begins in elementary and middle schools, perpetuating the idea that math and science is ‘scary,’ too hard or challenging, or a topic meant for boys. Hyper-focused on standardized testing.

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DECEMBER 10, 2018

The beauty of playful assessment, she says, is that it can be done without interrupting the rhythm of learning, thereby alleviating student anxiety around testing. Teachers are evaluated on those standardized tests. These students rarely take multiple choice tests. They believe it could eventually replace traditional math exams.

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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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SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Let’s take an example of a middle school student struggling with systems of equations. They want to know what they don’t know and prefer to review tests thoroughly, identifying trends in their mistakes. Implementing systems like ExamSoft or Canvas for online exams can facilitate this.

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OCTOBER 31, 2017

Many educators recognize that standardized tests don’t measure everything—and that some of the most critical types of growth can’t be measured by a numerical score. Seven years ago, during my first year of teaching, all of my eleventh graders failed the Georgia State End of Course Test in American Literature.

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APRIL 26, 2016

Years ago, application meant a comprehensive exam or essay. In today’s educational environment, students are encouraged to apply what they’ve learned, not just on tests, but during multifaceted, multimedia projects that bring relevance to lessons and help students realize how their learning is used every day in the real world.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

homework, lecture notes, practice tests). 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. Within these folders, further categorize materials by topics, chapters, or types of content (e.g.,

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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. The platform hosts more than 500 courses and 100,000 videos, documents and tests. Users who cannot afford the platform can also apply for partial scholarships.

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JULY 30, 2021

Rapid Growth Byju’s got its start by delivering what students and their families would readily pay for: Test prep. 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.

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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. It also helps that kids are most excited about school when they’re young. But it rarely starts any younger.

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JULY 22, 2020

And perform worse on tests. 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. Those who don’t learn from history are doomed to repeat it. This health crisis is really a civics crisis in many ways.”

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DECEMBER 12, 2018

Since the days of “Oregon Trail,” educational games have teased at the possibility that learning in school can be freed from the doldrum of textbooks and tests. Yet building learning games—and selling them—is an expensive endeavor that tests patience and wallets, as several startups have learned. middle-school market.

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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. Similar to years past, several states lacked test takers in certain demographics. In Louisiana, only 8 percent of high schools students scored a 3 or higher on an AP exam. It’s a shame.

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APRIL 28, 2020

Researchers at California Polytechnic State University conducted a study in 1994, which showed conclusively that the group that was given a random assortment of pitches did much better in the post test than the group that received blocked pitches—several of one kind followed by several of another—and the control group.

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OCTOBER 1, 2018

It was early May—and in New York, that’s the dreaded season of testing. There are plenty of tests—but follow me, for a moment, to P.S. 279 Captain Manuel Rivera, Jr., a district middle school located in the Bronx. Neither students nor teachers at P.S. 279 love standardized tests. Flashback a moment to last May.

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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. The data only represents one class in the high school, which was in its first two years of existence.

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OCTOBER 31, 2018

One day I had been planning to discuss metacognition—a learning strategy I teach to my middle-school students. Learning How to Learn I’ve often heard students tell me they studied for hours on a test only to fail. For too many students, that aha-moment happens while they’re taking the big test. And by then it’s too late.

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JANUARY 23, 2025

She hears from teachers who have bad memories of math class when they were growing up of the stress of timed tests and of impatient instructors who discouraged them from pursuing math. When she was in middle school, she wanted to try for the advanced math track. Thats why Robinson says she feels like a math therapist.

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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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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.

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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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JULY 26, 2016

In 2015, the number of students taking the AP CS exam increased by nearly 24 percent. However, test-takers were overwhelmingly white and male, according to data from the College Board, which administers the AP test. This isn’t new. Attaining CS skills has become an imperative for today’s students and the workforce of tomorrow.

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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. Seeing my own creation is cool.”

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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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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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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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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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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. Standard high school coursework.

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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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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. First, Rudolph says they will rethink their sample size and not test a program across an entire grade level.

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MAY 22, 2017

When I taught high school English, I used summative assessment results as part of data talks with students. If an exam showed that a student struggled with identifying theme, for instance, I would come to the data talk prepared with learning strategies and together we would develop a plan for remediation.

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AUGUST 10, 2016

However, Reich pointed out that users should be wary of claims made by Carnegie Learning marketers that the product “doubles math learning in one year” when, as Reich describes , “middle school students using Cognitive Tutor performed no better than students in a regular algebra class.”

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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.

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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. I decided to test the waters! When we were discussing the content areas of my class, I decided to show them my 7 th grade website dedicated to our school’s first makerspace project.

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OCTOBER 7, 2016

This app adds fun to what often is the stressful task of preparing for SAT exams. This app is well-suited for its purpose of SAT language prep, as well as useful for PSAT and GRE prep needs and general vocabulary building skills at a middle school and high school level. Education Applications. Conclusion.

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AUGUST 7, 2018

It really made me feel like I was actually producing something and that I was getting a lot more out of school than just cramming for a test, and then forgetting the material within the next week. So I ended up creating the curriculum for a civic engagement class that would be taught to middle schoolers. Simmons: Sure.

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