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LearnWith.AI Launches TeachTap, the first AI-powered learning app for AP exam prep and high school courses

eSchool News

“TeachTap is a game-changer for students preparing for AP exams and studying high school courses. Pearson Edgington, a high school senior who piloted TeachTap, shared his experience: “TeachTap made studying for my AP exams actually fun and interesting. Chief Product Officer Phil Hewinson.

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Retrieval in Action: Creative Strategies from Real Teachers

Cult of Pedagogy

I have encouraged giving frequent quizzes , think-pair-shares , and teaching students to use flashcards , but there are a lot of other ways to do it. And that class, since I started doing that, is a 20 percent improvement in the exam grades. “Present students with a multiple choice question.”

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Digital Devices in the Classroom Can Hinder Long-Term Retention

Edsurge

The study , published in the journal Educational Psychology, found that when students divide attention between electronic devices and a classroom lecture, they still followed the lecture in the moment, but that long-term retention was reduced, resulting in lower grades on unit and final exams. They also took periodic tests and a final exam.

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Kids Discover Online unveils custom assessments feature

eSchool News

The newly added Assessments tool gives educators full control to create, distribute, and assess custom quizzes, tests, and homework assignments directly within the platform. The Assessments feature includes more than 5,000 pre-built questions covering more than 1,200 science and social studies topics.

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Teaching Courses that Provoke Student Anxiety

Faculty Focus

The pressure to solve problems, answer multiple-choice question, and write essays on an exam scares them. Or, students may be anxious because they’ve done poorly in related courses. The anxiety some students feel about a course grows out of fears associated with test-taking. They’re convinced they won’t do well.

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Teaching Courses that Provoke Student Anxiety

Faculty Focus

The pressure to solve problems, answer multiple-choice question, and write essays on an exam scares them. Or, students may be anxious because they’ve done poorly in related courses. The anxiety some students feel about a course grows out of fears associated with test-taking. They’re convinced they won’t do well.

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How ‘Learning Engineering’ Hopes to Speed Up Education

Edsurge

Studies have consistently shown that students tasked with responding to interactive exercises, like answering online quizzes, retain more than those tasked with passive learning activities such as reading or watching videos. That sentiment is backed by learning-science research in a concept called the “doer effect.”

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