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Teaching Courses that Provoke Student Anxiety

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It is the specific course that students respond to in the study, but the anxiety stems from a more general lack of confidence in themselves as learners. They question their abilities and wonder if they have what it takes. The pressure to solve problems, answer multiple-choice question, and write essays on an exam scares them.

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Can Individual Tests Really Measure Collaboration?

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At the end of next school year, thousands of high school students will sit down at individual workstations, laptops in hand, for an end-of-course exam. I think there’s more of a question about that. Technology-Enhanced What’s easier to agree on is that multiple-choice questions are a poor way to measure soft skills.

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Teaching Courses that Provoke Student Anxiety

Faculty Focus

It is the specific course that students respond to in the study, but the anxiety stems from a more general lack of confidence in themselves as learners. They question their abilities and wonder if they have what it takes. The pressure to solve problems, answer multiple-choice question, and write essays on an exam scares them.

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How ‘Learning Engineering’ Hopes to Speed Up Education

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Newkirk believes that his model will work for other STEM fields, including chemistry and physics. The Nudge tool is a system for scheduling text messages that pose short questions to students that prompt them to recall things they’ve learned in class after a certain amount of time.

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