Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Helping students review for an exam often takes the form of a study guide or review game. The teacher has to do the lion’s share of the work compiling a list of items to include on the study guide or creating questions for a game. The person generating the study guide and review game is the one doing the critical thinking.

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eSchool News

MARCH 5, 2024

Wisconsin is creating a new literacy office and hiring reading coaches. Dozens of states are moving to align their teaching practices with the science of reading, a body of research on how children learn that emphasizes explicit phonics instruction alongside helping students build vocabulary and knowledge about the world. newsletters.

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

To remediate the exam preparation study skills that beginning (and other) students are missing, most of us respond by telling students about those skills that make for good exam performance. Keep up with reading.” “See Consider an approach that might succeed where how-to-study admonitions fail. Come to class.”

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 15, 2022

Note-taking and Study Apps. Taking notes from discussions helps greatly in remembering important points raised and in aiding you to study for exams and other assessment activities. Read on… We’ve written on this topic a few times. ClickUp (not familiar to me). These apps can help you do that.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 13, 2023

Preparing for exams requires a systematic approach to ensure you cover all the necessary material and feel confident on test day. This pressure can actually hurt your chances of doing well on the exams. This means that you have to find a way to eliminate the stress and pressure from the equation so you can study well.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 6, 2020

He says he would never use such sites, but he understands their lure this semester, since he is finding it so hard to find other students to study with because of COVID restrictions. It's the way quizzes and exams are proctored. They’ve got to take their exams at 3:00 a.m. Students pay for a subscription of $14.99

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Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 4, 2014

Encourage students to form study groups to prepare for an exam. Gather reading samples from students to evaluate their reading level and share with parents. Here are some ideas for using Voxer to help connect students in a meaningful way and practice both their speaking and listening skills. Group storytelling.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 25, 2022

Studying overseas is becoming more popular than ever. The Institute for International Education of Students (IES) explained why based on a survey they conducted to explore the long-term impact of study abroad on the personal, professional, and academic lives of students. How to Apply to Study in the UK.

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eSchool News

MARCH 8, 2017

Certain teacher professional development could have a positive impact on academic writing by English learners in grades 7-12, according to a study from the University of California, Irvine. The high school exit exam – since suspended – gauges California students’ competency in reading, writing and mathematics.

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Writing Exams Essay Students 210

eSchool News

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Pro-censorship groups do not represent the vast majority of parents or guardians in their beliefs about librarians, reading, education, and civil society.” One state, Iowa, requires no reading licensure test at all. More than 50 years of research has illuminated the most effective way to teach children to read.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

A study of public schools in Texas found that those using IXL Math or IXL English Language Arts outperformed other schools on STAAR exams by as much as 11 percentile points in math, 17 percentile points in reading and 8 percentile points in writing. IXL’s TEKS alignment has been independently reviewed by Learning List.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 28, 2023

The Ask a Tech Teacher crew has ideas on those skills that will not only serve you well in your academics but beyond: 4 Highly Important Study Skills to Develop During College and Beyond We spend a lifetime learning, so it makes sense to develop a few study skills that will make our lives easier.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Many are already feeling the pressures that come with it, particularly the load of homework and studying. percent of students reported having a test, quiz, or exam within their first week of school. percent), studying for tests (48.8 In a survey conducted on Brainly.com on August 21, 2024, 60.5 Alarmingly, 72.6

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eSchool News

MARCH 20, 2019

The fact that more candidates fail their professional exams on their first attempt (54 percent) than pass them suggests a lack of adequate preparation and lies in stark comparison to other professions–nursing, for example, achieves an 85 percent first-time pass rate, according to the report.

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Edsurge

MARCH 5, 2018

When the Opt-Out movement gained traction in 2015, more than 20 percent of New York students (about 200,000) in grades 3 through 8 declined to take state standardized exams, a statistic that raised questions about the future of such testing. Help or Hindrance? That is what we are working towards,” Gorin explains.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Howard Street Charter School in Salem, Oregon, is a project-based institution that pushes students to achieve excellence in all areas of study. Our 6th graders, 74% of them passed the state exam. With special supports for students who had difficulty reading, MATHia worked as a tool to empower learners with a wide range of skill sets.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Through this partnership, all 33 schools in the district will use IXL to supplement math, English language arts, science and social studies instruction. Laredo ISD is located in Laredo, Texas , on the border with Mexico. IXL serves more than 900,000 students in Texas and has a long track record of helping learners in the state succeed.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Testing can help students better retain and recall what they studied, not only for the final exam, but as part of their overall educational development. This is the “testing effect,” or the phenomenon where taking a quiz can enhance later retention of studied materials, and its effectiveness has been demonstrated many times over.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

The latest book she co-authored—“The New College Classroom”—is a surprisingly lively read for a how-to book on teaching. Or read a partial transcript below, lightly edited for clarity. We think [the important thing] is making students remember that 76 things in our field in this course that are gonna be on the final exam.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 8, 2018

She’d read my articles about preparing for SAT/ACTs and had a story of her own detailing how she helped her children prepare for their ACT. As spring approaches, my eldest daughter Katherine, now in her junior year, is bracing herself for the upcoming ACT exams, while my youngest, Elizabeth, a sophomore, is getting ready for next year.

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eSchool News

APRIL 29, 2024

Video-based micro lessons cater to various learning styles, including visual, auditory, and reading-based instruction. AI-powered diagnostic tools that identify areas for improvement and guide test takers through targeted study sessions.

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Intelligence Exams Ethics Learning Styles 258

Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 5, 2023

Here are popular online resources to prepare for ACT and SAT tests ( click for updated list ): Albert Online — lots of SAT practice exams, including subject areas. College Board Kaplan Test Prep Khan Academy reading-writing-practice Mindsnacks SAT Vocabulary –a big part of succeeding on the SAT essay is knowing the right word Number2.com

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Companies offering proctoring tools that monitor students as they take online exams are now being watched themselves—by Democratic senators. You must be able to demonstrate that you are respecting students’ privacy,” the letter reads. Led by U.S. The remote proctoring industry has been around for decades.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 4, 2018

Here are five great websites to prepare you: The classroom is not the only place you can prepare for your IELTS exam. There are many platforms online that offer opportunities for you to prepare for the different stages of the exam: Speaking, Writing, Reading, and Listening. Stress has been taken out of your IELTS exam prep.

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eSchool News

MARCH 7, 2025

Now in a new fifth edition, this research-based program accelerates mastery of vital foundational reading skills for both new and striving readers. “Third-party studies have proven the power of SIPPS. . “Third-party studies have proven the power of SIPPS. ” What Makes SIPPS Effective? .

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 8, 2021

A student teacher in the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s early childhood program, Esme had failed the Wisconsin Foundations of Reading Test, known as WFORT, for the second time, with graduation only a month away. Each week during the semester, Esme’s student teaching supervisors, including myself, organized study groups.

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Exams Teachers English Testing 178

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Anderson had cleared the reading and writing portions of the Praxis Core with ease, but he kept failing the math component. He racked up credits in education courses, inching closer to his degree, but could not, despite his every effort, seem to clinch that math exam. We don’t need a standardized exam for that.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 12, 2024

Here is one way teachers can use AI tools to curate an entire class’s flow, its study materials, and practice tests without the aid of an army of teaching assistants. Teachers can use AI-powered tools like MagicSchool.ai , ChatGPT , and Chatterbot AI to create quizzes and exams that align with their course materials.

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Edsurge

MAY 3, 2019

Written Mandarin features more than 3,000 characters and the language has been ranked by the Foreign Service Institute’s (FSI) School of Language Studies as a “Category IV” language, which means it would require 88 weeks and 2,200 class hours to reach “professional working proficiency.” since she started the program 13 years ago.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Edmentum was honored to have Marzano Research peer review a research project we conducted for our classroom practice and assessment program, Study Island; Marzano confirmed the effectiveness of using Study Island for online practice. Ace the Test with Study Island. Study Island New Game-Based Group Sessions.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 29, 2019

This article is part of our upcoming guide, Social Studies: It's Time to Reinvest. What’s at stake in social studies education? The content of modern social studies curricula is highly contested, and evolving rapidly and sometimes radically. How do we select and vet resources that foster engagement and deeper learning?

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Edsurge

AUGUST 10, 2016

Companies, unsurprisingly, are happy to help "prove" their effectiveness by publishing their own studies, sometimes in partnership with third-party research groups, to validate the impact of a product or service. Is your edtech efficacy study up to par? Digital Promise invites edtech developers to share their studies for review.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 27, 2023

Attending such a bootcamp equips you with better study strategies and boosts your confidence starting school and building foundational relationships with staff, peers, and faculty. If you’re unsure, you can take English to boost your writing skills, vocabulary, and reading comprehension. They measure your capacity and intelligence.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 18, 2024

The dearth of bilingual teachers is especially counterintuitive in Texas, where Gauna is a professor and where she conducted a qualitative research study on what she calls the “The Leaking Spanish Bilingual Education Teacher Pipeline.” I had to pick [to speak Spanish to] the students because they are the ones who get the most affected.”

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Edsurge

JULY 29, 2020

In the latest episode of EdSurge Live, we interviewed two professors who have long questioned traditional methods of grading about how to approach exams, essays and other assessments next semester: Susan D. Tony Crider, professor of astrophysics at Elon University, offers his students “ epic finales” instead of final exams.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Her most recent study looks at how math anxiety influences how high school students choose to study (or not), resulting in a self-fulfilling prophecy of poor performance. There's something about the anxiety itself that potentially impacts our ability to focus, think in the moment, and actually want to dive in and study.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 17, 2018

And just as a new school year is set to begin, a new study raises fresh concerns about potential downsides of multitasking during class. Arnold Glass, a researcher and professor at Rutgers University’s psychology department, ran the study with graduate student Mengxue Kang. They also took periodic tests and a final exam.

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