Edsurge

MAY 9, 2025

Not only do these courses offer students a jump-start on credits once they get to college, but they also equip them with skills like time management, critical thinking and study habits that researchers say encourage them to enroll and stay in college. Often state policies require students to take complicated exams or pay to take the classes.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 17, 2025

O’Sullivan (2025) suggests a “U-shaped learning” model for teaching across fields, focusing on two main skills: blending knowledge and putting it to work. Teachers must be skilled guides, steering talks, handling conflicts, and helping students find common ground. Yang et al. Yang et al. Yang et al.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 24, 2025

Here follows feedback from the end of the term that uses first names and conversational tone as a stress-relieving option: Another strategy is to use low-stakes assignments to get students comfortable with the technology, which can be vital if new technology is needed for final exams or end-of-term assignments.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 24, 2025

Here follows feedback from the end of the term that uses first names and conversational tone as a stress-relieving option: Another strategy is to use low-stakes assignments to get students comfortable with the technology, which can be vital if new technology is needed for final exams or end-of-term assignments.

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eLearning Students Assignments Feedback 67

Teachers Pay Teachers

JULY 16, 2025

This foundational knowledge includes study skills. Instead of written exams, ask students to turn in a summary of a lesson as an exit ticket before they leave. Have all students set skill-based goals at the beginning of the year. Use different types of assessments in your class to help reluctant test-takers show what they know.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 12, 2025

She guided me in designing exam questions that challenge critical thinking and reflect real-world application. are just as important as clinical skills. She taught me to model resilience and curiosity—traits I now pass along to my students. Her belief in my abilities helped me believe in myself.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 12, 2025

She guided me in designing exam questions that challenge critical thinking and reflect real-world application. are just as important as clinical skills. She taught me to model resilience and curiosity—traits I now pass along to my students. Her belief in my abilities helped me believe in myself.

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Cal Matters

JULY 8, 2025

Democratic lawmakers at odds with one another over new standards In introducing his bill, Jones-Sawyer viewed a college education as paramount to law enforcement training because it would expose incoming officers to new perspectives, healthy debate and critical thinking skills. “We Some students fail to pass the academy’s courses.

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Catlin Tucker

MAY 9, 2019

As a student, I remember the stress of preparing for final exams. Sometimes I didn’t even know what the format of the final exam would be…essay, multiple choice, or short answer. My suggestion was to create a personalized final exam. ” I never had a clear sense of what content would appear on the final.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Students across the country take AP exams in hopes of earning high exam scores that help them opt out of college prerequisites and ultimately save money on tuition. When students have the rubrics in hand, they can work on the writing skills that are specific to the test they’ll be taking.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 5, 2024

When states that normally required a high school exit exam waived that requirement, graduation rates went up. Waiving exit exams raised graduation rates When a dozen states waived high school exit exams during the pandemic, district graduation rates were about 0.7 percentage points higher than they otherwise would have been.

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eSchool News

JULY 18, 2023

AMERICAN FORK, UTAH (PRWEB) — YouScience® , the leading technology provider dedicated to closing the growing skills gap between students and employers, is proud to announce that it has administered over 1 million certification exams to high school students across the U.S., during the 2022-23 academic year.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 5, 2021

Students taking Advanced Placement® courses through VHS Learning maintained their decade-plus record of exceeding the national average pass rate on AP® exams. A score of 3 or higher on an AP® exam is considered a “passing” grade for AP® college credit at many universities. About VHS Learning.

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eSchool News

JULY 28, 2022

Boston – July 28, 2022 – Two VHS Learning students earned top honors on the 2022 National Latin Exam (NLE), with one achieving a perfect score and earning a gold medal. On the Advanced Latin Reading Comprehension exam, one VHS Learning student answered 40 of 40 questions correctly, earning a gold medal and a summa cum laude certificate.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 30, 2023

Learning a new language is challenging, requiring a student to master four basic skills–listening, reading, speaking, and writing–from scratch. The reasons for the importance of writing skills for ESL learners are obvious: Mistakes make them look uneducated. Above-average writing skills are a must here to succeed.

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Catlin Tucker

APRIL 10, 2023

Other Problems with Traditional Approaches to Review and Retrieval Practice Review and practice are often focused on preparing for an exam instead of being treated as an integral part of every class. A single review game or study guide does not provide “spacing” or repeated exposure to vocabulary, concepts, or skills.

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Teachers Exams Feedback Students 489

Catlin Tucker

MARCH 5, 2019

The ability to define unfamiliar vocabulary is a life skill that teachers need to teach explicitly. Not only will students who use these strategies to define unfamiliar words develop vocabularies more quickly, but it will help them be more successful on high stakes exams, like the SAT.

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Exams Reading Skills Teaching 419

Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Helping students review for an exam often takes the form of a study guide or review game. A study guide is unlikely to inspire much interest in students, and a single game does not provide enough repeat exposure to vocabulary, concepts, or skills. These traditional approaches to review are problematic on three fronts.

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Blended Learning Students Exams Study 522

eSchool News

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Designed to offer flexibility for educators and choice for students, Savvas PathMaker delivers an exciting array of online dual-enrollment and career and technical education (CTE) courses that enable students to create their own personalized pathways and gain the skills and confidence to become college and career ready.

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Exams Learning Science Lecturing 272

Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 12, 2017

I’ve blogged about grading for mastery of skills instead of the accumulation of points and ditching my traditional grade book in favor of an ongoing assessment document. I identify target skills and assess these critical skills over the course of the grading period.

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Grades Essay Exams English 419

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

A 2021 College Board analysis found that simply completing AP classes and taking the exams made students more likely to enroll in college and excel in introductory courses. Strong AP exam scores allow students to earn college credits and potentially skip introductory university courses.

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Testing Exams Students Critical Thinking 266

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 8, 2023

Exam blueprints are a teaching tool that is still shrouded in controversy. Understanding the utility and impact of exam blueprints from a student perspective can be a game-changer. They can also help instructors to ensure that exams are fair and equitable. No more guesswork—students know exactly what to expect.

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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. Students need to work to develop and refine those skills. They described feeling prepared and able to handle exam questions.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Perhaps … it’s not just about the skills we bring to the table. An example might be a school bringing in local employers whose employees can mentor students, introducing them to new skills, resources, or experts related to their field of work. And although African American/Black workers account for only 5.7 percent of the U.S.

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Skills Schools Study Motivation 214

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 8, 2023

Exam blueprints are a teaching tool that is still shrouded in controversy. Understanding the utility and impact of exam blueprints from a student perspective can be a game-changer. They can also help instructors to ensure that exams are fair and equitable. No more guesswork—students know exactly what to expect.

Exams 111

Exams Fairness Instructors Teaching Methods 111

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

In an era consumed with teaching 21st-century soft skills, are games any good at building critical thinking or collaboration skills? I never want to make claims that games writ-large for any kid—under any circumstances—teach these sort of skills.” The answer is likely yes, but, much like games themselves, it’s complicated.

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Skills Critical Thinking Game-Based Learning Failure 168

eSchool News

AUGUST 16, 2024

Gaining computer science skills is “increasingly important in today’s digital world,” Weaam said. Only 29% of Michigan students who took an AP computer science exam in 2022 were women, and Black students were less likely to take AP computer science exams than their white and Asian peers. of all students passed.

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High School High School Science Exams 276

eSchool News

APRIL 15, 2025

For students, the mid-year stretch is a chance to assess their learning, refine their decision-making skills, and build momentum for the opportunities ahead. In today’s world, goal setting isn’t just about school–it’s a necessary life skill.

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Skills Achievement Exams Motivation 159

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

The data brief, False Assurances: Many states’ licensure tests don’t signal whether elementary teachers understand reading instruction , provides the most up-to-date analysis on the quality of elementary reading teacher licensure exams being used by each state. Just six exams are rated “strong” and four are rated “acceptable.”

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 7, 2016

Do they learn and use new skills one at a time in a vacuum? Well, according to state science exams, my students consistently score higher than other science classes in my district. The school year is a simulation of adulthood where students work, create, and learn about personal finance and entrepreneurial skills. Is it working?

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Testing Exams Social Studies Science 280

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Accurately establish language skills with AI. The verbal exam is the world’s first fully automated speaking assessment and covers nine languages, including English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Spanish, Mandarin, Portuguese and Tagalog. Emmersion’s cofounders, Brigham Tomco and Dr. Jacob Burdis, will remain with the company.

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Language Languages Exams English 241

Edsurge

JUNE 26, 2019

Across the massive, brightly colored expo hall at ISTE 2019 , the annual education technology conference where companies display and demo their latest gadgets, upgrades and software, several vendors showcased the new skills they have developed for Alexa-enabled devices. Alexa, why should I take the ACT? Alexa, when is the next ACT test date?

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Skills Quizzes Teachers Testing 167

Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 4, 2014

Here are some ideas for using Voxer to help connect students in a meaningful way and practice both their speaking and listening skills. Encourage students to form study groups to prepare for an exam. Create discussion groups up to 5 students.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 11, 2024

These are the soft skills associated with financial literacy. These responsibilities include imparting knowledge and equipping our students with practical life skills beyond textbooks and exams. Core soft skills ensure that a business and brand are well received. How will they repay the loan?

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Skills Students Exams Communication 167

eSchool News

DECEMBER 5, 2023

“Margaret connects students with business and industry leaders, and she supports all of our students in developing the job readiness skills they need to succeed in the skilled trades, business, military, or college,” said Templeton. Her commitment to leveraging YouScience in the classroom is a testament to her dedication.

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eSchool News

JUNE 14, 2023

Personalizing education can help students find their way and equip them with the skills they desire. When lessons are dictated by the teacher, government, and exam body, the student is left out of the decision-making despite being on the receiving end.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 5, 2024

Access to industry certifications through CTE programs enable students to demonstrate their skills, qualifications, and capabilities to employers immediately, connecting them with valuable career opportunities to fill the healthcare worker pipeline. But to do this, CTE programs need highly-qualified educators with industry experience.

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