eSchool News

MAY 1, 2024

“TeachTap is a game-changer for students preparing for AP exams and studying high school courses. By combining the power of AI with an incredibly engaging user experience, we’ve created a learning tool that makes studying not only effective but also fun,” said LearnWith.AI Chief Product Officer Phil Hewinson.

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Exams High School High School History 141

Edsurge

JANUARY 7, 2019

And it’s this service that makes it possible for our system to turn a classroom lecture into a study guide. It’ll become foundational technology because of its ability to link the classroom to other resources and capabilities—search, note taking, study guides, and a lot of big data. How are you measuring success?

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Study Lecturing Assistive Technology Exams 164

eSchool News

MARCH 5, 2021

Professor Feng also brings to the project extensive experience as an original team member in the design of The College Board’s AP® Chinese Language and Culture exam. VHS Learning courses are designed from the start to be conducted using online best practices.

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Language Languages Technology Exams 242

Edsurge

MARCH 5, 2020

She took inspiration from what she found (though she said she didn’t copy anything verbatim), and the site made her feel like she had a handle on how others using the same textbook were running their classes. The company is part of what has become a big business in providing study help to college students for a fee.

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Study Exams Quizzes Academic Integrity 133

eSchool News

JUNE 11, 2024

Clear communication : Ensure that all stakeholders are well-informed about end-of-year procedures, such as exams, grading, and returning textbooks. This might include orientation sessions, buddy programs, or meetings with future teachers. Clear communication helps to reduce confusion and stress.

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Achievement Schools Counselling Feedback 303

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.” A lesson featuring radicals and translations.

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Teaching Exams Textbooks Intelligence 163

eSchool News

MAY 30, 2024

.” – Cody Ashley, middle school teacher Middle school, high school and college students preparing for class exams and state assessments can build personalized study plans in seconds using Brainly’s generative AI technology. students confirming they don’t give themselves enough time to study for their tests.

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Testing Exams Textbooks Students 141

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Instead of reserving them for high-stakes assessments like final exams, some professors now use these tools for routine work like weekly quizzes. million exams. We have 2 to 4 million weekly students who are using the product,” he adds, noting that the company was used in 6 million exams in all of 2019. In October we did 3.5

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Plagiarism Exams Confidentiality Testing 218

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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Math Study Exams Textbooks 216

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OCTOBER 3, 2023

A parent from Iowa : “As it happens my daughter is a freshman in ME taking Calc 2 this semester and I was helping her study for her first big exam last night. In undergrad, when I switched out of music, I picked a new major by looking for something that I was interested in studying and didn't require calculus or organic chemistry.

STEM 168

STEM Exams Math Language 168

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APRIL 9, 2020

Laptops and internet connections are not available in every household , and even students who usually have such resources available may now find themselves competing for them with siblings or parents studying or working from home. That’s the approach the College Board is taking this spring with its adapted AP exams.

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Distance Learning Syllabus Internet Learning 212

Edsurge

JANUARY 7, 2019

And it’s this service that makes it possible for our system to turn a classroom lecture into a study guide. It’ll become foundational technology because of its ability to link the classroom to other resources and capabilities—search, note taking, study guides, and a lot of big data. How are you measuring success?

Study 97

Study Lecturing Assistive Technology Exams 97

Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Excelling in your studies opens doors to future opportunities, whether it’s graduate school, competitive job markets, or research opportunities. The Social Spectrum On the flip side, college is more than just grades and textbooks. Allocate specific hours for studying, attending classes, socializing, and personal downtime.

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Essay Counselling Exams Textbooks 178

EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 16, 2019

Those applications are fine, but I talk a lot about h ow to integrate technology in cool ways for engagement purposes , like during social studies or math lessons or science. But no one is studying for one test every period of every day. Students do not love just reading a textbook. . Students do not speak in “worksheet.”

Technology 167

Technology Textbooks Education Testing 167

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APRIL 5, 2021

The study results point to one more way that the past year has exposed the divide between the technology-haves and have-nots, according to D. I Feel Ashamed’ To enjoy full access to digital textbooks, video software and other online learning systems, college students ideally would have their own, modern computers, according to Francis.

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Students Lecturing Assignments Exams 204

eSchool News

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Following its review of IXL’s quasi-experimental research, The IXL effect: Measuring the impact of IXL Math and IXL Language Arts in Pennsylvania schools , the ERC determined that the study met ESSA Tier 2 standards for evidence-based interventions in each subject and added the resources to its list.

English 130

English Art Language Languages 130

Edsurge

MARCH 25, 2021

There’s a high-stakes exam that’s created an entire industry selling test-preparation products and services to people willing to shell out big bucks for help honing their skills and strategies. Yet it has generated lots of online guides and courses, and studying for it requires many, many books. It’s not the SAT, or the MCAT.

Exams 150

Exams Testing Attention Skills 150

EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

By bridging the gap between physical and online spaces, schools see their students improve academically and engage with their studies on a deeper level. This trend continued into the second year, with scores improving by 172 percent compared to the state average.

Technology 167

Technology Blended Learning Lecturing Exams 167

Edsurge

OCTOBER 16, 2017

The research, part of a larger study into the programs and practices related to developmental education assessment and instruction, included interviews with 127 people from 42 colleges and 41 higher education systems across the United States. Online videos (e.g.

Technology 155

Technology Education Syllabus Counselling 155

Edsurge

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Founded in the United Kingdom, the Raspberry Pi Foundation set out to inspire young people to study computer science by inventing a programmable computer for the price of a textbook. This article highlights the initiatives of one such company, the Raspberry Pi Foundation. Over the last 15 years, its commercial arm, Raspberry Pi Ltd.,

Education 183

Education Science Internet Accessibility 183

Edsurge

JUNE 8, 2022

“This is almost replacing the high-touch engagement students are used to having in high school,” says Katharine Meyer, a researcher at Brown University who helped to run the chatbot study. “It Students could access chatbot quizzes ahead of exams to help assess their level of understanding.

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Student Engagement Instructors Hybrid Courses Students 198

Edsurge

JANUARY 13, 2017

In the early days of "course cartridges”—an LMS feature that allowed instructors to plug published content right into their courses—online courses were essentially digitized versions of static (textbook) content. Smart courses aren’t just about simple plug and play or digitized textbook content. Is that adaptive? A good experience?

Multiple Choice Questions 129

Multiple Choice Questions Instructors Textbooks Feedback 129

Faculty Focus

APRIL 2, 2023

Students are required to work with me if they are on probation due to a course failure, and they are recommended to see me if they fail an exam or are deemed to be at risk for failure. I would also review individual exams with students to determine why they weren’t being successful.

Coaching 98

Coaching Exams Failure Learning Styles 98

Faculty Focus

APRIL 2, 2023

Students are required to work with me if they are on probation due to a course failure, and they are recommended to see me if they fail an exam or are deemed to be at risk for failure. I would also review individual exams with students to determine why they weren’t being successful.

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Coaching Exams Failure Learning Styles 98

Edsurge

AUGUST 4, 2021

More than 75 percent of students, according to a Chinese study from 2016 , spend their evenings or Saturdays with tutors, studying core subjects, or English, or learning sports, coding, or music, either in person or online, one-to-one or in groups. Some parents pay the equivalent of tens of thousands of U.S. Why is it so expensive?

Culture 159

Culture English Exams Cognitive Development 159

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JUNE 10, 2021

Golden collects the results, which students give anonymously, then studies the feedback and makes a list of all the information she’s received. The journalism instructor at the University of Minnesota keeps the process simple, with brief questions similar to these: What should keep happening in this class?

Feedback 191

Feedback Instructors Students Syllabus 191

Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 24, 2018

Clutch Prep calls themselves “the video version of textbooks” but really, that doesn’t give you the full flavor of what they offer. Their academic how-to videos are textbook-specific so you pick the ones used in your classes, even by your teacher. Videos cover each chapter and can be used as a preview or review.

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Textbooks Exams Syllabus Essay 83

eSchool News

APRIL 5, 2024

From traditional classroom learning methods like lectures and textbooks to innovative technologies such as interactive whiteboards and educational apps, these tools aim to facilitate effective learning experiences and foster student growth. What are some examples of teaching techniques?

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Teaching Textbooks Learning Styles Teaching Methods 130

Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 1, 2018

Study.com (formerly called Education-Portal) is a distance learning portal that provides over 70,000 lessons in fifteen subjects (including algebra, calculus, physics, chemistry, macro- and microeconomics, and more) aligned with popular textbooks. All they need is an internet connection and a webcam (for proctored exams).

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Exams Quizzes Textbooks Mobile Devices 74

Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 29, 2020

This can be a chapter from a textbook, an article, notes, or anything in between as long as it’s in text format. Create a pre-quiz for a unit of study to determine what students know about a topic. Helping My Daughters Prepare for the ACT Exams. Add a title, a topical domain, and submit text content.

Students 142

Students Critical Thinking Intelligence Questions 142

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Examples include textbooks, peer-reviewed studies, images, videos, and more. We have not conducted a formal study at my institution, but I would like to share with you some of the data we have collected on a few courses. Assessments should be diverse with less focus on high-stakes exams.

Accessibility 98

Accessibility Exams Learning Peer Review 98

Edsurge

OCTOBER 2, 2019

Byju’s customers pay for animations, simulations and video lessons for students in grades 4 to 12 and for students preparing for competitive entrance exams to Indian colleges. His friends encouraged him to teach and help others prepare for the exams. We’re not competing with textbooks, we’re competing with time.”

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Exams Internet Math Teaching Methods 120

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

For students who had previously been told to sit at their desks and open their textbooks to page 37, these choices could feel overwhelming, Watkins shared. Though everyone involved in the initiative had read the same research and case studies, “when we sat at the table, we couldn’t figure out how to talk about it,” Watkins says.

Learning 167

Learning Math Elementary School Elementary School 167

Edsurge

AUGUST 16, 2018

One way he looks at the online course is as a competitor to commercial textbooks, but one that is updated and enhanced by a community of professors. The other half are like, ‘This isn’t on the exam so I’m not going to do this.’” But there are some important differences in what Wesch wanted to do. embassy to get him out.

Textbooks 163

Textbooks Teaching Assistants Instructors Exams 163

Edsurge

AUGUST 27, 2019

That makes it especially valuable to an education company like HMH, which is best known among teachers and students as a textbook publisher. The last time it did was back in 2015 when the NAEP exam, also known as the Nation’s Report Card, found that nearly three-quarters of eighth graders scored below proficiency in the subject.

History 166

History Exams Culture Knowledge 166

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Examples include textbooks, peer-reviewed studies, images, videos, and more. We have not conducted a formal study at my institution, but I would like to share with you some of the data we have collected on a few courses. Assessments should be diverse with less focus on high-stakes exams.

Accessibility 93

Accessibility Exams Learning Peer Review 93

Edsurge

JUNE 21, 2018

Companies that make learning software now gather unprecedented amounts of data on student behavior as students do things like read online textbooks or study for tests with digital review tools. But when online learning aids can study students, could that give professors new ways to help learners?

Instructors 103

Instructors Exams Motivation Textbooks 103