eSchool News

APRIL 3, 2025

More focus on grades than learning When students are preoccupied with grades, they often lose sight of the learning process itself. The pressure to perform well on assessments can create a situation where the grade becomes more important than the actual knowledge being gained.

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Academic Integrity Failure Students Culture 206

Edsurge

JUNE 12, 2018

asked a 9th-grade boy on the first day of school. Back then, the Chinese language program at Latin had begun piloting a proficiency-based model, which is structured differently from a traditional grade-based model. The transition raised multiple challenges including course placement, grading, and community communications.

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Grades Essay Language Languages 129

eSchool News

AUGUST 12, 2024

By distilling a lecture’s knowledge into a set of handy flashcards, teachers can ensure their students’ progress and performance. Its enhanced accuracy in math and vast knowledge base make it the ideal option for teachers teaching advanced-level courses in STEM subjects.

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Quizzes Lecturing Ethics Exams 289

Faculty Focus

APRIL 17, 2025

In my mind, the purpose of learning was to get good grades. Grades were everythingsymbols of success and a source of validation. But this came with a constant fear: the fear of failure, of disappointing my parents, and of falling short of expectations. They told me a good education would guarantee a bright future.

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Grades Social Studies Learning Feedback 93

eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2017

My father attended classes for 11 years (there was no fourth year of high school then and no kindergarten), but even so, his classes were separated by grade levels and students were assessed by letter grades. School used to be about gaining a shared body of knowledge. The world is changing. The future is global.

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Learning Failure Language Languages 246

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

When researchers at my company, Lexplore, compared the fall 2019 and spring 2021 assessment results of more than 57,000 Swedish students in grades 2 to 6, they found that students in 2021 were, on average, 10 percentile points, or seven to eight months, behind the 2019 students in reading ability.

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Failure Motivation Assistive Technology Reading 200

Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 4, 2018

I left third grade and my third-grade teacher Ms. My fourth-grade teacher, Ms. She didn’t try to be my best friend and she didn’t make excuses for my third-grade failures. I started by reviewing knowledgeable websites like Benchmark Education. They are knowledgeable. In my case, it was Ms.

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Teachers Failure Quizzes Knowledge 141

eSchool News

MARCH 26, 2019

Biggest challenge: Our school is required to enforce a series of standardized tests every year to assess a student’s achievements and knowledge learned in the grade level. Students are taking ownership of their writing and focusing on their improvements, not their failures.

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Essay Failure Writing Students 181

eSchool News

JUNE 18, 2024

11 Research evidence lacking: Despite OG/MSL’s popularity and backing, research evidence of its efficacy for students with dyslexia beyond 3 rd grade is lacking, despite almost a century of application. 13 Positive effects only show in narrow areas such as alphabetic knowledge in younger students.

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Disabilities Learning Disabilities Evaluation Language 282

Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 26, 2015

US News blamed math knowledge for a 33% failure rate by Oklahoma high school seniors on their exit exams. Now, they want to use their kids’ native interest in online gaming to scaffold math knowledge. In a world where teachers still suffer too often from tech failures, this is a welcome change. Fee or subscription.

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Math Failure Gamification Knowledge 152

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Even with this knowledge, we persist in training our students to be unskilled workers even though we know that all the jobs involving routine tasks and predictable decisions will have long been automated or outsourced by the time these kids hit the workforce. This is not a drill.

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Failure Multidisciplinary Testing Skills 162

Edsurge

DECEMBER 5, 2016

He teaches 7th grade social studies in Highland Park, Illinois. Failure also motivates me. When I say we risk failure, I mean we’re trying our absolute best. If you’re honest, respectful, and you're persistent—if you risk failure—you’re really able to motivate each other to do amazing things. Chris Hull is a busy guy.

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Failure Motivation Writing Culture 161

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

In some cases we can force ourselves to pay attention if there’s an external motivator, like grades, but we’re not learning as much in those conditions as we would if there were other kinds of evidence-based activities and interactive strategies used. Much of what surprised me most makes up a lot of the final chapter, which is on failure.

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Art Science Teaching Failure 167

Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 13, 2022

There’s a lot to be learned from failure. Here’s more detail on how students learn fro m failure. This not only makes submitting work painless (and less likely to get lost) when submitted to a public forum, students benefit from each other’s knowledge. Learn from others and share your knowledge.

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Skills Failure Learning Knowledge 167

Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 11, 2025

Consider these definitions that I share in my book, AI with Intention: Principles and Action Steps for Teachers and School Leaders : Cheating is using a tool or resource to misrepresent ones knowledge and skills to receive undue credit for a task. The accuser needs to support a claim about cheating with evidence that cheating occurred.

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Academic Integrity Learning Feedback Assignments 88

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

We have decomposed knowledge points to the super nano level,” says Li. “We While the student tackles subjects online, the AI generates ongoing analysis of the student’s state of knowledge. He was already using physics knowledge in real life! More information about Squirrel AI. It could reshape how the world learns.

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Teachers Intelligence Coaching Failure 167

Edsurge

AUGUST 10, 2021

And while students from low-income backgrounds and students of color were more likely to experience remediation as their primary instructional modality—even when these students had already demonstrated mastery of grade-level standards—a switch to learning acceleration was particularly effective for these same groups.

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Math Learning Schools Failure 217

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

A 2022 report published by that task force revealed that about 1,000 aspiring educators were unable to begin a preparation program each year due to their failure to pass the Praxis Core. States need to have guardrails in place to make sure candidates have the knowledge and skills to be effective with students,” says Peske.

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Exams Teachers Testing Math 196

eSchool News

AUGUST 27, 2024

. — Edson Barton, CEO, YouScience The Science of Reading continues to gain momentum in changing how educators approach reading instruction, particularly in foundational skills for Grades K-3. We see older readers struggle with foundational literacy skills, which are often only taught up until the third grade.

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Schools Coaching STEM Evaluation 338

eSchool News

OCTOBER 20, 2015

With its filtering system in place, Tustin USD monitors the filters at both the grade and classroom level, particularly for high school. In other words, don’t expect educators to just pick up the devices and start teaching, he warns, and don’t assume that your technical staff is up to speed and knowledgeable on device usage and support.

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Failure Internet Teaching Methods Accessibility 227

Edsurge

JULY 17, 2017

Learning was sorted into disconnected subjects and compartmentalized by grades and age groups, with students sent along the proverbial conveyor belt of learning. On the other hand, industry is not able to slow down and wait for school schedules and grading periods to shoehorn real-world rapid prototyping. So how to span the gap?

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Multidisciplinary Schools Failure Evaluation 142

Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 24, 2020

The latter measures student achievement of a particular set of lesson knowledge while the former measures student achievement of the broader class goals. They are developed by you, likely in conjunction with grade-level teammates and your school administration. More on standards-based grading. What is Standards-based Grading?

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Curriculum Textbooks Evaluation Achievement 154

eSchool News

JANUARY 12, 2016

Discovery Education and 3M have opened the annual Discovery Education 3M Young Scientist Challenge, a national science competition for students in grades 5-8. The Challenge taught me the importance of the three C’s of science – creativity, collaboration and communication – as well as embracing failure as an opportunity for learning.

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STEM Failure Science Communication 141

Edsurge

MAY 18, 2020

My husband, Dave, and I have now been thrust into the role of teachers for our two kids—one in kindergarten and the other in second grade—for the past couple of months. There are a couple of apps that gear the lessons to the kids’ knowledge and skills and prescribe interactive content based on their performance.

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Teaching Assignments Ethics Grades 199

Edsurge

MARCH 3, 2020

Instead, educators described making as an approach to teaching and learning that puts students at the center; that encourages what educators variously termed “supported failure,” “controlled struggle,” and “failing forward”; and that teaches resilience, perseverance, empathy and problem-solving. How does this look in practice?

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Coaching Participation Failure Beliefs 182

Edsurge

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Researchers at Columbia University went further to study the impact of weekly automated alerts to parents about their student’s missed assignments, grades and class absences. The alerts reduced course failures by 27 percent, increased class attendance by 12 percent and increased student retention.

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Failure Communication Study Change Management 174

Edsurge

OCTOBER 16, 2023

So I taught Greek, Arabic, PE, first grade, 12th grade, IB, middle school — anything! With that knowledge, when I moved to Jakarta International School in Indonesia, and with the help of several dear colleagues, we began creating student-centered programs. Did we have failures? I asked them to create websites. Absolutely.

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Learning Gamification History Learning Outcomes 194

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2025

Active Learning: From Fear to Engagement Fear of failure can stifle creativity and learning. These activities encourage participation without the anxiety of high-stakes grading (Freeman et al., What to avoid: Grading active learning activities as if they were summative assessments is inappropriate. 2014; Agarwal, 2019).

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Plagiarism Syllabus Ethics Feedback 118

Edsurge

JANUARY 17, 2022

The original version of this article appeared in Grading for Growth. I gave only feedback on student work, with no grades on any assignment. In that whole last paragraph, notice that I didn’t say anything about grades. And again—none of this had anything to do with grades. The grades got out of the way and let us learn.

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Feedback Fairness Grades Assignments 186

Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 24, 2015

Transfer of knowledge is critical. You grade them on all four steps, not just the last one. Failure is a learning tool. Students are expected to attempt a solution using tools at their disposal (such as prior knowledge, classmates, and classroom resources) before asking for help. Or a spreadsheet instead of a slideshow?

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Critical Thinking Textbooks Gamification Knowledge 163

Edsurge

APRIL 5, 2018

At my suburban school in South Carolina, the term is used liberally to describe students who may fail the End of Course Tests, students who might not get promoted to the next grade level and those at risk of dropping out of school. The majority of my students work hard but test poorly, though a small percentage of them are unmotivated.

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Learning Assignments Students Motivation 161

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 3, 2023

It stands for: Transparency Real World Applications Universal Design for Learning Social Knowledge Construction Trial and Error Transparency refers to making the purpose and requirements for the assignment as clear as possible. Yet, many college assignments lack the opportunity for students to construct knowledge with others.

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Failure Academic Integrity Assignments Universal Design 98

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 3, 2023

It stands for: Transparency Real World Applications Universal Design for Learning Social Knowledge Construction Trial and Error Transparency refers to making the purpose and requirements for the assignment as clear as possible. Yet, many college assignments lack the opportunity for students to construct knowledge with others.

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Failure Academic Integrity Assignments Universal Design 98

Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

The lower the grade level, the less panels you should expect. classes This is a fun team activity to assess student knowledge on a topic. If I had time, I’d play it every grading period. You may offer an example or rubric if those are available. Panels may include images, text, bubbles, and captions. Students love this game.

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Activities Learning Art Failure 172

Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 6, 2015

When third grade students use the internet to research a topic, do they know how to do that safely and legally? But it turns out too often, no one is tasked with providing that knowledge. Once a problem is solved, ask students to retain that knowledge, transfer it to other classes, and teach their friends. Try, fail, try again.

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Teachers Plagiarism History Math 139

Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 15, 2021

The lower the grade level, the less panels you should expect. This is a fun team activity to assess student knowledge on a topic. If I had time, I’d play it every grading period. The Crossing – student attempts to cross a gorge and experiences failure as well as success. All detail must support the theme. Team Challenge.

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Activities Learning Failure Essay 174

Edsurge

APRIL 2, 2019

In some cases the very technologies that were intended to improve writing, like automatic-essay grading software, have backfired by encouraging a kind of paint-by-numbers approach to writing. Warner: Students may have gotten good grades on the kinds of writing they've been asked to do, either in school or on a standardized assessment.

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Writing Essay Feedback Students 167