Faculty Focus

JANUARY 19, 2023

Every teacher knows it’s essential, and every teacher tries to motivate students. But it’s just as true that all teachers have experienced those days when they don’t feel particularly motivated, when the content seems old and tired, and when students (sometimes the whole class) are clearly anything but motivated by what’s happening in class.

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Motivation Beliefs Students Assignments 116

eSchool News

APRIL 3, 2025

The material feels irrelevant or unvaluable to students One of the primary reasons students cheat is that they dont perceive the material being tested as valuable or relevant to their lives. When students fail to see the connection between what theyre learning and the real world, they lose motivation to engage meaningfully with the content.

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Academic Integrity Failure Culture Students 213

eSchool News

MAY 10, 2016

But until recently, noncognitive skills like perseverance and self-motivation sat at the periphery of an education debate centered on the measurement of skills like reading and math. That is beginning to change. Books on noncognitive skills pepper best-seller lists.

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Failure Beliefs Math Intelligence 276

eSchool News

JANUARY 30, 2023

Not to mention their further education when the time comes to write dissertations and other research papers: Afraid of poor grades and stipend loss, ESL students get tempted to plagiarize from others or use writing services from third parties to prevent failures and get the desired diploma.

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Writing Skills Essay Language 286

Edsurge

DECEMBER 3, 2019

And for those who have closely followed the international test, which is delivered to 15-year-olds in developed countries every three years, the top-line results won’t offer many surprises. Compared to the previous test in 2015, the scores stayed flat. The latest PISA scores are out.

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Testing Exams Intelligence Failure 141

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 19, 2023

Every teacher knows it’s essential, and every teacher tries to motivate students. But it’s just as true that all teachers have experienced those days when they don’t feel particularly motivated, when the content seems old and tired, and when students (sometimes the whole class) are clearly anything but motivated by what’s happening in class.

Motivation 98

Motivation Beliefs Students Assignments 98

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. When students weren’t passing these tests, their self-confidence was diminished and it affected their willingness and effort during difficult tasks.

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Essay Failure Writing Students 204

eSchool News

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Never before have educators been challenged and tested as they were, beginning in March 2020 and up until today, and never before has their resilience been more apparent. Time and resources are often a barrier to providing educators with critical learning opportunities that help them reduce students’ reading failure rate.

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eLearning Elementary School Elementary School Learning 259

eSchool News

DECEMBER 31, 2018

This is a good thing, because it will take motivation from all sides to achieve simpler data connections between systems. The continuing failure to meet the needs of a growing number of students will demand different approaches and practices taught in Colleges of Education.

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Failure Learning Outcomes Communication Activities 280

Edsurge

APRIL 28, 2023

Set Goals With Positive Motivation According to Dr. Kristin Neff, a widely recognized research psychologist, self-compassion can improve well-being and it helps us work toward our goals with positive motivation (the desire for our own happiness) rather than negative motivation (fear of failure and inadequacy).

Education 206

Education Motivation Failure Attention 206

eSchool News

JULY 2, 2024

Key points: When it comes to K-12 innovation, change isn’t a consideration–it’s an imperative Students know best when it comes to transforming education Schools must embrace these 4 innovative focus areas to avoid failure For more news on K-12 transformation, visit eSN’s Educational Leadership hub Across the U.S., The takeaway?

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Education Internet Interdisciplinary Testing 306

Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2018

Every time I hear this, I am faced with the gut-wrenching realization that the student has internalized failure by age eleven. This raises two questions for me: How can we turn eleven-year-olds who have internalized failure into students like Abby who retain information for years? And by then it’s too late.

Teaching 168

Teaching Failure Quizzes Learning 168

Edsurge

JULY 31, 2019

The journey begins with empathy work—an opportunity for understanding the needs and motivations of a group of people (i.e., From there, designers brainstorm solutions, design a prototype and test their product. If you are doing and experimenting quickly, failure is merely a part of the experience. the end users).

Failure 168

Failure Teaching Disabilities Curriculum 168

Edsurge

JULY 7, 2021

And the most successful were those that shared their work—their successes and their failures—as well as those who were empathetic and learned from others. Sensing the Future – being open to new ideas, solutions, and processes, and testing them quickly. This requires flexibility in thinking and a willingness to admit mistakes.

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Coaching Schools Failure Testing 218

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

He chalks that up to the fact that many professors using the model don’t test whether students are actually learning the material presented in lecture videos, and so some students who skip the videos or watch them on double-speed arrive in class unprepared for the activities.

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Lecturing Learning Instructors Failure 211

eSchool News

JUNE 18, 2024

These brief screeners use a sample of disconnected test items that are just as likely to miss a student’s problem areas as to find them. These brief screeners use a sample of disconnected test items that are just as likely to miss a student’s problem areas as to find them. Worse, some screeners do not even test students’ skills.

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Disabilities Learning Disabilities Evaluation Languages 285

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

They have a hypothesis of what they think will help students learn, and they’re going to test it out and then learn from it and revise. Much of what surprised me most makes up a lot of the final chapter, which is on failure. And the best teachers also often approach teaching and teaching issues scientifically.

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Art Science Teaching Failure 167

Edsurge

MARCH 31, 2023

In the 1960s, the federal government started pushing more achievement tests and public education began to focus more on raising standardized test scores in math and science, which led to decreasing time spent in the very courses that instill, teach and develop creativity and personal identity.

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Art Education Multidisciplinary Students 217

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.

Learning 158

Learning Assignments Students Motivation 158

Edsurge

MARCH 20, 2023

The Learning Ally Audiobook Solution As children age and learning shifts from learning to read to reading to learn, support can mean the difference between learning from reading or suffering sustained academic failure. They also show improved assessment and high-stakes test scores.

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Reading Failure Motivation Study 160

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

He also ponders whether games can both teach and measure 21st-century skills, considers the barriers to a broader use of GBL in schools and discusses the not-so-mysterious motivational power of Pokemon. A third reason is the opportunity to experiment with different identities in a safe environment where failure doesn’t matter.

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Game-Based Learning Teaching Learning Testing 168

Edsurge

DECEMBER 20, 2017

While that may be heresy, I believe education is a fundamentally human endeavor that involves motivating and inspiring students to develop a passion for learning. Nobody here would disagree that supporting teachers/motivating students is the first priority #nyedtechweek. In that sense, edtech is not the answer.” It’s a false dichotomy.

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Educational Technologies Technology Failure Education 120

Edsurge

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Motivated to change this conversation and influence policy at the state and local levels, I ran for school board in 2021. The campaign became draining for my family and tested the values that I chose to uphold and run on. A crushing defeat in many ways that made me feel like a failure.

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Teachers Coaching Middle School Middle School 187

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Yet even though the school is zoned for a wealthy area of Manhattan, where achievement is highly prized, standardized test scores were nothing special. minimizing failure and providing immediate feedback for students. Well-designed games feature certain design elements that motivate us to either try harder or try a different approach.

Skills 168

Skills Critical Thinking Game-Based Learning Failure 168

Edsurge

APRIL 4, 2018

A moment of inspiration came while observing my students as they played different types of games—they were fueled by various motivations. I thought, if I could identify what motivated them during play, I could tap into that during learning. My intent with this shift in practice was to get to know my students in a deeper way.

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Motivation Students Special Education Math 142

Edsurge

MARCH 4, 2025

While math scores have stayed relatively the same since 2022, the last time the test was administered, theyve yet to hit what they were in 2019. She says that many students, especially if theyre the first in their family to attend college, dont know what a writing center is and even if they do, they believe getting help is a sign of failure.

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Students Math Writing Skills 168

Faculty Focus

APRIL 25, 2023

As educators in the field of higher education today, we are led towards several questions, the most important of which is: Is there a failure to understand the crucial and circular cause-effect relationship between emotions, cognition, and academic success? You are so intelligent,” led to decreased motivation to undertake challenging tasks.

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Teaching Failure Instructors Motivation 116

Edsurge

DECEMBER 31, 2019

Here’s a look at some of edtech’s notable successes and failures that might shed light on the decade to come. Accelerated Reader , a product that started more than 30 years ago, still motivates kids to read. Clearly, a lot has changed over the last decade. EdSurge: What technology has actually delivered on its promise?

Education 145

Education Textbooks Blended Learning Failure 145

Edsurge

MARCH 8, 2018

The promise is that such small nudges can motivate recipients to get back on track and keep them from dropping out. To prevent that kind of outcome, he encouraged colleges to watch the data closely as they implement such systems, and to test the wording of their nudges to find out how students would respond to the alerts.

Failure 140

Failure Ethics Motivation Attention 140

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 3, 2023

While grades provide extrinsic motivation for some students, not all students are driven by the sole purpose of getting a good grade. If you make this clear to them, you might find that they will find more value in the assignment and be less motivated to cheat with AI. This helps with executive functioning and improves motivation.

Failure 98

Failure Academic Integrity Assignments Universal Design 98

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 3, 2023

While grades provide extrinsic motivation for some students, not all students are driven by the sole purpose of getting a good grade. If you make this clear to them, you might find that they will find more value in the assignment and be less motivated to cheat with AI. This helps with executive functioning and improves motivation.

Failure 98

Failure Academic Integrity Assignments Universal Design 98

Edsurge

JULY 14, 2016

They are driven, motivated and informed. For your students who don’t typically identify as “engineers”—many female and minority students as well as some boys—what motivates them to sign up for, and become invested in, an engineering class or activity? It is fun to work with these kids.

Science 111

Science STEM Failure Middle School 111

Edsurge

JUNE 1, 2020

What he found was that the right messages, delivered at the right time, can boost attendance and reduce course failure, as results published in The Journal of Human Resources in 2019 showed. And it will let him test and refine other ideas for interventions to support students. Course failures dipped by 28 percent.

Failure 113

Failure Students Assignments Beliefs 113

Dangerously Irrelevant

JUNE 20, 2020

Their failures are ours. The biggest indictment of our schools is not their failure to raise test scores. The biggest indictment of our schools is not their failure to raise test scores. The fault lies with us, not with them. Related Posts. The fiction of most school mission statements.

Failure 86

Failure Students Testing Culture 86

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 9, 2024

” In many cases, what they’re feeling may not be necessarily bad, and providing this resource helps to improve their focus and motivation. High-stakes exams may in fact do a better job of measuring how well students cope with test taking, rather than assessing actual learning. Even so, stress will often get the best of us.

Course Design 128

Course Design Feedback Instructors Students 128

Edsurge

JULY 13, 2016

Educators teach, sometimes administer a test, and move students on to the next unit or body of material regardless of their results, effort and understanding of the topic. They stay at a task, learn from the failures, and work until they demonstrate mastery and then move on. If they fail, that’s fine.

Teaching 120

Teaching Failure Feedback Skills 120

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

The big idea is that VCs simply assumed that any failure to execute the plan was a failure of the founders or the key people in the company. It's not that we like to fail fast, it's that in Lean, we're testing a series of guesses, and implicitly most of them are going to be wrong. I'm thinking about education in particular.

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Education Failure Syllabus Motivation 125