Edsurge

MAY 10, 2018

Lessons from Forward Failures “Most of today’s schools were designed for a different time and purpose. However, innovating schools and actually putting those calls to practice can get messy, and it appeared that one theme throughout the event was about facing and learning from those failures. Many transferred for sure, but many didn’t.”

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Growing up, an unsteady family life meant that I frequently moved from school to school, and such an upbringing left me with no desire to focus on schoolwork, feeling like a failure because I lacked the foundation a consistent education would have given me. Despite having only seven weeks to study for the exam, I passed with flying colors.

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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. Instead of investing the time and effort required to study and prepare, they may turn to AI or other shortcuts to complete the task quickly.

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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. It’s something that we want to study further.”

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eSchool News

APRIL 3, 2019

For students with anxiety, the fear of the unknown, of potential judgement, and/or of failure is so intense that the solution is often to pull the pendulum as far back in the opposite direction as possible. The student had a tutor and put in countless hours of studying. Do we label this student as “stupid” or smart?

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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. A disclaimer for all educators: During my testing, ChatGPT, Claude, Le Chat, and other AI tools would routinely generate rudimentary questions in response to my prompts.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2018

It had been more than a year and a half since she had studied Mesopotamia, yet she was able to pull it out of memory without a second thought. Every time I hear this, I am faced with the gut-wrenching realization that the student has internalized failure by age eleven. Many studies had been conducted in university labs.

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Edsurge

MAY 1, 2018

According to the authors of a study on the privacy protections in children’s apps, perhaps not much. And in 2017, the New York Attorney General settled with the same organization , due to its “failure to adequately prevent illegal tracking technology from surfacing on some of the nation’s most popular children’s websites.”

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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.,

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Edsurge

MARCH 11, 2019

After more than a decade of researching, writing and presenting, one of the many things he's learned is that course failures are major events for students. Research has shown that traditional variables like attendance and in-class behavior play a role in course failures. Learn about some of the study's key findings. The answer?

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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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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Proponents say the model improves student outcomes by encouraging more interaction among students and professors, and many studies have been conducted to measure the efficacy of the approach. The study considered 173 studies of flipped learning, as well as 46 previous meta-analyses of the approach.

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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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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Even as Anderson excelled in his coursework at Jackson State University, he struggled to pass one of the licensure tests required in Mississippi to gain full admittance into the teacher preparation program at his school. In 2015, 25 states required teacher candidates to pass a basic skills test for admission into a preparation program.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

But as Eyler warns readers at the outset, he’s not a scientist himself, but a humanist with a PhD in medieval studies. 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.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 7, 2019

As a guy who lives on the cutting edge of technology, I found it very frustrating to see how far behind the school was, not just in terms of their use of one-off tech and old-school tools, like clickers and white boards, but their failure to connect the dots between better outcomes and using things like big data and mobile technologies.”

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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. Many of the studies that showed the most significant results focused specifically on critical thinking skills.

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Edsurge

APRIL 28, 2023

As a developmental psychologist and researcher who studies educator well-being at Committee for Children , a global nonprofit focused on social-emotional learning and development, I’m well-acquainted with the myriad of challenges educators face. Expecting perfection of ourselves can result in feelings of failure or inadequacy.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Similar concerns have prompted community colleges to reconsider their own versions of entrance assessments: the placement tests they’ve traditionally used to determine whether students are “ready” for college-level learning or should instead start their pursuit of higher education in remedial math or English classes.

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Edsurge

MARCH 20, 2023

If reading skills aren’t developed by around fourth grade, when education begins to focus on more complex and higher-order thinking skills, studies have shown that students rarely catch up with their peers to become fluent readers. They also show improved assessment and high-stakes test scores.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 10, 2021

And the action is everywhere: an indoor plastic pool awaits student design teams testing their ship prototypes, while in the courtyard, groups of students engage in a game that both explores and challenges their perception of themselves as mathematicians.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 13, 2016

The MakerBot Innovation Center will help us teach these skills as it offers a very different, more hands-on learning environment that gives students more freedom to experiment, learn from failure and progress their thinking.”. The two main courses currently offered are engineering and industrial design.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 26, 2017

As an anthropologist and learning scientist who has studied many edtech movements over the years, I recognize a familiar pattern of technology-fueled optimism being squashed by entrenched social and cultural structures. He found that only the school serving elite students embraced the more creative and personally empowering use of technology.

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Edsurge

APRIL 20, 2020

When kids are in a school setting and they read a book and they take a test about the theme of that book and they fail, they feel so devastated inside. They don't see it as a failure. I think that's why STEM is so awesome to have in the classroom because it encourages failure and how to deal with it and how to grow from it.

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Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2025

Only one in eight programs give elementary school teachers enough time to learn the math content they teach, according to a recent study by the National Council on Teacher Quality, which reviewed more than 1,100 teacher prep programs around the country. Programs that cant add that time should require math content tests, the report says.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Harvard is very interested in creating an incubator, where educators can come in and try out their ideas and they would help do the data and study those ideas. So what was initially seen as a failure was actually longterm, pretty successful. He was never going to be advanced or even proficient on an academics test.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 24, 2022

During my initial moments of reflection, I vividly recalled receiving my COMPASS and ACCUPLACER scores at my local community college years ago, and hearing for the first time that I tested at developmental levels for math. Failure to understand this can lead to the loss of your opportunity to serve in the capacity of president.

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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.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 18, 2015

Murphy & Beland’s recent study is making the rounds online, particularly among those who are eager to find reasons to ban learning technologies in classrooms. Here are my thoughts on this… The outcome measure is standardized test score improvement. if they did, how sad is that?). That sounds pretty good to me.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

We wanted to create a different course—a course that requires students to address problems creatively, develop empathy, persevere through failure and learn from it. During the simulation, each team receives mentorship from a current Rider student who studies Information Systems and has participated in the simulation in their own class.

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Edsurge

JUNE 1, 2020

Initially, to conduct his studies, he typed out text messages by hand: “Your child has missed class two times this week.” 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.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 6, 2020

has been a leader in implementing stringent supervision and high-stakes evaluation for teachers, these practices are part of a national education reform movement that seeks to standardize teaching in an (ultimately ineffective) quest to boost student test scores. My experience is not unique: While D.C.

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2020

Among the districts in our study of published policies, 60 percent offered some type of summer school. If you’re getting an incomplete, even if it’s not a failure, you still don’t have the credit that you would need to graduate,” says Gill.

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Cult of Pedagogy

AUGUST 18, 2024

Here’s a scenario you might be familiar with: A person — maybe you, maybe someone you know — studies for hours to prepare for a test. And then when test day comes they completely blow it. “I studied so hard. Days, even. “I don’t understand,” they say. I thought I knew that stuff.”

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Edsurge

MARCH 8, 2018

Milliron stressed that the early-warning systems have worked at some colleges his company studied. 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.

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EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

We worked through the entire engineering process, defining the challenge, specifying the requirements, brainstorming solutions, building prototypes, testing and redesigning. They can then make modifications if needed, redesign the code, then test again. I’m proud of our team.”. Schools Adjust Curriculums to Include Drones. “We

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

Two weeks into the school year, I have students who are still struggling with the diagnostic test, which is designed to see where the students are in reading comprehension and writing for 11th grade literature. This particular diagnostic is meant to mimic the Georgia state milestone test they will be taking at the end of the semester.

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