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Why the Creative Process is Key to Every Student’s Success

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. “We are thrilled to honor this year’s recipients – the elite in their field – who offer solutions to crucial challenges in education today, ranging from accessibility and fairness to customized and adaptive learning experiences. Congratulations to all of this year’s winners.”

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Are Your Assessments Fair and Balanced?

Faculty Focus

Peer review in the classroom: Student perceptions, peer feedback quality and the role of assessment. The post Are Your Assessments Fair and Balanced? Carless, D., & Winstone, N. Designing effective feedback processes in higher education : A learning-focused approach. London, UK: Routledge. Gaynor, J.

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Are Your Assessments Fair and Balanced?

Faculty Focus

Peer review in the classroom: Student perceptions, peer feedback quality and the role of assessment. The post Are Your Assessments Fair and Balanced? Carless, D., & Winstone, N. Designing effective feedback processes in higher education : A learning-focused approach. London, UK: Routledge. Gaynor, J.

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A Popular Study Found That Taking Notes By Hand Is Better Than By Laptop. But Is It?

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The study has been cited in other peer-reviewed journals more than 1,200 times, according to Google Scholar, and it has been pointed to in op-eds and other popular articles as well. And it fit with the hunches of many “laptop skeptics,” says Michelle D.

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Science achievement gaps begin as early as kindergarten

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Science achievement gaps present between racial, ethnic and socio-economic groups in the eighth grade already exist when those children are in kindergarten, according to new research published in Educational Researcher, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Educational Research Association.

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Pretending at support for technology integration

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Flawed, ideological, non-peer-reviewed studies should not rebut decades of anti-retention research. You and your educators deserve more systemic and strategic supports and investment than this. ? Let’s be clear: this is a big red flag that this school is just pretending at technology integration and coaching.

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As Colleges Move Away From the SAT, Will Admissions Algorithms Step In?

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Or if success looks like a student likely to graduate in four years, high school grades may matter more, says Bob Schaeffer, interim executive director of the National Center for Fair & Open Testing, an organization that advocates against reliance on standardized tests. “We Yet Zwick, author of the book “Who Gets In?

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