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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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A 2014 research study with a catchy title is often pointed to by those who worry that technology is having unexpected downsides in the classroom. 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.

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Are Your Assessments Fair and Balanced?

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during a unit of study) Occurs after the instruction is complete (e.g., during a unit of study) Occurs after the instruction is complete (e.g., Peer review in the classroom: Student perceptions, peer feedback quality and the role of assessment. The post Are Your Assessments Fair and Balanced? Gaynor, J.

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Are Your Assessments Fair and Balanced?

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during a unit of study) Occurs after the instruction is complete (e.g., during a unit of study) Occurs after the instruction is complete (e.g., Peer review in the classroom: Student perceptions, peer feedback quality and the role of assessment. The post Are Your Assessments Fair and Balanced? Gaynor, J.

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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. Department of Education.

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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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Should High School Students Do Academic Research?

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Other students will try to submit their work for publication without the proper elements of an academic paper, such as a background literature review or a methods section. No peer reviewed journal would publish this work, she adds. One student hoped to submit a paper that didn’t even include a research question, Hale says.

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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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