Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Many college and high school bands have resumed practicing during the pandemic. Typically, experiments like this would go through careful peer review before being published. But band and music educators at schools and colleges need this information now if they want to teach safely.

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Peer Review Art Schools Testing 200

eSchool News

JUNE 28, 2024

Examples include small-group brainstorming and “Mini Socratics” (small-group Socratic Seminars), gamification methods giving students points for each component they’ve completed in an assignment, small-group peer reviews where students reflect on each other’s ideas instead of correcting errors, and more.

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Writing Essay Plagiarism Assignments 324

eSchool News

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Boston – VHS Learning has once again received accreditation from the Middle States Association Commissions on Elementary and Secondary Schools (MSA-CESS), a worldwide leader in accreditation and school improvement. As part of the reaccreditation process, VHS Learning conducted a self-study before the peer review team’s evaluation.

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Peer Review Learning Evaluation Achievement 130

Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Here are some you can look into–and all online: Easy CBM Educreations –video a whiteboard explanation of how students are completing a task (app) Edulastic –formative assessments; work on any devices (app) Flip — record a video question from your desktop; add attachments; students respond from the app with their answer Flubaroo (app) (..)

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Quizzes Peer Review Failure Essay 158

Edsurge

MAY 5, 2023

Whether high school graduates transition to college or a career, there is a good chance that they will tap into their creative skills. And research shows that peer reviews build community among students and help them develop critical thinking and communication skills.

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Peer Review Interdisciplinary Critical Thinking Communication 176

eSchool News

MARCH 6, 2016

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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Achievement Science Elementary School Elementary School 190

Edsurge

OCTOBER 20, 2017

Marc Pedersen Paulding County High School Students At Paulding County High School in Dallas, Georgia, science classes are messy and alive. Marc Pedersen leads the biotechnology career pathway classes at Paulding County High School, a magnet school in Georgia about one hour away from Atlanta.

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STEM Laboratory Peer Review Schools 141

Edsurge

MARCH 16, 2023

That study could be used to help administrators overhaul their teachers’ schedules, the task force writes, and free them up from non-teaching tasks that eat away at time that could be spent collaborating with peers, reviewing their students’ learning data and generally making their lessons better. “I I grade papers at night.

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Teachers Peer Review Study Grades 218

Edsurge

MAY 3, 2021

When Carlo Diy throws out a question to his high school entrepreneurship and marketing students, he steels himself for an uncomfortable few moments ahead. It's just crickets,” says Diy, a second-year teacher at Durham Public Schools in North Carolina. To spark engagement, Diy has had to get creative.

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Teachers Attention Peer Review Intelligence 192

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Gale In Context student databases : 7 multidisciplinary, multi-source type databases covering elementary, middle, high school, environmental studies, biographical info, science and a wide range of viewpoints on todays social issues. Gale Business: Entrepreneurship : covers all aspects of starting, financing and operating a business.

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Accessibility Multidisciplinary Peer Review History 141

Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 9, 2023

For educators in pursuit of enhancing their teaching methods, numerous high-quality, open-source, peer-reviewed resources are available online. The NSTA also has nearly a thousand peer-reviewed case studies on various science topics. Where to Find Case Studies?

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Study Teachers Peer Review Instructors 162

Edsurge

DECEMBER 8, 2020

School leadership matters in supporting educator well-being. In one of our studies (currently under peer-review), district support for educator well-being was associated with lower levels of educator burnout and self-judgment during distance learning. All school personnel want support navigating their emotions.

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Education Intelligence Counselling Peer Review 218

Edsurge

JULY 10, 2020

Back before the internet made it possible—and popular—for people to document their lives in real time, teenagers found themselves preserved between the pages of their high school yearbooks—forever young. We encourage schools to define success as four-year, or slightly longer, graduation rates,” Schaeffer explains.

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Fairness Testing Counselling Disabilities 217

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Highlights include how to create a positive school culture around testing, the best ways to partner with parents and suggestions for utilizing available funding. This blog post highlights three easy tips that can help you boost your school culture during test time, so all the hard work and energy pay off.

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Testing Exams Peer Review Study 160

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

In 2019, the US Department of Education reported that one in every three American high school students participates in dual enrollment courses (Shivji & Wilson, 2019), a number expected to rise in the coming years. Dual credit programs also help students transition from high school to college more efficiently.

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Instructors Peer Review High School High School 122

Edsurge

JUNE 12, 2020

While delivering a series of remote writing lessons focused on the editing process, particularly peer review, she noticed a substantial change in the independence of her students. When he transitioned his high school classroom in Phoenix to distance learning, Neal was already using ClassDojo as a way to track positive behaviors.

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Accessibility Distance Learning Learning Students 218

Edsurge

OCTOBER 30, 2017

BHP, dubbed a “social studies course that runs on jet fuel”, covers nearly 14 billion years of history for middle and high school students. Freddy has been studying how kids learn to read for four decades and has written more than 100 peer reviewed articles on the subject. Along the way, there is a heavy focus on writing.

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History Writing Social Studies Peer Review 140

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

In 2019, the US Department of Education reported that one in every three American high school students participates in dual enrollment courses (Shivji & Wilson, 2019), a number expected to rise in the coming years. Dual credit programs also help students transition from high school to college more efficiently.

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Instructors Peer Review High School High School 111

Dangerously Irrelevant

DECEMBER 14, 2018

The context is a statewide conversation about higher education standards for Kentucky high school graduates. Basic skills aren’t enough these days for many/most American high school graduates to succeed in postsecondary and/or ‘get a job and take care of themselves.’ “Those kids are held accountable right now.”

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Skills Peer Review Secondary Education English 107

Edsurge

MAY 28, 2020

But there’s also a solid foundation of evidence available that schools of education can use to inform their teacher preparation programs. Today, much of that research is produced by a small community of academics based in education schools, says Archambault. Just a few years old, it’s still a “fledgling journal,” Archambault says.

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Teachers Education Blended Learning STEM 216

Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 25, 2022

That’s quite an advantage since copied materials often come from peer-reviewed articles. The possibility to find the copied text and its exact source is worth a lot for many HigherEd teachers because their students use various and complex sources, unlike the high-school learners. .

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Plagiarism Essay Instructors Peer Review 158

Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 13, 2016

Some of you know that I’m headed back to higher education (after a 4-year hiatus to keep a promise to my daughter that she could finish high school here in Ames, Iowa). I will be an Associate Professor of Educational Leadership at the University of Colorado-Denver starting in August.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Cotton says that clear, specific feedback takes time, “especially when you’re a high school teacher and you have three classes of close to 30 students each and you’re talking about 90 papers, at least, that you’re providing feedback for.” Students must make the time to practice and to peer-review each others' work.

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Writing Feedback Exams Middle School 121

Dangerously Irrelevant

MARCH 24, 2016

John Hattie, Professor of Education at the University of Auckland, spent 15 years synthesizing the vast body of peer-reviewed, meta-analytical research pertaining to student achievement. Thinking about charter schools. Sometimes we see short-term score bumps but they always wash out by the upper grades.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

They must be peer-reviewable. And then publishing in peer-review journals, so the rest of the people can see the math. I didn't have the privilege of going to some high school that gave me lots of practice thinking about science and math the way that this institution is expecting me to.

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Peer Review Ethics Science Intelligence 102

Edsurge

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Assess the assessment Kevin Allardice is an English teacher at Mercy High School in Burlingame, CA and the author of the novels Any Resemblance to Actual Persons and Family, Genus, Species. He avoids assessing creative writing altogether by assigning his students to write critical essays about their own short stories.

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Writing Essay Feedback Instructors 110

Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 17, 2017

Last year, Sammy Spencer, a High School English teacher in Southern California, ran a pilot program using Revision Assistant in her school. Here’s her story: Last Fall, my El Camino Real High School colleagues and I set out to change the way we teach writing.

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Testing Essay English Writing 71

Faculty Focus

JUNE 11, 2023

As an introduction to life after high school, students should be given the opportunity to see why their studies truly matter. Students consistently asked hard, and oftentimes, unanswerable questions: Are teachers going to risk their jobs to teach a well-rounded curriculum?

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Critical Thinking Interdisciplinary History Syllabus 78

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

States will now be responsible for accountability, and each state will have to submit their own accountability plan to be peer reviewed. States can also set additional benchmarks; for example, these may allow for certain high school benchmarks which would not apply to elementary or middle schools.

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Peer Review Schools Middle School Middle School 193

Dangerously Irrelevant

DECEMBER 16, 2015

My local high school recently was named the top high school in Iowa by Niche.com , a school and college ranking site. Today the Iowa Department of Education issued its first-ever school report cards. Today the Iowa Department of Education issued its first-ever school report cards.

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Peer Review Schools High School High School 37