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Leveraging digital testing to build student confidence

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“I feel like if you do poorly on one test, you kinda get in your mind that maybe this isn’t the subject for you, or you go into the next test feeling less confident. After more than a year in virtual classrooms, students and their teachers have become quite familiar with digital testing and the platforms that make them possible.

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Learning Designers Call for More User Testing of Edtech Products and Teaching Materials

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These days most major media and consumer tech products undergo extensive testing, he pointed out, but he says that many grown-ups are fine with a much lower standard for anything designed for kids. That’s perhaps an extreme example, Hedman admits, but he says that lack of testing really shows when students are given the materials.

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How Instructors Are Adapting to a Rise in Student Disengagement

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Administrators at Texas State asked instructors to go back to teaching as they did before COVID-19, Meeks said. “I Probably some people look the questions up online because it's an online test a lot of the time. For Meeks, the longtime instructor, this means students are missing out on the whole point of college. “I

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Look to the Science: Understanding how Mind, Brain and Education Science can Inform Educational Practices

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In fact, one such study demonstrated that students who were taught in classroom environments which employed strategies aligned to research such as productive struggle, discourse, movement and problem solving scored significantly higher on post-tests recalling and applying previous learning than the control group.

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Dual Enrollment Numbers Are Rising. Colleges Want Them to Keep Growing.

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The pure confidence-building of doing well and succeeding in a college course, having a college instructor tell you that you can do this, that youre a college student that boost of confidence is one of the first things people will say is the power of these courses, Fink says. Barriers to access vary from state to state, Fink says.

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SkillsUSA competitions give students hands-on experience with career skills

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A nonprofit organization for career and technical education (CTE), SkillsUSA serves more than 413,000 middle school, high school, and college students and instructors nationwide. When students take part in SkillsUSA competitions, they compete with students in the state based on technical standards created by industry leaders.

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What the F? Grading strategies for early career teachers

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Are students allowed to retake tests on which they did not do well? To build a strong, meaningful grading policy, instructors must choose the approach that best fits the course design and student learning outcomes. Instructors who choose a normative approach will grade based upon relative performance.

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