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New diagnostic tool measures reading skills, targets success

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This new assessment is the result of Lexia’s ongoing partnership with researchers from the Florida Center for Reading Research (FCRR), a multidisciplinary research center at Florida State University. This score, when compared to a student’s prior Ability Scores, indicates relative growth in the skill.

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Why Every Student Deserves a Robust Arts Education

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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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Why Old Arguments for Earning a Diploma Don't Resonate With My Students — and Which Ones Will

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Many of my students who are already successfully applying their extensive knowledge and skills on class assignments and extracurricular activities are told that because they cannot demonstrate mastery of academic content through a specific set of conditions, they have failed.

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What Is Missing From Our Curricula?

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The answer, as he explains in “ The Checklist Manifesto ,” is a multidisciplinary profession known as structural engineering. Traditional high-stakes testing does not capture a student’s ability to handle complex projects such as managing a construction site, or even putting together a small robot.

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Teaching Courses that Provoke Student Anxiety

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Student are convinced they can’t learn what we’re teaching, worry they won’t do well on the tests, and become filled with anxiety over anything in a course that looks like it might be hard. The anxiety some students feel about a course grows out of fears associated with test-taking. Nowadays that seems to apply to all sorts of courses.

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64 predictions about edtech trends in 2024

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The future of education is changing, and global workforce demands will be influenced by the need for knowledge around and skills in fast-growing technologies such as AI. When students can bring models to life and test them in real world situations, they are expanding beyond paper and screen into the world around them.

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Teaching Courses that Provoke Student Anxiety

Faculty Focus

Student are convinced they can’t learn what we’re teaching, worry they won’t do well on the tests, and become filled with anxiety over anything in a course that looks like it might be hard. The anxiety some students feel about a course grows out of fears associated with test-taking. Nowadays that seems to apply to all sorts of courses.

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