Faculty Focus

MAY 11, 2025

We cannot compete with the other resources available to our students in our fundamental content knowledge. This was our role as instructors prior to the advent of AI. As instructors, our role is not just to provide access to content. Our role is to excite our students about the content. Saucier, Ph.D.

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Instructors Motivation Critical Thinking Students 98

eSchool News

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Databases provide full-text access to a wide range of content, including books, magazines, primary sources, images, charts, and peer-reviewed articles by credible authors representing diverse perspectives.

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Peer Review Essay Skills Critical Thinking 278

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Typically, experiments like this would go through careful peer review before being published. And when you sing, it looks like based on preliminary data that you produce more [emissions] than just normal speaking, and we’re going to test another 75 or so people to make sure that there's a really good data set for peer review.

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Peer Review Art Schools Testing 195

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

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

While peer-reviewed journals are important mechanisms to share research, she feels that scholars can also present the results of those studies in other ways to help influence practice in a more timely manner. Perhaps Every Learner Everywhere, with their focus on adaptive learning for student success, will be able to fill that need.

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Peer Review Gamification Mobile Devices Learning 217

Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 23, 2024

Teacher 2: Review and Targeted Support – Homework Review and Intervention Note: Teacher 2 reinforces and builds on prior knowledge by reviewing homework and providing targeted instruction, ensuring students understand the content before moving on to new material.

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Teaching Writing Essay Discussions 395

Edsurge

JULY 25, 2023

I think there's a feeling amongst a lot of people that there's something broken about the way we produce knowledge in academia,” he says. And it seems to me that the answer to this attack on expert knowledge and on scholarly knowledge is not to retreat. Let's open up our knowledge production processes.

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Teaching Peer Review Essay Knowledge 148

Edsurge

MARCH 12, 2021

School science gives students few insights into how science knowledge is created and how it progresses over time. Nor are they made aware of the peer-review process in which scientists in the field who were not involved with the research critically evaluate the study design and conclusions. Others may come in time.

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Science Peer Review Knowledge Learning 173

Edsurge

MAY 25, 2017

Plenty of peer-reviewed research shows that classroom “clickers” improve student learning when it comes to delivering facts. There was one exception: students who had prior knowledge of physics concepts were not thrown off by the clicker quizzes). It was almost like implicit statement of, ‘just memorize it.’”

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Study Multiple Choice Questions Peer Review Quizzes 150

Edsurge

AUGUST 21, 2024

The science of reading distills vast knowledge into practical strategies to help all students become proficient readers, emphasizing a comprehensive approach that includes word recognition, language comprehension and bridging skills. With practice, sight word recognition allows instant recognition of common words.

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Science Reading Interdisciplinary English 168

Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 9, 2023

In education, case studies are widely used as a pedagogical tool to encourage critical thinking, problem-solving skills, and the application of theoretical knowledge. For educators in pursuit of enhancing their teaching methods, numerous high-quality, open-source, peer-reviewed resources are available online.

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Study Teachers Peer Review Instructors 163

Edsurge

MARCH 6, 2017

students who played edgames outperformed their peers on standardized tests. Now a soon-to-be released study from Vanderbilt University demonstrates the impact of rigorous, peer reviewed research into curricular tools, in this case showing that students who played edgames outperformed their peers on standardized tests.

Game-Based Learning 164

Game-Based Learning Peer Review Learning Gamification 164

Edsurge

OCTOBER 17, 2017

There’s even a new peer-reviewed academic journal about using Wikipedia in higher education. When people found out that Wikipedia was edited by everyone who just desired to edit, that was a conflict with the way knowledge is valued in higher education. It's not my perspective. Others have that and that's fine.

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Peer Review Textbooks Education Writing 140

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

Knee recounts the tales of several doomed education ventures, including those emerging from Michael Milken’s Knowledge Universe. Second, education, like biotech, benefits from investors with specialized knowledge. The top life science investors track peer-reviewed publications. edtech startups don’t make money.

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Failure Peer Review Learning Science 151

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

In fact, there have been bigger attempts to build central libraries of them in the past, such as a 2001 project by the the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching called the Knowledge Media Laboratory (which is now defunct). A few repositories like the Open Syllabus Project collect syllabi from around the world.

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Teaching Portfolio Teaching Syllabus Peer Review 167

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

At least, that’s according to a randomized study recently published in the peer-reviewed journal Science. While the researchers say it was impossible to randomize the teachers, since the instruction relies on specialized knowledge, students were randomly assigned to either traditional classes or active learning classes.

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Instructors Lecturing STEM Study 194

Edsurge

OCTOBER 5, 2020

The early findings suggest that children’s “screen time” reflects parents’ stress levels and access to resources, not their philosophy or knowledge about child rearing. A new study aims to make sense of these phenomena and draw fresh conclusions about what it really means when kids spend hours looking at cell phones, computers or televisions.

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Study Peer Review Coaching Science 195

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

And, CoSN has created a new fee-for-service CoSN Peer Review process using this Matrix to determine how a district aligns to best practices by expert external peers. Team Building and Staffing: New processes require cross-functional organizational structures where obsolete functions are no longer supported.

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Ethics Peer Review Motivation Testing 166

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Gale OneFile collections : Over 16,000 full-text periodicals and popular magazines, plus, peer-reviewed journals to support research and student inquiry. For more than 65 years, Gale has partnered with libraries around the world to empower the discovery of knowledge and insights where, when and how people need it.

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Accessibility Multidisciplinary Peer Review History 141

Edsurge

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Once students have acquired sufficient word knowledge such that they can readily identify 150 or more words on sight, they must spend a great deal of their time reading silently. Gehsmann says in today’s knowledge economy, literacy is a basic requirement for getting and keeping a stable job in just about every industry. Periodicals.

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Reading Peer Review Elementary School Elementary School 150

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

We believe that when test day rolls around, students’ scores should reflect their content knowledge—not their ability to decode the test itself. We believe that when test day rolls around, students’ scores should reflect their content knowledge—not their ability to decode the test itself. Assessment For Learning.

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Testing Exams Peer Review Study 159

Edsurge

JUNE 12, 2020

Aliza Strassman , a second-grade general education teacher, leveraged the educational technology specialist at her school and her knowledge of best practices under Universal Design for Learning (UDL, a framework for designing inclusive classrooms) to create a technology-based approach to creative writing, publishing and peer feedback.

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Accessibility Distance Learning Learning Students 218

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

After all, academic research often requires deeper knowledge of a field than is typical in high school, and it involves carefully following ethical guidelines to protect research subjects from potential harm that students may not be aware of without expert guidance. No peer reviewed journal would publish this work, she adds.

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High School High School Schools Students 181

Edsurge

AUGUST 12, 2019

Flexible interactions, such as Twitter chats, online courses and informal discussions, allow learners to apply new knowledge in their own way. Continue to build trust with your learners through meaningful feedback and peer review. Through facilitation and peer feedback, educators learn from one another.

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Teachers Learning Styles Feedback Participation 165

Edsurge

APRIL 11, 2017

It aims to publish “free, open access, digital editions of peer-reviewed and professionally edited monographs” in the humanities and social sciences, using funds from participating universities. The project has an unwieldy name—the AAU/ARL/AAUP Open Access Monograph Publishing Initiative —but a straightforward goal.

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Peer Review Counselling Science Textbooks 137

Edsurge

DECEMBER 9, 2019

TOME allows us to achieve our mission of delivering high-quality peer-reviewed scholarship to the world,” said Dean Smith, director of Duke University Press, in an email. It’s a great example of libraries and publishers working together to enable widespread access to knowledge.

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History Peer Review English Knowledge 109

Edsurge

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Freddy has been studying how kids learn to read for four decades and has written more than 100 peer reviewed articles on the subject. The goal is to not give readers a list of words and definitions to memorize, but rather to get them familiar with words and their place in language and knowledge. Elfrieda “Freddy” H.

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History Writing Social Studies Peer Review 142

Edsurge

APRIL 23, 2017

Look for evidence that the solution providers have done their homework and are aware of the latest peer-reviewed research in the field, or—even better—that they’re collaborating with leading researchers on the design of their solution.

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Questions Peer Review Study Evaluation 140

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

Faculty can add more tests or assignments to the syllabus, or split large assignments into smaller sections so that students have more opportunities to build points throughout the semester, and more opportunities to see where their skills or knowledge stand as the course progresses. Incorporating peer review into their courses.

Academic Integrity 144

Academic Integrity Exams Assignments Instructors 144

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 29, 2023

Additionally, this policy inadvertently supports a lack of transparency in the review process. While peer review is intended to maintain the rigor and integrity of scientific research, its outcomes can sometimes be influenced by factors unrelated to the quality of the research.

Peer Review 98

Peer Review Fairness Feedback Achievement 98

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

According to Blake, the process behind the scoring “is one of anonymous peer and expert review” based on “adaptive comparative judgement.” Blake says people will be peer reviewed several times and will be reviewed by a panel of multiple experts. And yet, historically you haven’t been able to tell me what you know.”

Skills 132

Skills Plagiarism Peer Review Knowledge 132

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 29, 2023

Additionally, this policy inadvertently supports a lack of transparency in the review process. While peer review is intended to maintain the rigor and integrity of scientific research, its outcomes can sometimes be influenced by factors unrelated to the quality of the research.

Peer Review 98

Peer Review Fairness Feedback Achievement 98

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

The belief is that writing affords students extended opportunities to think about, manipulate, and transform ideas and reflect on their existing knowledge, beliefs, and confusions,” says Troia. Assessing one’s own writing and providing feedback to peers both help to move students forward as writers.

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Feedback Peer Review Writing Beliefs 126

Edsurge

JUNE 10, 2019

Our strength may already be worn down by going through a challenging promotion and tenure process, or after years of having our research evaluated by peer reviewers who sometimes reject work without giving effective feedback; or reading negative comments from students on our course evaluations.

Teaching 167

Teaching Course Evaluations Peer Review Culture 167

Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 19, 2019

There are many truths about teaching but two stand out when it comes to assessing knowledge: 1) feedback is one of the greatest predictors of success in student work, and 2) teachers don’t have enough time to provide feedback on student work as thoroughly as they’d like. scholastic. Everyone wins. The teacher has more time.

Teachers 107

Teachers Peer Review Feedback Critical Thinking 107

Faculty Focus

MAY 11, 2025

We cannot compete with the other resources available to our students in our fundamental content knowledge. This was our role as instructors prior to the advent of AI. As instructors, our role is not just to provide access to content. Our role is to excite our students about the content. Saucier, Ph.D.

Instructors 114

Instructors Motivation Critical Thinking Students 114

Edsurge

AUGUST 1, 2017

Traditionally, only successful experiments are written up and accepted by peer-reviewed academic journals, but Ijad Madisch, co-founder and CEO of ResearchGate, believes it’s just as important to share failed experiments. According to its website, ResearchGate’s mission is “to connect the world of science and make research open to all.”

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Peer Review Science Knowledge Achievement 126