Edsurge

AUGUST 31, 2017

It is painful when all of the effort that teachers and students put into teaching and learning becomes summarized by standardized test results—especially when hard-working students that have demonstrated massive growth over the course of the year receive poor scores. I wondered how the test would affect him after it was over.

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eSchool News

MARCH 23, 2017

Further, what if this mindset change led to an increase in student achievement on tests? The technique involves testing students twice: once individually and once in groups. What if we could empower our teachers to turn student assessment into a process of learning instead of a focus on measurement? Achievement Gains x 3.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

In eighth grade math, the gap between the highest- and lowest-performing students was the widest in the tests history. The new NAEP scores have landed as conservatives push to expand private school choice, public schools grapple with budget cuts, culture war skirmishes persist, and chronic absenteeism remains at historically high levels.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 2, 2015

Innovation can’t be tested or graded — but it can be built up. In the current climate of high stakes testing, state standards, and prescribed learning outcomes, it can be incredibly difficult to foster an atmosphere of innovation and creativity that inspires students. Next page: How to motivate creative thinking.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Sam Brooks, Personal Learning Coordinator for the district, sat down with EdSurge this week to discuss the program, how his team has translated it into even lower levels (think middle school), and what he recommends other schools and districts do to make their students more college and career-ready. . Goodness gracious.

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eSchool News

MAY 30, 2024

The impact of probeware on student motivation and interest, particularly in science subjects often perceived as “ difficult, boring, and abstract ,” is significant. By using these tools, students can actively conduct investigations, gather data, and observe results, making abstract concepts more concrete and understandable.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2017

Many educators recognize that standardized tests don’t measure everything—and that some of the most critical types of growth can’t be measured by a numerical score. Seven years ago, during my first year of teaching, all of my eleventh graders failed the Georgia State End of Course Test in American Literature.

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Edsurge

MAY 9, 2025

Some states have eligibility requirements, such as passing a standardized test. Educational leaders may not reach out to underserved schools or underrepresented communities, so students dont know about them. Other districts have community organizations demonstrate how dual enrollment can help students outside high school.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 27, 2015

Innovation can’t be tested or graded — but it can be built up. In the current climate of high stakes testing, state standards, and prescribed learning outcomes, it can be incredibly difficult to foster an atmosphere of innovation and creativity that inspires students. Next page: How to motivate creative thinking.

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Edsurge

MAY 1, 2017

Midwood High School students —created I Motivate You , a device that displays uplifting phrases. Barrett Elementary School second graders —designed their own pyramids. When my Whack-a-Mole prototype wasn’t working, I would make a list of things that could be wrong and test them individually. Alexis Lewis —inventor.

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Edsurge

MARCH 22, 2022

School is not the problem. This statement was shared by a former middle school student of mine during his freshman year of high school. John* was getting all A’s and one B in stark contrast to the B’s, C’s, and D’s received in middle school. Grades should not be the driving motivator for students to learn.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

homework, lecture notes, practice tests). High school students often have a mix of core subjects, such as math, science, and English, along with electives or advanced placement (AP) courses. Students expressed that they felt more prepared for standardized tests and appreciated the ability to see their progress.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

my students informed me, running over after their latest test. “Is If we have always taught our kids that every test must be an A+, then how do we support them when it isn’t? Carol Dweck and others have written about a “ Growth Mindset vs. a Fixed Mindset ” in learning and school. Bycraft, our robot goes backward!”

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

They signed petitions and showed up in force at school board meetings to rail against the changes. The approach is more prevalent in some “pockets” of the country, Townsley says, particularly New Hampshire , Maine and Wisconsin , with more recent adoptions in schools in Connecticut , New Mexico and Oregon. They want to skate by.”

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Edsurge

JULY 22, 2020

And perform worse on tests. Of course, like every other subject, the true test and value of civics and history extends far beyond academics and assessments. But motivation is not enough. Those who don’t learn from history are doomed to repeat it. Each resource on Composer is classified as one of three types.

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Edsurge

APRIL 29, 2022

And his newest scholarly paper, published just last week, describes an experiment designed to test the hypothesis that a lesson in VR would be more effective than the same lesson delivered via standard video. The study took place with about 100 middle school students taking a brief “virtual field trip” to learn about climate science.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

At Inkster Preparatory Academy outside Detroit, students track their scores on the high-stakes NWEA Map test on the walls of their classrooms. The practice is known as “data walls,” and is designed to serve as a motivational tool. She has studied the use of data in schools, including data walls.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2016

I was trying to think of a way to both motivate students to complete projects and, at the same time, find a use for their projects once they were finished. In our elementary school, FH Gizmos is a third-grade-run pop-up store. In our middle school, it is a student-run, online school startup that functions just like Amazon.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 16, 2024

The study analyzed NWEA MAP® testing scores from 1,885 third- through fifth-grade students across eight schools within a single district. Combined, the duo provides a comprehensive, evidence-based math solution from kindergarten through middle school. To learn more about Mathletics, please visit [link].

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 30, 2024

One of the first things I noticed was that all the students had to abide by a strict uniform policy, including shoes, belts and school colors, and middle school-aged children were walking in straight lines through silent hallways. The campaign became draining for my family and tested the values that I chose to uphold and run on.

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Edsurge

MARCH 31, 2023

Kennedy’s support for the arts was admirable, but unfortunately, due to a number of societal factors, it wasn’t enough to increase arts education offerings for students in public schools. I watched as the focus on academic subjects tied to standardized tests eliminated elective slots in student schedules.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 4, 2023

As a school counselor, I spend my days serving 835 middle school students in a rural district in Livingston, California. The teachers and counselors in my school have been working harder than ever it seems, but despite our best efforts, the effects of the past two years are palpable.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

In 2015, as Arkansas implemented new learning standards and an end-of-year test, educators at Paragould School District received discouraging news: Their test scores were significantly below the state average. This transparency gives students ownership of their learning and motivates them to do their best.

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Edsurge

MAY 22, 2024

Twenty-five years ago, Carnegie Mellon University created the first adaptive AI-driven tutor for teaching middle school mathematics, MATHia, which is still one of our flagship products. Schools should consider those things as they adopt AI tools. Carnegie Learning was way ahead of its time with that early version of AI.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Epic Charter Schools offers online learning to more than 30,000 students in the state of Oklahoma. For years, the school had been searching for ways to reverse the pattern of disengagement, build motivation to complete schoolwork and get students over that finish line at graduation. It didn’t take much convincing for Dr.

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Edsurge

MARCH 26, 2025

This environment fostered a sense of intellectual curiosity that would stay with me throughout my educational journey, and it was also an experience that tested my identity, self-esteem and well-being. It took an hour-long bus ride to and from school every day. particularly Black boys who make up only a small portion of GATE programs.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2018

One day I had been planning to discuss metacognition—a learning strategy I teach to my middle-school students. Learning How to Learn I’ve often heard students tell me they studied for hours on a test only to fail. For too many students, that aha-moment happens while they’re taking the big test. And by then it’s too late.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 11, 2021

ISTE: What motivated you to join the AI Explorations PD program? So, I was motivated to take the industry and peer knowledge and then bring it into my classroom. Then, they can develop their interest in taking other STEM courses as they continue in middle school and high school. We don't have to build a robot.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

In 2015, Minnesota’s Northfield Public Schools had a district-wide gut check. The pre-K-12 district serves 4000 kids, and that year a new state law requiring that all high school juniors take the ACT went into effect. by the time they finish high school, today’s students read 19% slower than their counterparts of 50 years ago.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 23, 2025

She hears from teachers who have bad memories of math class when they were growing up of the stress of timed tests and of impatient instructors who discouraged them from pursuing math. When she was in middle school, she wanted to try for the advanced math track. Thats why Robinson says she feels like a math therapist.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 21, 2017

In my last role as Redesign Administrator at an urban middle school, I immersed myself in it. Students would then be motivated to take ownership of their own learning and growth—or so we thought. Wait, that district test counted for my grade?” “My I love data. Our students had unlimited access as well. But it didn’t work.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 2018

From IBM’s test scoring machines in the 1930s to the Speak & Spells of the 70s, innovators and educators have been trying to improve education with technology for decades. At the end of the day, edtech can feel like one more thing on a teacher’s plate. But these efforts have fallen short of meaningfully transforming learning.

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Edsurge

JUNE 1, 2022

Her mother was a middle school science teacher whose parenting “really incorporated a lot of that curiosity and wonder and awe, kind of like we saw at the Smithsonian here today,” she says. Rivera grew up to become a middle school science teacher, too. I think sometimes we just need more laughter in schools.”

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Transcend’s leaders consider their work “research and development” for schools and districts that are redesigning their models because they apply learning sciences, motivation sciences and implementation sciences to the biggest questions school operators are wrestling with.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

She pushed me to test and measure the quantitative and qualitative data I was gathering. Middle school students role-play feedback interactions, 2019. When my data revealed that some students weren’t productively engaging with the feedback, she nudged me toward academic research. Several hands went up: “The teacher!” “No,

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Edsurge

APRIL 9, 2017

Unlike the Laurel School, whose programs are open to self-selecting, entrepreneurially-minded students, Louisville Collegiate pushes entrepreneurial thinking into much of its curricular offerings. In the lower and middle-school grades, for example, developing an entrepreneurial mindset is the key to student success.

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Edsurge

MAY 30, 2017

It’s no surprise that a recent study found that Algebra 1 is the most repeated class in high school, and that both students’ performance on state tests and their grades decrease each time they repeat the course. At New Mexico’s Farmington Heights Middle School , teachers use game-based learning to personalize instruction.

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