Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

DECEMBER 23, 2023

This term refers to the pre-existing cognitive framework that each student brings into the learning environment, encompassing everything from factual information to deeply ingrained skills and misconceptions. Prior knowledge is one of the key concept in educational research that fundamentally reshape our understanding of how learning occurs.

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Knowledge Base Assessment Study Dropout 112

EdNews Daily

AUGUST 29, 2016

Please share this information. In a new age of information, rapid innovation and globalization, how can we prepare our children to compete? National and local reporting, both on air and online is helping communities understand the challenges and community-driven solutions associated with the dropout crisis.

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Report Dropout Education Outcomes 124

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Much of the pre-pandemic research into online higher education concluded that students in online programs did worse than students in in-person courses, with lower grades, higher dropout rates and poorer performance in subsequent classes. That makes it easier to objectively determine “who seems to benefit and who struggles the most,” Xu said.

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Survey Education Learning Dropout 79

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

When I graduated with a bachelor’s degree from William & Mary in 2003, I desperately needed a job. In our survey, 75 percent of respondents said their financial aid office did not inform them that child care expenses could be taken into account in determining their financial aid award. In addition, I had $30,000 in student debt.

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Policies Survey Advocacy Accessibility 133

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2019

For an absurd example, if dropouts tended to take classes on Thursdays in their first semester at college, but students who completed their degrees didn’t, then you might worry about current students who are currently taking classes on Thursdays. The dropout problem got a lot worse in the 1990s when more people started attending college.

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Data Dropout Company Report 107

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

trillion, according to the Federal Reserve, compared with less than $250 billion in 2003. And last October, I reported from a school district in Wisconsin that’s trying to give students more information about well-paying blue-collar careers instead of blindly shipping them off to four-year colleges.

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Policies Report Trends Mobility 110

The Hechinger Report

JULY 4, 2017

It is features like these that have helped former high school dropouts like Rocheli Burgos — and other students who have struggled in school — get a second chance at earning a diploma. After giving birth to her son in 2011, Burgos dropped out of her old school when counselors told her that she didn’t have enough credits to pass ninth grade.

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Dropout Policies Report Course 98