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8 LMS features that support student autonomy in the classroom and beyond

Neo LMS

It helps them find a balance between frontal lessons and individual study, interaction and reflection, formal evaluation and self-assessment. . One of the most popular tools that achieve this goal is the learning management system (LMS). At the same time, each student has a different learning pace.

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What is Mastery Learning and How Do You Implement It Effectively?

The CoolCatTeacher

Mastery learning (also called competency-based learning) is being used in some classes and schools. Jon Bergmann, author of the Mastery Learning Handbook talks about how he uses mastery learning in his chemistry and physics classrooms. So for example, actually I had a big AHA when writing the book.

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What If We Measured Learning Through Skills Gained, Not Time Spent in the Classroom?

Edsurge

To do that, the organization plans to work with the Educational Testing Service (ETS) — the folks behind standardized tests including the GRE and the Praxis — to create new tools designed to assess what students are able to do, not how much time they spent studying to do it. Colleges that are trying it have lessons to share.

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Pearson Efficacy Study Highlights the Challenge of Letting Students Retest

Edsurge

Emily Lai, Director of Formative Assessment and Feedback at Pearson But new, externally audited, efficacy research from Pearson about one of the company’s third-party apps shows a significant correlation between increased retesting and lower overall course performance.

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Why Continuing Education Programs Are Poised to Become Hubs of Innovation

Edsurge

Competency-based education has become a hot trend in recent years, and it is no coincidence that one of the few direct assessment programs that the Department of Education has approved is at a continuing education school. The good news is that many continuing education programs are building on their legacies and stepping up.

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What does it take to make an innovative school?

The Hechinger Report

One is an expansion of a coalition of schools that share best practices, called the League of Innovative Schools; the other is a comprehensive report on the ways that competency-based learning initiatives have grown in the six New England states. Sign up for our Blended Learning newsletter. They test new strategies.

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We Know SEL Skills Are Important, So How the Heck Do We Measure Them?

Edsurge

Nueva has been teaching socio-emotional competencies since the sixties (originally billed as Self-Science). Today, they are committed to assessing students’ progress towards SEL mastery, which they see as essential to understanding where students are at—and to proving their SEL curriculum works. Assessing the assessments.

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