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Retrieval practice, CBE, and what we value regarding student learning

Dangerously Irrelevant

This work often involves extremely sophisticated proficiency scaling of desired learning outcomes, student leveling diagnostics, and individualized instruction and student interventions. Some of our lower-level student learning outcomes are important and many are less so, particularly when viewed through the lens of ‘lifeworthy content.’

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How does an intelligent learning platform help teachers create a truly personalized learning environment?

Neo LMS

If you’re looking for a definition of personalized learning in the Glossary of Educational Reform, you’ll learn that: Personalized learning means addressing the distinct learning needs of each student with the help of different instructional approaches, educational programs, and learning strategies and experiences. . Key takeaways.

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What researchers learned about online higher education during the pandemic

The Hechinger Report

Kameshwari Shankar watched for years as college and university courses were increasingly taught online instead of face to face, but without a definitive way of understanding which students benefited the most from them, or what if anything they learned. We are optimistic that the post-pandemic data will show more favorable outcomes,” she said.

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Learning Analytics 2018 – An updated perspective

IAD Learning

” There are three crucial elements involved in this definition. .” ” There are three crucial elements involved in this definition. Action : Action is the most important aspect of the definition. Being highly sensitive to ethics is definitely a must. Data : Data is the primary analytics asset.

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The vast majority of students with disabilities don’t get a college degree

The Hechinger Report

For those that enroll in two-year schools, the outcomes aren’t much better: 41 percent, according to federal data. The dismal outcomes aren’t because students with disabilities can’t handle the coursework. The transition going from high school to college was definitely difficult,” he said. I utterly failed it.

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British universities reach out to the new minority: poor white males

The Hechinger Report

If boys go to college less often than they otherwise would, you’re lowering not only their economic outcomes but economic outcomes for future generations.”. And meeting college students like him, Hood said, “definitely opens them up to the possibility” of aiming higher. Phillip Levine, Wellesley College economist.

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Why decades of trying to end racial segregation in gifted education haven’t worked

The Hechinger Report

Despite a century of research, definitions of giftedness are fuzzy. Psychologists later poked holes in that definition. There are gifted dropouts. A clear definition of giftedness is elitist while a broad definition is useless. Credit: Danielle Dreilinger for The Hechinger Report. Jolly wrote in 2005.

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