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New study challenges popular perceptions of AP | Inside Higher Ed - 38 views

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  • Randolph Hollingsworth on 23 Apr 13
     
    Denise Pope, senior lecturer at Stanford's Graduate School of Education and co-founder of the advocacy group Challenge Success, questions the assertions by the College Board about AP exams
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Learning Never Stops: Problem-Attic - An Easy Way to Create Review Tests - 0 views

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  • Michael Sheehan on 13 Feb 13
     
    Easily create review tests or flashcards from NYS Regents exams or other state assessments. Free to join.
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HipHughes History - 5 views

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  • Michele Brown on 18 Oct 12
     
    These video lectures are designed to explain concepts in U.S. History and a small but growing arsenal of World History ideas. Perfect for finals and state exams such as the NY US History Regents and World History Review. Youtube EDU Guru
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Certiport | Become a Certiport Authorized Testing Center - 0 views

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  • babasuter on 18 Apr 12
     
    So my students can take Adobe Certified Associate Exams
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How Finnish schools shine | Teacher Network Blog | guardian.co.uk - 3 views

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  • Teacher based assessments are used by schools to monitor progress and these are not graded, scored or compared; but instead are descriptive and utilised in a formative manner to inform feedback and assessment for learning.
  • Roland Gesthuizen on 20 Apr 12
     
    "Teachers are respected, exams are shunned and league tables simply don't exist - but if the Finnish system is so good why is it so hard to emulate?"
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Stop telling students to study for exams - 150 views

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  • Donal O' Mahony on 02 May 12
     
    Just some thoughts on an article by David Jaffe of the University of North Florida....The title is his!
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USATestprep, Inc. - Online State-Specific Review and Benchmark Testing - 4 views

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      tnhopper on 30 Apr 12
       
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  • untry. USATestprep has been helping teachers and students prepare for Graduation Exams, Grad
  • SATestprep, Inc. is an online resource to help students learn. Each of our products is custom-designed to help high school and middle school students understand their state's required standards and prepare them for high-stakes, standardized tests. Our subscribers include thousands of teache
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http://www.dublinschools.net/Downloads/APliteraturetitlesfreeresponse.pdf - 21 views

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  • amendiol on 17 Sep 12
     
    A complete list of the works of literature tested by the AP Literature exam since 1971
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Creating a Wordsearch using Google Spreadsheets - 1 views

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  • Christopher Lee on 25 Jul 12
     
    SUNDAY, MAY 17, 2009 Creating a Wordsearch using Google Spreadsheets I'm a fan of alternative learning and testing techniques. Back when I was the teaching assistant for the "History of Video Games" class (yes, that's a real class), I gave the final exam as an illustrated crossword puzzle. It was surprisingly hard to find software for creating that crossword, so I hoped to make a Spreadsheets gadget to make it easier. Unfortunately, crossword-solving algorithms that run entirely in JavaScript are hard to find, and I gave up and went for second best: a wordsearch gadget. (A big thanks to Robert Klein for the wordsearch JavaScript library.) Here are steps for using the gadget: Create a new spreadsheet, and put a list of words in the first column. (Or, alternatively, use an existing spreadsheet that has a column of words you're interested in). My sample spreadsheet has a simple animals wordlist: Click on the "Insert" menu and then select "Gadget..." This presents you with various categories of gadgets to choose from (similar to the iGoogle directory). My gadget isn't yet in the gallery, so you'll need to select "Custom" and then type in the URL to the gadget: The gadget will appear embedded in the current worksheet, and it will prompt you to select a range of data to send to the gadget. Select all the cells that contain the desired words, and you should see the Range text field update with the range. If it doesn't work, you can always manually type it in. You can now customize the number of rows and columns. The default is 10 by 10, but if you have more words, you likely want a larger wordsearch. Click "Apply", and see the generated output. You have a few options for how you use the wordsearch. You can play with it immediately, inside that gadget, or you can use the option on the gadget menu to move the gadget to its own sheet and use it there. Note that each time you reload the spreadsheet, the wordsearch will be randomly generated with a new layout - so
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Teaching Creativity - The Case for Mind Mapping - 83 views

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  • Jjenna Andrews on 15 Oct 13
     
    "Essentially, digital (and physical) mind mapping allows students to view the entire forest instead of a single tree. As they create a mind map, they capture the wider ecosystem of information by visually connecting short keywords and phrases rather than writing complete sentences. Upon later review-for retention, exam preparation or papers-the mind map is like a CD. You jump right to the information that interests you. In contrast, linear notes are like audio tapes-you waste time wading line by line through the content in hopes of getting to what you want. This more efficient use of space (and time) lets students see how normally unconnected ideas might fit together. Thus, the mind maps doubles as a store of information and an engine of creativity. Using it in the classroom and even giving mind mapping assignments forces students to break the linearity of their earlier education."
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Highlights for High School | MIT OpenCourseWare | Free Online Course Materials - 35 views

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  • carmelladoty on 03 Sep 14
     
    Open Course Ware for High School Science and Math with Exam Prep
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Curriki - WebHome - 1 views

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  • Barbara Moose on 29 May 09
     
    Curriki, the online education community, is building the first website to offer free, open-source instructional materials for K-12. We have thousands of free worksheets, lesson plans, exams, project ideas and activities for English language arts, math, science, social studies, technology integration and other subjects. All of our educational material is contributed by teachers and partners and is free and open source.
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How to Use Problem-Based Learning in the Classroom - 56 views

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  • Jay Swan on 31 Dec 09
     
    A book by Robert Delisie that exams "How to Use Problem-Based Learning in the Classroom." Through ASCD. Internet edition of text.
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Nearly 1 in 4 fails military exam | Around the Web | eSchoolNews.com - 27 views

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  • 23 percent of recent high school graduates don’t get the minimum score needed on the enlistment test to join any branch of the military
  • Dallas McPheeters on 24 Dec 10
     
    Interesting report portends a bleak trend?
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Edudemic » Are You One of the 10 Million People Using MIT's OpenCourseWare? - 32 views

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  • trisha_poole on 06 Jan 11
     
    If you've never watched an online lecture from MIT, you are apparently in the minority. According to recently released statistics, more than 10 million people are now using MIT's OpenCourseWare Project. The OCW shares syllabi, exams, notes, problem sets, lectures, and even some discussions for just over 2,000 courses. (Discussions are held through online study groups using OpenStudy.
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How about some real 'home' work? « gtceblog - 76 views

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  • Chris Betcher on 05 Feb 11
     
    There's been a lot of debate about the value of homework in recent years, (especially since some schools thought it was a good idea to give it to five and six year olds!). I heard of a secondary school recently who were helping to "train parents to help with exam revision".
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CUNY Adjusts Amid Tide of Remedial Students - NYTimes.com - 24 views

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  • “Throughout high school, I was a good math student, and to find out that it was my lowest grade of all three was really surprising,”
  • Kay Bradley on 03 Mar 11
     
    Decline of American education system. How can kids be going through high school with"good" grades in core subjects and then fail the regents exam and find themselves unprepared for freshman college classes?
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Font Size May Not Aid Learning, but Its Style Can, Researchers Find - NYTimes.com - 110 views

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shared by D. S. Koelling on 19 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • Is it easier to remember a new fact if it appears in normal type, like this, or in big, bold letters, like this?
  • Font size has no effect on memory, even though most people assume that bigger is better. But font style does.
  • New research finds that people retain significantly more material — whether science, history or language — when they study it in a font that is not only unfamiliar but also hard to read.
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  • “So much of the learning that we do now is unsupervised, on our own,” said Robert A. Bjork, a psychologist at the University of California, Los Angeles, “that it’s crucial to be able to monitor that learning accurately; that is, to know how well we know what we know, so that we avoid fooling ourselves.”
  • “Studying something in the presence of an answer, whether it’s conscious or not, influences how you interpret the question,” Dr. Bjork said. “You don’t appreciate all of the other things that would have come to mind if the answer weren’t there. “Let’s say you’re studying capitals and you see that Australia’s is Canberra. O.K., that seems easy enough. But when the exam question appears, you think: ‘Uh oh, was it Sydney? Melbourne? Adelaide?’ ” That’s why some experts are leery of students’ increasing use of online sites like Cramster, Course Hero, Koofers and others that offer summaries, step-by-step problem solving and copies of previous exams. The extra help may provide a valuable supplement to a difficult or crowded course, but it could also leave students with a false sense of mastery. Even course outlines provided by a teacher, a textbook or other outside source can create a false sense of security, some research suggests. In one experiment, researchers found that participants studying a difficult chapter on the industrial uses of microbes remembered more when they were given a poor outline — which they had to rework to match the material — than a more accurate one.
  • a cognitive quality known as fluency, a measure of how easy a piece of information is to process.
  • On real tests, font size made no difference and practice paid off, the study found.
  • And so it goes, researchers say, with most study sessions: difficulty builds mental muscle, while ease often builds only confidence.
  • To test the approach in the classroom, the researchers conducted a large experiment involving 222 students at a public school in Chesterland, Ohio. One group had all its supplementary study materials, in English, history and science courses, reset in an unusual font, like Monotype Corsiva. The others studied as before. After the lessons were completed, the researchers evaluated the classes’ relevant tests and found that those students who’d been squinting at the stranger typefaces did significantly better than the others in all the classes — particularly in physics. “The reason that the unusual fonts are effective is that it causes us to think more deeply about the material,” a co-author of the study, Daniel M. Oppenheimer, a psychologist at Princeton, wrote in an e-mail. “But we are capable of thinking deeply without being subjected to unusual fonts. Think of it this way, you can’t skim material in a hard to read font, so putting text in a hard-to-read font will force you to read more carefully.” Then again, so will raw effort, he and other researchers said. Concentrating harder. Making outlines from scratch. Working through problem sets without glancing at the answers. And studying with classmates who test one another.
  • D. S. Koelling on 19 Apr 11
     
    Students' raw effort improves learning [No surprise there, huh?]
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