The Hechinger Report

APRIL 15, 2019

Related: The problem with high-stakes testing and women in STEM. And annual state assessments may not do a good job of measuring this kind of depth, creativity or critical thinking. In that same state, blacks made up a quarter of the population but had fewer than 10% of the gifted seats.

Survey 112

Survey Study Exercises Report 112

EdNews Daily

OCTOBER 20, 2016

To put it in the words of an elementary student at the 2004 Serious Games Summit, “Why read about ancient Rome when I can build it?”. history class played Civilization III in conjunction with qualitative methods of assessment. Since the advent of digital games, ongoing research has supported their effectiveness in education.

Game-Based Learning 100

Game-Based Learning Education Gamification Learning 100

Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2017

When it first opened its doors in 2004 as a part of the Civic Committee of the Commercial Club of Chicago, the organization took a leading role in opening charter schools across the city—130 of them, to be exact. Mary Jo Madda ( @MJMadda ) is Senior Editor at EdSurge, as well as a former STEM middle school teacher and administrator.

Elementary 60

Elementary System Study STEM 60

MindShift

JANUARY 20, 2017

Below we offer our Top Five reasons why, as educators, we should care about spatial thinking when we plan, observe, and assess mathematics in our classrooms. In one of the first studies of its kind to show specific links between spatial and mathematical skills, Cheng and Mix (2013) assessed children in both spatial and math skills.

Pearson 28

Pearson STEM Training Study 28

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

By that, the students knew, their teacher meant one of the psychologist Dr. Edward de Bono’s six “thinking hats,” specifically the one that called on thinkers to assess their ideas and look for potential flaws. “Black hat,” Valenti-Barone instructed them, “add a few more details.”.

Education 145

Education Elementary Report Data 145

Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

The third version of SCORM, SCORM 2004, also introduced sequencing, identifying the order in which these content objects should be presented. It’s a history that educational psychology, deeply intertwined with the development of measurements and assessments, has not always been forthright about. Collaboration. Personalization.

Software 93

Software Learning Training LMS 93

The Hechinger Report

JULY 14, 2024

Despite our national deficit in scientists , less than 30 percent of professors in STEM fields in the U.S. Each year, the federal government budgets billions of dollars for research and development, and gives much of the money to universities and research laboratories that train and support STEM researchers.

STEM 107

STEM Policies Training Report 107