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College leaders urged to make personal commitment to student success

nitajo sumitted ago via http://latimesblogs.latimes.com (Views: 27, Clicks: 4)
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College presidents must take a more personal role in changing campus culture to ensure that more students graduate, a group of higher education leaders meeting in Los Angeles were told Monday. “Presidents focus on the inflow but don’t pay too much attention to what’s happening on the back end,” said Andrew K. Benton, president of Pepperdine University.

0 comments | Tags: andrew k. benton pepperdine university american council on education ohio state university school culture | Topic: Higher Education BAD >_<

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Teachers put to test by digital cheats

nitajo sumitted ago via http://articles.chicagotribune.com (Views: 85, Clicks: 5)
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Smartphone access, information superhighway open new avenues for plagiarism and sharing of answers — while offering educators new tools for patrolling student work.

0 comments | Tags: digital age cheating francesca duffy ohio state university eric anderman | Topic: Online Learning BAD >_<

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Classroom Cheating in the Digital Age

nitajo sumitted ago via http://blogs.edweek.org (Views: 67, Clicks: 4)
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Francesca Duffy -- Digital technology has made it both easier for students to cheat and for teachers to catch offenders, according to a recent piece in The Chicago Tribune—but overall cheaters maintain the upper hand

0 comments | Tags: digital age cheating francesca duffy ohio state university eric anderman | Topic: Secondary BAD >_<

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Study: Tweaking Reading Aloud Could Boost Reading Skills Later

nitajo sumitted ago via http://blogs.edweek.org (Views: 162, Clicks: 24)
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Teachers and parents could help boost preschoolers' reading skills later on just by changing how they read books aloud to the kids, a new study suggests.

3 comments | Tags: reading ohio state university shayne piasta print references crack the code of language | Topic: Early Childhood BAD >_<

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At Moneyball U, What Are the Odds?

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.nytimes.com (Views: 119, Clicks: 7)
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In statistics class, don’t be surprised if the professor invokes names like Shaq and Nadal.

1 comments | Tags: statistics pascal’s triangle mathematics of sports stanford university ohio state university | Topic: Higher Education BAD >_<

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Does reading achievement spur independent reading, or vice versa?

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.physorg.com (Views: 122, Clicks: 4)
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Reading achievement at age 10 influences how much independent reading children do at age 11. However, independent reading doesn't directly improve children's achievement in reading, at least among children at the end of elementary school. In addition, individual differences in independent reading among 11-year-olds partly reflect genetic influences on reading achievement at age 10.

1 comments | Tags: reading independent reading ohio state university nicole harlaar university of colorado | Topic: Elementary/Primary BAD >_<

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One Class Increases Odds Of College Graduation For Struggling Students

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.sciencedaily.com (Views: 114, Clicks: 3)
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A researcher at Ohio State University has developed a course on learning and motivation strategies that actually increases the odds that struggling first-year students will graduate.

1 comments | Tags: ohio state university first-year students “learning and motivation strategies” bruce tuckman graduation rates | Topic: Higher Education BAD >_<

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College Freshmen In US And China: Chinese Students Know More Science Facts But Neither Group Especially Skilled In Reasoning

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.sciencedaily.com (Views: 134, Clicks: 3)
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A study of college freshmen in the United States and in China found that Chinese students know more science facts than their American counterparts -- but both groups are nearly identical when it comes to their ability to do scientific reasoning.

1 comments | Tags: inquiry-based learning stem ohio state university scientific reasoning engineering | Topic: Higher Education BAD >_<

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Teacher-student Relationships Key To Learning Health And Sex Education

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.sciencedaily.com (Views: 79, Clicks: 0)
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When it comes to learning life-changing behaviors in high school health classes, the identity of the person teaching may be even more important than the curriculum, a new study suggests.

0 comments | Tags: teacher-student relationships adolescents ohio state university regular classroom teachers | Topic: Other BAD >_<

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