... students to get to know each other better rather than a structural classroom. (Siegle 30) Fearless students can dominate discussions in a traditional classroom. This display is terminated in an online course; those shy students are more motivated to discuss and participate since the classroom aura is now concealed behind a computer. Courses via the Internet promote equal opportunity and "create ... a leveling effect among team members" (265) so students will not "monopolize the discussion." (30) Gender is also an issue on the interactivity in online education. Scholars argue that the dif...

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... domain of the elite as the information available on World Wide Web is available freely to anyone who knows how to use the Internet. Hence, online learning becomes a new trend for the students nowadays. It becomes a pathway to provide educational information via computer network as an alternative to a physical ... learners are able fit in the learning session into their schedule instead of working their schedule around their learning session. In simple words, online learning promotes self-paced learning by learners. They can learn anytime they want to and there is no specific duration for...

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... , this because their parents can afford to send them to upper-class schools where the best educators are there to teach ("Facts on Standardized Tests and Assessment Alternatives" http://homepage.tinet.ie/~seaghan/articles/10.htm). They can also afford to have a private tutor on the side if ... future would be based off of struggling. Education Week surveyed teachers on their thoughts of standardized testing. Sixty-six percent of them said the tests were forcing them to focus only on things covered on the test instead of what is supposed to be taught in the normal curriculum. ... under st...

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The Potential Benefits and Negative Aspects of the Practice of Looping The Practice of Looping Looping, also known as multi-year grouping or teacher-student progression is a process whereby a single teacher stays with ... be noted that the benefits, gained by the process of looping mentioned above, are only a select few. they were the most commonly sited benefits of the practice. Moreover, the positive potential benefits of looping outweighed the negative aspects. The negative aspects of looping are few, but no less the significant. After all, we ... as stated above it is usually possible to o...

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... ). Consequently, Time is also another factor in remedial courses, when I signed up for a two year college no one had told me it could take longer to complete based on my Accuplacer scores. Thinking I could complete school in two years was one thing, but now an advisor told me it could take up to three and half years. If I knew this in ... a grade of C or better in college- level work" (Bloomberg). In addition to being de-motivating, when you are placed into the classes' colleges will no longer be using the Accuplacer test or SAT's scores. "Emphasis is also placed on public high schools t...

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... remains "Does it work?" Unschooling in actuality is very beneficial to students. Statistics show that unschoolers typically receive higher scores on SAT tests and many of them have more patient social skills. Many of the students in the unschooling program still attend classes at a public school ... unschoolers. This is where the term unschoolers generated. They believe unschooling incorporates more of the home schooling process. Unschooling broadens home schooling to include online education as well as to independent study programs. Pink's article continues by pointing out how we nation...

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... system had employees that could not handle the situation with the current education standards. These standards were falling dangerously, as students began to fail science, math, and literature tests (Britannica on-line). These tests were common and routine for Soviet-era children. This was a direct result of the drugs, alcohol, and street violence, which were creeping into the Russian schools. ... in the country with 1,000 openings still remaining in, subjects like literature, math, and english (New York Times). However, the only solution is to revive the Soviet-era practice of compelli...

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... conditions "deteriorate". If the school closes for entire days and for more than one day, then they tell the student to check the online website or social media networks. These networks include Facebook, and even through eagle alert signals which go off and lets the students know of what is ... the moment. This is ineffective in many ways because it does not allow the student to plan ahead. Since the school provides the dates of the tests ahead of time, it gives the students the knowledge to be able to make plans to when they can leave home for vacation. For example, I ... interviewed o...

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... in a logical and clear manner. Instruction is the next area. Software needs to follow educational techniques and principles. Some of these are practice with feedback for the skills being taught, maintaining interest for the learner, and effective feedback for both correct and incorrect responses. Students should ... 155 course sections and has about 2,800 students from high schools all over the country. Neither school offers a diploma. However, two other online schools do. These are Choice 2000 Charter School in Perris, California and the Basehor-Linwood Virtual Charter School in Baseho...

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... . Students spent all evening in libraries writing reports, projects or academic papers. Today information is easily accessed, thanks to the internet. Online courses are accessible to the students who are unable to attend traditional educational buildings because of health or other complications; it is a convenient ... to learn. Students become more interested and focused on subjects that are usually not as interesting, like math or science. Virtual lessons, online tutors, and streaming educational tools engage students even more while reaching their educational goals. In reference to usin...

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... only AP students but all students. Liz Pape, school administrator of the Virtual High School in Concord, Massachusetts, says, "I think high school is a great socialization process for students. I don't see online courses as replacing high schools. I see them tremendously enhancing what students have available to them during their high school years." Virtual schools may not separate the students from the others ... an answer for up to 24 hours. Some critics also describe the "classrooms" as confusing, since there can be many different discussion areas, not to mention separate areas for e...

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... basically the same way, it will slowly separate the gap in successful and unsuccessful education. From this, the test supporters feel that educational standards will rise with new challenges, the tests acting as a, "springboard for discussion for students, parents and teachers" (High Stakes Testing). Also, the annual testing would provide a constantly heightened benchmark to measure the growth in an ... no-profit organization led by Don Hazen and Leda Dedrich. Hazen, the executive director, has an MA in counseling and a BA in politics from Princeton University. Dederich, the director of...

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... of continuous assessment Continuous assessment is comprehensive in the sense that many types of instruments are used in determining the performance. Continuous assessment may come in form of tests, projects, assignments, observations, questionnaire and interviews. II-3 Cumulative nature of continuous assessment: Continuous assessment is cumulative since any decision to be made at any point ... type of assessment is so useful: 1) PROVIDES INFORMATION TO REPORT STUDENTS' PROGRESS While the main purpose of using continuous assessment techniques is to inform decision making and professional...

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... essay, I would like to talk about "Assessment" of the Secondary 1 to 3 curriculum. Assessment is the practice of collecting evidence of progress in students" learning. It is an integral part of the learning and teaching ... can be viewed as an assessment of learning. It provides information about what students have learned at the end of a term or a unit. Tests and examinations in schools and public examinations are common examples of summative assessment, measuring students" standards or attainments, reporting them in terms of marks ... could be carried out on a continuous basis using d...

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... tongues, especially beginning in March. For every person somehow involved with this country's educational system, April is synonymous with standardized testing. Standardized tests are used to evaluate student progress, along with which they also evaluate teachers, schools, districts, and so on. Many state boards of education ... take time out of their regular classroom sessions to give students a general overview of the test, along with several types of practice questions and their answers. The tests take a total of two days and disrupt school schedules, causing students to miss their re...

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... case of cyberbullying involves a thirteen-year-old student who committed suicide after being bullied by a sixteen-year-old student, who had sent the victim several derogatory messages online. The author's discussion of the several cases of students committing suicide is intended toward indicating the serious consequences of cyberbullying in schools. An analysis of the information presented ... to be aggressive. This characteristic nature of the victims needs to be addressed in subsequent researches. This will make more literature available for formulation of helpful policies to regulate t...

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... test is a test with important consequences for whom is being tested. Passing has important benefits, such as a high school diploma, a scholarship, or a license to practice a profession, etc. many school districts today frequently give tests to measure students performance and to hold individual schools and school systems accountable for that performance. To know wheather what students are learning is important. The ... multicultural education, and succumb to the pressures of teaching to the test. But through this proposed class, teachers would be given the opportunity to learn or reinfor...

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Independent Learning Strategies The best educational methods and philosophies are only valuable if they can be put into practice. Charter schools offer educational creators the freedom to design and put to work educational programs that must meet specific state standards and expectations but have a lot more flexibility in the ... was grossly undercapitalized When money ran low, testimony in at least one lawsuit alleges, Rothschild and Tutorbots were paid while teachers, who take part in online instruction, correspond with parents and students, and mark homework and tests, continued working w...

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... are able to hear, firsthand, from teachers how well they are performing in class, (their strengths, not only their weaknesses) they will likely remain enthused about school and learning. Standardized tests do little to help a student's esteem. They typically prevent capable students from grade advancement or entrance to the college or university of their choice. Performance-based assessment sounds like a ... great idea in theory and in smaller scale, works well in practice. That being said, I"m not sure whether or not it could work on a national scale for one lingering reason: who would ...

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... the Finnish education system to rate among the highest amongst developed countries in the world. (Stanford U. How the Finnish school system outshines U.S. education) The United States emphasis on standardized tests, an asset of schooling, exploits students which is then used to differentiate which programs and future educational institutes that students can possibly get into. If the United States was to ... adapt the Finnish's practice on education, the success rate would potentially climb in the country. Aronowitz believed that "the schools should relieve themselves of their ties to cor...

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... Education. The results of a national survey of teachers by researchers at Boston College documented that over a hundred hours of instruction time is spent on test-taking strategies and taking practice tests in American schools. At the secondary level, according to California Educator, struggling students are assigned double and triple periods of math and English. These students are assigned their electives ... resulting in lower standards. According to the National Research Center on the Gifted and Talented, the pressure felt by teachers associated with high stakes testing resulted in dr...

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... gadgets doing for the educational system? The aforementioned thought is a question that will be looked at throughout this article and hopefully shed some light on the future of education. An online survey conducted by AT&T reports that 68% of parents, 69% of students, and 69% of teachers said that they have personally seen students" grades improve through use of the ... has been named: Internet addiction. This addiction to the Internet is followed by such changes in personality like cravings, sleep disturbance, depression, and withdrawal symptoms in association with excessive time onlin...

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... kindergarten, while Chicago created a mandatory summer bridge program, "Retention Plus-. Both included intervention and remediation programs meant to prevent widespread retention. Both followed the tests up with strong support systems to address student needs. As a result both experienced limited success because while recordable improvements were documented at the primary and middle ... multiple performance levels (Gandal, 1995)."" Using NCEST recommendations we would be holding schools, districts, and states accountable for learning, not just achieving on high-stakes tests. This is be...

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... that their kids may learn much better if the "bad influences" would not come any closer. The question remains, can exclusively receiving knowledge from only one source, let's say, online courses, without the interaction between both teacher and fellow students truly be qualified for the learning environment of "achieving a successful life more efficiently?" Paulo Freire analyses the disadvantages of education ... the students and the teacher. *Freire suggests in The Banking Concept of Education that the teacher-student relationship nowadays, inside or outside the school, appears to be mo...

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... approximately 1 million, while less conservative appraisals among homeschooling researchers and associations place the number of homeschooled children at approximately 1.2 million (Welner & Welner, 1999). Homeschooling is definitely not a new practice. The government did not begin to require that states to build public schools and force parents to enroll their children into them until the nineteenth century. Before this time, parents ... . The largest study so far by University of Maryland statistician Lawrence M. Rudner, examined some 20,000 home-schooled students from 50 states. These ...

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