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Breaking down the effect of affordable course materials on student success
Sue Poremba | July 10, 2018When students must choose between textbooks and food or gas money, the latter wins. But without course materials, students...
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Communicate often and better: How to make education research more meaningful
Jay Lynch, PhD and Nathan Martin, Pearson | August 21, 2017Question: What do we learn from a study that shows a technique or technology likely has affected an educational...
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Can Edtech support—and even save—educational research?
Jay Lynch, PhD and Nathan Martin, Pearson | August 14, 2017There is a crisis engulfing the social sciences. What was thought to be known about psychology—based on published results and...
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Why ‘what works’ doesn’t: False positives in education research
Jay Lynch, PhD and Nathan Martin, Pearson | August 7, 2017If edtech is to help improve education research it will need to kick a bad habit—focusing on whether or not...
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Reality is messy, labs aren’t: How to make research-backed education work
Jay Lynch, PhD and Nathan Martin, Pearson | July 31, 2017If education researchers hope to see more of their findings influence everyday learning and instruction—and they desperately do—then their...
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Analysis: For ed tech that actually works, embrace the science of learning
Kristen DiCerbo, Aubrey Francisco, Bror Saxberg, Melina Uncapher | June 29, 2017This is the second in a series of essays surrounding the EdTech Efficacy Research Symposium, a gathering of 275...
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#ShowTheEvidence: Building a movement around research, impact in ed tech
Aubrey Francisco, Bart Epstein, Gunnar Counselman, Katrina Stevens, Luyen Chou, Mahnaz Charania, Mark Grovic, Rahim Rajan, Robert Pianta, Rebecca Griffiths | June 28, 2017This is the first in a series of essays surrounding the EdTech Efficacy Research Symposium, a gathering of 275...
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- Higher Education
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How we created a cutting edge virtual school for our district
Dan Mahlandt, Coordinator of Virtual Education, Ephrata Area School District | December 6, 2016As education providers, we are always looking for new ways to customize and improve our teaching approach to better...
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Transition to digital: Improving access, affordability and achievement in higher education
Tom Malek, Senior Vice President of Partnerships, Pearson | November 24, 2016… and important steps to help you get there! With the increasing cost of a post-secondary education, many students...
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Can technology bring more human contact to teaching?
Kristen DiCerbo | October 18, 2016Students in the class are sitting at individual computers working through a game that introduces basic algebra courses. Ms....
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- PreK-12 Education