Barry Chambers Quotes
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We wanted to test whether quizzes encouraged greater memory retention over review. We found that the groups had no statistical differences, meaning that quizzes were not a harmful activity. That`s an interesting finding for this pilot study. It suggests t...
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The ultimate goal was to raise the cognitive demand in the curriculum for urban school kids, which is important for future opportunities. Generally, test scores in math and science fall drastically between seventh and 10th grade. We wanted to help these k...
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The students averaged about eight days absent each. That`s a lot and it`s one of the main challenges of summer school programming. If the kids don`t come, they can`t learn. However, for the kids that were there, I think it worked out great. They learned a...
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Obviously, we`re not doing well.
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Data analysis serves as a process that underpins scientific inquiry. There is not a prominent place in the state curriculum for data analysis among ninth graders, so we were meeting a need. Data analysis and statistics are not really taught as part of the...
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