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No one is born a good or bad test taker…. It takes practice like everything else!
I often hear people label themselves as either a “good test taker” or a “bad test taker.” While I will acknowledge that certain people react better under test conditions, I would ask that people stop using the “bad test taker”...
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Ryan Krug
on 7 Jan 2010
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Wake Up Admissions Officials!
I would like to take a moment and ask why colleges continue to undervalue the writing portion of the SAT. Before the SAT format change in 2005, the writing portion of the SAT was given as the SAT II Writing Test. Oddly enough, it was one of only a few...
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Ryan Krug
on 5 Jan 2010
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writing
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Musings on the Future of Online Learning, Part 2
In my last post on this topice I cited some stats that indicate that online learning will become dramatically more widespread in the next few years... An important question remains, however. Is this shift for the better? As more and more students go online...
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Bill Huston
on 4 Nov 2009
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Optimism, Humility, and Responsible Action
This weekend I was super happy to have my brother John visiting from Chicago. In addition to being my older brother and one of the coolest guys I know, John happens to be an incredibly accomplished polar explorer. He was here to give a talk about his...
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Bill Huston
on 2 Nov 2009
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Musings on the Future of Online Learning, Part 1
Fired up by reading and blogging on “Minds on Fire” last Friday, I wanted to share a few more of my thoughts and readings on learning and technology. While we’re hard at work refining our beta release, there are always several core principles...
Posted to
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by
Bill Huston
on 30 Oct 2009
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mit
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On Fire, Indeed
Earlier today I was sitting in the Apple Store as my laptop churned away in front of me and I finally got around to reading “Minds On Fire: Open Education, the Long Tail, and Learning 2.0,” an article by John Seely Brown and Richard P. Adler...
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Bill Huston
on 23 Oct 2009
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Introducing Daily Video Vocab!
Sick of flash cards?! Try Daily Video Vocab from MindFish. About a week ago, MindFish fired up a new Facebook page. Click here to go to our new Facebook page. As our young SAT Quest community (and most of the world at large!) is made up of Facebook users...
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Bill Huston
on 31 May 2009
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Say Goodbye to Test Anxiety
Test Anxiety is a common culprit behind poor test performance. A recent Article in Scientific American's Mind Magazine pointed to experimental evidence that the brain center for anxiety occurs in the same location as high cognitive processing. Consequently...
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Ryan Krug
on 17 Apr 2009
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