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Improving Retention and Graduation
Everything depends on retaining and graduating students. Best Teachers Institute has developed researched-based approaches to raising retention and graduation rates. We've worked with hundreds of schools around the world with great success. We bring to this practice over fifty years of combined experience in higher education administration, as well as extensive research backgrounds in educational design and assessment. We work with only a limited number of schools each year. Contact Best Teachers Institute LLC to see if your schools qualifies for this groundbreaking approach.
Retention
Research shows that the best single way to improve retention rates is to improve the learning environment. Best Teachers Institute can help you do that. Our Fellows can work with your faculty and students to create evidence-based approaches to motivating students and fostering learning.
Graduation Rates
Graduation rates go up when student motivation increases. The science of learning has given us powerful tools to stimulate students' interest. Success builds on success, and with our Natural Critical Learning Environments we help higher education institutions help their students to enjoy the pleasures of meaningful learning all the way to graduation and beyond.
Deep Learning
When students learn deeply they value their education. They are more likely to stay in school and graduate. Happy graduates are more likely to become successful alums and give back to the institution that gave them their start. Best Teachers can help you create research-based approaches to teaching and learning that will address fundamental institutional goals.
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Answer to 8-ball riddle: First possibility: Put 3 of the 8 balls on one side of the balance scale and 3 others on the other side. 1) if the six balls balance evenly (three on one side and three on the other), you know that the odd ball isn’t among the six you have arbitrarily chosen. So you take all the balls off of the scale and put the remaining two balls not used in the first weighing on opposite sides of the scales from each other. Now you know which one of those two balls is heavier in only two weighings. 2) Second possibility: When you put 3 balls on one side of the scale and 3 on the other, one group of three outweighs the other group of three. You now know that the heavier ball is in the heavier group of three. In the second weighing, take all balls off the scale and put any two balls from the heavier group of three on opposite sides of the balance scale. If one weighs more, it is the odd call. If they weigh the same, you now know that the odd ball is the one from the original group of three that you did not weigh in the second weighing.
