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Quizzes are good for learning, studies show.
Spelling quizzes and math exams have plagued schoolkids for generations. Love ‘em or hate ‘em, you probably remember cramming for tests and that sinking feeling when you walk into class and see a pop quiz on the board.
Most kids and teachers I knew growing up seemed to see tests as a necessary evil: something akin to the educational equivalent of paying taxes.
While students still hate them, quizzes are starting to look pretty good to education researchers. They get results. More and more data show that students who are quizzed on material they learn retain that knowledge better.
Dutch researchers are reporting that they’re able to determine a fetus’s sex with 100% accuracy at five weeks using a maternal blood test. Previous tests had only be available for women several months into their pregnancies. The findings were reported this week in the publication Obstetrics and Gynecology.
Recently a commenter asserted that raising a child is identical to raising a dog. “Both can be encouraged to good behavior through rewards and discouraged from bad behavior through punishment.” “Both demand enthusiastic praise and consistant (sic) (non-angry) discipline.” “Just like a dog, you must put a plastic cone on a child’s head to keep them from chewing on their butt.” Okay, I made that last one up. Or did I?
Many took umbrage with the commenter’s remarks, but I (always the scientist) decided to put them to the test. Over a weekend I pitted my three-year-old against our 1 ½ year old border collie to once and for all resolve the question: who is smarter, a toddler or a dog? Here are the competitors.
Today on Babble:
“Babble Best: Sippy Cups.”
We tested them all. Which sippy cups made the cut?
Read it here.
Joslyn Gray 
Amber Doty 
Julianna Miner 
Monica Bielanko 
Sierra Black 
Meredith Carroll 
Carolyn Castiglia 
Sunny Chanel 
Madeline Holler 
Wendy Michaels 
Rebecca Odes 
Danielle Smith 
Danielle Sullivan 
Katherine Stone 
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