Edsurge

JULY 27, 2020

As more colleges and school districts prepare to resume remote instruction for the fall, educators may worry how to prevent cheating when assignments and exams are held online. Part of the issue when designing assignments and exams to deter cheating is recognizing what cheating in 2020 looks like.

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Exams Academic Integrity Plagiarism Assignments 218

Edsurge

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Pandemic-era disruptions have played a role, but so has the broader worry that a reliance on standardized admissions exams may exacerbate disparities among students of different races and income levels. These days more four-year colleges are dropping their SAT and ACT requirements. It’s a very long-held paradigm that is sort of hard to shake.”

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Exams English Math Instructors 174

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

A free online course from Rice University uses attention-grabbing videos, interactive lab activities, dramatic physics demonstrations, engaging instructors and a free online textbook to help high school students prepare for the Advanced Placement (AP) Physics 1 Exam. Part 4 will offer a comprehensive exam prep.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Our 6th graders, 74% of them passed the state exam. MATHia works hand-in-hand with MATHbook, reinforcing what students are learning from their instructors. The data is easy to access, and it gives you the information that you actually want.” “Our SBAC data was the best we’ve had for math in 25 years!

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Math History Learning Achievement 269

Edsurge

APRIL 19, 2017

These practices often include an exam with a professor monitoring students to reduce cheating. Since the early days of online instruction, the response of many new instructors has been to figure out how to transfer elements of their face-to-face class into the online format. (The

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Exams Lecturing Authentic Assessment Blended Courses 166

Edsurge

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Companies offering proctoring tools that monitor students as they take online exams are now being watched themselves—by Democratic senators. Led by U.S. More than 60,000 U.S. students nationwide have petitioned their colleges to stop using Proctorio, an earlier EdSurge report found. but also ‘Should we do this?’

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Exams Counselling Students Intelligence 210

Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 4, 2018

Here are five great websites to prepare you: The classroom is not the only place you can prepare for your IELTS exam. Thanks to technology, the candidates can access different resource materials online to practice for their examination. Stress has been taken out of your IELTS exam prep. IELTS Simon. IELTS Buddy.

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Exams Instructors Testing Quizzes 74

Edsurge

JANUARY 11, 2021

When I started teaching data science and artificial intelligence in Duke University’s Pratt School of Engineering, I was frustrated by how little insight I actually felt I had into how effective my teaching was, until the end-of-semester final exam grades and student assessments came in.

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Teaching Instructors Quizzes Intelligence 212

Edsurge

JULY 29, 2020

As colleges ask faculty to prepare for a possible online, hybrid or altered in-person fall semester—or all three simultaneously—many instructors are wondering how to best measure student learning. Tony Crider, professor of astrophysics at Elon University, offers his students “ epic finales” instead of final exams.

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Exams Motivation Learning Instructors 201

Edsurge

JUNE 8, 2022

Many instructors describe accommodations they’ve tried, like loosening homework deadlines or offering asynchronous alternatives to class conversations, but some now wonder whether this kind of leniency actually makes the situation worse. Students could access chatbot quizzes ahead of exams to help assess their level of understanding.

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Student Engagement Instructors Hybrid Courses Exams 201

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Though 97 percent of education professionals in Kaltura’s State of Video in Education annual report say that video is “ essential to students’ academic experiences ,” when it comes to educational video practices, many instructors are still pressing play. Keep in mind that students don’t have common expectations around how to use those videos.

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Teaching Instructors Teaching Philosophy Education 191

eSchool News

MARCH 14, 2022

SmarterProctoring provides a flexible and credible way to manage and administer proctored exams with support for face-to-face and online proctoring. Students are also able to practice with the ClassCalc calculator before starting their assessment, so they are confident in using the application on exams.

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Academic Integrity Exams Instructors Testing 130

Edsurge

JANUARY 8, 2024

A number of instructors in the math department at San Diego Mesa College, where she's a professor, had started exploring how to weave standards-based grading — an approach that evaluates students on how effectively they have mastered content — into the way they teach calculus. So far, Spoon reports that the changes are invigorating.

Math 178

Math Quizzes Instructors Students 178

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Another paid offering, an English proficiency exam for higher-ed admissions, has seen a 15-times growth in the number of test takers this year, with countries like India driving this business. Udemy claims its platform now serves 35 million students and 57,000 instructors who teach over 130,000 courses.

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Exams Language Languages Instructors 189

Edsurge

JANUARY 4, 2019

There’s a lot that goes into innovation efforts on campus—think curriculum design, technology training for instructors, and bureaucracy. Access and Equity Across topics, students have raised questions and concerns around who has access to the benefits of technological innovation, and which students or groups are not being served.

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Fairness Education Students Disabilities 164

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

She recalled one instructor who told her that 11 students in her class of 35 turned in the exact same assignment using materials from Course Hero, a website where students can share and access course study materials. Faculty can also give students practice exams so they can see how they’re doing, Millet suggested.

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Academic Integrity Exams Assignments Instructors 146

Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

For students with disabilities, access to information in an online or hybrid class setting could alter the course of their post-secondary experience. Most common accommodations by students with disabilities. in-person, online, or hybrid). Accommodations for in-person classes. Accommodations for online courses.

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Disabilities Exams Lecturing Education 144

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

What do you think is important for an instructor to do when using classroom response systems (polling software or clickers)? Studies have suggested that these tools, which allow students to respond in real time to questions provided by an instructor, can improve student learning. Select all that apply. What’s the consequence?

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Instructors Multiple Choice Questions Course Design Discussions 140

Edsurge

JANUARY 23, 2025

She hears from teachers who have bad memories of math class when they were growing up of the stress of timed tests and of impatient instructors who discouraged them from pursuing math. It also leads to disparities, because it reduces performance in math to a number on an assessment exam, Su says.

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Math Coaching Elementary School Elementary School 194

Edsurge

MARCH 16, 2020

Tony Wan, Managing Editor Access and Equity How can we accommodate students who have learning disabilities in online instruction and practice universal design principles? during lessons, and offer students a variety of ways to complete assignments rather than requiring everyone to write a paper or take a timed exam.

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Schools Disabilities Exams Distance Learning 176

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

And that bothers Stoll, who is an associate professor of chemistry at the University of Washington, because he’s a firm believer that “the personal experience that a student has with an instructor is key to learning.” And the professor says that can be a “major pain point” for students, especially when exams are coming up.

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Exams Students Quizzes Questions 164

Edsurge

APRIL 19, 2017

Ninety-two percent of fourth grade ELL students scored below proficiency on the 2015 National Assessment of Educational Progress reading exams. National Assessment of Educational Progress reading exams. How can we give our students access to information, so it doesn’t have to exhaust the teachers too?” asks Barela.

Language 155

Language Languages English Exams 155

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

A premium license, which costs $99 per month, gives access to the entire course catalog, live online training, practice exams, scenario-based virtual labs and a mentor network. About 1,700 experts make up a network of mentors, instructors and content creators. Course instructors are paid a one-time fee for content.

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Exams Instructors Participation Communication 108

eSchool News

AUGUST 27, 2024

To support their professional growth, teachers will also have continued access to the AI Coach platform , which enables them to watch and reflect on videos of their classroom instruction, set professional goals, and receive personalized observation tips, coaching, and resources from a virtual, computerized AI coach.

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Schools Coaching STEM Evaluation 338

Edsurge

MAY 16, 2017

Mark Zuckerberg may be a college dropout, but that’s not stopping him and Priscilla Chan from trying to help more students access higher education. Today the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) announced a grant partnership with the College Board in an effort to expand access to test preparation tools for assessments such as the PSAT and SAT.

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Instructors Exams Testing Study 122

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

From the very start of digital education, the big question has always been: ”How can students learn effectively, if they’re not face-to-face with their instructors?” I’d send instructors off into virtual classrooms, practically on their own, with little or no support. Sink or swim. All you need is your imagination.”

Online Learning 153

Online Learning Lecturing Learning Instructors 153

Edsurge

MAY 24, 2018

There, students enrolled in the online or in-person course can access a discussion board about the course to ask questions or see how others got through a certain challenge. But Barba believes it is still uncharted territory for many science, technology, engineering and mathematics disciplines and instructors.

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Lecturing Learning STEM Instructors 160

Edsurge

JUNE 12, 2018

Students may feel relief as they hand in an exam, but the moment marks the beginning of stress and anxiety for instructors and teaching assistants, who may need to grade hundreds of tests in a short time. Second, the tool is not designed to fully-automate grading, meaning instructors aren’t out of the process completely.

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Grades Exams Instructors Feedback 99

eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2022

Equity remained front and center, too, raising issues of inequitable technology access, along with racial and socioeconomic disparities and discrimination. More importantly, students will have better access to lessons designed specifically for their learning style. — Suren Aloyan , Co-Founder & CEO, PopUp EduTech, Inc.

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Learning Communication Hybrid Learning Language 363

Edsurge

JANUARY 7, 2019

This technology captures whatever is going on in the classroom and turns it into easily searchable and referenceable video content that students can access anywhere, anytime, on all their devices—which is one piece of the puzzle. Instead of hearing only from the same six students, instructors get feedback from many more.

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Study Lecturing Assistive Technology Exams 165

Faculty Focus

JUNE 1, 2023

Online teaching has become more popular and accessible for students. As such, more instructors are teaching online courses. In-person classes often have this built into the first week of classes and instructors and professors share information about themselves. Why did you take this course? What do you do for fun?

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Instructors Syllabus Feedback Assignments 59

Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2018

Do exams still serve a purpose? Where there’s an alternative there must be a standard, so we started our chat creating a list of what those standard assignment are: exams, quizzes, essays, reports, lab manuals and the like. But why, then, do so many courses still rely on exams? In other words, exams do serve a purpose.

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Assignments Exams Instructors Learning 97

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

As instructors, we want to motivate and engage the whole class and bring everyone to mastery of the course. Allow them access to their peers’ work as well as to provide constructive feedback. Exit checks benefit both the students and the instructor. Instructors can choose to reteach concepts to address any confusion.

Motivation 126

Motivation Instructors Lecturing Feedback 126

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

Instructors who flunk a student on an exam can reasonably expect to see an email from a concerned parent every so often. CampusESP (yes, like sixth sense) is a platform that gives families college-specific news and information, and—with student permission—access to their child’s academic and financial data.

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Syllabus Exams Instructors Study 156

Edsurge

JULY 9, 2021

In June, Dartmouth College dropped a cheating investigation into medical students following the dubious use of Canvas to track perceived activity during exams. Especially if you do so without any form of informed consent or the involvement of the instructors.” But if researchers are A/B testing two innocuous options, what’s the harm?

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Ethics Knowledge Testing Learning 207

Edsurge

JANUARY 13, 2017

In the early days of "course cartridges”—an LMS feature that allowed instructors to plug published content right into their courses—online courses were essentially digitized versions of static (textbook) content. Print content was uploaded and accessible via the LMS, where faculty could view discussion prompts and suggestions.

Multiple Choice Questions 131

Multiple Choice Questions Instructors Textbooks Feedback 131

Faculty Focus

APRIL 16, 2024

In our large animal anatomy course, positive statistically significant correlations were found between pre-course interaction and certain exam scores (Hansen, Basel, & Malreddy, under review). Accessibility and f lexibility Both in-person and online pre-courses offer accessibility and flexibility to cater to diverse student needs.

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Exams Quizzes Students Course Design 114