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College Board Changes AP Exams Again to Accommodate Pandemic-Era Testing

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Since the Advanced Placement (AP) program began in the 1950s, tens of millions of students have taken their exams in school, with paper and pencil, over the course of several hours. The result was an open book, open note, abbreviated at-home exam , using whatever device a student had available. It was not without its hiccups.

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Will AI Make Standardized Tests Obsolete?

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For instance, ETS, one of the oldest and largest players in standardized testing, is moving away from traditional college entrance exams like the SAT to focus on new approaches to measure the skills and persistence of students. It’s been a period of upheaval for academic testing in general and for the 75-year-old nonprofit ETS in particular.

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LearnWith.AI Launches TeachTap, the first AI-powered learning app for AP exam prep and high school courses

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By combining a social media-style interface with academically rigorous content, TeachTap makes learning more fun, efficient and accessible than ever before. TeachTap does not include access to external websites to ensure integrity in the material presented to students. Chief Product Officer Phil Hewinson.

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Retrieval in Action: Creative Strategies from Real Teachers

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And that class, since I started doing that, is a 20 percent improvement in the exam grades. But it’s not retrieval if they have access to the information they’re trying to retrieve. ” Peer Instruction This strategy turns a simple multiple-choice question into a quick collaborative activity.

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Why Old Arguments for Earning a Diploma Don't Resonate With My Students — and Which Ones Will

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In our current educational landscape, you have to either receive a traditional high school diploma or pass the General Educational Development exam to access most postsecondary schooling options, including trade schools and community colleges.

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How Faculty Can ‘Click’ Their Way to a More Inclusive Classroom

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This is neither helpful for high-achieving students who needs an extra challenge nor students who may be under-prepared for college, as asking easy questions may lure them to a false sense of security in their preparedness for future assessments. It is important that CRS questions mirror questions that might appear on an exam.

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How AI Can Help Educators Test Whether Their Teaching Materials Work

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One example in particular is getting students that are taking, say, an online chemistry course to create a multiple choice question for us. And so if you have a course with 5,000 students in it, and everyone elects to create a multiple-choice question, you now have 5,000 new multiple-choice questions for that chemistry course.

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