Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

In order to provide useful information to instructors and students about student achievement, it must be understood that student assessment is more than just a grade because it should link student performance to specific learning objectives. The post Are Your Assessments Fair and Balanced? Dr. Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts.

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Edsurge

MARCH 5, 2018

When the Opt-Out movement gained traction in 2015, more than 20 percent of New York students (about 200,000) in grades 3 through 8 declined to take state standardized exams, a statistic that raised questions about the future of such testing. This could mean it will be a long time before students see any innovations to their state exams.

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eSchool News

JULY 20, 2016

New programs that can produce school leaders who are more capable of improving schools and raising student achievement are essential to school districts across the country. On the 2015 AzMERIT statewide benchmark exam, only 2 percent of ELLs passed the language arts section, and 6 percent passed the math section of the exam.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 24, 2024

Earlier this year, she was supposed to take an exam. She never took the exam. There’s slightly more evidence that poor achievement more often fuels math anxiety than the other way around, though there’s evidence going both ways, she adds. I mean, to me, this is not fair to students,” she says.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2018

Employers will stop trusting schools to vet their candidates with metrics like the ACT, SAT and Advanced Placement (AP) exams. But because those standardized tests today are considered synonymous with student achievement, many teachers feel obligated to “teach to the test.” It’s already happening , surveys show.

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Equity is the fair and just access to opportunities and resources for all. Equity is achieved when students receive resources according to need. Assessments should be diverse with less focus on high-stakes exams. Fetter (2021) shared that in her experience with high-stakes exams, after the pandemic they did not make sense.

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Accessibility Exams Learning Peer Review 98

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Equity is the fair and just access to opportunities and resources for all. Equity is achieved when students receive resources according to need. Assessments should be diverse with less focus on high-stakes exams. Fetter (2021) shared that in her experience with high-stakes exams, after the pandemic they did not make sense.

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Accessibility Exams Learning Peer Review 94

eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2022

Secondly, we will see the need for greater access to real-time data and analytics to empower teachers to intervene when needed to accelerate individual student achievement. And those exams–as the learner progresses–will include questions from previous assessments to ensure information is being retained.

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Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Cultivating this mindset is vital for students as it offers them a broader perspective and a sense of fairness, empowering them to confront challenges with resilience and optimism. They cultivate a curiosity to explore and understand various fields deeply, rather than focusing on only grades and exams.

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Edsurge

JULY 26, 2018

The company works with higher-ed institutions to create this list of achievements that can range from perfect attendance and participating in extracurricular activities to maintaining a high GPA and passing an AP exam. The platform “helps students understand what it takes to become a strong college applicant,” she says.

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Schools Students Exams Fairness 105

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Cultivating this mindset is vital for students as it offers them a broader perspective and a sense of fairness, empowering them to confront challenges with resilience and optimism. They cultivate a curiosity to explore and understand various fields deeply, rather than focusing on only grades and exams.

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Instructors Students Motivation Intelligence 115

eSchool News

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Secondly, we will see the need for greater access to real-time data and analytics to empower teachers to intervene when needed to accelerate individual student achievement. And those exams–as the learner progresses–will include questions from previous assessments to ensure information is being retained.

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Hybrid Learning Communication Accessibility Languages 288

Cal Matters

MAY 14, 2025

Middle schoolers have long been eligible to enroll in college classes in California, though only a few, high-achieving students actually do it. Unlike AP classes, which include expensive exams and are limited to certain subjects and high-performing students, these community college classes cover a range of topics and are open to all students.

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Middle School Middle School Counselling Schools 114

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 13, 2023

This article aims to share ideas and strategies that can help reduce barriers to learning, ensuring equal access to education and the opportunity for all students to achieve their full potential, regardless of ability. Here are a few key suggestions to make the course more accessible.

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Disabilities Learning Spaces Universal Design Learning Disabilities 98

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 13, 2023

This article aims to share ideas and strategies that can help reduce barriers to learning, ensuring equal access to education and the opportunity for all students to achieve their full potential, regardless of ability. Here are a few key suggestions to make the course more accessible.

Disabilities 98

Disabilities Learning Spaces Universal Design Learning Disabilities 98

k12 Online Schools

APRIL 28, 2025

Admissions committees want to see well-rounded individuals who have a story to tell, and online students have rich stories about resilience, creativity, and independent achievement. Achievements in competitions lend credibility to a student’s profile. However, test scores alone dont define an applicant anymore.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 5, 2023

As educators have looked to alternatives to assigning essays, one idea that has bubbled up is to bring back oral exams. But even fans of administering oral exams admit a major drawback: They’re time-consuming, and take a lot out of educators. Even so, some educators have been giving the oral exam a try.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 17, 2015

Virtually every sector of the population has to take standardized exams. Like in other states, here in Iowa high stakes exams start in 3rd grade. In wealthy neighborhoods in New York, there are strong parent movements to opt out their kids from the exams. Instead of castigating poor parents, help them get the skills they need.

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Education Exams Testing Fairness 91

Edsurge

APRIL 18, 2023

In an essay published earlier this month in The Chronicle of Higher Education, history professor François Furstenberg argues that companies promising to “deliver a ‘competency-based, life-skills-based achievement record’” do so primarily in order to sell their technology. We think that will give more young people more opportunities.”

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Skills Learning Testing High School 217

Scholarly Teacher

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

defines equity-focused teaching as “a learning environment where students have equal access to learning, feel valued and supported, experience achievement of course outcomes, and have a responsibility to equitable engagement and treatment in the learning community” (para. Admittedly, some have more to do with their learning interests (i.e.,

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Robert Kaplinsky

DECEMBER 6, 2023

If were a society that truly believes in equity, we cant exploit people for centuries and then pretend like everythings fair now. Groups that have been historically oppressed, both in the United States or in Australia, are not able to level the playing field on their own. Ive never heard of something like that in the United States.

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Math Education Learning Activities 52

Edsurge

MAY 16, 2017

The reason he sold appears to boil down to his belief in the quality of Kaplan University (he even co-teaches a course for its business school) and his hope that making it part of Purdue will elevate its reputation and success in ways it could never achieve as a for-profit university. . What are the functions that Kaplan will be providing?

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