Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 23, 2025

In the words of James Stockdale, USNA ’46 and Medal of Honor Winner: “The test of character is not ‘hanging in there’ when you expect a light at the end of the tunnel, but performance of duty and persistence of example when you know that no light is coming.” Like the medical examination by DoDMERB.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Students across the country take AP exams in hopes of earning high exam scores that help them opt out of college prerequisites and ultimately save money on tuition. Start talking about the test on Day 1. Let students know that they can expect the test to be rigorous and that, as a result, they need to be prepared.

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Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 3, 2019

As the fall semester comes to a close, many teachers are thinking about final exams or end of the semester summative assessments. Often those semester exams cover a lot of information. The prospect of preparing students for those exams can be daunting. Instead of asking, “How can I help students to review for the exam?”

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

College admissions trends have followed suit, especially regarding standardized testing. The debate over using test scores in college admissions has oscillated between requiring them and questioning their necessity in favor of relying more on student grade point averages (GPAs). Over time, standardized tests have evolved in many ways.

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Catlin Tucker

APRIL 10, 2023

Spend less time preparing for tests! This is an unsustainable practice for teachers, especially if they must create review activities for multiple subjects or classes. This teacher-led workflow also robs students of the opportunity to drive their learning and engage in more meaningful review activities.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 29, 2024

The SAT is to standardized testing what the floppy disk is to data storage. Providers of some of the most popular standardized tests are rethinking their offerings as new AI tools are challenging traditional techniques for finding out what students know — and allowing new ways to give and score tests.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 21, 2019

The same is true of college test prep for exams such as the SAT or ACT—without self-direction, personalized goals, and active practice, you’re not going to reach your target score. When I was a principal, students were on their own when it came to preparing for one of the most influential exams of their life.

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eSchool News

APRIL 24, 2020

UWorld, an online learning tool for high-stakes exams, is offering a free, full-length PSAT practice exam that familiarizes students with the format and content of the real test. Each question answered will provide the student with a detailed explanation of the answer choices to help students actively learn and retain concepts.

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Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

While coaching teachers this month, several expressed a desire to include review and practice activities in their station rotation lessons to help students prepare for end-of-the-semester assessments. Helping students review for an exam often takes the form of a study guide or review game. Student-created Kahoot!

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 17, 2022

As an educator, I’m always looking for new and innovative ways to help my students prepare for exams. And when it comes to exam prep, there’s no reason you can’t use technology to make the process more engaging for your students. Have students complete interactive activities and exercises online.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

I wonder if he is going to be able to take our weekly formative assessment today, or if it will be another case of him rapidly clicking through the test simply to complete it. During “testing season,” I make sure to pay extra attention to her emotional state. This has become a mantra in my classroom.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Longtime professor Cathy Davidson is on a mission to promote the practice of active learning. It’s not just about test scores and whether people learn, she argues, but there’s an ethical issue that sometimes gets lost in discussions about teaching. It contains what are essentially recipes for various active-learning techniques.

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Edsurge

MARCH 23, 2020

Students who were expecting to take online tests proctored by Examity received a notice that the service had been temporarily suspended. Upon logging on, they saw a message which said in part: “Due to staff safety concerns related to COVID-19, the Examity platform is temporarily down.

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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. Aligning tests with the ways students learn in the classroom is one of Gorin’s goals.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 13, 2023

Preparing for exams requires a systematic approach to ensure you cover all the necessary material and feel confident on test day. This pressure can actually hurt your chances of doing well on the exams. Preparation is the best way to not feel stressed and go into the exams with a clear mind.

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eSchool News

MAY 30, 2024

NEW YORK – Brainly, the AI Learning Companion TM used by 15 million monthly active users, announces the release of Test Prep, the latest AI-powered innovation designed to improve test scores, boost student confidence and reduce anxiety. students confirming they don’t give themselves enough time to study for their tests.

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eSchool News

MAY 5, 2021

Reading comprehension activates the cerebral cortex of a child’s brain. For example, in intelligence tests, being in a positive mood increased exam takers’ intelligence and creativity. Learning to read is a higher brain function. The effects are complex, but the rationale is straightforward.

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 8, 2023

Exam blueprints are a teaching tool that is still shrouded in controversy. Understanding the utility and impact of exam blueprints from a student perspective can be a game-changer. They can also help instructors to ensure that exams are fair and equitable. No more guesswork—students know exactly what to expect.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 23, 2024

We’re entering a new era of education where students need opportunities — while they are still in high school — that prepare them for the future of their choosing , not simply by dreaming about it but actively building it,” said Bethlam Forsa, CEO of Savvas Learning Company.

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

To remediate the exam preparation study skills that beginning (and other) students are missing, most of us respond by telling students about those skills that make for good exam performance. Evidence that all these activities were completed is required and they are evaluated to determine the overall assignment grade. “In

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eSchool News

MARCH 9, 2023

According to a recent study , grading is one of the least stressful activities early career teachers have to complete. Are students allowed to retake tests on which they did not do well? Exams that do not reflect that criteria may have been poorly designed. For instance, are teachers allowed to reduce grades for late work?

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Hyper-focused on standardized testing. Because of the way the education system is structured, a lot of curriculum is centered around standardized testing—passing AP exams, getting into colleges, etc. While these tests are important, they limit the ability to put the scientific method in action.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 17, 2016

” Over the past 12 years, Hines has prepared more than 150 juniors and seniors for computer networking certification exams and careers in information technology through Laurel High’s Cisco Networking Academy. “In the past five years we’ve had everybody pass,” Hines said, referring to the certification exams.

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 8, 2023

Exam blueprints are a teaching tool that is still shrouded in controversy. Understanding the utility and impact of exam blueprints from a student perspective can be a game-changer. They can also help instructors to ensure that exams are fair and equitable. No more guesswork—students know exactly what to expect.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 10, 2018

The beauty of playful assessment, she says, is that it can be done without interrupting the rhythm of learning, thereby alleviating student anxiety around testing. Teachers are evaluated on those standardized tests. It’s not unusual for a group of classmates to be pursuing wildly different activities simultaneously.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

A great option also is to program one of the widgets for an Hour of Code activity. classes This is a fun team activity to assess student knowledge on a topic. Tie-ins: This is an excellent gamified review for semester tests, final exams, or other summative assessments. You can also share it to most social media.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 15, 2021

A great option also is to program one of the widgets for an Hour of Code activity. This is a fun team activity to assess student knowledge on a topic. Tie-ins: This is an excellent gamified review for semester tests, final exams, or other summative assessments. Team Challenge. Time required: 1.5 Students love this game.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

For students, practicing mindfulness exercises helps them stay focused and calm during high-pressure moments like tests or presentations. Takeaway for educators: Start each day with a brief mindfulness activity, such as a two-minute breathing exercise. Takeaway for educators: Incorporate small moments of self-care into the school day.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 3, 2019

And for those who have closely followed the international test, which is delivered to 15-year-olds in developed countries every three years, the top-line results won’t offer many surprises. Compared to the previous test in 2015, the scores stayed flat. The latest PISA scores are out. In the U.S., coming in 10th.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 10, 2024

After all, one of the hottest topics in edtech these days is the growing practice of banning smartphones in schools, after teachers have reported that the devices distract students from classroom activities and socializing in person with others. He was detected and his test scores were invalidated.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

APRIL 5, 2017

It’s standardized testing season again in American schools. And that means it’s also time for many schools to bribe and punish their children into submission because those tests are ones they don’t want to take. Over the past couple of decades, the political stakes attached to standardized testing have accelerated greatly.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Over the past decade, the world’s largest educational assessment nonprofit has been testing the waters of education technology investments. ETS, short for Educational Testing Service, has set up a new investment arm to make more— and bigger—deals in this space. That alphabet soup of exams contributed to $2.1

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eSchool News

APRIL 18, 2016

When it comes to mathematics learning technology, students want: Help preparing for tests and exams; 77 percent of instructors provide practice problems or practice tests. Support in completing required assignments; 67 percent of instructors require students to submit or show some homework problems.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 15, 2015

As part of our push toward integrating technology and the Common Core, we adopted a new curriculum in grades K-5, called Stepping Stones , which combines print books with online student activities and a central portal for teachers. It also allows us to take a blended learning approach to our Common Core math instruction.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 5, 2019

In the world of college test prep materials and tools, Don Phan considers himself a connoisseur. As a high school student in Louisiana, he spent hour upon hour practicing SAT questions through the Princeton Review and official practice exams. So it is with some authority that he sings the praises of adaptive test prep technology.

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Edsurge

APRIL 30, 2019

Tests these days start by making students prove not what they know, but who they are. Such are the tools developed and offered by Examity , a provider of exam proctoring tools used by colleges and universities, assessment groups, professional certification boards and employers.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

The most controversial new tech tool for colleges since the start of the pandemic is automated proctoring, which aims to detect cheating on online exams by using algorithms that watch students via their webcam and look for suspicious patterns of behavior—often sending clips of questionable moments to professors for later review.

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