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NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Instead of reserving them for high-stakes assessments like final exams, some professors now use these tools for routine work like weekly quizzes. Some departments have made tests take-home or open-note, and some have scrapped tests entirely in favor of essays, projects and other assignments that can be done over time. million exams.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Limit Homework or Make it Optional Imagine applying for a job, and the hiring manager informs you that in addition to a full workday in the office, you’ll be assigned three more hours of work every night. And studies have shown that more than two hours of daily homework can be counterproductive , yet many teachers assign more.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Why have I not done open-book exams? Why did I spend a decade giving closed-book exams?” She says she will probably never go back to closed-book exams. “So For Rachel Davenport, a senior lecturer at Texas State University, one key area where she has thrown out old assumptions has been testing. she asks. “I I can’t tell you why.

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Edsurge

APRIL 30, 2019

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. Examity offers a menu of live and automated proctoring services. Kaplan also uses Examity for its nursing test-prep services.

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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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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

While this may make some educators cringe, the reality is that test-enhanced learning, or testing as an aid to learning, has evidence of effectiveness dating back nearly 100 years ( Roediger III, McDaniel, & McDermott, 2006 ). Invested additional time between quiz attempts to better master the assigned materials.

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Edsurge

MAY 9, 2023

That became clear a few years ago, when a particularly bright student in a calculus class Talbert was teaching bombed the first exam. Her score on that exam was so low, in fact, that she realized she had no chance to get an A in the course, no matter how well she might do on future tests and assignments.

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APRIL 8, 2020

Department of Education. For instance, instructors can ask students to post a one-sentence summary or brief reflection after going through an assigned reading or watching a short video lecture. Back then, everything was asynchronous by default.

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Edsurge

MAY 27, 2021

Instead, it will focus on its longer-standing approach of having human proctors watch exams via webcam in real time. “We For many students, he says, distractions at home from living with siblings or in multigenerational households make it difficult to find a quiet place without interruption to take an exam.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

As college classes start up this fall, instructors are handing out syllabi and pointing students to official platforms for turning in assignments and participating in class discussions. That’s what Joseph Ching, an affiliate scholar at James Madison University, has experienced.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 14, 2024

Automated grading and feedback : Automated grading systems powered by AI can significantly reduce teachers’ time evaluating assignments and exams. This can significantly enhance learning outcomes by ensuring students receive the support they need to master the material.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 10, 2024

This year in Tokyo, for instance, an 18-year-old allegedly used smart glasses to try to cheat on a university entrance exam. He apparently took pictures of his exam questions, posted them online during the test, and users on X, formerly Twitter, gave him the answers (which he could presumably hear read to him on his smart glasses).

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 6, 2020

The difficult part is when students are then taking graded questions from homeworks or exams and just posting them up, getting the answer, and then just using that answer as theirs, instead of doing the work themselves.” And then that student who asked it will copy and paste it or use that answer in their own graded assignment.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

But if you trust them to care about their future and you can earn their trust that you care about their future, higher education is an amazing experience. If you assign students a term paper and they have to manage that all the way to completion, you're teaching them work skills. Most of us in higher education don't [appreciate that].

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Edsurge

MARCH 6, 2024

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. If we want a different world, we must educate differently.

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Edsurge

JUNE 8, 2022

Once they sign up for courses, an assigned mentor is supposed to check in on them regularly—sometimes even weekly—through a call or text or video meeting. In practice, that meant each Monday, text messages were sent reminding students about assignments due that week, along with estimates for how much time each task would likely take.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

Students cheating on assignments is hardly a new or surprising problem. In research and surveys conducted by Dr. Donald McCabe and the International Center for Academic Integrity over the span of 12 years, 68 percent of undergraduates who responded admitted to cheating on tests or written assignments.

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Edsurge

MAY 3, 2024

Rather, the natural language processing program was trained using 3,000 written responses submitted during past tests and has parameters it will use to assign scores. She’s spent much of her career thinking about how education technology and assessments can be improved for bilingual children. 20 years ago as a student.

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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 did not use demographic data. The algorithm worked.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Learning management systems send alerts to parents about missed assignments and grades. You point out that some well-intentioned tools can have unintended consequences for kids, even online gradebooks that notify parents of grades and missed assignments. Parents and friends post their images on Instagram and Snapchat. How do you mean?

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Edsurge

MARCH 2, 2020

So Boyle, who is a secondary school principal at Dalian American International School, located on China’s northeastern coast, let teachers email assignments during the first few weeks out and skip most instruction. A Pear Deck spokesperson says the company is working with 154 schools in the region, offering free access to impacted educators.)

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Edsurge

MARCH 5, 2020

At about the same time, though, Rutgers officials sent out an email to all faculty at the university, warning about Course Hero and another service, Chegg, where students were posting faculty tests and exams without permission. “We And sure enough I found four of my homework assignments and my slides,” she said. “I E.G. Puckett U.C.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Imagine the students with the least and the most experience using educational videos. What kind of introductory text, video or activity might lead everyone into the assigned video without overwhelming them? An assigned video may be a personal favorite of the instructor, but to students, it’s new, and not necessarily of interest.

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Edsurge

APRIL 5, 2021

One student described relying on a laptop that could not handle exam-proctoring software, causing the student to miss a test. And as a result, they may find themselves less able to participate in learning. Student interviews from the EDUCAUSE report offer glimpses of how this plays out.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

That is the clearest takeaway from survey results published this month by the ACT Center for Equity in Learning, an arm of the nonprofit best known for its college entrance exam. Otherwise, Moore says, “students may not have the motivation to be self-directed and do the material that has been assigned to them.”

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

When it comes to technology, what schools buy is not always what they use. Last year, a report from BrightBytes, a company that tracks education technology usage, found that the majority of software licenses purchased by schools went unused. Transformation reports are available to K-12 districts and schools in the U.S.,

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 20, 2022

For all assignments, Laura responds with affirmative feedback with “glow or grow” information, meaning what students need to be aware of for future assignments or shares what they did great. Shawn is a visionary when it comes education technology and how it can change and shape the minds of students.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

With heart pounding, palms sweating and flashes of a failing grade in his mind, 13-year-old Jake is all stressed out because he forgot about his Monday morning science exam with Mr. Bunting. Before the exam, Mr. Bunting leads Jake and his classmates through a stress management technique called, “The Long Exhale.”

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Reforming Developmental Education According to the Community College Research Center, developmental education is essentially a “reteach” of high school and junior high school reading, writing, and math. This, understandably, presented a grave concern for business and industry, legislators, educators and ultimately students.

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MARCH 6, 2020

to announce that it would halt in-person classes and exams, in hopes that that will slow the spread of the coronavirus. Meanwhile, the Center for Disease Control issued interim guidance on Friday for higher education institutions to plan, prepare and respond for coronavirus cases.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 9, 2024

As educators and students grapple with what is allowed when using generative AI (GenAI) tools, I have compiled five tips to help you design or redesign academic integrity statements for your syllabus, assignments, exams, and course activities. Students might benefit from using these tools on some assignments, but not others.

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Academic Integrity Writing Syllabus Exams 137

Edsurge

APRIL 28, 2020

Like many educators, I’m still contemplating how to best adapt my teaching to online learning. By assigning units in Khan Academy that we had already covered prior to the closing of our school, I’m incorporating many of the research-based practices discussed here. My answer is yes, I believe so. Do These Techniques Really Work?

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Edsurge

JUNE 6, 2017

We always have written exams, but it never hurts to have students communicate more through writing.” Students who chose to participate in the program completed the writing assignments, submitted them electronically, and received three of their peers’ assignments for review. “We

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Edsurge

JULY 22, 2020

The latest results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress found that scores for eight-grade students on civics, history and geography exams all dipped from 2014 to 2018. Often these are assignments, exercises and drills that resemble what one may find in a textbook. And perform worse on tests.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Now you can use Zoom, but take attendance, hand out assignments, give tests or quizzes, proctor those exams, and talk one-on-one with the students,” he says. “We The plan when the company started was to start with higher education and K-12 and later expand into the corporate learning market.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Policymakers in Tennessee and Texas, for example, have explicitly encouraged the use of technology in developmental education reform. Instructional technology provides course content, as well as assessment mechanisms and opportunities for students to practice and apply the material. Online videos (e.g.

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Technology Education Syllabus Counselling 152

Edsurge

MAY 2, 2018

The results of the study pose big questions for reform-minded educators who advocate for students to have multiple chances on exams. It can be done before or after practice assignments. It is normally used to help lagging students build math skills.

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