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. A first-year seminar provides a perfect structure for this assignment, but it could be used in a variety of courses. All rights reserved.

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Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 19, 2014

I was not prepared for the level of enthusiasm, excitement, and creativity that was generated by this assignment. When I introduced the final exam, I told my students I wanted to be BLOWN AWAY. Similarly, I have students who are great test takers. My students entered the class eager to begin their work.

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Edsurge

JULY 21, 2022

Your pursuit of this kind of assignment reminds me of an interview I did for the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast with Ken Bain , author of "What the Best College Teachers Do." She tweeted : “In my course on The Holocaust, I gave my students choice between a final project and a final exam. I feel weird about testing them on genocide.”

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

The College Board will soon allow high school students to register for Advanced Placement (AP) exams in the fall, rather than having them wait until spring—just before the exams are held. schools, the option to register in the fall led to more underrepresented and low-income students taking the AP exams. million AP exams.

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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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Edsurge

MAY 3, 2024

Texas is turning over some of the scoring process of its high-stakes standardized tests to robots. News outlets have detailed the rollout by the Texas Education Agency of a natural language processing program, a form of artificial intelligence, to score the written portion of standardized tests administered to students in third grade and up.

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eSchool News

MARCH 9, 2023

Are students allowed to retake tests on which they did not do well? Effective instructional design models and psychometrics generally anticipate that students can master an end-of-course exam with a 70 to 80 percent score. Exams that do not reflect that criteria may have been poorly designed.

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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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eSchool News

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Building quizzes, tests, and lesson plans from curriculum materials: Fran Bellas, a professor at Universidade da Coruña in Spain, recommends teachers use ChatGPT as an assistant in crafting quizzes, exams and lesson plans for classes. You can take these ideas and make them your own.”

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eSchool News

JUNE 22, 2022

Even the best math teachers have had students who ace the chapter tests just to go on and struggle with that same content on the final exam—or students who have a hard time grasping more advanced concepts because they’ve forgotten the foundational learning that came before.

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eSchool News

JULY 1, 2024

They could be implemented at the institutional level, but instructors should be given the opportunity to determine the level of generative AI tool use at the course or even the assignment level. In other courses, I restrict the use of generative AI tools to particular uses for specific assignments.

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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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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. These students rarely take multiple choice tests. They believe it could eventually replace traditional math 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 13, 2020

The pandemic is changing the way tests and quizzes are conducted at colleges across the country, with the rapid adoption of new tools that proponents say catch cheating, but in ways that many students say amount to an unacceptable invasion of their privacy. In that model, colleges are typically charged on a per-test basis.

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Plagiarism Exams Confidentiality Testing 218

Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2017

Many educators recognize that standardized tests don’t measure everything—and that some of the most critical types of growth can’t be measured by a numerical score. Seven years ago, during my first year of teaching, all of my eleventh graders failed the Georgia State End of Course Test in American Literature.

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Testing Exams Essay Ethics 130

eSchool News

JANUARY 30, 2023

It’s especially true when it comes to writing assignments: With poor writing skills, students can’t deal with essays and other homework the way they need to get a good grade. ESL students need stellar writing skills to pass exams and language tests or enter the university.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

A well-structured digital study plan can help alleviate this stress by providing a clear path to manage assignments, study sessions, and personal time. With multiple subjects and various types of assignments to manage, keeping your digital materials well-organized can significantly reduce stress and save time.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

These forms of feedback often focus on assignments and homework prior to college, where feedback becomes scarce. They want to know what they don’t know and prefer to review tests thoroughly, identifying trends in their mistakes. Implementing systems like ExamSoft or Canvas for online exams can facilitate this.

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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 ). The Testing Effect and LMS Technology.

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Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2018

Do exams still serve a purpose? Could tests be replaced by project-based work? On Tuesday, April 24 the #DLNchat community got together to discuss and debate: How Can Alternative Assignments Effectively Assess Student Learning? But why, then, do so many courses still rely on exams? Yes exactly.

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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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Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 8, 2024

One of the most accessible practices on this list might be collaborative assignments and projects. We often hear students complain about busy work and we want to make sure that we are explicit in giving meaning to any assigned task. For longer activities, it is beneficial to break the assignment into smaller, more manageable chunks.

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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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Testing Exams Questions High School 122

eSchool News

APRIL 7, 2025

Do you support student use of AI in school and/or for assignments? Some educators (3 percent) are even using AI to save over 10 hours a week, said Jonathan Park, head of AI at Twinkl. In terms of tools frequent AI users would like to have, the following topped teacher wish lists: 64 percent: An AI tool for lesson content creation (e.g.

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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. The student knew the material, but she just wasn’t a good test-taker. The same thing happened on the second exam, and now the student had no way to do any better in the class than a C.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

For Rachel Davenport, a senior lecturer at Texas State University, one key area where she has thrown out old assumptions has been testing. 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 she asks. “I

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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

MAY 27, 2021

The problem, critics say, is that the systems often lead to false-positives, add stress to the test-taking process and invade privacy. Instead, it will focus on its longer-standing approach of having human proctors watch exams via webcam in real time. “We Darker skin tones can prove especially tricky for algorithms.

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Exams Distance Learning Academic Integrity Testing 171

eSchool News

APRIL 15, 2020

A library for centralizing useful content, ranging from reading materials to exam papers. Task management features for assigning homework and following up easily. Polls and quizzes to test knowledge and enable peer-to-peer learning. Analytics to track learning progress and generate a digital report card.

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Quizzes Exams Learning Communication 168

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 17, 2020

UWorld , the worldwide leader in online learning to prepare for high-stakes exams, today announced the launch of AP ® (Advanced Placement ® ) Learning Tools , a new College Readiness solution to help educators enhance instruction, improve student performance, and effectively prepare for AP exams. Pemmasani, M.D., About UWorld.

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Edsurge

JULY 16, 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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Testing Exams Questions High School 115

eSchool News

AUGUST 14, 2024

Most tools that teachers have for this purpose are lagging indicators such as tests, quizzes, and homework. Automated grading and feedback : Automated grading systems powered by AI can significantly reduce teachers’ time evaluating assignments and exams. These lagging indicators exacerbate the issue of lack of capacity.

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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

OCTOBER 6, 2020

While many students say they’re looking for the assistance they’re not getting from their colleges, professors argue that students are using these sites to cheat on quizzes and tests. And then that student who asked it will copy and paste it or use that answer in their own graded assignment. They’ve got to take their exams at 3:00 a.m.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 8, 2021

Keeping up with an ever-increasing workload, with exams and deadlines looming ever closer, can leave many students panicking and striving to juggle their studies and other responsibilities effectively. There’s nothing more anxiety-inducing than realising you have a paper or exam within the next 48 hours! Take Plenty of Practice Tests.

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