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?Online Courses Shouldn’t Use Remote Proctoring Tools. Here’s Why.

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This issue arises because many faculty that choose to teach online refuse to do so if they can’t rely on the same methods of assessment that they use in their in-person courses. These practices often include an exam with a professor monitoring students to reduce cheating.

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How College Faculty Can Beat the Cheat

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Faculty can also give students practice exams so they can see how they’re doing, Millet suggested. Faculty should also consider using more authentic assessments. For exams, faculty can use testing centers or remote proctoring. That will help them feel more confident.”

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New to Competency-Based Learning? Here're Five Ways to Assess It

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When I taught high school English, I used summative assessment results as part of data talks with students. If an exam showed that a student struggled with identifying theme, for instance, I would come to the data talk prepared with learning strategies and together we would develop a plan for remediation.

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What School Could Be—and What Education Investors Get Wrong

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Among them: authentic assessments, teacher agency and what he calls the “PEAK” principles that thriving students embody. If you just study something, cram for an exam, maybe power up with some Adderall, you might get a great exam score. But that is not the same as having really mastered it.

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