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CAE Presents Case For Authentic Assessment To Improve Student Outcomes At Beyond Multiple Choice Seminar

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Experts in performance-based assessment share research on student engagement and effort. She presented the case for using authentic assessment and CAE’s 20-year history of using performance tasks to measure secondary and higher education students’ college and career readiness skills.

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The AI Advantage: Boosting Student Engagement in Self-paced Learning through AI 

Faculty Focus

AI’s potential to revolutionize the education space goes beyond merely enhancing student engagement. It’s about transforming the educational landscape to allow for greater scalability and more authentic assessment methods, without imposing an overwhelming workload on educators or requiring costly new platforms.

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The AI Advantage: Boosting Student Engagement in Self-paced Learning through AI 

Faculty Focus

AI’s potential to revolutionize the education space goes beyond merely enhancing student engagement. It’s about transforming the educational landscape to allow for greater scalability and more authentic assessment methods, without imposing an overwhelming workload on educators or requiring costly new platforms.

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Understanding why students cheat and use AI: Insights for meaningful assessments

eSchool News

Teachers should strive to connect the content to real-world applications that resonate with students. Research indicates that authentic assessments, which apply classroom learning to real-world contexts, can significantly increase student engagement and minimize cheating.

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Nontraditional but More Collaborative: Edtech Trends for 2019

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The most innovative institutions are responding by proactively involving faculty and even students in the decision-making process when purchasing new technology. Carefully designed technology that focuses on better communication and classroom collaboration will be key to supporting students as higher education continues to evolve.

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?5 Invisible Barriers Preventing Change in Higher Ed

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But there are a few things we know for certain: Textbook and tuition costs are too high, student engagement is too low, and students want choice in how they learn. Everyone has an opinion when it comes to issues facing higher education. Plus, there are new literacies that are not yet addressed in formal curriculum.

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A culture of teaching and learning often produces great achievement but a culture of achievement rarely results in great teaching and learning

Dangerously Irrelevant

What if the learning had no ceiling and students were authentically assessed and did real-world work where they uncovered and discovered content? What if instead of disaggregating data our teachers engaged in quality professional discourse about their work in ways that excited them and their students?

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