Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 8, 2023

Exam blueprints are a teaching tool that is still shrouded in controversy. While some educators swear by their effectiveness, others argue that they limit creativity and could potentially facilitate cheating. Understanding the utility and impact of exam blueprints from a student perspective can be a game-changer.

Exams 119

Exams Fairness Instructors Teaching Methods 119

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 8, 2023

Exam blueprints are a teaching tool that is still shrouded in controversy. While some educators swear by their effectiveness, others argue that they limit creativity and could potentially facilitate cheating. Understanding the utility and impact of exam blueprints from a student perspective can be a game-changer.

Exams 111

Exams Fairness Instructors Teaching Methods 111

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

In higher education, there has been an over-reliance on administering summative assessments and simply assigning student grades, often with minimal to no feedback provided prior to the conclusion of the course. As both formative and summative assessments have a distinct purpose, they are used simultaneously in educational settings.

Fairness 122

Fairness Instructors Feedback Evaluation 122

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Initially–and ironically–they were designed to foster diversity in higher education. Harvard introduced the SAT ® Exam to identify talented students nationwide, breaking regional biases and creating opportunities for working-class students. Over time, standardized tests have evolved in many ways. in 2009 to 3.11

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Testing Exams Evaluation History 270

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

In higher education, there has been an over-reliance on administering summative assessments and simply assigning student grades, often with minimal to no feedback provided prior to the conclusion of the course. As both formative and summative assessments have a distinct purpose, they are used simultaneously in educational settings.

Fairness 109

Fairness Instructors Feedback Evaluation 109

Edsurge

JANUARY 4, 2019

EdSurge Independent was created in 2016 as a way to change that by providing college and university students a platform to share their ideas, concerns, excitement and frustrations with the way technology shapes teaching and learning in higher education. Are standardized tests a fair gauge for predicting college success?

Fairness 163

Fairness Education Students Disabilities 163

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. Their assessments are currently used by more than 8.5 million students across two states.

Exams 109

Exams Testing Disabilities Learning 109

eSchool News

JUNE 11, 2024

Provide support for staff : Behind every successful school is a dedicated team of educators. This could include science fairs, art exhibitions, or community service projects. Clear communication : Ensure that all stakeholders are well-informed about end-of-year procedures, such as exams, grading, and returning textbooks.

Achievement 296

Achievement Schools Counselling Feedback 296

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.

Exams 190

Exams Lecturing Instructors Testing 190

eSchool News

JULY 20, 2016

Back-to-school is getting closer and closer, and as it approaches, stakeholders and ed-tech vendors are working to create research and products that identify educational needs and truly improve teaching and learning in the classroom. K-12 classroom instructors, instructional coaches, and educational administrators are invited to enroll.

Teaching 186

Teaching Exams Learning Disabilities 186

Faculty Focus

MAY 2, 2023

“ Technology can become the wings that will allow the educational world to fly farther and faster than ever before – if we allow it (Arledge).” ” ChatGPT has given the field of higher education another opportunity to fly farther and faster. Will we allow it? Every time I use ChatGPT, I am amazed at its capability.

Education 116

Education Academic Integrity Fairness Exams 116

Edsurge

JANUARY 24, 2024

Earlier this year, she was supposed to take an exam. She never took the exam. The fear or nervousness that occurs when performing or learning math is, by some accounts, the most common form of education-related anxiety. I mean, to me, this is not fair to students,” she says.

Math 210

Math Exams Students Testing 210

Edsurge

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.

Exams 123

Exams Fairness Assignments Testing 123

Faculty Focus

MAY 2, 2023

“ Technology can become the wings that will allow the educational world to fly farther and faster than ever before – if we allow it (Arledge).” ” ChatGPT has given the field of higher education another opportunity to fly farther and faster. Will we allow it? Every time I use ChatGPT, I am amazed at its capability.

Education 98

Education Academic Integrity Fairness Exams 98

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

With schools and testing centers closed across the country, COVID-19 has prevented at least one million students in the high school class of 2021 from taking the ACT or SAT exams. Many hundreds of thousands of students are still waiting to take an exam. Is There a ‘Better Way’?

Testing 162

Testing Exams Internet Fairness 162

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

In a large, diverse district, she works with children and families who face significant barriers to health care — be it because of language, education, time or money. That is what school nursing has always been designed to be, but school nursing is often led by educators in districts. It’s unique, and it’s also full of opportunity.

Exams 199

Exams Schools Languages Language 199

Edsurge

JULY 10, 2020

Even the College Board, maker of the SAT, advised colleges to be flexible about requiring the test in the upcoming admissions cycle because of challenges students face getting to in-person tests and glitches in the group’s efforts to administer exams remotely. Colleges want to support it, measure it, predict it.

Fairness 217

Fairness Testing Counselling Disabilities 217

Edsurge

JULY 30, 2019

We’ve had a lot of success in the open-learning space, driving a fair amount of this growth,” he says. Staff members work with student fellows and faculty to design curricula, dive into education data and develop personalized-learning tools.

Exams 155

Exams Fairness Instructors Evaluation 155

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Key points: AI holds much promise for the future of education AI tools can offer personalization and targeted interventions Discover more about what AI in education holds for teaching and learning Artificial intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing education with innovative approaches to teaching and learning.

Education 130

Education Ethics Gamification Learning Styles 130

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. Addressing Access IT departments have an important role to play in making sure students can fully engage in higher education no matter what devices they have to work with, experts say.

Students 197

Students Lecturing Assignments Exams 197

Edsurge

MAY 16, 2019

and neighborhood information including average family income, familial structure and stability, educational attainment, housing stability, and crime.” We’re not going to use this solely. It is one of many inputs that we would use to arrive at a decision.” Eric Maloof, vice president for enrollment management at Trinity University.

Exams 135

Exams Fairness Testing Evaluation 135

Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2018

The 26-year-old entrepreneur has set out to replace the standardized tests that are deeply entrenched in K-12 and higher education, like the SAT and ACT, and she tells EdSurge her efforts to do so are sure to spark controversy. Other investors include Upfront Ventures, Thrive Capital and Rethink Education. She says so herself.

Testing 154

Testing Teaching Exams Evaluation 154

Faculty Focus

MAY 9, 2024

The rise of generative AI tools like ChatGPT, Copilot, Claude, Gemini, DALL-E, and Meta AI has created a pressing new challenge for educators: defining academic integrity in the age of AI. Write your own GenAI use policies for assignments, exams, or even class activities. oral exam)? Will they automatically fail the assignment?

Academic Integrity 137

Academic Integrity Writing Syllabus Exams 137

Edsurge

MARCH 12, 2019

Key points from the indictment : — Parents participating in the scheme paid between $15,000 and $75,000 per test to have someone from Edge pose as their child and take their SAT or ACT exams for them, or to correct exam questions just after the test to boost their scores.

Exams 101

Exams Coaching Counselling Fairness 101

Edsurge

JULY 11, 2023

What if educators could use the same strategy of “adaptive experimentation” to regularly improve their teaching materials? When you think about that in an educational context, it … really opens up the opportunity to give more students the kinds of things that are better supporting their learning.” Where are you both on that continuum?

Testing 123

Testing Multiple Choice Questions Teaching Education 123

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

A study by the Council of the Great City Schools found that Portland and Oregon students are some of the least-tested in the country when it comes to mandated standardized exams. The tests are designed to last less than nine hours, or 1 percent of the school year. Oregon students took the Smarter Balanced tests for the first time last spring.

Testing 145

Testing Teachers Math Essay 145

Edsurge

JULY 26, 2016

In 2015, the number of students taking the AP CS exam increased by nearly 24 percent. The exam has traditionally suffered from a lack of racial and gender diversity; conventional CS concepts were not adaptable to ethnically diverse students. This isn’t new.

Art 112

Art Culture Science Exams 112

eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2022

2021 brought with it new COVID-19 variants, the dreaded school COVID quarantine, and renewed calls to support the nation’s educators, who have worked tirelessly (and constantly) to support students’ learning, social and emotional needs, and more. — Catherine Cahn, CEO, Twig Education.

Learning 363

Learning Communication Hybrid Learning Languages 363

Edsurge

APRIL 13, 2018

On the heels of one another, two tech titans recently announced higher-education partnerships that leverage transcription technology to make educational materials more accessible to a broader swath of learners. Existing services used in the education sector include GoTranscript , which says it uses professional transcriptionists.

Accessibility 137

Accessibility Lecturing Exams Attention 137

Edsurge

APRIL 19, 2020

I’m still missing one credit for physical education class, and two for my science and technology requirements,” Jiang said. “We For colleges in China and elsewhere, March and April is typically the prime season for students to go job hunting, often at career fairs and similar sorts of events.

Laboratory 106

Laboratory Fairness Students Exams 106

Edsurge

APRIL 12, 2019

The incident has raised questions about the fairness and validity of the admissions process as a whole, and specifically about whether the SAT is as secure as it should be. They got accommodations, and they didn’t take the exam at their [usual] school. The Varsity Blues incident was a very extreme example of it, and a very small one.

Disabilities 114

Disabilities Exams Learning Disabilities Testing 114

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

There is an inherent connection between equity, accessibility, and open educational resources (OER). OER stands for open educational resources; these are open resources with Creative Commons Licenses applied to them. Equity is the fair and just access to opportunities and resources for all. 2020; Miller). 2020; Miller).

Accessibility 98

Accessibility Exams Learning Peer Review 98

Edsurge

JULY 16, 2018

At the end of next school year, thousands of high school students will sit down at individual workstations, laptops in hand, for an end-of-course exam. A Question on Testing When building the new tests, PLTW gathered panels of industry experts, educators and psychometricians, or scientists who study how to make tests fair.

Testing 104

Testing Exams Multiple Choice Questions STEM 104

Edsurge

DECEMBER 20, 2017

At a recent meeting of educational technology policy advisors, a well-informed university CIO casually declared that MOOCs were history. MIT’s Supply Chain Management MicroMasters attracted over 180,000 learners , of who 1,100 completed all five courses in the series, and 622 passed the final exam.

Participation 141

Participation Exams Fairness Study 141

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

From the very start of digital education, the big question has always been: ”How can students learn effectively, if they’re not face-to-face with their instructors?” In virtual education, pedagogy, not technology, drives the metamorphosis from absence to presence, illusion into reality.

Online Learning 150

Online Learning Lecturing Learning Instructors 150

Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 21, 2015

Education is no different. Education pedagogists categorize these sorts of ideas as higher-order thinking and Habits of Mind –traits that contribute to critical thinking, problem solving, and thriving. Anecdotally assess their daily efforts and let that count as much as a summative exam that judges a point in time.

Failure 148

Failure Learning Students Critical Thinking 148

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

There is an inherent connection between equity, accessibility, and open educational resources (OER). OER stands for open educational resources; these are open resources with Creative Commons Licenses applied to them. Equity is the fair and just access to opportunities and resources for all. 2020; Miller). 2020; Miller).

Accessibility 87

Accessibility Exams Learning Peer Review 87