Edsurge

DECEMBER 15, 2020

They come from different education and career backgrounds, and they work in distant divisions at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Assessments have long played a central role in traditional education, but the COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the need for smarter, faster and more seamless options. I start from scratch again.”

Education 213

Education Quizzes Exams Textbooks 213

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. million exams. In October we did 3.5 Yet they are quickly becoming mainstream.

Plagiarism 218

Plagiarism Exams Confidentiality Testing 218

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

The pandemic has dramatically altered teaching and learning, and one side effect seems to be a rise in cheating on quizzes and tests, aided by websites designed to help students study. All of a sudden,” she says, “there was temptation and opportunity that never existed for them before during exams.”

Academic Integrity 187

Academic Integrity Exams Quizzes Students 187

eSchool News

AUGUST 14, 2024

Most tools that teachers have for this purpose are lagging indicators such as tests, quizzes, and homework. Additionally, gamification features, enhanced by AI, can make learning more engaging and enjoyable by incorporating game elements into educational activities, and motivating through rewards, challenges, and interactive storytelling.

Teaching 323

Teaching Gamification Feedback Intelligence 323

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.

Exams 162

Exams Online Learning Testing Quizzes 162

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Whether a feature film or an instructional video, the ‘80s and ‘90s were a ‘press-play’ culture that expected students to sit still, absorb and retain, while the educator sat in the back grading. With that in mind, I ask educators this question: How can we use video paratext to advance inquiry and engagement?

Teaching 191

Teaching Instructors Teaching Philosophy Education 191

eSchool News

APRIL 29, 2024

TeachAI , an initiative led by Code.org, ETS, the International Society of Technology in Education, Khan Academy, and the World Economic Forum, announced the launch of a groundbreaking resource for education leaders and policymakers around the world – Foundational Policy Ideas for AI in Education.

Intelligence 258

Intelligence Exams Ethics Learning Styles 258

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. It's the way quizzes and exams are proctored. They’ve got to take their exams at 3:00 a.m. Yeah, I'm teaching myself five college classes.”

Study 196

Study Exams Quizzes Lecturing 196

Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 14, 2024

6 Key trends in education to be looking at, from the Ask a Tech Teacher team: Key Digital Innovations for Today’s Education Professionals The digital transformation is underway, and while its impact on society is undeniable, education is among the most disproportionately affected areas.

Gamification 167

Gamification Hybrid Learning Education Motivation 167

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

As he watched his own kids adjust to online schooling during the pandemic, he felt that Zoom lacked features to let teachers handle standard classroom activities such as taking attendance or giving quizzes. The plan when the company started was to start with higher education and K-12 and later expand into the corporate learning market.

Online Learning 197

Online Learning Technology Quizzes Learning 197

Edsurge

JANUARY 11, 2021

When I started teaching data science and artificial intelligence in Duke University’s Pratt School of Engineering, I was frustrated by how little insight I actually felt I had into how effective my teaching was, until the end-of-semester final exam grades and student assessments came in. So how does one identify a student’s knowledge state?

Teaching 212

Teaching Instructors Quizzes Intelligence 212

Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 14, 2023

Artificial Intelligence–AI–can greatly assist many mundane education tasks. Tools like Siri, Alexa, ChatGPT, and a plethora of apps seem perfect for handling the repetitive and time-consuming aspects of education that take teachers away from the core of most lessons that require critical thinking, creativity, and problem-solving.

Quizzes 148

Quizzes Gamification Teaching Methods Feedback 148

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

The Online Learning Consortium (OLC), one of the 12 partner organizations of Every Learner Everywhere, was charged with identifying and understanding innovations in the digital education landscape. The first goal was to create an environmental scan of the digital learning environment in higher education with a focus on adaptive technology.

Peer Review 217

Peer Review Gamification Mobile Devices Learning 217

Edsurge

DECEMBER 17, 2020

The pandemic has led to a spike in the use of automated proctoring software, which is designed to curb cheating on online quizzes and exams by recording students via their webcams and flagging suspicious activity. These sorts of stalkerware and spyware technology do not have a place in higher education.” “We

Textbooks 178

Textbooks Quizzes Exams Testing 178

Edsurge

MAY 9, 2023

And the way the grading system in education works has long bothered him. That became clear a few years ago, when a particularly bright student in a calculus class Talbert was teaching bombed the first exam. 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.

Grades 201

Grades Exams Feedback Testing 201

Edsurge

JUNE 26, 2019

Four-and-a-half years after Amazon first released Alexa, its voice-activated virtual assistant, the technology is finding its footing in education. The ACT skill, which provides general information about the exam and can help students prepare for the test, will be available to the public this fall. True or false.”

Skills 167

Skills Quizzes Teachers Testing 167

Edsurge

JANUARY 8, 2024

Not long after, Spoon started changing up how she handled quizzes in a calculus class she taught. The problem with this approach, she notes, is that if a student scores a 50 percent on an early exam, sometimes that doesn't feel recoverable and they put in less effort over the rest of the semester or drop the class.

Math 178

Math Quizzes Instructors Students 178

Edsurge

AUGUST 17, 2018

The study , published in the journal Educational Psychology, found that when students divide attention between electronic devices and a classroom lecture, they still followed the lecture in the moment, but that long-term retention was reduced, resulting in lower grades on unit and final exams.

Multiple Choice Questions 140

Multiple Choice Questions Exams Lecturing Attention 140

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

Stefan Stoll isn’t your typical hype man for education technology. Once the session starts, Stoll shares his screen with students and connects to a “virtual whiteboard,” meaning a blank page on Microsoft OneNote where he works through homework problems or practice quizzes. Now, Stoll’s online office hours have high attendance.

Exams 164

Exams Students Quizzes Questions 164

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

I vary both the number and type of questions I use on the quizzes. I administer two daily quizzes in that course. My use of these quizzes has evolved. For a while I combined individual quizzes and group quizzes. Quizzes are a great way to begin class, with students actively discussing and debating course content.

Quizzes 101

Quizzes Lecturing Course Evaluations Exams 101

Edsurge

MARCH 5, 2020

I found some quizzes and tests,” she said, noting that plenty of those materials and PowerPoint slides from other professors were easily found on Course Hero about the subject she was teaching, biomaterials. She followed Course Hero on Twitter, where its feed is full of advice and inspirational quotes for educators.

Study 134

Study Exams Quizzes Academic Integrity 134

Edsurge

MAY 6, 2019

With Advanced Placement exams starting this month, the past weeks have kept Amanda DoAmaral working around the clock. The company’s name is a reference to the best score possible on the AP exam. On Fiveable, visitors can watch livestreams of AP exam review for free. And she’s starting with subjects that she knows best.

Testing 156

Testing Exams Teachers History 156

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Students were already using it as a tool, so I opened my mind to understanding what purpose AI served in the higher education classroom. What were the pros, what were the cons, and how could I embrace the already organic shift disrupting higher education? This was often for written assignments or take-home quizzes and tests.

Intelligence 144

Intelligence Plagiarism Quizzes Academic Integrity 144

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

I vary both the number and type of questions I use on the quizzes. I administer two daily quizzes in that course. My use of these quizzes has evolved. For a while I combined individual quizzes and group quizzes. Quizzes are a great way to begin class, with students actively discussing and debating course content.

Quizzes 94

Quizzes Lecturing Course Evaluations Exams 94

Edsurge

JUNE 8, 2022

What those campuses don’t have is the student-lifecycle infrastructure for that kind of education, to support that kind of flexibility,” says Marni Baker Stein, provost and chief academic officer at Western Governors University, an online institution that offers self-paced courses. “It It’s not writing papers for them,” Renick says. “It

Student Engagement 201

Student Engagement Instructors Hybrid Courses Exams 201

Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2018

A few years ago I had a student named Abby in my history class, who had always been in self-contained special education classrooms. Those mini-quizzes became a way for the students to differentiate what they knew from what they didn’t. Sometimes the details former students recall from class is nothing short of amazing.

Teaching 168

Teaching Failure Quizzes Learning 168

Edsurge

JULY 9, 2021

That’s the ethics debate playing out in one online educator space , a lively back-and-forth carried over from a recent workshop on educational A/B testing. In June, Dartmouth College dropped a cheating investigation into medical students following the dubious use of Canvas to track perceived activity during exams.

Ethics 207

Ethics Knowledge Testing Learning 207

Dangerously Irrelevant

OCTOBER 15, 2021

A number of educators across the country are finding great value in ‘learning science’ books such as Powerful Teaching: Unleash the Science of Learning. quizzes and flashcards), rather than cramming information into students’ heads (e.g., These educational practices can be powerful tools for information retrieval.

Quizzes 143

Quizzes Learning Lecturing Students 143

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 28, 2024

Just as a carpenter needs various tools to create a masterpiece, educators recognized for their teaching excellence possess an intricate toolbox that includes active learning techniques, inclusive teaching practices, community-building morals, and engaging instruction. 2006; Saxena et al., 2006; Greene, 2020; Topping, 2014).

Laboratory 124

Laboratory Teaching Exams Quizzes 124

EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 16, 2018

Summative assessments, such as final exams, can be a great way to assess the efficacy of a curriculum within a school , offering a view of an entire class in order to judge what materials or classroom structures may need to be adjusted for the next year. . “For For some educators, digital forms have been a productive way to achieve this.

Quizzes 159

Quizzes Students Elementary School Elementary School 159

Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 1, 2018

Study.com (formerly called Education-Portal) is a distance learning portal that provides over 70,000 lessons in fifteen subjects (including algebra, calculus, physics, chemistry, macro- and microeconomics, and more) aligned with popular textbooks. All they need is an internet connection and a webcam (for proctored exams).

Exams 83

Exams Quizzes Textbooks Mobile Devices 83

Edsurge

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Lalor is the director of the Landmark College Institute for Research and Training, which studies education strategies and outcomes for students who have learning disabilities. The sudden uptick in requests is intriguing for researchers “thinking about why so few generally choose to disclose,” Lalor says.

Learning Disabilities 149

Learning Disabilities Disabilities Quizzes Exams 149

eSchool News

AUGUST 22, 2016

Kids Discover Online enables educators to mix and match material from science and social studies to facilitate students’ exploration of big ideas through cross-curricular learning. Educators can save content to their Classroom and have questions specifically corresponding to a given article automatically populate the question bank. “It

Multiple Choice Questions 108

Multiple Choice Questions Quizzes Social Studies Exams 108

Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Here are a few more: Quizzes : Assigning tests and quizzes throughout the semester is necessary to assess student understanding of important course content. A nonlinear approach to testing incorporates student-generated quizzes. that demonstrate the content in a more creative way.

Teaching 119

Teaching Quizzes Instructors Exams 119

Faculty Focus

JUNE 30, 2024

Like most articles that synthesize the results of many studies, it’s long, detailed, and liberally peppered with educational jargon. If the student comes to class, does the homework, and studies for the exam, will that produce a high score? Journal of Educational Psychology, 95 (4), 667-686. References Pintrich, P.

Motivation 111

Motivation Beliefs Exams Students 111

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Collaborative learning is an educational environment where students work together in smaller groups to achieve a common goal. To prevent free-riding and social loafing, professors should include individual assessments such as quizzes, exams or reflections, and group work. Incorporate individual accountability. Dillenbourg, P.,

Collaborative Learning 115

Collaborative Learning Education Learning Students 115

Edsurge

MAY 24, 2018

When professor Lorena Barba talks to other educators about flipping their classrooms, the approach she hears is often similar. Their study found that exam scores for undergraduate students in STEM courses were 6 percent higher in active-learning sections. It also found that students in traditional lecture courses were 1.5

Lecturing 160

Lecturing Learning STEM Instructors 160