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APRIL 3, 2020

Changes to a major standardized test usually take months—or even years—to develop and are typically announced well in advance of the first official exam sitting. While usual security rules prohibit students from bringing to a testing room much more than a few pencils, this year’s AP exams will be open book and open note.

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MAY 1, 2024

“TeachTap is a game-changer for students preparing for AP exams and studying high school courses. Pearson Edgington, a high school senior who piloted TeachTap, shared his experience: “TeachTap made studying for my AP exams actually fun and interesting. Chief Product Officer Phil Hewinson. About LearnWith.AI LearnWith.AI

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MAY 3, 2024

Using technology to score essays is nothing new. Still, some educators and parents alike felt blindsided by the news about auto-grading essays for K-12 students. She’s spent much of her career thinking about how education technology and assessments can be improved for bilingual children.

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JUNE 10, 2025

For instance, there’s a corner of TikTok reserved for tech influencers who rack up thousands of views and likes teaching students how to most effectively use AI programs to generate their essays, including step-by-step instructions on bypassing AI detectors. It’s not especially high-tech or even particularly ingenious.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Instead of reserving them for high-stakes assessments like final exams, some professors now use these tools for routine work like weekly quizzes. Some departments have made tests take-home or open-note, and some have scrapped tests entirely in favor of essays, projects and other assignments that can be done over time. million exams.

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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.

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JANUARY 6, 2023

College’s Use of Exam-Proctoring Software to ‘Scan’ Rooms Violated Privacy Rights, Judge Finds By Jeffrey R. Young Software that “watches” students as they take exams from home is a contested area of edtech, one that pits colleges’ interest in preventing cheating against students’ privacy. Tapia In a moving personal essay, Ruby C.

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JULY 29, 2020

In the latest episode of EdSurge Live, we interviewed two professors who have long questioned traditional methods of grading about how to approach exams, essays and other assessments next semester: Susan D. Tony Crider, professor of astrophysics at Elon University, offers his students “ epic finales” instead of final exams.

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APRIL 9, 2020

That’s the approach the College Board is taking this spring with its adapted AP exams. For example, a philosophy professor at University of Notre Dame designed an introductory course that draws on “ interactive digital essays ” published on mobile-friendly web pages attached to the online syllabus, reports Inside Higher Ed.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

The old SAT was put to bed earlier this year, and it’s in with a new version of the college admissions exam. In March 2014, College Board announced a plan to redesign the SAT , removing obscure vocabulary, changing focus of math areas, removing penalty for guessing on questions and making the essay optional.

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MARCH 11, 2022

If we assume that a university or school implements blockchain technology to store students’ educational data, who decides what kind of information will be recorded? A blockchain would most likely contain exam results or internship data, but is the publication of an article also something that should be stored?

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

With heart pounding, palms sweating and flashes of a failing grade in his mind, 13-year-old Jake is all stressed out because he forgot about his Monday morning science exam with Mr. Bunting. Before the exam, Mr. Bunting leads Jake and his classmates through a stress management technique called, “The Long Exhale.”

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MARCH 20, 2024

Earlier that day, I received an email from our district informing me that my school had the lowest completion average on our beginning of year reading exam. Interestingly, the inspiration for this essay came from a recent one-on-one with the assistant principal I unintentionally harmed.

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OCTOBER 31, 2017

Since passing a test isn’t necessarily representative of student growth, it is also our responsibility to seek out alternative methods for gauging growth that may not be demonstrated on a state exam. The milestone included three types of essays: informative, argumentative and narrative. Something didn’t add up.

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DECEMBER 26, 2019

Like last year , we’ve also added a selection of editor’s picks—our favorite stories, op-eds and investigations from the past year spotlighting how the education system is meeting a diverse array of challenges. Happy New Year! Everyone Has Invisible Bias. This Lesson Shows Students How to Recognize It. So she created one. Here’s why.

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JUNE 12, 2018

Students may feel relief as they hand in an exam, but the moment marks the beginning of stress and anxiety for instructors and teaching assistants, who may need to grade hundreds of tests in a short time. To use Gradescope, a grader scans exams or assignments into the platform and each question is given a rubric.

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JULY 11, 2023

His professor said he’d used ChatGPT to take a history exam, the charge buttressed by GPTZero, one of the many new tools that have emerged to try to detect student use of generative AI systems. William Quarterman, a student at the University of California at Davis, was accused of cheating.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Colleagues suggested that I switch to multiple choice exams, but I declined because I believe strongly in the importance of open-ended problem solving. Ask students to review something short and simple, such as the introduction to an essay. There is no way to give personalized feedback when I have 600 pages to grade each week.

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APRIL 26, 2018

Do exams still serve a purpose? Where there’s an alternative there must be a standard, so we started our chat creating a list of what those standard assignment are: exams, quizzes, essays, reports, lab manuals and the like. But why, then, do so many courses still rely on exams? In other words, exams do serve a purpose.

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MAY 16, 2022

Thus this latest shot across the bow, which comes courtesy of a new report from ACT , the nonprofit behind the college entrance exam. In March, the largest four-year public college system in the U.S., California State University, also stopped requiring students to submit them. grade points, from 3.17 in 2010 to 3.36 in 2021. “We

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JULY 31, 2019

The era of trying to measure aptitude is finally over,” wrote the College Board’s president, David Coleman, in an essay in The Atlantic earlier this summer, referring to the version of the test that has been in place since 2014, when the SAT was last revised.

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JULY 10, 2020

In addition to assessing students’ grades and essays, admissions officers have long looked to the SAT and ACT to help them decide who will make it in their campus settings, and beyond. But the COVID-19 pandemic has led to the sudden decision by many colleges to make submitting such scores optional.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

It says, “he's not cut out to be a minister or teacher and the education you have at Harvard is just for those things and it doesn't prepare him for this new industrial world we're living in, in 1869.”. Well, that essay was called The New Education and it was so important that Harvard hired this young man—he was only 34.

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OCTOBER 13, 2016

In addition, students share their written essay work via Pathbrite , an e-portfolio platform perfectly designed for classrooms through their unique feedback tools. Each week, students post, react, and upload media messages that are scored on a common rubric.

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MAY 22, 2017

Formative assessments support competency-based education by making sure teachers understand students’ needs, so that they can modify instruction as it is happening. Tasking students with submitting a video essay, for example, provides teachers with the opportunity to assess students’ understanding of a topic.

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AUGUST 11, 2017

The school offers each students, who often arrive to the school from local shelters or the streets, two physical and two dental exams, as well as on-site mental health counseling. “A child’s wellbeing is as important as their academics.” Mitchell is raising $50,000 to keep Crete Academy from going in the red this fall. The HadaNõu Collective.

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MARCH 1, 2018

“I need a 10 page essay written on the deforestation of the Amazon rainforest. Universities usually have strict honor code policies about students cheating on exams, homework and other assignments. Must have 7 resources.” And you don’t need to be an expert in academic honor codes to know that it constitutes as cheating. “You

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

Data was only collected from a formal diagnostic, which was similar to the final exam, and a final exam or state test in the classes that required one, like American Literature. During whole-group instruction, we worked on essay organization, a domain where students scored low across the board.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 9, 2024

The good news is educational technology is making it far easier to not just improve academic outcomes, but to help students thrive through what should be one of the most formative experiences many of us will have in our lifetimes. Great instructors go a step further by asking more of their students.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

The 25-year-old teacher is herself a student—an apprentice, in fact—and must use that quiet period to crank through some homework, study for an exam, start drafting an essay or take a quiz. Only, for Mercedes-Perez, that sacred time is cut short.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 9, 2024

The good news is educational technology is making it far easier to not just improve academic outcomes, but to help students thrive through what should be one of the most formative experiences many of us will have in our lifetimes. Great instructors go a step further by asking more of their students.

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AUGUST 21, 2018

There are multiple-choice questions, coding exercises and two essay questions. Currently, the app focuses on materials for Turkey’s university-entrance exam, but plans on expanding to India. The test costs $19 to take, and CSPA can waive the fee for those with financial difficulties. According to cofounder Ba?ar

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AUGUST 22, 2016

Additionally, the average grade on the Final Exam was 11 points higher in the hybrid class than that on the 7 totally asynchronous (online) sections of the Spanish 1A class running in the same semester. Bringing the Hybrid Model Into Biology. Students from two high schools were enrolled in the course.

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OCTOBER 5, 2023

Since the release of ChatGPT late last year, the essay has been declared dead as an effective way to measure learning. After all, students can now enter any assigned question into an AI chatbot and get a perfectly formatted, five-paragraph essay back ready to turn in (well, after a little massaging to take out any AI “hallucinations”).

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 21, 2022

After trying it out on some essay prompts he’d been assigned, though, he noticed some problems. It seemed to take out some of the thankless legwork (or, some professors might argue, the work) from essay writing, only requiring a little pre-work and a touch of editing: “You can at least write papers 30 percent quicker,” he says.

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DECEMBER 21, 2023

A study by researchers at the University of Cambridge suggests that students who have higher levels of eudaimonia (feeling a sense of competence and purpose in life) also perform better academically on English and math exams. Students who reported high levels of eudaimonia also scored well in both English and math exams.

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JANUARY 3, 2024

As AI Chatbots Rise, More Educators Look to Oral Exams — With High-Tech Twist By Jeffrey R. Young fizkes / Shutterstock The introduction of ChatGPT has educators looking for alternatives to assigning essays. One idea that has bubbled up is to bring back oral exams.

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