Edsurge

MAY 14, 2020

Preparing for a major exam—one that you paid and studied months for—is stressful enough. Several students contacted by EdSurge who took the AP Calculus exams opted for the paper-and-photo option, saying that working out complex problems, and writing the mathematical notations involved, was easier done on paper. Or so you thought.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 25, 2022

Colleges can’t tap into a student’s webcam to scan the room around them during remote exams. One of the students, Aaron Ogletree, filed the lawsuit, noting that his personal documents—including tax forms that he didn’t have time to remove before the exam—were visible, and that the scan was essentially an unreasonable search.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

The College Board will soon allow high school students to register for Advanced Placement (AP) exams in the fall, rather than having them wait until spring—just before the exams are held. schools, the option to register in the fall led to more underrepresented and low-income students taking the AP exams. million AP exams.

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Edsurge

JULY 14, 2020

In her syllabus written before the pandemic, she had planned a final exam with a series of physics problems for students to work out. I wanted to be very sensitive, and I didn’t believe that a traditional written exam would appropriately and adequately address those challenges.”

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

Topping our monthly Top 5 list was a look at how professors are rebooting oral exams to respond to concerns that students can now use ChatGPT and other AI tools to cheat on essays. Some are bringing back a classic approach that was once common in medieval universities: the oral exam.

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eSchool News

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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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

The world’s biggest private nonprofit test maker is dipping its toes into the world of education technology investments. ETS is best known for offering assessments like the GRE and TOEFL exams. And ETS contracts with OECD, which creates the global education assessment benchmark test known as PISA.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

The verbal exam is the world’s first fully automated speaking assessment and covers nine languages, including English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Spanish, Mandarin, Portuguese and Tagalog. Educational institutions use WebCAPE , Emmersion’s adaptive placement exam, to measure learners’ reading, grammar and listening skills.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 16, 2023

Nearly every list of major IT or educational technology issues for 2023 includes the need to further harden educational systems and infrastructure. When multiple emails exist in the same system, as is common in higher education for staff who are also students, those emails should be merged.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Mutual benefits of learning technology…together Learning together with students can provide several benefits for teachers and students to support the overall learning process. Effective Assessment: Digital tools make it easier for teachers to create and grade assignments, quizzes, and exams.

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Edsurge

JULY 27, 2020

As more colleges and school districts prepare to resume remote instruction for the fall, educators may worry how to prevent cheating when assignments and exams are held online. Part of the issue when designing assignments and exams to deter cheating is recognizing what cheating in 2020 looks like.

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Edsurge

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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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Over the past decade, the world’s largest educational assessment nonprofit has been testing the waters of education technology investments. ETS, short for Educational Testing Service, has set up a new investment arm to make more— and bigger—deals in this space. That alphabet soup of exams contributed to $2.1

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Companies offering proctoring tools that monitor students as they take online exams are now being watched themselves—by Democratic senators. This is the latest Senate inquiry into the data collection practices of education technology companies. Led by U.S. They asked for responses by December 17.

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EdTech Magazine

APRIL 26, 2022

It encourages active learning, helps students process, organize and remember information and correlates to higher performance on exams. Educators are developing innovative note-taking strategies with the help of educational technology. In doing so, educators can get…

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eSchool News

AUGUST 10, 2015

A Google Certified Educator, Aplington-Johnson proved her proficiency in Google Apps for Education by taking courses and exams on Google Sites, Gmail, Calendar, Docs and Drive. MCE certification validates that Duncan has the technology literacy competencies needed to provide custom learning experiences for Office 365 users.

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Edsurge

APRIL 15, 2020

We will be ready if we have to be,” said David Coleman, CEO of the College Board, which oversees the widely-used SAT college-entrance exam as well as the Advanced Placement (AP) program, during an online press briefing on Wednesday. That’s a different approach than what the organization is taking to make its AP exams available at home in May.

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Edsurge

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. million exams. We have 2 to 4 million weekly students who are using the product,” he adds, noting that the company was used in 6 million exams in all of 2019. In October we did 3.5

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Edsurge

APRIL 19, 2017

These practices often include an exam with a professor monitoring students to reduce cheating. In response, education technology companies have been quick to create products that attempt to replicate in-person teaching. This kind of resistance from faculty moving to online teaching is not new.

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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.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

He racked up credits in education courses, inching closer to his degree, but could not, despite his every effort, seem to clinch that math exam. Latiker points out, “but he couldn’t teach elementary education because of his performance on the Praxis math exam.” We don’t need a standardized exam for that.

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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.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Our 6th graders, 74% of them passed the state exam. Carnegie Learning is a leading provider of K-12 education technology, curriculum, and professional learning solutions. “Our SBAC data was the best we’ve had for math in 25 years! And we did not teach to the test. We just used Carnegie Learning Math.”

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Edsurge

APRIL 16, 2021

Scarcer exam data and high variation in the number, type and timing of applications and enrollments have made the familiar annual cycles of higher ed operations less predictable. college entrance exams, supposedly predicting how students would do on an exam had they taken it. For example, last year, an algorithm replaced U.K.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Why have I not done open-book exams? Why did I spend a decade giving closed-book exams?” She says she will probably never go back to closed-book exams. “So For Rachel Davenport, a senior lecturer at Texas State University, one key area where she has thrown out old assumptions has been testing. she asks. “I I can’t tell you why.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Some of these insights come from natural cues and human interaction; others via education technologies specific to subjects and lessons. Traditional data, like end-of-year exams, only evaluate a student’s learning progress at one moment in time—and are too late for any course correction.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Another was Ruha Benjamin, a Princeton professor of African American studies who gave a speech about how racism can seep into and be shaped by education technology and other tools. Some speakers discussed empathy directly, like Graetz, who co-led a session about building more of it into the design of online courses.

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eSchool News

MAY 11, 2021

Previously, Larkin served as the Director of Academic Programs for DCPS’ Office of Special Education from 2011 to 2016. Under her, District of Columbia Comprehensive Assessment System (DC CAS) exam scores increased by 10 points in a single academic year. Students in eighth grade made the fourth largest gains.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 29, 2024

For instance, ETS, one of the oldest and largest players in standardized testing, is moving away from traditional college entrance exams like the SAT to focus on new approaches to measure the skills and persistence of students. It’s been a period of upheaval for academic testing in general and for the 75-year-old nonprofit ETS in particular.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

All of a sudden,” she says, “there was temptation and opportunity that never existed for them before during exams.” Professors are seeing cases of cheating during exams skyrocket as a result. But as courses rushed online during the pandemic, things changed. Sue suggested we talk with students to see how they use the service.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 7, 2019

education technology industry appears on track to surpass the amount of investor funding tallied in recent years. educational technology companies whose primary purpose is to support educators and learners across preK-12 and postsecondary education.

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Edsurge

MARCH 23, 2020

Students who were expecting to take online tests proctored by Examity received a notice that the service had been temporarily suspended. Upon logging on, they saw a message which said in part: “Due to staff safety concerns related to COVID-19, the Examity platform is temporarily down. An official at Examity, based in Newton, Mass.,

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Edsurge

JULY 30, 2021

For educators and parents navigating the world of education technology, international players such as Byju’s may not yet be household names. For educators and parents navigating the world of education technology, international players such as Byju’s may not yet be household names. But they will.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

While this may make some educators cringe, the reality is that test-enhanced learning, or testing as an aid to learning, has evidence of effectiveness dating back nearly 100 years ( Roediger III, McDaniel, & McDermott, 2006 ). Quizzing in LMS’ to Improve Student Learning.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 8, 2021

The Foundations of Reading Test is used in Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, North Carolina, and Wisconsin—but other states have similar exams that test student teachers’ knowledge of reading concepts. Students must pay for and pass this exam to receive their teaching license. And increase diversity and recruitment efforts.

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Edsurge

MARCH 25, 2021

There’s a high-stakes exam that’s created an entire industry selling test-preparation products and services to people willing to shell out big bucks for help honing their skills and strategies. It’s the exam to become a licensed construction contractor. A full collection of exam books can cost thousands of dollars.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 6, 2020

The difficult part is when students are then taking graded questions from homeworks or exams and just posting them up, getting the answer, and then just using that answer as theirs, instead of doing the work themselves.” It's the way quizzes and exams are proctored. They’ve got to take their exams at 3:00 a.m. And we move on.

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