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. When thinking about math, her chest tightens.

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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. Both exams were canceled. Is There a ‘Better Way’?

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

We have no referral sources in the city for kids who don't have insurance, or don't have means to have a vision screening or a vision exam or can't navigate that system. It's incredibly significant, and it can make a difference in their education for the rest of their school years. So I started doing more.

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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. These include Problem Roulette , which offers users random-within-a-topic study problems pulled from old exams, and GradeCraft , a learning management system that helps instructors build game elements into their courses.

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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. Yet Zwick, author of the book “Who Gets In?

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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.

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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. ‘I Feel Ashamed’ To enjoy full access to digital textbooks, video software and other online learning systems, college students ideally would have their own, modern computers, according to Francis.

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Edsurge

MAY 16, 2019

The fairness of the college admissions process has come under increased scrutiny in recent months, after federal prosecutors charged nearly 50 people with crimes in connection to an admissions-fraud scheme. In at least one case, the student was unaware that their parent had paid to improve their score.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 9, 2024

As educators and students grapple with what is allowed when using generative AI (GenAI) tools, I have compiled five tips to help you design or redesign academic integrity statements for your syllabus, assignments, exams, and course activities. Write your own GenAI use policies for assignments, exams, or even class activities.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2018

Employers will stop trusting schools to vet their candidates with metrics like the ACT, SAT and Advanced Placement (AP) exams. That concept is not inherently bad, as long as the test in question is a fair and accurate measure of what a person is capable of—but in many cases, Kantar says, it’s not.

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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.

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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.

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Edsurge

APRIL 19, 2020

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. Chen, the student in Chongqing, said that local universities and government parties have collaborated to re-create career fairs online.

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Edsurge

APRIL 13, 2018

Accessing the transcripts after class is what RIT professor Sandra Connelly says her students enjoy doing in order to review for exams, and for help with their homework. She says that the new technology, however, isn’t perfect. I think if the error rates were even lower., even more students would find the captions useful.”.

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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.

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

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. Assessments should be diverse with less focus on high-stakes exams. Education Technology, Research, and Development, 69, 411-414.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2022

Schools had a crash course in greater instructional technology usage during the pandemic. Teachers have gained so much confidence and are finally using educational technology in a way that enhances their instruction at a scale we haven’t seen. The classroom experience will include increased technology and personalized learning.

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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.

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

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. Assessments should be diverse with less focus on high-stakes exams. Education Technology, Research, and Development, 69, 411-414.

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Accessibility Exams Learning Peer Review 95

Edsurge

JANUARY 30, 2018

How does a school engage a senior and the entire learning community, especially in late April when seniors are close to exams and all students are grappling with spring fever and the not-too-distant target of summer? The answers are found in independent learning, deliberate community building and one very special event.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Learning Management Systems With learning management systems now installed at nearly all higher education institutions here and abroad, instructors can create course materials, assess student progress and generate custom exams.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 9, 2024

As educators and students grapple with what is allowed when using generative AI (GenAI) tools, I have compiled five tips to help you design or redesign academic integrity statements for your syllabus, assignments, exams, and course activities. Write your own GenAI use policies for assignments, exams, or even class activities.

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Academic Integrity Writing Syllabus Exams 98

Gaggle Speaks

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

The addition of educational technology can provide some creative approaches for reaching lost students. Typically, teachers are constantly asking for answers from students—answers to homework, quizzes, and exams. Teachers are fairly used to the notion of lost students—those children who never really speak up or engage.

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Edsurge

JULY 26, 2018

The company works with higher-ed institutions to create this list of achievements that can range from perfect attendance and participating in extracurricular activities to maintaining a high GPA and passing an AP exam. This group “has historically been a population that’s been underserved by the education technology industry,” says Silverman.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Just think: Remote education means no Friday night invitations to a Shabbat dinner for students unfamiliar with Judaism; no public Diwali celebrations that spark conversations of Hinduism and Indian cultures; no late-night pancake parties the night before exams hosted by campus Christian clubs that foster meaningful discussion over a meal.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Schools had a crash course in greater instructional technology usage during the pandemic. Teachers have gained so much confidence and are finally using educational technology in a way that enhances their instruction at a scale we haven’t seen. The classroom experience will include increased technology and personalized learning.

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Edsurge

JULY 31, 2019

These changes also come at a time when a growing number of colleges are moving away from their reliance on standardized tests—by going “test optional” or otherwise de-emphasizing the exam when making admissions decisions. that do not use ACT/SAT scores to admit substantial numbers of students into bachelor-degree programs.”

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Automated grading systems powered by AI streamline the time-consuming task of assessing assignments and exams. This allows teachers to redirect their efforts towards more meaningful interactions with students, fostering a more collaborative and supportive educational experience.

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Edsurge

JULY 11, 2023

And so we want to say, ‘Hey, if we can provide a motivational message or something like, Hey, keep going, like five more problems and you know, you'll learn more, you'll do better on these exams and tests.’ They're not fair [ because of false positives ]. Do not use those, please.

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Edsurge

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. How Did the ELLs Fair in This Hybrid Biology Course? Bringing the Hybrid Model Into Biology. Completion %. Avg Final Grade.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 5, 2023

As educators have looked to alternatives to assigning essays, one idea that has bubbled up is to bring back oral exams. But even fans of administering oral exams admit a major drawback: They’re time-consuming, and take a lot out of educators. Even so, some educators have been giving the oral exam a try.

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Edsurge

MAY 15, 2020

Even when she did host live office hours and exam reviews, not many students participated. Representatives of each group recall the original programs they planned—a comic coloring contest, a sexual health fair—and describe the alternative, virtual options they came up with as replacements.

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Edsurge

APRIL 2, 2018

Photo Credit: Jenny Abamu Despite a relatively new building, constructed in 2003 as part of a former superintendent’s turnaround project, Fisher has suffered from consistent low performance—falling far below state standards on exams and adjusted growth targets designed specifically for the school. During the 2015-16 school year, only 0.7

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Edsurge

APRIL 18, 2023

College admissions officers should take a more holistic view of students’ skills, agrees Harry Feder, executive director of the National Center for Fair & Open Testing, a nonprofit that advocates against reliance on standardized tests in education. We think that will give more young people more opportunities.”

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 12, 2017

And to be fair, Carol Dweck has acknowledged that this is part of her research program, so I'm not criticizing her particularly. And so, even though students hate cumulative exams, those are the ones that actually force them to keep encountering the material repeatedly over the course of a year in order to make sure that it gets in there.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 2, 2020

This article is part of a series of reflections on the past decade in education technology. Now retired, he’s devoted to education philanthropy, and supporting schools that reimagine teaching and learning. Recently, we asked Dintersmith for his thoughts on the decade in edtech, as someone who’s seen a fair number of sides of it.

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Edsurge

MAY 16, 2017

So we're bringing 32,000 students, and that's a fair-sized college or university. When we started it it was a five week trial period where you enrolled, you tried our courses, you went through one term, including exams, and then you could decide to drop if you wished for any reason, or for no reason, and you would be charged no tuition.

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