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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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DECEMBER 8, 2020

Companies offering proctoring tools that monitor students as they take online exams are now being watched themselves—by Democratic senators. Students relying on your software to further their education have put a great deal of trust in you to reserve their privacy. Led by U.S. They asked for responses by December 17.

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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. Experts are urging caution, however, especially when AI is used in analyzing data and building test questions. “We

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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. But offering a digital SAT to students from their homes raises the tough question of how to prevent cheating.

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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 ). Fill-in-the-Blank Questions. Quizzing in LMS’ to Improve Student Learning. Frequency .

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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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DECEMBER 20, 2017

Panel at NY Edtech Week At Success’ 46 schools in the New York area, students perform at the top 5 percent on math, English and science state exams, and Moskowitz’s words carry weight in the city. The diversity of our economy and the education sector itself is so enormous,” announced Deputy Mayor Alicia Glen.

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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. The tough question now is whether issues of cheating and homework-help sites will continue to flare up after the pandemic. “I

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eSchool News

AUGUST 14, 2024

Worries about using AI for academic help and answering questions led to many discussions on its role in the classroom. Automated grading and feedback : Automated grading systems powered by AI can significantly reduce teachers’ time evaluating assignments and exams. How fast is this AI revolution likely to appear in the classroom?

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OCTOBER 6, 2020

Joseph Ching, a junior at Purdue University, says many of his professors have warned students not to use sites like Chegg, where students are posting homework and quiz questions and getting answers from tutors. is a student will post a graded question in its entirety to Chegg.com,” she adds. They’ve got to take their exams at 3:00 a.m.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2020

It may be the biggest question in college edtech during the pandemic: Should tests be allowed to robotically watch students? 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. In October we did 3.5

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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. Admissions officers and enrollment managers are asking themselves several questions. For example, last year, an algorithm replaced U.K.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

Stefan Stoll isn’t your typical hype man for education technology. What happens in the office hour is the same virtually as it is for students who show up in person:Students ask questions about particular problems or topics, and the professor works through them as if he were in front of the class.

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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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MARCH 18, 2020

Name: EduRev HQ: Gurgaon, India Founded: 2017 This startup aims to help students in India between 15 and 23 years old study for a variety of entrance and occupational exams. Users receive access to study groups and a question bank of tens of thousands of questions.

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MAY 3, 2024

Texas found itself in need of a way to score exponentially more written responses on the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness, or STAAR, after a new law mandated that at least 25 percent of questions be open-ended — rather than multiple choice — starting in the 2022-23 school year. 20 years ago as a student.

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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. Altogether, Byju’s combination of products, financial might and expanding embrace of the learners promises to the company an increasingly powerful force in learning technology.

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MAY 27, 2021

Many students and even some schools have pushed back against the practice , especially objecting to automated services that rely on algorithms that watch students via their webcam and look for suspicious patterns of behavior—sending clips of questionable moments to professors for later review.

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Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2020

As professors and K-12 teachers adjust to the sudden move to online teaching, one question keeps coming up: How much of class time should be done live—known in education parlance as “synchronous” teaching—and how much should be done so that students can do the work at their convenience—or “asynchronous” teaching.

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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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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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SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Meanwhile students are setting up unofficial online channels of their own, where they can ask questions of classmates, gripe about the professor and sometimes share homework and test answers. I loved it,” she says, noting that the students got to know each other by asking questions like what they planned to do next year.

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MARCH 6, 2024

Having taught and worked with seniors in high school for over half of my career, these questions are always present, rarely asked, and, for me, often remain unanswered. Standardized testing has long been protested by educators, parents and students due to its racist origins.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

He encouraged every student to raise a hand every time he asked a question, and if someone who was called on didn’t actually know the answer, they were encouraged to recommend someone else in class who might. But if you make the horizon the rest of their lives, you can help students understand how even studying for an exam has a utility.

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JANUARY 25, 2022

Priscilla Rodriguez, vice president of College Readiness Assessments for the College Board, and others affiliated with the design made the case in a call with reporters that the test now offers a “more approachable and less stressful experience” for students and educators, a goal that they say was “at the center” of the new changes.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 10, 2024

This year in Tokyo, for instance, an 18-year-old allegedly used smart glasses to try to cheat on a university entrance exam. He apparently took pictures of his exam questions, posted them online during the test, and users on X, formerly Twitter, gave him the answers (which he could presumably hear read to him on his smart glasses).

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Edsurge

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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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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FEBRUARY 4, 2022

billion dollars , takes pains to argue that it forbids its users from downloading materials off the site for the purpose of cheating, or to upload answers to homework or exams. It provides a temptation to students who are looking for exam answers and want to cheat in class.” The company he’s joining, valued at more than $3.6

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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.”

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JANUARY 7, 2019

Fred Singer: The question that struck me was, ‘how could it be that kids—born to a generation in which smart phones and laptops are a part of their everyday existence—have to sit in a classroom where someone just talks to them?’ What do you mean when you say ASR is on its way to becoming “foundational educational technology”?

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AUGUST 17, 2018

The question of whether or not to allow students to use smartphones, laptops and other technology in the classroom has been long-debated , and at times, heated. If you ask the a question right then, they’ll get it right,” he says. The students answered 126 multiple-choice questions in class on materials that were just presented.

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APRIL 30, 2020

They also addressed audience questions about how to get faculty motivated to adjust their courses to improve accessibility. So we were able to extend our Respondus Monitor license, which monitors the students during an exam. Audience question]: So I had a question about students with ADHD. It's, “Did you miss the video?

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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.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Mira then had students use Flipgrid to record reflections on the book creation process–what they learned, strategies they employed for writing, and a question for Debbie Ridpath Ohi (the author of the writing prompt). What’s more, Mira reached out to Debbie and she gave her own feedback on the books and answered the questions!

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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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JANUARY 4, 2019

Curriculum and Teaching Curriculum and teaching is top of mind for students curious about educational technology, and this was the most frequent topic that students have written about about so far. You can find the full report here , and a snapshot of highlights below. Want to know more about what these students had to say?

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