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

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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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.

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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?

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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.

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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.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

She suggested a checklist on ways to improve research, design, development and implementation: “It's identifying your learning objectives, thinking about how you're going to assess them, especially beyond exams and quizzes to more formative forms of assessment, and then planning out your activities.

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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.

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Edsurge

MAY 9, 2023

That became clear a few years ago, when a particularly bright student in a calculus class Talbert was teaching bombed the first exam. Her score on that exam was so low, in fact, that she realized she had no chance to get an A in the course, no matter how well she might do on future tests and assignments.

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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.

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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 didn’t really pay attention to the goal of the site—which is for students to share their notes and other class materials.

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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.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Closing Paratext Too often, the guidance teachers give around videos inadvertently relegates our role as educators to what we might call, “learning compliance monitors.” In other words, too often we merely administer a high stakes exam or a pop quiz to check whether they watched a video.

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Edsurge

MAY 2, 2018

The results of the study pose big questions for reform-minded educators who advocate for students to have multiple chances on exams. As personalized and other competency-based learning models spread, education technology vendors are adding more applications similar to QuizMe to their product lines.

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Edsurge

JUNE 8, 2022

Students could access chatbot quizzes ahead of exams to help assess their level of understanding. It’s not getting them the answers when taking the midterm exam. Later in the week, additional messages were sent offering encouragement and reminders that students needing help could reach out to seek support.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2018

Those mini-quizzes became a way for the students to differentiate what they knew from what they didn’t. These students spent extra time with a special education teacher, and I wanted to see whether my learning approaches were helping them grasp new material for the first time. We’d discuss and students would get immediate feedback.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Formative: more informal check-ins—quizzes, questions from the front of the room, or even chats with students—that assess how students are absorbing material and allow teachers to adjust lessons on the fly.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Augustana College in Illinois received increased student requests for academic accommodations, primarily for extended time on exams and quizzes, says Kam Williams, director of disability services.

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Edsurge

JULY 9, 2021

In June, Dartmouth College dropped a cheating investigation into medical students following the dubious use of Canvas to track perceived activity during exams. It’s a timely one, too, as recent news has shown just how tired students are of secret monitoring. But if researchers are A/B testing two innocuous options, what’s the harm?

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Edsurge

MAY 24, 2018

Their study found that exam scores for undergraduate students in STEM courses were 6 percent higher in active-learning sections. The edX CEO last year said interweaving videos with quizzes is active learning, and that's ridiculous.” It also found that students in traditional lecture courses were 1.5

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Edsurge

APRIL 28, 2020

I see now that it is important for students to have practice opportunities to differentiate between similar skills when the stakes are low so that they can be more successful on high stakes assessments like quizzes and unit tests. Spacing The third technique is spacing. This provides an added boost to my student’s retention.

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Edsurge

MARCH 2, 2020

Already she’s reached out to Screencastify, Explain Everything, EdPuzzle and Pear Deck, the latter which is being used to let students draw their understanding and take short quizzes quickly. (A A Pear Deck spokesperson says the company is working with 154 schools in the region, offering free access to impacted educators.)

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Edsurge

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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eSchool News

APRIL 5, 2024

Moreover, traditional assessment tools, including quizzes, tests, and exams, remain essential for gauging student comprehension and mastery of material. These assessments provide valuable feedback to educators, informing instructional decisions and guiding future lesson planning.

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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. Some of the systems also offer video editing, recording and screen downloading options.

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Edsurge

APRIL 3, 2017

The Prova Brasil [the standardized Brazilian national exam]data tell us which are the most problematic areas. The tool will be based on the LearnZillion platform , which is integrated with Google’s education products. Few students learn fractions, probably because we do not know how to teach them.

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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. Educational Psychology Review. American Psychological Association. Dillinger, K (2023).

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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

MARCH 19, 2018

Founded in 1984, Renaissance is best known today for its Accelerated Reader and Accelerated Math programs, along with its STAR formative assessments that aim to help teachers and students prepare for their end-of-year state exams. Across these three main product lines, the company claims usage in one-third of all U.S.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

There is no such requirement for tests and quizzes though—so overall grades can certainly be lower than a B.) Other students look to the model as a sort of opportunity to participate in private tutoring to boost their chances of scoring top grades on Advanced Placement exams or getting accepted to selective colleges.

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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. Educational Psychology Review. American Psychological Association. Dillinger, K (2023).

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 15, 2024

To prevent free-riding and social loafing, professors should include individual assessments such as quizzes, exams or reflections, and group work. International Journal of Information and Education Technology, 7 (4), 301–308. Incorporate individual accountability. Peer evaluation can also promote personal accountability.

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Collaborative Learning Education Learning Students 115

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 15, 2024

To prevent free-riding and social loafing, professors should include individual assessments such as quizzes, exams or reflections, and group work. International Journal of Information and Education Technology, 7 (4), 301–308. Incorporate individual accountability. Peer evaluation can also promote personal accountability.

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Collaborative Learning Education Learning Students 105

Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

Studies have consistently shown that students tasked with responding to interactive exercises, like answering online quizzes, retain more than those tasked with passive learning activities such as reading or watching videos. That sentiment is backed by learning-science research in a concept called the “doer effect.”

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Edsurge

APRIL 20, 2017

Under the new pricing model, the exams sit behind a paywall (similar to the way Coursera operates). They also contain some basic quizzes and interactive coding assignments (mostly in Python). FutureLearn never offered a free certificate to begin with.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 6, 2017

Medical residents were motivated to log into an online course almost daily to complete the practice tests because they were closely aligned with the board exams they would have to take to be credentialed as doctors. I observed that completion rates between these two groups of course participants were strikingly different.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 30, 2017

He has also been selected as a Master Educator by the education technology company Course Hero , which produced a ten-minute film that features Stepanic and his crowd-pleasing class. I can do 30 exams in 15 minutes, which used to take me three days. Editor’s note: What is alucarda spelled backward?]

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