Edsurge

JANUARY 1, 2017

It’s a question I often ask myself and educators in my professional network. In fact, this question has become the cornerstone of my personal educational philosophy, and a guiding principle for my team of high school social studies educators at Fairfax County Public Schools. They shouldn’t.

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Edsurge

MAY 9, 2025

Not only do these courses offer students a jump-start on credits once they get to college, but they also equip them with skills like time management, critical thinking and study habits that researchers say encourage them to enroll and stay in college. Often state policies require students to take complicated exams or pay to take the classes.

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Edsurge

MARCH 5, 2020

At about the same time, though, Rutgers officials sent out an email to all faculty at the university, warning about Course Hero and another service, Chegg, where students were posting faculty tests and exams without permission. “We The company is part of what has become a big business in providing study help to college students for a fee.

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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. The MyLab Math report is one of 12 efficacy studies the company released about one month ago. It can be done before or after practice assignments.

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Edsurge

MARCH 5, 2018

When the Opt-Out movement gained traction in 2015, more than 20 percent of New York students (about 200,000) in grades 3 through 8 declined to take state standardized exams, a statistic that raised questions about the future of such testing. Help or Hindrance? That is what we are working towards,” Gorin explains.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Testing can help students better retain and recall what they studied, not only for the final exam, but as part of their overall educational development. As this study shows, LMS platforms, combined with quizzes, can help students achieve. Quizzing in LMS’ to Improve Student Learning.

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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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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Howard Street Charter School in Salem, Oregon, is a project-based institution that pushes students to achieve excellence in all areas of study. 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.

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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

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

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Cathy Davidson: So let me first back up just a little bit and tell your listeners about a wonderful study that Scott Freeman conducted for the Publications of the National Academy of Science in 2014, which is a meta study of 225 separate studies of learning.

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Edsurge

APRIL 19, 2017

In fact, when the option between taking a course online or in-person is provided, studies show students are more likely to stay in college. These practices often include an exam with a professor monitoring students to reduce cheating. In the last five years, research has shown that students want choices in how they take their classes.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

The pandemic has dramatically altered teaching and learning, and one side effect seems to be a rise in cheating on quizzes and tests, aided by websites designed to help students study. All of a sudden,” she says, “there was temptation and opportunity that never existed for them before during exams.”

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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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Edsurge

JANUARY 7, 2019

And it’s this service that makes it possible for our system to turn a classroom lecture into a study guide. Of course, this is also essential assistive technology. What do you mean when you say ASR is on its way to becoming “foundational educational technology”? Source: Echo360.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 14, 2022

And studies have shown that more than two hours of daily homework can be counterproductive , yet many teachers assign more. Getting good grades on AP exams is associated with higher GPAs in high school and success in college, but the research tends to be correlational rather than causational.

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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

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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Edsurge

MARCH 18, 2020

Name: Edlyft HQ: San Francisco Founded: 2019 For $250 a month per student, Edlyft provides computer science majors with group tutoring, study groups and guidance from people already proficient in the subject. Users receive access to study groups and a question bank of tens of thousands of questions.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 14, 2024

According to a recent study , this ratio has stayed stable for years, but teachers are under more pressure and are working more hours than ever before – an average of 52-58 hours per week. Automated grading and feedback : Automated grading systems powered by AI can significantly reduce teachers’ time evaluating assignments and exams.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Pandemic-era disruptions have played a role, but so has the broader worry that a reliance on standardized admissions exams may exacerbate disparities among students of different races and income levels. So over the past few years, researchers, educators and policymakers have been working to reform community college developmental education.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 10, 2016

Companies, unsurprisingly, are happy to help "prove" their effectiveness by publishing their own studies, sometimes in partnership with third-party research groups, to validate the impact of a product or service. Is your edtech efficacy study up to par? Digital Promise invites edtech developers to share their studies for review.

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Edsurge

MAY 3, 2019

Written Mandarin features more than 3,000 characters and the language has been ranked by the Foreign Service Institute’s (FSI) School of Language Studies as a “Category IV” language, which means it would require 88 weeks and 2,200 class hours to reach “professional working proficiency.” since she started the program 13 years ago.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Each week during the semester, Esme’s student teaching supervisors, including myself, organized study groups. 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.

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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. Yet it has generated lots of online guides and courses, and studying for it requires many, many books. It’s not the SAT, or the MCAT.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 29, 2019

This article is part of our upcoming guide, Social Studies: It's Time to Reinvest. What’s at stake in social studies education? The content of modern social studies curricula is highly contested, and evolving rapidly and sometimes radically. How do we select and vet resources that foster engagement and deeper learning?

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Her most recent study looks at how math anxiety influences how high school students choose to study (or not), resulting in a self-fulfilling prophecy of poor performance. There's something about the anxiety itself that potentially impacts our ability to focus, think in the moment, and actually want to dive in and study.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Edmentum was honored to have Marzano Research peer review a research project we conducted for our classroom practice and assessment program, Study Island; Marzano confirmed the effectiveness of using Study Island for online practice. Ace the Test with Study Island. Study Island New Game-Based Group Sessions.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Studies in districts like Los Angeles Unified have found that students who passed Algebra I by 9th grade are twice as likely to graduate as those who did not. Or through studying the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on communities of color. Passing Algebra I is also a requirement for high school graduation.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Back in 2019 , I took to an EdSurge column to share my opinion — a sounding call for more attention to be paid to the role social capital plays in education and workforce training. But following that, I decided to take three years and immerse myself in the study of social capital research for my doctoral dissertation.

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Edsurge

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. And just as a new school year is set to begin, a new study raises fresh concerns about potential downsides of multitasking during class.

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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

AUGUST 4, 2020

Colleges in English-speaking countries usually require international applicants to submit scores from exams that measure English language comprehension. Except, no testing dates were available in his entire country, so he had to travel to neighboring El Salvador to sit for an exam, says Sam Dalsimer, head of public relations for Duolingo. “It

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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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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Dellinger, dLRN , recently sat down with Joosten to ask her about the results of the study. She mentioned that while there are many trends and expectations around technology, there is also a corresponding lack of data-driven evidence that can inform effective implementations. We need to move.to But content is not top on your list.”

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Edsurge

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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