Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2018

The 26-year-old entrepreneur has set out to replace the standardized tests that are deeply entrenched in K-12 and higher education, like the SAT and ACT, and she tells EdSurge her efforts to do so are sure to spark controversy. How can you move past multiple choice tests?” Rebecca Kantar is fighting an uphill battle.

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Edsurge

JULY 31, 2019

These days the leaders of the College Board, which runs the SAT, have been making a surprising argument—that colleges and parents should stop taking the scores of its signature test so seriously. In this new era, the College Board is testing a controversial new metric that has been labeled as an “ adversity score.”

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Edsurge

JULY 16, 2018

Testing for such skills relies heavily on technology and required a significant retooling. Yet questions remain about whether any individual test (especially one that has long relied on multiple choice) can truly measure collaboration and problem solving—skills that typically involve heavy doses of human interaction and teamwork.

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Edsurge

JULY 11, 2023

“When you think about that in an educational context, it … really opens up the opportunity to give more students the kinds of things that are better supporting their learning.” EdSurge: The app you developed helps teachers test out their learning materials to see if they’re effective. They're not fair [ because of false positives ].

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

This jargon is often used by administrators who support corporate education reform and distraction or by those who are simply unaware. Teachers want fair funding for all schools. What do teachers want? Charter schools have been known to cherry pick students by race, class and even disability levels.

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Edsurge

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. Outcomes, Testing and Grading Which methods of assessment best measure learning and ability?

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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. Aligning tests with the ways students learn in the classroom is one of Gorin’s goals.

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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. The pitch: Use deeper technology to make admissions more deeply human. “I

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Edsurge

MAY 25, 2021

For decades, that question has largely been decided by a test. A special science and math test developed specifically for the school. That approach fits with perhaps the most popular narrative of American education, that the best students get to go to the best schools. So who gets to go?

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eSchool News

APRIL 6, 2022

Fred Sharpsteen, the Director of Technology for Michigan-based Mecosta-Osceola Intermediate School District (ISD) along with Joe Bouman Director of Technology for Big Rapids Public Schools are two of the experts who have been pilot testing Level Data with the district’s Skyward system since before the school year began. “My

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Now is the time to reinforce the fundamental scaffolding that determines whether a child has a fair shot at success later in life. This starts by redefining who is making educational policy and how students are assessed and by providing the needed supports to guarantee a sound, basic education for all children.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 7, 2021

The SAT test weighs heavily on our collective imagination—and most everyone can picture the nerve-wracking scene of students sitting at desks, bubbling in Scantron forms with a No. And is it fair? I have witnessed meltdowns in the hallways when students get their test scores,” he said. “I

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Medina: Well, the brain rules start out with a fair amount of skepticism. I was asked a while back, if you had an unlimited budget and few bureaucratic constraints and could do anything for the system of education in United States, what would you do? EdSurge: In your book you define a list of so-called “brain rules.” That's a big deal.

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Edsurge

APRIL 22, 2020

Yes, this cruel pandemic has crashed our economy, filled our hospitals, emptied our public spaces, and tested our communications like nothing before. We need to move fast and be fair with getting this funding out the door where it is needed. This is not the time to be timid. When Americans see crisis we mobilize. It’s a tall order.

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Edsurge

MARCH 31, 2021

One student, standing up and projecting his voice, declared: “Virginia objects to New Jersey demanding that She give away Her fair and right voice in the new government. Therefore, it is right and fair we have more influence on the actions of government.” We have a larger population. A student on the opposing side retorted: “No way.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 24, 2024

Having students reframe their feelings as excitement rather than anxiety or having them journal about their anxiety before taking a test may help, some researchers suggest. Some argue that instructional methods like timed tests aggravate anxiety. I mean, to me, this is not fair to students,” she says.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

To Truman, the worksheets, which were meant to fill a bit of time in the morning, had become a form of timed testing, presenting him daily with a task he couldn’t complete. Friedrich Froebel, a pedagogue of modern education, coined the term “kindergarten” in 1840 after recognizing the importance of play in the development of young children.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Assessments have the power to shape educational outcomes, but are we truly measuring what matters? Ensuring that assessments are fair, inclusive and meaningful for all students is a growing priority for educators. Often, students see assessments as punitive — failing a test can be damaging — rather than performative.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

And universal assessments that test multilingual students in English can provide inaccurate information that teachers use to guide their practice or can wrongly indicate learning disabilities. Research shows that students who are classified as English language learners may be perceived by teachers as less capable than their non-ELL peers.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2016

The Innovation Lab , at New Jersey’s Fair Haven school district , is our 5th and 6th grade STEAM creation. Today, we use FH Gizmos to expose Fair Haven students to entrepreneurship. As fate would have it, a fellow teacher and I were bringing a video game to market at the same time we were beta testing FH Gizmos with students.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 1, 2024

Many teachers and professors are spending time this summer experimenting with AI tools to help them prepare slide presentations, craft tests and homework questions, and more. It’s a fair question given the widespread concern in the field about students using AI to write their essays or bots to do their homework for them.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

These courses “make it so students understand the value and can test out whether it's the right fit for them.” After a semester of trapping bees and testing them using various methods, the students presented their original findings at a research fair.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Rethinking the Test Those opposed to automated proctoring cite several objections. Some say the systems often lead to false-positives, add stress to the test-taking process and invade privacy. She stresses that most students are honest, but that the instructors still want to make the process as fair as possible.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 1, 2016

They can’t give you their software for free unless you are testing it out for them. If you’re taking the risk as an early adopter and testing new software, you shouldn’t have to buy it first. Give them fair feedback on their price. Education technology companies are no exception. If it’s too high tell them why.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Nardolilli’s experience in designing educational games goes back to when he would create science-themed birthday parties at an after-school science center. Now, he and Baselice collaborate to create and test games and are actively trying to gather evidence that these activities aren’t just good for engagement, but for long-term learning.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

He chalks that up to the fact that many professors using the model don’t test whether students are actually learning the material presented in lecture videos, and so some students who skip the videos or watch them on double-speed arrive in class unprepared for the activities. I didn’t think that was fair to people practicing flipped learning.”

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Edsurge

APRIL 16, 2020

You can help facilitate that connection by trying to find assignments that students can work on together, such as virtual science fair projects or book clubs, in which students meet regularly online to present projects or discuss books they’re reading. If not, don’t share it or say it.

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Edsurge

MARCH 13, 2017

But in education, technology threatens no one. After decades of business accomplishments in industries ranging from banking to oil and gas to media to real estate, Collins shifted his focus to education in 1984 when he launched the. Something I’ve realized is that a lot of education reform issues are politically sensitive.

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Edsurge

MARCH 6, 2020

The email, from provost Mark Richards and the chair of the faculty senate, Joseph Janes, said it is up to each professor to determine whether classes can move online, or whether there is enough student work already to assign a fair letter grade at the end of the quarter. We believe in making science based decisions,” she said.

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Edsurge

MARCH 12, 2019

Federal prosecutors charged nearly 50 people on Tuesday with crimes in connection to an admissions-fraud scheme in which parents allegedly paid millions of dollars to get their kids into highly-selective colleges by cheating on admissions tests or helping them pose as student athletes.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Little did the Edquity team know how soon that belief would be put to the test. And Helene realized that Edquity had the potential to assist communities in crisis. “It It is the right system for disaster relief and or true emergencies,” he says. What felt in fall 2019 like a climax was only a prelude. How can we do it fairly? Without bias?

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Edsurge

JUNE 7, 2019

So in 2014, the senior lecturer in public policy at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government decided to test that assumption. In spreadsheets, he manually recorded each interaction he had with students during discussion. It was a total shock to me—I thought I was calling on them fairly,” says Levy, 48.

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Edsurge

APRIL 23, 2019

She describes a time at a previous school she worked at when students and teachers collaborated on a project and how that inspired her and other educators to feel re-energized around what they teach. This particular year they were teaching the World's Fair, and I worked with the students to create websites.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

We also hope that the early ideas generated through our summer prototype will spark policymakers to get creative and reimagine quality assurance at a system level, as society shifts to more learner-centered systems of education. Because creating breakthrough, systematic innovations in education is challenging. The Testing Backdrop.

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Edsurge

APRIL 5, 2018

At my suburban school in South Carolina, the term is used liberally to describe students who may fail the End of Course Tests, students who might not get promoted to the next grade level and those at risk of dropping out of school. The majority of my students work hard but test poorly, though a small percentage of them are unmotivated.

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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

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

When I handed back quizzes and tests, I gave students who scored an 80 percent or higher stickers and placed their tests on our “Show What You Know” bulletin board. Another student cried when they didn’t get stickers on their test, even though they tried their best.

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