eSchool News

MARCH 8, 2017

Students of teachers who participated in the Pathway Project, which includes 46 hours of training in the “cognitive strategies” instructional approach, scored higher on an academic writing assessment and had higher pass rates on the California High School Exit Exam than students whose teachers did not receive the training.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Johnson, assigned our class one of the classics of English literature and expected us to demonstrate what we had learned with an accompanying essay. He set a high bar for clearly articulated theses, well-structured paragraphs, well-crafted sentences, and supporting quotes from the text.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2017

While it traditionally is an assessment tool for college-bound seniors, more and more high schools are choosing it as an exit exam for graduating seniors (such as these changes in Ohio and the State of Washington ). In this article, I’ll focus on preparation for the SAT essay portion. take practice tests.

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JULY 5, 2024

Here are popular online resources to prepare for ACT and SAT tests ( click for updated list ): Albert Online — lots of SAT practice exams, including subject areas. College Board Kaplan Test Prep Khan Academy reading-writing-practice Mindsnacks SAT Vocabulary –a big part of succeeding on the SAT essay is knowing the right word Number2.com

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JUNE 5, 2023

Here are popular online resources to prepare for ACT and SAT tests ( click for updated list ): Albert Online — lots of SAT practice exams, including subject areas. College Board Kaplan Test Prep Khan Academy reading-writing-practice Mindsnacks SAT Vocabulary –a big part of succeeding on the SAT essay is knowing the right word Number2.com

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Edsurge

JANUARY 6, 2023

It’s an ecosystem that could transform schools—sites for teaching and learning—into marketplaces—sites for buying and selling. College’s Use of Exam-Proctoring Software to ‘Scan’ Rooms Violated Privacy Rights, Judge Finds By Jeffrey R. Tapia In a moving personal essay, Ruby C. As a Professor, I Keep That in Mind.

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eSchool News

MARCH 30, 2016

To the casual observer, the SAT looks the same — questions on math and English, an essay, a set amount of time to finish each question. But the college entrance exam has gotten a makeover. High school students are taking a new version of the SAT, which incorporates the first changes to the test since 2005.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

A study by the Council of the Great City Schools found that Portland and Oregon students are some of the least-tested in the country when it comes to mandated standardized exams. Both tests were given on computer to every student in grades three through eight plus high school juniors.

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Edsurge

MAY 16, 2022

Thus this latest shot across the bow, which comes courtesy of a new report from ACT , the nonprofit behind the college entrance exam. In it, ACT researchers found evidence of grade inflation over the past decade—namely, that the average high school GPA increased 0.19 grade points, from 3.17 in 2010 to 3.36

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OCTOBER 31, 2017

McClarin Success Academy in College Park, GA is an alternative high school and many of our students have never passed a standardized test. When an exam is designed to assess a wide set of skills and content, and success is calculated by one total score, students walk away identifying as a letter, number or percentage.

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EdTech Magazine

MARCH 29, 2018

Data Helps K–12 School Districts Hire, Set Curricula and Improve Student Outcomes. What does it take to manage four of the top-five public high schools in America, as ranked by U.S. We’re doing pretty complicated analytical work on everything from the kids’ scores to specific questions on our exams,” says BASIS.ed

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k12 Online Schools

APRIL 22, 2025

Introduction High school is a defining period in a teenagers life. But over the last decadeand especially in recent yearsan alternative model has emerged: online high schools education. But over the last decadeand especially in recent yearsan alternative model has emerged: online high schools education.

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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2020

Back before the internet made it possible—and popular—for people to document their lives in real time, teenagers found themselves preserved between the pages of their high school yearbooks—forever young. We encourage schools to define success as four-year, or slightly longer, graduation rates,” Schaeffer explains.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Their courses are difficult, and it can be hard to find the time to attend class, study for exams and write research papers. Students can hand in quality, well-written and researched essays to get good grades. They can reach out to a dissertation writer from EduBirdie to help them with writing a paper.

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MAY 31, 2017

UWorld is a leading provider of question bank materials for professional licensing exams like USMLE, ABIM, and ABFM, considered by many to be the gold standard in test preparation. Because SATs are no longer simply the gateway to college but often a normative measure of high school learning, success is more important than ever.

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Edsurge

MAY 22, 2017

Tasking students with submitting a video essay, for example, provides teachers with the opportunity to assess students’ understanding of a topic. For instance, a high school freshman might undertake a service learning project that lasts until his graduation. Portfolios also highlight learning’s natural progression.

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OCTOBER 13, 2016

In addition, students share their written essay work via Pathbrite , an e-portfolio platform perfectly designed for classrooms through their unique feedback tools. Justin Taylor is a social studies teacher in the Humanities Studies Program at Bulkeley High School in Hartford, Connecticut. Who will be next to join us?

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 1, 2023

Should you change the way you give exams and design assignments? Banning the use of technology for exams can create an inaccessible, discriminatory learning experience. Banning the use of technology for exams can create an inaccessible, discriminatory learning experience.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 1, 2023

Should you change the way you give exams and design assignments? Banning the use of technology for exams can create an inaccessible, discriminatory learning experience. Banning the use of technology for exams can create an inaccessible, discriminatory learning experience.

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Edsurge

JULY 31, 2019

The era of trying to measure aptitude is finally over,” wrote the College Board’s president, David Coleman, in an essay in The Atlantic earlier this summer, referring to the version of the test that has been in place since 2014, when the SAT was last revised. I didn’t know how to say it. I wasn’t comfortable with that until I was 35.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 11, 2017

When Hattie Mitchell was in high school, she received a message from her college counselor that too many students today hear: she wasn’t college material. The school offers each students, who often arrive to the school from local shelters or the streets, two physical and two dental exams, as well as on-site mental health counseling.

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Cal Matters

MAY 14, 2025

Middle schoolers have long been eligible to enroll in college classes in California, though only a few, high-achieving students actually do it. California is increasingly pushing high schools to offer community college classes directly to students during the regular school day, a set-up known as dual enrollment.

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APRIL 24, 2018

Geared for college-level classes, this also works well for high school AP classes. Not only does Clutch Prep have videos to supplement academic textbooks, they offer a course to assist preparation for MCAT exams. Use it to provide rigor in high school AP classes for students who love the learning. Great stuff.

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MAY 1, 2018

Depending upon the level of service subscribed to, students can view videos, take practice quizzes and exams, and get credit for classes passed through a proctored exam. All they need is an internet connection and a webcam (for proctored exams). Take quizzes and proctored exams available in your subscription.

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MARCH 7, 2018

Taking the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) has become a right-of-passage for high school students as they leave formal education and enter the next phase of learning. In an earlier article , I focused on preparation for the essay portion of the SAT. Some will take it for the first time; some for the umpteenth time.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

In my first teaching job back in 2006, at Campbell High School in Smyrna, Georgia, teachers were expected to collect data at the beginning and end of each semester for every student on their rosters. I’m at a new school, but the problem is the same. Flash forward five years.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 3, 2023

Now, students are wondering why they have to do assignments that AI chatbots could do for them, especially when AI could do the work, like write an essay or research paper, in just a few seconds. Students are rarely told why they have to do papers, projects, essays, discussion forum posts, or other assignments other than “to get a good grade.”

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 3, 2023

Now, students are wondering why they have to do assignments that AI chatbots could do for them, especially when AI could do the work, like write an essay or research paper, in just a few seconds. Students are rarely told why they have to do papers, projects, essays, discussion forum posts, or other assignments other than “to get a good grade.”

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Edsurge

AUGUST 22, 2016

In the past two academic years, Idaho Digital Learning Academy (IDLA), an online state school created by the Idaho Legislature, has taken proactive steps to fix a key problem: losing English Language Learner (ELL) students before high school graduation, and losing them from highly technical and content-driven courses like biology.

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k12 Online Schools

APRIL 28, 2025

A students GPA, course rigor, extracurricular activities, leadership roles, essays, and recommendations matter far more than whether they studied online or in-person. The Power of Personal Essays for Online Students Perhaps the biggest tool in an online student’s arsenal is the college essay.

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Teach Thought

MAY 18, 2025

Students will first read a shared text of any length, from a haiku, photograph, painting, or song to an article, essay, short story, or novel. Some educators count it as a summative assessment, similar to an exam, essay, or project. We’ve even seen teachers use it as a final exam.

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OCTOBER 5, 2023

Since the release of ChatGPT late last year, the essay has been declared dead as an effective way to measure learning. After all, students can now enter any assigned question into an AI chatbot and get a perfectly formatted, five-paragraph essay back ready to turn in (well, after a little massaging to take out any AI “hallucinations”).

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Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 21, 2023

And this is what happened all the way through middle school and high school.” I’ve had mostly A’s and B’s on most of my exams. chunking : Rather than squeeze multiple steps into an essay-type question, break multi-part questions into separate, individual chunks with their own spaces to respond. by that time.

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DECEMBER 21, 2023

But what if feeling happy isn’t as important for students, at least once they get to middle and high school, as feeling fulfilled and confident? While schools are where students spend most of their waking hours, these environments become ancillary settings as youths journey toward self-actualization in coming-of-age stories.

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JANUARY 3, 2024

As AI Chatbots Rise, More Educators Look to Oral Exams — With High-Tech Twist By Jeffrey R. Young fizkes / Shutterstock The introduction of ChatGPT has educators looking for alternatives to assigning essays. One idea that has bubbled up is to bring back oral exams.

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APRIL 18, 2023

For more than 100 years, high schools and colleges have relied on the same stalwart tool to measure teaching and learning: the clock. XQ Institute, which is partnering with the Carnegie Foundation and whose CEO sits on the foundation’s board , recently notched a victory in Rhode Island by eliminating school seat time requirements.

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