Edsurge

JULY 10, 2020

In addition to assessing students’ grades and essays, admissions officers have long looked to the SAT and ACT to help them decide who will make it in their campus settings, and beyond. I think people are really looking for more equitable ways of being able to identify good students, especially for groups of students who haven’t tested well.”

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Fairness Counselling Testing Disabilities 217

Teach Hub

DECEMBER 26, 2024

As an educator , you have the unique opportunity to guide your students through crafting a compelling college essay that truly resonates with the reader. The Importance of College Essays College essays are your students’ chance to stand out above their peers. So, where do you start?

Essay 59

Essay Beliefs Feedback Students 59

Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 17, 2017

By the time we were finished with a pilot test, we discovered that a technology tool helped us and our students in some unexpected ways. We could also identify exemplar essays we pulled from the first Revision Assistant exercise that we used in self- and peer-review assignments. This is a fair criticism.

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Testing Essay English Writing 84

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.

Teaching 217

Teaching Education Ethics Instructors 217

Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 2, 2025

Students can keep a long-term journal to respond all year long, or they can use journal prompts as a springboard into a class essay or assignment. Use them to begin longer narrative essays, begin class discussions, or introduce elements of fiction in your language arts class. What are your goals for high school ? What would you do?

High School 52

High School High School Writing Essay 52

Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 22, 2015

Doing a project that uses Google Docs or MS Word doesn’t mean students will apply that knowledge to the year-end PARCC and SB tests. By third grade, when most schools have systemic end-of-year summative tests, your students will be ready. Then, review The Journal’s excellent article on tech tools needed for the PARCC tests.

Skills 155

Skills Students Plagiarism Knowledge 155

Edsurge

APRIL 20, 2018

There was a student who introduced himself having written a critical essay about the narrative of grit. When he sent me that essay, of course, I wanted to know more. I really don't think it's fair for me to, or anyone else to expect teachers to implement ideas from watching a TED Talk and reading a book.

Essay 144

Essay Students Testing Writing 144

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 8, 2023

They can also help instructors to ensure that exams are fair and equitable. This standardization is crucial for fairness and equality within the course. Fairness : Blueprints eliminate the chance of subjective grading and unexpected exam questions, thereby ensuring a more equitable assessment process.

Exams 119

Exams Fairness Instructors Teaching Methods 119

Edsurge

OCTOBER 19, 2019

Education is known for endless change, and over the years that’s taken many forms: testing modifications, curriculum adjustments, new committees to join, fresh acronyms to learn. Instead of asking the class to write a whole essay that demonstrated proficiency with analytical writing, I asked for two full paragraphs instead.

Blended Learning 122

Blended Learning Education Essay Writing 122

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 8, 2023

They can also help instructors to ensure that exams are fair and equitable. This standardization is crucial for fairness and equality within the course. Fairness : Blueprints eliminate the chance of subjective grading and unexpected exam questions, thereby ensuring a more equitable assessment process.

Exams 111

Exams Fairness Instructors Teaching Methods 111

eSchool News

MARCH 13, 2025

Beta test in education with remote learning and COVID. No more worried about standardized testing, right? Teacher saying we don’t have time for essay and I always. I mean, Jesse and I were just talking about one of her students who I think Jesse was saying, like, found purpose through essay. That fair to say.

Essay 153

Essay Skills Curriculum Communication 153

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 12, 2023

In doing so, we should design assessments as an engaging, ongoing process for students, helping them learn and achieve their learning outcomes rather than considering it as a one-shot test or quiz and focusing merely on the score. In addition, they have to think of ways to simplify the material so that it is comprehensible to others.

Authentic Assessment 133

Authentic Assessment Counselling Learning Outcomes Faculty Development 133

Edsurge

MAY 15, 2019

However, students who ask for extra time on tests/projects, high levels (30%+) of extra credit, or to make up work weeks or months later, without having responded to any communications or requests for updates/accommodation needs… and still do not go to the Office of Accessibility… am I being a hard ass? How much do you bend?

Disabilities 130

Disabilities Students Assignments Syllabus 130

Edsurge

OCTOBER 2, 2018

And it's for this reason that I was tracing what was happening with key issues of representation, ideas of fairness around communities and found what I felt were harmful ways that these technologies influence ideas about people. This is where I think of really troublesome ways of thinking about admitting students to a university.

Ethics 149

Ethics Study Essay Fairness 149

Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 12, 2016

From tutoring to instructing test preparation classes, there are many places to look for summer work that will give you freedom to enjoy the season as well as some income. Children’s museums, test prep companies, and adult education classes are also great places to check for employment. Take a trip and teach abroad.

Teachers 74

Teachers Instructors Education Essay 74

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 12, 2023

In doing so, we should design assessments as an engaging, ongoing process for students, helping them learn and achieve their learning outcomes rather than considering it as a one-shot test or quiz and focusing merely on the score. In addition, they have to think of ways to simplify the material so that it is comprehensible to others.

Authentic Assessment 111

Authentic Assessment Counselling Learning Outcomes Faculty Development 111

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. For online learners, performing well on standardized tests can be an extra confirmation of academic preparedness.

Essay 52

Essay Students Testing Participation 52

EAB

DECEMBER 18, 2023

An AI revolution When I think about generative AI, a story that keeps coming back to me is one from OpenAI’s testing of GPT-4, the neural network that powers ChatGPT. In the course of tackling one of the tasks it was assigned, GPT-4 independently reached out via TaskRabbit for help solving a CAPTCHA.

Essay 52

Essay Attention Internet Questions 52

EAB

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

So I think it's a fair question that many people have. Of those 1500 organizations, a lot of them certainly are providing "traditional college advising" to 11th and 12th graders, a lot of test prep like Let's Get Ready. So they'll host like shared fairs or shared opportunities for like fly-in programs or stuff.

Coaching 91

Coaching Communication Essay High School 91

EAB

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

To recap some basics, on October 31 the Supreme Court heard arguments related to lawsuits that Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA) brought against Harvard College and the University of North Carolina, in connection with these institutions’ race-conscious admissions practices. The situation in brief. Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

Discussions 52

Discussions Counselling Art Essay 52

EAB

JULY 11, 2023

And do you feel that it's fair to say that most colleges want to diversify their enrollment and what do you expect will happen to Penn and other universities should the Supreme Court strike down affirmative action and ambitions? And we would think back to when the pandemic hit and many institutions suddenly became test optional.

Culture 40

Culture History Questions Essay 40

Edsurge

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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Exams Essay Instructors Education 215

Edsurge

APRIL 18, 2023

To do that, the organization plans to work with the Educational Testing Service (ETS) — the folks behind standardized tests including the GRE and the Praxis — to create new tools designed to assess what students are able to do, not how much time they spent studying to do it.

Skills 217

Skills Learning Testing High School 217

Edsurge

MARCH 9, 2020

Thumbing through its pages, you might have discovered a brief essay penned by a prolific writer of science and science fiction, Isaac Asimov. If the essay also seems to conjure up android instructors who chat cheerfully about philosophy, well now you’re thinking like Billy—as friends, and Maria Bot, call Barry. Maria Bot agrees. “I

Teachers 155

Teachers Education Instructors Intelligence 155

Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 12, 2024

Special admissions schools, which often have criteria like certain test scores or auditions or portfolios. Maybe students using a voucher, for instance, take the same standardized test as the kids in the public schools. Is that a fair assessment of the math there? And so there’s this question of, well, how are they doing?

Schools 105

Schools Fairness History Art 105

Cult of Pedagogy

MARCH 30, 2025

Expansive framing is where you introduce students to the wider story and discussion of a subject: its backstory, why it matters, the debates around it, and its other applications beyond a given test or project, etc. Skunky subjects in most disciplines tend to be the most bounded. To see this in action, lets take the colon.

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Language Languages English Writing 69