Edsurge

JULY 27, 2020

As more colleges and school districts prepare to resume remote instruction for the fall, educators may worry how to prevent cheating when assignments and exams are held online. And whatever career they pursue, “they’re going to be under stress and pressure a lot and we want them to make ethical decisions.

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Exams Academic Integrity Plagiarism Assignments 218

eSchool News

DECEMBER 5, 2023

In addition to Industry Certification exams, Rice has expanded the Education Career Plan (ECP) to maximize its impact, bridging the gap between students and the business community. Her role as an advocate and pioneer in the implementation of these exams has facilitated their adoption across various classes.

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Education Exams Ethics Elementary School 245

eSchool News

AUGUST 12, 2024

All it asks for is the topic, reading level, and any additional criteria teachers might have for their class, like an enhanced focus on accessibility or detailed deep dives into ethical implications. Unlike AI tools meant for the general public, I believe it’s imperative that any AI tool offer granular customization over the generated output.

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Quizzes Lecturing Exams Ethics 288

Edsurge

JUNE 10, 2025

Yet proponents say it’s a strategy that pushes students to focus on problem-solving while instructing them on how to use AI ethically. Blue books, which college students use to complete exams by hand, have had a resurgence as professors try to eliminate the risk of AI intervention, reports The Wall Street Journal.

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Assignments English Teachers Essay 198

eSchool News

APRIL 7, 2025

Training lags behind uptake Despite increasingly embracing AI, only 31 percent of teachers claim to have received training or substantial guidance from their school, with many respondents hoping to receive instruction on how to deploy the technology effectively and ethically.

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Teachers Exams Ethics Coaching 207

eSchool News

APRIL 29, 2024

This potential hinges on the responsible and ethical use of AI, taught through a framework that addresses critical concerns such as bias, misinformation, and the preparation of students for a world transformed by AI. This partnership will enable teachers across Canada to offer ethical, quality AI training to their students.

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Intelligence Exams Ethics Learning Styles 255

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

Plagiarism 218

Plagiarism Exams Confidentiality Testing 218

Edsurge

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Companies offering proctoring tools that monitor students as they take online exams are now being watched themselves—by Democratic senators. Led by U.S. said Cody Venzke, a policy counsel for the Student Privacy Project at the Center for Democracy and Technology, in an email interview.

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Exams Counselling Students Intelligence 208

Edsurge

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Learn more about EdSurge ethics and policies here and supporters here.) This year in Tokyo, for instance, an 18-year-old allegedly used smart glasses to try to cheat on a university entrance exam. EdSurge receives philanthropic support from the Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative, which is co-owned by Meta’s CEO.

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Exams Testing Ethics Activities 197

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

It’s not just about test scores and whether people learn, she argues, but there’s an ethical issue that sometimes gets lost in discussions about teaching. We think [the important thing] is making students remember that 76 things in our field in this course that are gonna be on the final exam.

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Activities Lecturing Exams Active Learning 216

Edsurge

OCTOBER 6, 2020

The difficult part is when students are then taking graded questions from homeworks or exams and just posting them up, getting the answer, and then just using that answer as theirs, instead of doing the work themselves.” It's the way quizzes and exams are proctored. They’ve got to take their exams at 3:00 a.m. And we move on.

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Study Exams Quizzes Lecturing 193

Edsurge

JULY 25, 2016

In 2013, no females took the exam in Mississippi, Montana, and Wyoming, and 11 states had no black students engage in the exam. Over the past decade, the average AP exam has doubled in enrollment, but in Computer Science A, it’s quadrupled,” Packer says.)

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Science Exams Accessibility Syllabus 114

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 And he said the company’s policies mean that they have to be the ones to make sure the site isn’t being abused.

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Study Exams Quizzes Academic Integrity 129

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.

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Teaching Instructors Quizzes Intelligence 210

Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2017

Since passing a test isn’t necessarily representative of student growth, it is also our responsibility to seek out alternative methods for gauging growth that may not be demonstrated on a state exam. So, what does success look like for an at-risk student, and how do we measure it? Something didn’t add up.

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Testing Exams Essay Ethics 130

Edsurge

JULY 21, 2022

The concerns you have about assessing creative work seem to reflect an important (I would even say necessary) ethic you are attempting to live up to in your teaching. She tweeted : “In my course on The Holocaust, I gave my students choice between a final project and a final exam. I feel weird about testing them on genocide.”

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Assignments Grades History Exams 195

EdTech Magazine

AUGUST 27, 2019

As noted by Education Technology , the increasing use of AI in schools also brings ethical questions to the fore. The future of AI in schools will leverage solutions capable of grading papers and evaluating exams using established rubrics and benchmarks to both automate completion and eliminate bias.

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Intelligence Grades Education Exams 167

Edsurge

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Practice Labs offers a catalogue of cybersecurity exam preps featuring the following themes: Practice Labs Ethical Hacker. How to avoid them: Refer any callers asking for sensitive data to your school administrator. Contact with a ‘compromised’ website. Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP).

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Mobile Devices Students Exams Ethics 154

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Automated grading systems powered by AI streamline the time-consuming task of assessing assignments and exams. Lastly, the rapid evolution of technology may outpace regulatory frameworks and ethical guidelines, leading to potential misuse or unintended consequences. What are the pros and cons of AI in education?

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Education Ethics Gamification Learning Styles 130

Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Tie-ins: This is an excellent gamified review for semester tests, final exams, or other summative assessments. At the end of the Challenge, the team with the most points gets a prize appropriate to your school culture. Students love this game. If I had time, I’d play it every grading period. Click to view slideshow.

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Activities Learning Art Attention 171

Edsurge

JANUARY 24, 2022

Blockchain credentials are currently “a solution in search of a problem,” says Kevin Werbach, a professor of legal studies and business ethics at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. “If Not everyone is sold on this vision, though. Artists and musicians, what can we learn from them?”

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Education Ethics Internet Exams 195

Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Tie-ins: This is an excellent gamified review for semester tests, final exams, or other summative assessments. Quandary – challenge students ethically in this MIT game. At the end of the Challenge, the team with the most points gets a prize appropriate to your school culture. Students love this game. Click to view slideshow.

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Activities Learning Attention Failure 174

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 5, 2023

I created this article not to discuss potential legal and ethical issues surrounding AI, but rather to share my observations from a broad perspective. AI can also generate short content, such as answers to take-home quizzes or un-proctored multiple-choice exams. What are the pros of such uses?

Intelligence 144

Intelligence Plagiarism Quizzes Academic Integrity 144

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

Now used in all of New Visions’ schools, the portal allows administrators to plan for graduation and regent exams, view credit gaps, and monitor students’ attendance and performance on an individual, class and school level. As charter networks ramp up their spending on data work, skeptics have raised ethical questions about such efforts.

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Ethics Beliefs Exams Culture 111

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.

Academic Integrity 98

Academic Integrity Plagiarism Exams Syllabus 98

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.

Academic Integrity 98

Academic Integrity Plagiarism Exams Syllabus 98

Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 28, 2018

Now, beyond the moral and ethical persuasiveness of a paperless classroom, there is compelling evidence that the time is right to eliminate paper from the classroom: the high cost of printing : Yale University noted that “Every 2.5 Online exams. Exams used to be pages of black-and-white paper. digitally submit homework.

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Exams Internet Ethics Writing 90

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

As students mature, the values and ethics instilled by teachers will also mature, aiding in their overall development. They cultivate a curiosity to explore and understand various fields deeply, rather than focusing on only grades and exams. Educators serve as powerful motivators in encouraging appreciative mindsets.

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Students Instructors Motivation Intelligence 119

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 5, 2023

I created this article not to discuss potential legal and ethical issues surrounding AI, but rather to share my observations from a broad perspective. AI can also generate short content, such as answers to take-home quizzes or un-proctored multiple-choice exams. What are the pros of such uses?

Intelligence 111

Intelligence Plagiarism Quizzes Academic Integrity 111

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

As students mature, the values and ethics instilled by teachers will also mature, aiding in their overall development. They cultivate a curiosity to explore and understand various fields deeply, rather than focusing on only grades and exams. Educators serve as powerful motivators in encouraging appreciative mindsets.

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Students Instructors Motivation Intelligence 115

Edsurge

MARCH 1, 2018

So to flag such ethically dubious requests, the company uses machine learning. Universities usually have strict honor code policies about students cheating on exams, homework and other assignments. The company, however, does not want students to use its site to get tutors to do their work for them.

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Essay Exams Ethics Academic Integrity 86

Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 2, 2015

They’re spending more time taking tests than people taking the bar exam. When we were kids, we took an hour test to see how we did in reading, an hour test to see how we did in math. Children today in third grade are taking eight hours of testing. Now, when we talk about the results of the test, they come back four to six months later.

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Testing Exams Math Grades 105

Dangerously Irrelevant

OCTOBER 30, 2015

Name other areas outside of school and college admissions where taking multiple choice exams and writing short, formulaic essays that are graded in 1-2 minutes are a regular part of life. “In (like some of our elementary students do at testing time) If so, must be a fun place to work! In the ultracompetitive global economy, the U.S.

Testing 107

Testing Essay Exams Critical Thinking 107

Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Tie-ins: This is an excellent gamified review for semester tests, final exams, or other summative assessments. Quandary – challenge students ethically in this MIT game. At the end of the Challenge, the team with the most points gets a prize appropriate to your school culture. Students love this game. Click to view slideshow.

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Activities Learning Critical Thinking Attention 122

Edsurge

JULY 11, 2023

Learn more about EdSurge ethics and policies here and supporters here.) And so we want to say, ‘Hey, if we can provide a motivational message or something like, Hey, keep going, like five more problems and you know, you'll learn more, you'll do better on these exams and tests.’

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Testing Multiple Choice Questions Teaching Education 123

Edsurge

MAY 2, 2017

I knew I didn’t do well on the first exam, but it was worse than I thought,” he says. Renick is also a professor of religious studies who teaches a course on religious ethics.) “In I think you can’t ask that question, you can’t make that statement unless you do a hard assessment of the ethics of the status quo.

Ethics 91

Ethics Students Exams Communication 91

Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

Tie-ins: This is an excellent gamified review for semester tests, final exams, or other summative assessments. Quandary – challenge students ethically in this MIT game. At the end of the Challenge, the team with the most points gets a prize appropriate to your school culture. Students love this game. Click to view slideshow.

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Activities Learning Critical Thinking Attention 72