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

Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2017

Many educators recognize that standardized tests don’t measure everything—and that some of the most critical types of growth can’t be measured by a numerical score. Seven years ago, during my first year of teaching, all of my eleventh graders failed the Georgia State End of Course Test in American Literature.

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Testing Exams Essay Ethics 132

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.

Teachers 212

Teachers Ethics Exams Coaching 212

Edsurge

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Companies offering proctoring tools that monitor students as they take online exams are now being watched themselves—by Democratic senators. Still, business is booming as more schools and colleges are relying on these tools as so many students attend class and take tests from home during the pandemic. Led by U.S. More than 60,000 U.S.

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Exams Counselling Students Intelligence 208

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.

Intelligence 256

Intelligence Exams Ethics Learning Styles 256

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. He was detected and his test scores were invalidated.

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Exams Testing Ethics Activities 198

Dangerously Irrelevant

OCTOBER 30, 2015

Here are some quotes from Michael Bloomberg about testing students , with my annotations in italics… “Many companies (including mine) use tests in hiring.” The hiring ’tests’ for your financial software, data, and media company are multiple choice tests of factual recall and procedural regurgitation? Your thoughts?

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Testing Essay Exams Critical Thinking 107

Edsurge

OCTOBER 6, 2020

While many students say they’re looking for the assistance they’re not getting from their colleges, professors argue that students are using these sites to cheat on quizzes and tests. It's the way quizzes and exams are proctored. A lot of our original test takers are students who are full-time employed. It's just impossible.

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Study Exams Quizzes Lecturing 194

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

JULY 11, 2023

Bier and others involved in the project say that they are testing the approach in a variety of educational settings, including public and private K-12 schools, community colleges and four-year colleges. Learn more about EdSurge ethics and policies here and supporters here.) What’s new in your approach?

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Testing Multiple Choice Questions Teaching Education 124

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. So how does one identify a student’s knowledge state?

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Teaching Instructors Quizzes Intelligence 210

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 Ethics 196

Edsurge

MARCH 5, 2020

I found some quizzes and tests,” she said, noting that plenty of those materials and PowerPoint slides from other professors were easily found on Course Hero about the subject she was teaching, biomaterials. She didn’t really pay attention to the goal of the site—which is for students to share their notes and other class materials.

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Study Exams Quizzes Academic Integrity 131

Edsurge

JULY 25, 2016

Additionally, despite its popularity, data has shown some major disparities in AP Computer Science A test-takers. In 2013, no females took the exam in Mississippi, Montana, and Wyoming, and 11 states had no black students engage in the exam. Additionally, students aren’t just proving their knowledge in a multiple-choice exam.

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Science Exams Accessibility Syllabus 114

Edsurge

DECEMBER 10, 2018

K-12 schools can often be at high risk, because they tend to rely on a broad range of apps and software and are big users of web-based learning and testing. K-12 schools can often be at high risk, because they tend to rely on a broad range of apps and software and are big users of web-based learning and testing.

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Mobile Devices Students Ethics Exams 154

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. This was often for written assignments or take-home quizzes and tests.

Intelligence 144

Intelligence Plagiarism Quizzes Academic Integrity 144

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

Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 2, 2015

Diane Ravitch said: It’s totally inappropriate to compare opting out of testing to opting out of immunization. The tests that kids take today have nothing to do with the tests that we took when we were kids. 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.

Testing 105

Testing Exams Math Grades 105

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. This was often for written assignments or take-home quizzes and tests.

Intelligence 111

Intelligence Plagiarism Quizzes Academic Integrity 111

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 112

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.

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Exams Internet Ethics Writing 90

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

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.

Activities 72

Activities Learning Critical Thinking Attention 72

Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

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.

Activities 72

Activities Learning Critical Thinking Attention 72

EAB

JANUARY 17, 2023

Rarely taught in-demand skills include programming languages , especially Python, and other technical skills like ethical hacking. Penetration Testing. The exam costs are included in students’ tuition and fees. UMGC’s graduate certificate in systems engineering ) to supply graduates with these in-demand skills. Vulnerability.

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Evaluation Attention Ethics Exams 52

Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 17, 2015

Senator Tom Harkin has talked with me for years about the damage that testing is doing to children. When test scores come out, guess who does well and guess who gets blamed? Could we take the billions of dollars that are going to testing companies and put it into rich, developmental pre-K? Parents aren’t frightened of the test.

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Education Exams Testing Fairness 91

Edsurge

MARCH 15, 2018

In higher ed, that data often includes student grades, test scores, attendance and, in some cases, even demographics. Bagels, you might find students catching up for a caffeine boost between classes, or hunched over books prepping for an exam. Other ethical questions have emerged throughout Degree Compass’ history.

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History Grades Math Ethics 137