Faculty Focus

MAY 2, 2023

With its impressive ability to understand human language, it is clear that ChatGPT can be leveraged in optimizing assessment and evaluation in higher education. Traditionally, assessment in higher education has mainly been standardized exams and course work pieces of varying degrees of realism.

Education 116

Education Academic Integrity Fairness Exams 116

Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2018

Employers will stop trusting schools to vet their candidates with metrics like the ACT, SAT and Advanced Placement (AP) exams. That concept is not inherently bad, as long as the test in question is a fair and accurate measure of what a person is capable of—but in many cases, Kantar says, it’s not. It’s already happening , surveys show.

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Testing Teaching Exams Evaluation 157

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

With schools and testing centers closed across the country, COVID-19 has prevented at least one million students in the high school class of 2021 from taking the ACT or SAT exams. Many hundreds of thousands of students are still waiting to take an exam. Both exams were canceled. Is There a ‘Better Way’?

Testing 162

Testing Exams Internet Fairness 162

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. Yet Zwick, author of the book “Who Gets In?

Fairness 217

Fairness Counselling Testing Disabilities 217

Edsurge

MAY 16, 2019

The goal of this is to be used by admissions officers at higher-ed institutions to evaluate the context from which a student is coming from—so the community, the school, et cetera,” Singer said. “An An SAT score of 1400 in East L.A. is not the same as a 1400 in Greenwich, Connecticut.

Exams 137

Exams Fairness Testing Evaluation 137

Faculty Focus

MAY 2, 2023

With its impressive ability to understand human language, it is clear that ChatGPT can be leveraged in optimizing assessment and evaluation in higher education. Traditionally, assessment in higher education has mainly been standardized exams and course work pieces of varying degrees of realism.

Education 98

Education Academic Integrity Fairness Exams 98

Faculty Focus

MAY 9, 2024

As educators and students grapple with what is allowed when using generative AI (GenAI) tools, I have compiled five tips to help you design or redesign academic integrity statements for your syllabus, assignments, exams, and course activities. Write your own GenAI use policies for assignments, exams, or even class activities.

Academic Integrity 137

Academic Integrity Writing Syllabus Exams 137

eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2022

Technology will be tailored to support through-course assessment.Rather than an end-of-year, single high-stakes test, conversations are picking up around scaffolding the high stakes testing model, whereby students take pieces of exams as they progress. — Keith Look, Ed.D., VP of Equity and Innovation, K-12, Territorium.

Learning 363

Learning Communication Hybrid Learning Language 363

Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 21, 2015

Anecdotally assess their daily efforts and let that count as much as a summative exam that judges a point in time. Let students know they will be evaluated on those criteria more than the perfection of their work. But make it fair. Observe students as they work. Let students see you fail. Let students teach each other.

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Failure Learning Students Critical Thinking 156

eSchool News

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Technology will be tailored to support through-course assessment.Rather than an end-of-year, single high-stakes test, conversations are picking up around scaffolding the high stakes testing model, whereby students take pieces of exams as they progress. — Keith Look, Ed.D., VP of Equity and Innovation, K-12, Territorium.

Hybrid Learning 297

Hybrid Learning Communication Accessibility Language 297

Faculty Focus

MAY 9, 2024

As educators and students grapple with what is allowed when using generative AI (GenAI) tools, I have compiled five tips to help you design or redesign academic integrity statements for your syllabus, assignments, exams, and course activities. Write your own GenAI use policies for assignments, exams, or even class activities.

Academic Integrity 98

Academic Integrity Writing Syllabus Exams 98

k12 Online Schools

APRIL 28, 2025

From math Olympiads to science fairs, writing contests, coding hackathons, and business plan competitions, theres no shortage of opportunities to test skills against peers nationwide or globally. A clear, concise explanation can prevent unnecessary doubts and allow the application to be evaluated on its true merits.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 5, 2023

As educators have looked to alternatives to assigning essays, one idea that has bubbled up is to bring back oral exams. It’s a classic idea : In the 1600s it was the basic model of evaluation at Oxford and Cambridge (with the grilling by professors done in Latin), and it was pretty much what Socrates did to his students.

Exams 215

Exams Essay Instructors Education 215

Edsurge

APRIL 18, 2023

College admissions officers should take a more holistic view of students’ skills, agrees Harry Feder, executive director of the National Center for Fair & Open Testing, a nonprofit that advocates against reliance on standardized tests in education. I think the testing industry is very nervous,” he says.

Skills 217

Skills Learning Testing High School 217

k12 Online Schools

MAY 6, 2025

Executive Functioning Skills When kids decide how to occupy themselves out of boredom, they activate executive functions like decision-making, goal-setting, and evaluating outcomes, skills essential for leadership, learning, and life success. Host a Boredom Fair where students present ideas or creations sparked from unstructured time.

Intelligence 52

Intelligence Evaluation Interdisciplinary Writing 52

Scholarly Teacher

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Employing a Zoom option for course access offers each student an alternative method for keeping up with topic coverage and permits a timely review of previous class sessions as students prepare for exams. I review the transcripts to help determine assessment questions on quizzes and exams. 2022, February 8).

Disabilities 52

Disabilities Exams Instructors Syllabus 52