eSchool News

DECEMBER 28, 2016

Are employees evaluated using bubble-in tests to prove they know the ins and outs of their job? Why is the culture to drill facts into students’ heads just to pass a test? Well, according to state science exams, my students consistently score higher than other science classes in my district. Is it working?

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Testing Exams Social Studies Science 219

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

AP courses are a time-tested way to prove academic rigor, making them an integral part of many students’ college admissions strategy–their importance for college admissions, however, comes down to what a school offers. How important are AP classes for college admission? That does not mean, however, that they are necessary.

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Exams Motivation High School High School 300

Edsurge

MARCH 5, 2018

When the Opt-Out movement gained traction in 2015, more than 20 percent of New York students (about 200,000) in grades 3 through 8 declined to take state standardized exams, a statistic that raised questions about the future of such testing. Aligning tests with the ways students learn in the classroom is one of Gorin’s goals.

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Exams Testing Disabilities Learning 112

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

The University of Massachusetts Amherst has historically required prospective undergraduate students to submit a standardized test score as part of their applications. Even now, as testing has resumed—albeit with social distancing, face coverings and limited seating—access to testing centers is not equal, nor equitable.

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Testing Exams Internet Fairness 161

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Emmersion’s adaptive assessments evaluate and certify speaking, writing and reading abilities, which shorten an organization’s time-to-hire and improve customer satisfaction scores. Educational institutions use WebCAPE , Emmersion’s adaptive placement exam, to measure learners’ reading, grammar and listening skills.

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Language Languages Exams English 241

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

If you’re an educator, the weeks leading up to state testing are likely some of the most stressful and demanding days in your year. You’re focused not only on test preparation, but also on each student’s specific needs. We know that educators at all levels are responsible for making big decisions based on student evaluation outcomes.

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Testing Exams Peer Review Study 161

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 8, 2023

Exam blueprints are a teaching tool that is still shrouded in controversy. Understanding the utility and impact of exam blueprints from a student perspective can be a game-changer. They can also help instructors to ensure that exams are fair and equitable. No more guesswork—students know exactly what to expect.

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Exams Fairness Instructors Teaching Methods 119

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Base groupings on information : Use pre-tests, formatives assessments, learning styles, and even student interest surveys to divvy up the students. Use a variety of assessments : Not all evaluations need to be formal pencil-and-paper or computer-assisted exams.

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Collaborative Learning Teachers Exams Teaching Methods 277

Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

To remediate the exam preparation study skills that beginning (and other) students are missing, most of us respond by telling students about those skills that make for good exam performance. Evidence that all these activities were completed is required and they are evaluated to determine the overall assignment grade. Take notes.”

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Exams Assignments Study Evaluation 105

Edsurge

DECEMBER 10, 2018

But it’s a tough nut to crack, because many of the skills and characteristics treasured most are in fact the hardest to evaluate. The beauty of playful assessment, she says, is that it can be done without interrupting the rhythm of learning, thereby alleviating student anxiety around testing. They have high anxiety about it, too.

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Testing Evaluation Gamification Middle School 168

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 8, 2023

Exam blueprints are a teaching tool that is still shrouded in controversy. Understanding the utility and impact of exam blueprints from a student perspective can be a game-changer. They can also help instructors to ensure that exams are fair and equitable. No more guesswork—students know exactly what to expect.

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Exams Fairness Instructors Teaching Methods 111

Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2018

The 26-year-old entrepreneur has set out to replace the standardized tests that are deeply entrenched in K-12 and higher education, like the SAT and ACT, and she tells EdSurge her efforts to do so are sure to spark controversy. How can you move past multiple choice tests?” Rebecca Kantar is fighting an uphill battle.

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Testing Teaching Exams Evaluation 159

eSchool News

JULY 1, 2024

For instance, AI might be prohibited during exams or in assignments where personal creativity and original thought are paramount. While this flexibility can be advantageous, it may also create inconsistencies in how AI tools are utilized and evaluated across different courses. It could potentially cause confusion for students.

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Ethics Instructors Education Academic Integrity 321

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Even as Anderson excelled in his coursework at Jackson State University, he struggled to pass one of the licensure tests required in Mississippi to gain full admittance into the teacher preparation program at his school. Latiker points out, “but he couldn’t teach elementary education because of his performance on the Praxis math exam.”

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Exams Teachers Testing Math 193

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

They want to know what they don’t know and prefer to review tests thoroughly, identifying trends in their mistakes. Implementing systems like ExamSoft or Canvas for online exams can facilitate this. Students seek comprehensive understanding and application of knowledge.

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Multiple Choice Questions Feedback Students History 277

Edsurge

APRIL 30, 2019

Tests these days start by making students prove not what they know, but who they are. Such are the tools developed and offered by Examity , a provider of exam proctoring tools used by colleges and universities, assessment groups, professional certification boards and employers.

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Exams Online Learning Testing Quizzes 161

Edsurge

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Getting good grades on AP exams is associated with higher GPAs in high school and success in college, but the research tends to be correlational rather than causational. In 2008, a little over 180,000 students took three or more AP exams. AP courses and exams also raise complex issues of equity.

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Exams Students Testing Learning 194

eSchool News

APRIL 16, 2019

Biggest challenge: Results on standardized tests revealed that about a quarter of our 9th- and 10th-grade students weren’t reading at grade level. Many of those struggling were English-language learners (ELLs) whose English proficiency wasn’t at the level needed to comprehend challenging texts within these exams.

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English Language Languages Learning Disabilities 214

eSchool News

APRIL 29, 2024

Our vision is that every young person develops the knowledge, skills, and confidence to use digital technologies effectively, and to be able to critically evaluate these technologies and confidently engage with technological change.

Intelligence 258

Intelligence Exams Ethics Learning Styles 258

eSchool News

AUGUST 14, 2024

Most tools that teachers have for this purpose are lagging indicators such as tests, quizzes, and homework. Automated grading and feedback : Automated grading systems powered by AI can significantly reduce teachers’ time evaluating assignments and exams. These lagging indicators exacerbate the issue of lack of capacity.

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Teaching Gamification Feedback Intelligence 325

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

They think about problems in context, consider multiple tools and approaches, and apply science, math and data to continuously evaluate designs and make improvements. Traditional data, like end-of-year exams, only evaluate a student’s learning progress at one moment in time—and are too late for any course correction.

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Teachers Exams Learning Evaluation 213

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 213

eSchool News

MAY 12, 2016

The funding was primarily to help CodeCombat finish its new classroom offering, which launches today after extensive beta testing by more than 25,000 students in grades 3-12. I’ve evaluated many programs, and none are as good as CodeCombat. CodeCombat was designed to make learning to code as easy as playing a game.

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Science Teaching Exams Instructors 181

Edsurge

MARCH 6, 2024

In our current educational landscape, you have to either receive a traditional high school diploma or pass the General Educational Development exam to access most postsecondary schooling options, including trade schools and community colleges. If we want a different world, we must educate differently.

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Multidisciplinary Counselling Multiple Choice Questions Exams 204

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

workforce, citing hostile work conditions, high-stakes testing, diminished autonomy, and lack of planning time as prevailing reasons. The ability to evaluate relevant outcomes, changes in behavior, fidelity of implementation, and staff buy-in are, in some instances, also lacking. SEL programming must be flexible.

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Teachers Exams Schools Students 164

Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 27, 2023

Excellent college preparation makes you self-aware and helps you evaluate what you’d love to do in school. Math, including geometry and algebra, can help you pass admission tests and later in college math classes. Adequate preparation is the best way to pass these exams and secure your spot in your preferred college.

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Exams High School High School Art 145

Edsurge

JANUARY 18, 2024

Rather, Spanish speaking is treated as a barrier to overcome, Gauna says, and schools try to get students into all-English classes by third grade, when standardized testing starts. Esmeralda said she felt pressured to teach in English to get a good evaluation from a supervisor, even though her students wouldn’t understand the lesson.

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English Language Languages Teachers 215

Edsurge

JANUARY 12, 2024

A Testing Trap I teach in New Orleans, the first American city to forcibly turn all its public schools over to private charter organizations. As part of this system, NOPS periodically evaluates whether private organizations that run public schools should be allowed to continue stewarding public funds , resources and children's futures.

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Schools Testing Evaluation Exams 153

Edsurge

JULY 28, 2021

Duolingo largely uses A/B testing to try to maximize engagement and improve its learning experience, using data from the platform's learning exercises to develop its AI models and drive both engagement and efficacy. “And But the company’s growth has been helped by another, more recent offering: an English test. million and $15.8

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English Language Languages Testing 176

Edsurge

JANUARY 8, 2024

A number of instructors in the math department at San Diego Mesa College, where she's a professor, had started exploring how to weave standards-based grading — an approach that evaluates students on how effectively they have mastered content — into the way they teach calculus.

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Math Quizzes Instructors Students 172

Edsurge

APRIL 20, 2022

Putting Alternative Credentials to the Test Asking people about their beliefs doesn’t always yield insight about how they act. So the Society for Human Resource Management designed an experiment to see how hiring managers and HR professionals evaluate resumes with varying college degrees and/or alternative credentials.

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Evaluation Beliefs Exams Assignments 172

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.

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Fairness Counselling Testing Disabilities 217

Edsurge

MARCH 16, 2020

during lessons, and offer students a variety of ways to complete assignments rather than requiring everyone to write a paper or take a timed exam. How can we best support students during this time and will evaluations for the SAT still be taking place? Makeup exams for the March 14 administration are also canceled. And the ACT?

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Schools Disabilities Exams Distance Learning 171

Edsurge

OCTOBER 1, 2018

It was early May—and in New York, that’s the dreaded season of testing. There are plenty of tests—but follow me, for a moment, to P.S. 279 Captain Manuel Rivera, Jr., Neither students nor teachers at P.S. 279 love standardized tests. Even so, few students want to spend hours and hours on these tests.

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Students Testing Math Exams 161

Edsurge

MAY 16, 2022

At a time when more colleges and universities are taking tentative steps away from standardized tests , ACT is not only recognizing the threat, but urging caution. Last year, the number of ACT test takers declined 22 percent, even as the number of test optional schools grew to include a slew of public state school systems.

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Grades Testing Interdisciplinary STEM 159

Faculty Focus

MAY 19, 2024

Consider this scenario (one you have likely experienced): Student: I failed the first exam. Educator: Why did you fail the first exam? If the student changes their environment to support their goal of learning, the outcome on future exams may be different. Student: It did not pass the vertical line test. Evaluate” (p.

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Student Engagement Exams Learning Students 119

Edsurge

DECEMBER 15, 2020

She pursued a PhD in Educational Research, Measurement and Evaluation. Summative: the more comprehensive tools used to measure what a student has learned at the end of a school term, such as exams and final projects. It is no longer just writing multiple choice test questions. It's super sophisticated.

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Education Quizzes Exams Textbooks 213