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Pushback Is Growing Against Automated Proctoring Services. But So Is Their Use

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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

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Is It Time to Rethink the Traditional Grading System?

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That became clear a few years ago, when a particularly bright student in a calculus class Talbert was teaching bombed the first exam. Her score on that exam was so low, in fact, that she realized she had no chance to get an A in the course, no matter how well she might do on future tests and assignments.

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Three Strategies that Support Student Well-Being and Mental Health

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Integral to these efforts, the Center for Educational Innovation (CEI) designed and delivered several faculty development opportunities focusing on research-based teaching and learning strategies that support student mental health and well-being. References and Resources Almog, N.

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How Colleges Can Improve Accessibility In Remote Courses

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Then we also have continued our webinars series with our Center for Faculty Development and Innovation. So we were able to extend our Respondus Monitor license, which monitors the students during an exam. And then we did some webinars for Blackboard Basic, Zoom, TechSmith Relay, and even Microsoft Teams.

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How Do You Grade a Creative Assignment?

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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.” There are certainly ample problems with grades that would take up far more space than even ten of my standard column lengths would require.

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Three Strategies that Support Student Well-Being and Mental Health

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Integral to these efforts, the Center for Educational Innovation (CEI) designed and delivered several faculty development opportunities focusing on research-based teaching and learning strategies that support student mental health and well-being. References and Resources Almog, N.

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The Best Teaching Advice I Have Received

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Right-size” your course, your lessons and exams, and your assignments. Don’t try to cram as much as you can into each lesson, exam, or assignment. Instead, look for ways to reuse lesson plans, schedules, syllabi, assignments, and exam questions instead of reinventing the wheel every term. Share more stories.