Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 8, 2023

Exam blueprints are a teaching tool that is still shrouded in controversy. The debate, however, often overlooks one crucial aspect: What do the students think? Understanding the utility and impact of exam blueprints from a student perspective can be a game-changer. No more guesswork—students know exactly what to expect.

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 8, 2023

Exam blueprints are a teaching tool that is still shrouded in controversy. The debate, however, often overlooks one crucial aspect: What do the students think? Understanding the utility and impact of exam blueprints from a student perspective can be a game-changer. No more guesswork—students know exactly what to expect.

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Exams Fairness Instructors Teaching Methods 111

Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 12, 2017

Instead of spending hours grading assignments designed to help students develop these skills, I limit my energy to providing feedback in class as they work and grading the actual assessments–exam, essay, performance task. Then as grade reporting approaches, I sit down with every single student for a grade interview.

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Grades Essay Exams English 419

Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2018

To some, standardized testing overwhelms our schools and helps eradicate differences between students. For others, they remain the best way to compare students objectively and hold schools accountable. Whatever your thoughts, there’s no denying that students are taking lots of tests. Two years ago, U.S. asks Mark Moulton.

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Testing Fairness Multiple Choice Questions Exams 167

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

In order to provide useful information to instructors and students about student achievement, it must be understood that student assessment is more than just a grade because it should link student performance to specific learning objectives. during a unit of study) Occurs after the instruction is complete (e.g.,

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

The debate over using test scores in college admissions has oscillated between requiring them and questioning their necessity in favor of relying more on student grade point averages (GPAs). They argue that scores poorly indicate a student’s ability to thrive in college, although data suggests otherwise.

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Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

In order to provide useful information to instructors and students about student achievement, it must be understood that student assessment is more than just a grade because it should link student performance to specific learning objectives. during a unit of study) Occurs after the instruction is complete (e.g.,

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Edsurge

JANUARY 24, 2024

Sabrina Colon, a first-year student at University of California, Merced, remembers when math first became a problem. Seeing other students who seem to get by well enough makes her feel isolated. Earlier this year, she was supposed to take an exam. She never took the exam. It’s given her severe anxiety. It feels pointless.

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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. million students across two states. Their assessments are currently used by more than 8.5

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Edsurge

JANUARY 4, 2019

But too often, a critical element is left out of the process: student voice. EdSurge Independent was created in 2016 as a way to change that by providing college and university students a platform to share their ideas, concerns, excitement and frustrations with the way technology shapes teaching and learning in higher education.

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eSchool News

JUNE 11, 2024

Ending the year on a strong note not only celebrates the achievements of students and staff but also sets the stage for a successful transition into the next academic year. Celebrate achievements: Reflecting on the successes of the school year is crucial for boosting morale and motivation among students and staff.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

The most controversial new tech tool for colleges since the start of the pandemic is automated proctoring, which aims to detect cheating on online exams by using algorithms that watch students via their webcam and look for suspicious patterns of behavior—often sending clips of questionable moments to professors for later review.

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Edsurge

APRIL 5, 2021

Spotty internet service makes remote learning hard for many college students. And that’s not only a problem for students trying to do research using, say, advanced statistical packages that take up a lot of computer space. “To But for some students, a new or even newish laptop is a luxury they can’t afford.

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eSchool News

JULY 20, 2016

But what does it take to improve learning for all student populations, support positive school environments, and ensure school leaders at all levels are equipped with the skills and tools they need to maintain successful learning environments? Approximately 70,000 of Arizona’s K-12 students are ELLs.

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Edsurge

MARCH 6, 2020

to announce that it would halt in-person classes and exams, in hopes that that will slow the spread of the coronavirus. Starting on Monday, March 9, no in-person classes or exams will be held at the University of Washington through the end of the quarter, which wraps on March 20. Hours later, Seattle University made a similar decision.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 21, 2015

Too often, students–and teachers–believe learning comes from success when in truth, it’s as likely to be the product of failure. Common Core expect students to write-edit-resubmit. After submittal, give students a set amount of time to redo and resubmit their work. Observe students as they work.

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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. Many hundreds of thousands of students are still waiting to take an exam. that enrolls about 2,000 undergraduate students. Enter COVID-19.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Many people think of school nurses as the people in a school building responsible for patching up a scraped knee, confirming a fever and checking students for lice. That’s why school nurses, she says, are key to helping students get — and stay — “classroom-ready.” It’s not that they don’t do those things. So I started doing more.

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Edsurge

APRIL 19, 2020

But university students have been told to stay home until further notice. For now, college students must continue their studies remotely—something that they are growing wary of. Sharing in that anxiety are graduate students, whose degree is dependent on conducting research for their dissertations.

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Laboratory Fairness Students Exams 108

Edsurge

JULY 30, 2019

We’ve had a lot of success in the open-learning space, driving a fair amount of this growth,” he says. Staff members work with student fellows and faculty to design curricula, dive into education data and develop personalized-learning tools.

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Exams Fairness Instructors Evaluation 155

Edsurge

JULY 10, 2020

Enshrining cliques and clubs, acne and braces, these artifacts capture students as they are, in the present. No, this designation is for the student who is going places, whose ambition and abilities and je ne sais quoi will surely take her far beyond her high school’s halls. Yet many yearbooks also make predictions about the future.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 30, 2018

Listening to Nicole’s impassioned and detailed presentation on the Puerto Rican debt crisis and its impact on the island’s healthcare system, it was easy to forget a high school senior was addressing a group of 100 students and teachers. Students are exposed to each of the program areas during their lower and middle school years.

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Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

It is important for students to foster an appreciative mindset so they are better equipped to face life’s challenges. Such a mindset transcends mere learning and memorization; it encourages students to view the world through the lens of positivity, gratitude, and open-mindedness.

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Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

It is important for students to foster an appreciative mindset so they are better equipped to face life’s challenges. Such a mindset transcends mere learning and memorization; it encourages students to view the world through the lens of positivity, gratitude, and open-mindedness.

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Edsurge

MAY 16, 2019

A story in the Wall Street Journal today brought national attention to a program by the College Board that assigns what the newspaper calls an “adversity score” to students who take the SAT. Anything above 50 indicates a student came from a background of hardship, and anything less means relative advantage.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Oregon teachers wish they didn’t have to give their students Smarter Balanced English and math tests because the tests take too much time, have confusing directions and are unfair for students who don’t have computers at home or who have inadequate technology at school.

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Testing Teachers Math Essay 157

Faculty Focus

MAY 2, 2023

Traditionally, assessment in higher education has mainly been standardized exams and course work pieces of varying degrees of realism. Astoundingly, ChatGPT can assist in “leveling up” these exam items as well as aid in designing high quality alternative assessments. What if my students decide to use this app?

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Education Academic Integrity Fairness Exams 116

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

This pandemic fall semester has understandably raised anxieties about whether students will receive valuable instruction in the academic topics they study in class. But it also threatens the psychosocial learning students do in college, as well as the opportunities for personal development that so many of them seek.

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Students Instructors Study Exams 137

Faculty Focus

MAY 9, 2024

Would you let your students submit a paper where 5% of the text was written by ChatGPT? 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.

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Academic Integrity Writing Syllabus Exams 137

Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2018

Elite colleges, like Kantar’s would-be alma mater, care whether and where their students get hired. Employers will stop trusting schools to vet their candidates with metrics like the ACT, SAT and Advanced Placement (AP) exams. So what about the schools? They want them to be hired by elite employers.

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Testing Teaching Exams Evaluation 155

Edsurge

MARCH 12, 2019

Federal prosecutors charged nearly 50 people on Tuesday with crimes in connection to an admissions-fraud scheme in which parents allegedly paid millions of dollars to get their kids into highly-selective colleges by cheating on admissions tests or helping them pose as student athletes. Neither student came to Stanford.

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Edsurge

JULY 26, 2016

This fall, my computer science class will follow the new AP Computer Science curriculum framework while also including culturally responsive instruction that makes use of students’ interests, community settings, and cultural and ethnic backgrounds. In 2015, the number of students taking the AP CS exam increased by nearly 24 percent.

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Art Culture Science Exams 112

Edsurge

APRIL 13, 2018

Via Microsoft Translator , a translation service, students in classes and lectures can get automated transcriptions on their mobile and desktop devices. The partnership’s primary aim is to support students who are deaf and hard of hearing. Students will be able to download the transcripts and reference them later.

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Accessibility Lecturing Exams Attention 139

Edsurge

APRIL 12, 2019

A private admissions counselor allegedly bribed a proctor of an SAT test, and in some cases paid someone to take the test for a student, or have someone change answers to improve a student’s score. A few students were able to switch the school where they tested. College Board was founded to try to address that inequity.

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Disabilities Exams Learning Disabilities Testing 116

Faculty Focus

MAY 2, 2023

Traditionally, assessment in higher education has mainly been standardized exams and course work pieces of varying degrees of realism. Astoundingly, ChatGPT can assist in “leveling up” these exam items as well as aid in designing high quality alternative assessments. What if my students decide to use this app?

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Education Academic Integrity Fairness Exams 98

Gaggle Speaks

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

Teachers are fairly used to the notion of lost students—those children who never really speak up or engage. While it might seem a bit overwhelming to get through to those students, there are some ways to make them feel more comfortable in the classroom. Here are a few practices to consider when trying to engage the lost students.

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Edsurge

JULY 26, 2018

But could students be better motivated with a more meaningful kind of monetary reward—say, college scholarships? That’s an incentive that RaiseMe believes will help grow its online service that aggregates scholarship opportunities from colleges and, more importantly, outlines what students need to do to qualify for them.

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