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. Help or Hindrance? That is what we are working towards,” Gorin explains.

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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

JANUARY 24, 2024

Earlier this year, she was supposed to take an exam. She never took the exam. But there’s complicating evidence, with one study showing that this approach may even be harmful in 10-to-12-year-old students. I mean, to me, this is not fair to students,” she says. When thinking about math, her chest tightens.

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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’?

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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. These include Problem Roulette , which offers users random-within-a-topic study problems pulled from old exams, and GradeCraft , a learning management system that helps instructors build game elements into their courses.

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Edsurge

APRIL 5, 2021

The study results point to one more way that the past year has exposed the divide between the technology-haves and have-nots, according to D. One student described relying on a laptop that could not handle exam-proctoring software, causing the student to miss a test. Christopher Brooks, director of research for EDUCAUSE. ‘I

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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?

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Edsurge

JULY 26, 2016

Other students study drawing and painting, so they will learn how to use code to create their artwork. In 2015, the number of students taking the AP CS exam increased by nearly 24 percent. Some of the students enjoy freestyle rap and dance, so they will learn how to simulate or enhance their performances using code. This isn’t new.

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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.

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Edsurge

APRIL 19, 2020

For now, college students must continue their studies remotely—something that they are growing wary of. That has given some relief to students like Rong, a postgraduate student at a university in Guangzhou who is also studying urban planning. “My She is also concerned about the fairness of the process.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 30, 2018

How does a school engage a senior and the entire learning community, especially in late April when seniors are close to exams and all students are grappling with spring fever and the not-too-distant target of summer? They determine what they will study and how they will present their findings. Why the increase?

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 20, 2017

MIT’s Supply Chain Management MicroMasters attracted over 180,000 learners , of who 1,100 completed all five courses in the series, and 622 passed the final exam. Are their employers allowing them to study during paid work time? These alternative, non-degree credentials are vastly less costly than traditional degrees.

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Examples include textbooks, peer-reviewed studies, images, videos, and more. Equity is the fair and just access to opportunities and resources for all. We have not conducted a formal study at my institution, but I would like to share with you some of the data we have collected on a few courses. 2020; Miller).

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

A study by the Council of the Great City Schools found that Portland and Oregon students are some of the least-tested in the country when it comes to mandated standardized exams. The tests are designed to last less than nine hours, or 1 percent of the school year. The behaviors in my classroom have been awful.

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Edsurge

JULY 16, 2018

At the end of next school year, thousands of high school students will sit down at individual workstations, laptops in hand, for an end-of-course exam. A Question on Testing When building the new tests, PLTW gathered panels of industry experts, educators and psychometricians, or scientists who study how to make tests fair.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2022

Because much of last year was very unpredictable, the normal content and study skills were not fully taught. During the first few months of this year, I spent a lot of time reviewing ways for the students to study, as well as making up for missing content. This is where my Wacom Intuos has been so very helpful.

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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. Mayhew and Rockenbach are co-principal investigators on this multi-year study, Selznick is a research affiliate, and Shaheen is a graduate student working on the project.

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Examples include textbooks, peer-reviewed studies, images, videos, and more. Equity is the fair and just access to opportunities and resources for all. We have not conducted a formal study at my institution, but I would like to share with you some of the data we have collected on a few courses. 2020; Miller).

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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.

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Academic Integrity Writing Syllabus Exams 98

Cal Matters

MAY 14, 2025

Unlike AP classes, which include expensive exams and are limited to certain subjects and high-performing students, these community college classes cover a range of topics and are open to all students. As part of the class, she has to study a career, write a short essay about it and present it at a career fair.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Because much of last year was very unpredictable, the normal content and study skills were not fully taught. During the first few months of this year, I spent a lot of time reviewing ways for the students to study, as well as making up for missing content. This is where my Wacom Intuos has been so very helpful.

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Edsurge

JULY 31, 2019

These changes also come at a time when a growing number of colleges are moving away from their reliance on standardized tests—by going “test optional” or otherwise de-emphasizing the exam when making admissions decisions. In a way, the College Board and ACT are trying to resolve what is a fundamental contradiction in their missions.

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Lab to Class

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Education, especially formalized education in schools, has long held that in order for students to learn effectively, they must have solid study routines, consistent teachers, and unified textbooks. Have A Consistent Study Schedule One of the most important parts of routine for the brain is repeated practice.

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k12 Online Schools

APRIL 28, 2025

A students GPA, course rigor, extracurricular activities, leadership roles, essays, and recommendations matter far more than whether they studied online or in-person. Demonstrating Leadership and Initiative from an Online Platform A common worry among parents is: “How will my child show leadership if they are studying online?”

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Edsurge

APRIL 2, 2018

Photo Credit: Jenny Abamu Despite a relatively new building, constructed in 2003 as part of a former superintendent’s turnaround project, Fisher has suffered from consistent low performance—falling far below state standards on exams and adjusted growth targets designed specifically for the school. During the 2015-16 school year, only 0.7

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Edsurge

APRIL 18, 2023

To do that, the organization plans to work with the Educational Testing Service (ETS) — the folks behind standardized tests including the GRE and the Praxis — to create new tools designed to assess what students are able to do, not how much time they spent studying to do it. Embracing Flexibility?

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 12, 2017

In a recent study done with prisoners, for instance, “the aspect of mindfulness associated with reserving judgment about the self actually increased criminogenic thinking significantly.” And to be fair, Carol Dweck has acknowledged that this is part of her research program, so I'm not criticizing her particularly. I'm gonna give up."

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k12 Online Schools

MAY 6, 2025

The Science Behind Boredom and Brain Development Recent neuroscience and psychology studies have begun to uncover how boredom actually serves developmental purposes: A. In highly structured, exam-focused systems, any form of “free time” is viewed as wasted time. Theyre just standing on the edge of invention.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 2, 2020

Recently, we asked Dintersmith for his thoughts on the decade in edtech, as someone who’s seen a fair number of sides of it. Few adults I interview feel they learned all that much from the large lecture courses they took in college as many of them featured fairly pedestrian exams. At some level, this shouldn’t come as a surprise.

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