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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Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Linways Technologies. The post Are Your Assessments Fair and Balanced? Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts. Thomas, Bastin, (2022). Building products and practices for educators to accelerate learning with Linways. appeared first on Faculty Focus | Higher Ed Teaching & Learning.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Harvard introduced the SAT ® Exam to identify talented students nationwide, breaking regional biases and creating opportunities for working-class students. Recent changes in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic , such as transitioning to digital exams and increasing testing locations and dates, aim to support equity.

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Testing Exams Evaluation History 270

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Linways Technologies. The post Are Your Assessments Fair and Balanced? Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts. Thomas, Bastin, (2022). Building products and practices for educators to accelerate learning with Linways. appeared first on Faculty Focus | Higher Ed Teaching & Learning.

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Fairness Instructors Feedback Evaluation 110

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?

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Exams Testing Disabilities Learning 109

eSchool News

JUNE 11, 2024

Topics could include new teaching strategies, technology integration, or stress management techniques. This could include science fairs, art exhibitions, or community service projects. Clear communication : Ensure that all stakeholders are well-informed about end-of-year procedures, such as exams, grading, and returning textbooks.

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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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eSchool News

JULY 20, 2016

The research followed a charter school management organization that co-designed technology with the nonprofit company Gooru. that would use a technology-based language development and literacy program to English language learners (ELLs) in grades K-6.Approximately Approximately 70,000 of Arizona’s K-12 students are ELLs.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 4, 2019

There’s a lot that goes into innovation efforts on campus—think curriculum design, technology training for instructors, and bureaucracy. Curriculum and Teaching Curriculum and teaching is top of mind for students curious about educational technology, and this was the most frequent topic that students have written about about so far.

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Edsurge

JULY 30, 2019

The department is hiring for more than a dozen new designer, developer and strategy jobs, including for an associate director for media technology and innovation. We’ve had a lot of success in the open-learning space, driving a fair amount of this growth,” he says.

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Exams Fairness Instructors Evaluation 155

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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Exams Fairness Assignments Testing 123

Edsurge

JANUARY 24, 2024

Earlier this year, she was supposed to take an exam. She never took the exam. I mean, to me, this is not fair to students,” she says. When thinking about math, her chest tightens. Sometimes, it keeps her from sleeping. But when she arrived at the class it was too much. So we are just letting them experiment on students.

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Math Exams Students Testing 210

Edsurge

APRIL 5, 2021

But even students who do have Wi-Fi and digital devices for schoolwork may not be able to fully participate in their courses if the technology they have is old, outdated or not powerful enough to handle the demands of today’s higher ed software and streaming services. So does lacking reliable access to a computer.

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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. Is There a ‘Better Way’?

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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. The pitch: Use deeper technology to make admissions more deeply human. “I

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Fairness Counselling Testing Disabilities 217

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Our health care system is very complex, and the more technologically advanced we've become, the more we've left a lot of families behind. We have no referral sources in the city for kids who don't have insurance, or don't have means to have a vision screening or a vision exam or can't navigate that system. So I started doing more.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 2, 2023

“ Technology can become the wings that will allow the educational world to fly farther and faster than ever before – if we allow it (Arledge).” We cannot escape the tremendous impact that advancements in technology are having, and will continue to have on what we consider most important in education. Will we allow it?

Education 116

Education Academic Integrity Fairness Exams 116

eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2022

Equity remained front and center, too, raising issues of inequitable technology access, along with racial and socioeconomic disparities and discrimination. For over a year now, the focus has been on getting technology into the hands of students. Schools had a crash course in greater instructional technology usage during the pandemic.

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Learning Communication Hybrid Learning Languages 363

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. The behaviors in my classroom have been awful.

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Testing Teachers Math Essay 152

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

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 154

Edsurge

APRIL 13, 2018

On the heels of one another, two tech titans recently announced higher-education partnerships that leverage transcription technology to make educational materials more accessible to a broader swath of learners. On April 5, Microsoft announced a partnership with the Rochester Institute of Technology in New York.

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Accessibility Lecturing Exams Attention 137

Edsurge

MAY 16, 2019

The fairness of the college admissions process has come under increased scrutiny in recent months, after federal prosecutors charged nearly 50 people with crimes in connection to an admissions-fraud scheme. In at least one case, the student was unaware that their parent had paid to improve their score.

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Exams Fairness Testing Evaluation 135

Edsurge

MARCH 12, 2019

Key points from the indictment : — Parents participating in the scheme paid between $15,000 and $75,000 per test to have someone from Edge pose as their child and take their SAT or ACT exams for them, or to correct exam questions just after the test to boost their scores.

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Exams Coaching Counselling Fairness 101

Edsurge

JULY 26, 2016

In 2015, the number of students taking the AP CS exam increased by nearly 24 percent. The exam has traditionally suffered from a lack of racial and gender diversity; conventional CS concepts were not adaptable to ethnically diverse students. This isn’t new.

Art 112

Art Culture Science Exams 112

Faculty Focus

MAY 2, 2023

“ Technology can become the wings that will allow the educational world to fly farther and faster than ever before – if we allow it (Arledge).” We cannot escape the tremendous impact that advancements in technology are having, and will continue to have on what we consider most important in education. Will we allow it?

Education 98

Education Academic Integrity Fairness Exams 98

Edsurge

APRIL 19, 2020

A law major at the Macau University of Science and Technology, Jiang Dong said most of her courses have been live-streamed via Zoom. I’m still missing one credit for physical education class, and two for my science and technology requirements,” Jiang said. “We She is also concerned about the fairness of the process.

Laboratory 106

Laboratory Fairness Students Exams 106

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. Testing for such skills relies heavily on technology and required a significant retooling. Their goal? Darling-Hammond says the format is rarely used outside the U.S,

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Testing Exams Multiple Choice Questions STEM 104

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

More than two decades ago, when I was hired at Stevens Institute of Technology, as dean of web-based distance learning—a quaint title for what is now known as online learning—few tools were available to help faculty migrate their on-campus courses online. million students. million students. The LMS market today is valued at $9.2

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Online Learning Lecturing Learning Instructors 150

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. Honestly, this is a big reason why many eschew technology: Too often, it fails at just that critical moment. But make it fair. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-8 technology for 15 years.

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Failure Learning Students Critical Thinking 153

eSchool News

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Equity remained front and center, too, raising issues of inequitable technology access, along with racial and socioeconomic disparities and discrimination. Beheshti, IEEE Senior Member, Dean of the College of Engineering and Computing Sciences at New York Institute of Technology. — Babak D.

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Hybrid Learning Communication Accessibility Languages 288

Edsurge

APRIL 12, 2019

The incident has raised questions about the fairness and validity of the admissions process as a whole, and specifically about whether the SAT is as secure as it should be. They got accommodations, and they didn’t take the exam at their [usual] school. The Varsity Blues incident was a very extreme example of it, and a very small one.

Disabilities 114

Disabilities Exams Learning Disabilities Testing 114

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Equity is the fair and just access to opportunities and resources for all. Assessments should be diverse with less focus on high-stakes exams. Fetter (2021) shared that in her experience with high-stakes exams, after the pandemic they did not make sense. Education Technology, Research, and Development, 69, 411-414.

Accessibility 98

Accessibility Exams Learning Peer Review 98

Edsurge

DECEMBER 20, 2017

At a recent meeting of educational technology policy advisors, a well-informed university CIO casually declared that MOOCs were history. 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.

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Participation Exams Fairness Study 141

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Equity is the fair and just access to opportunities and resources for all. Assessments should be diverse with less focus on high-stakes exams. Fetter (2021) shared that in her experience with high-stakes exams, after the pandemic they did not make sense. Education Technology, Research, and Development, 69, 411-414.

Accessibility 90

Accessibility Exams Learning Peer Review 90

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

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? The answers are found in independent learning, deliberate community building and one very special event.

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Students Art STEM Exams 141