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.

Exams 109

Exams Testing Disabilities Learning 109

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.

Testing 162

Testing Exams Internet Fairness 162

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.

Exams 119

Exams Fairness Instructors Teaching Methods 119

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.

Testing 152

Testing Teachers Math Essay 152

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.

Exams 111

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.

Testing 154

Testing Teaching Exams Evaluation 154

Edsurge

JULY 31, 2019

These days the leaders of the College Board, which runs the SAT, have been making a surprising argument—that colleges and parents should stop taking the scores of its signature test so seriously. In this new era, the College Board is testing a controversial new metric that has been labeled as an “ adversity score.”

Testing 159

Testing Essay Blended Courses Skills 159

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.

Exams 190

Exams Lecturing Instructors Testing 190

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? Several U.S. states like New York and Kentucky feature them too).

Testing 104

Testing Exams Multiple Choice Questions STEM 104

Edsurge

JANUARY 24, 2024

Earlier this year, she was supposed to take an exam. She never took the exam. Having students reframe their feelings as excitement rather than anxiety or having them journal about their anxiety before taking a test may help, some researchers suggest. Some argue that instructional methods like timed tests aggravate anxiety.

Math 210

Math Exams Students Testing 210

Edsurge

JANUARY 4, 2019

Outcomes, Testing and Grading Which methods of assessment best measure learning and ability? Are standardized tests a fair gauge for predicting college success? Want to know more about what these students had to say?

Fairness 163

Fairness Education Students Disabilities 163

Edsurge

JULY 11, 2023

Bier and others involved in the project say that they are testing the approach in a variety of educational settings, including public and private K-12 schools, community colleges and four-year colleges. EdSurge: The app you developed helps teachers test out their learning materials to see if they’re effective. Do not use those, please.

Testing 123

Testing Multiple Choice Questions Teaching Education 123

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.

Fairness 217

Fairness Counselling Testing Disabilities 217

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.

Exams 123

Exams Fairness Assignments Testing 123

Edsurge

MAY 16, 2019

The numbers are provided only to admissions officials, and not visible to test takers. 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.

Exams 135

Exams Fairness Testing Evaluation 135

Edsurge

APRIL 5, 2021

One student described relying on a laptop that could not handle exam-proctoring software, causing the student to miss a test. ‘I Feel Ashamed’ To enjoy full access to digital textbooks, video software and other online learning systems, college students ideally would have their own, modern computers, according to Francis.

Students 197

Students Lecturing Assignments Exams 197

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.

Exams 101

Exams Coaching Counselling Fairness 101

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. The integrity of the test is critically important.

Disabilities 114

Disabilities Exams Learning Disabilities Testing 114

Edsurge

JULY 26, 2016

In 2015, the number of students taking the AP CS exam increased by nearly 24 percent. However, test-takers were overwhelmingly white and male, according to data from the College Board, which administers the AP test. This isn’t new. Attaining CS skills has become an imperative for today’s students and the workforce of tomorrow.

Culture 112

Culture Art Science Exams 112

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

eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2022

Technology will be tailored to support through-course assessment.Rather than an end-of-year, single high-stakes test, conversations are picking up around scaffolding the high stakes testing model, whereby students take pieces of exams as they progress.

Learning 363

Learning Communication Hybrid Learning Languages 363

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. Looking For Answers To test this hypothesis, I partnered with a couple of universities in the U.S.

Participation 141

Participation Exams Fairness Study 141

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Learning Management Systems With learning management systems now installed at nearly all higher education institutions here and abroad, instructors can create course materials, assess student progress and generate custom exams. Most authoring software also integrates assessment tools, testing learning outcomes.

Online Learning 150

Online Learning Lecturing Learning Instructors 150

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

eSchool News

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Technology will be tailored to support through-course assessment.Rather than an end-of-year, single high-stakes test, conversations are picking up around scaffolding the high stakes testing model, whereby students take pieces of exams as they progress.

Hybrid Learning 288

Hybrid Learning Communication Accessibility Languages 288

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Automated grading systems powered by AI streamline the time-consuming task of assessing assignments and exams. This raises concerns about fairness and equity, as students from underrepresented groups might face further disadvantages. This raises concerns about fairness and equity in the learning process.

Education 130

Education Ethics Gamification Learning Styles 130

k12 Online Schools

APRIL 28, 2025

Standardized Testing Still Plays a Role (But Not the Only Role) In a world where many colleges have gone “test-optional,” standardized tests like the SAT and ACT still matter for certain programs, scholarships, and competitive universities. However, test scores alone dont define an applicant anymore.

Essay 52

Essay Students Testing Participation 52

Edsurge

OCTOBER 5, 2023

As educators have looked to alternatives to assigning essays, one idea that has bubbled up is to bring back oral exams. But even fans of administering oral exams admit a major drawback: They’re time-consuming, and take a lot out of educators. Even so, some educators have been giving the oral exam a try.

Exams 216

Exams Essay Instructors Education 216

Lab to Class

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Every teacher has experienced the frustration of teaching students a concept very clearly, then giving a test and having students completely flop the quiz or exam. It also is beneficial for creating fairness and equality in the classroom.

Study 52

Study Lecturing Learning Activities 52

Edsurge

MAY 15, 2020

Even when she did host live office hours and exam reviews, not many students participated. Thanks to a partnership with the New York State Department of Health AIDS Institute, the students were asked to devise ways to educate peers about HIV and AIDS using a digital comic called “ Tested. We are lucky the comic is awesome,” Keefe says.

Counselling 179

Counselling Fairness Students Exams 179

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. I think the testing industry is very nervous,” he says.

Skills 217

Skills Learning Testing High School 217

Edsurge

APRIL 2, 2018

No matter what you do you are still going to be accountable for the test score.It Brownlee believes that he is a good teacher, in spite of what test scores may reflect. My children are being cheated because they are not given the same experiences as their counterparts in other schools, and that’s not fair,” says Brownlee.

Teachers 135

Teachers Schools Coaching Fairness 135

Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 17, 2015

Senator Tom Harkin has talked with me for years about the damage that testing is doing to children. When test scores come out, guess who does well and guess who gets blamed? Could we take the billions of dollars that are going to testing companies and put it into rich, developmental pre-K? Parents aren’t frightened of the test.

Education 91

Education Exams Testing Fairness 91

Edsurge

DECEMBER 12, 2017

He might just change the way you think about things like growth mindset, comprehensive testing, and encouraging students to make mistakes. And to be fair, Carol Dweck has acknowledged that this is part of her research program, so I'm not criticizing her particularly. The conversation has been edited and condensed for clarity.

Teaching 148

Teaching Laboratory Motivation Testing 148

Faculty Focus

JULY 20, 2023

Recently, our campus held its first “ DeStress Before You Test ” mental health fair that took place four days before final exams. Students at our university are given the opportunity to attend free mental health workshops, including mindfulness sessions, anxiety support groups, and destress events.

Counselling 98

Counselling Instructors Peer Review Exams 98

Faculty Focus

JULY 20, 2023

Recently, our campus held its first “ DeStress Before You Test ” mental health fair that took place four days before final exams. Students at our university are given the opportunity to attend free mental health workshops, including mindfulness sessions, anxiety support groups, and destress events.

Counselling 92

Counselling Instructors Peer Review Exams 92

k12 Online Schools

MAY 6, 2025

In highly structured, exam-focused systems, any form of “free time” is viewed as wasted time. The Marshmallow Test Effect Remember the famous marshmallow test? Host a Boredom Fair where students present ideas or creations sparked from unstructured time. But life doesnt always work that way.

Intelligence 52

Intelligence Evaluation Interdisciplinary Writing 52