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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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. I identify target skills and assess these critical skills over the course of the grading period.

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Grades Essay Exams English 419

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

These forms of feedback often focus on assignments and homework prior to college, where feedback becomes scarce. This raises an essential question: What kind of feedback information is genuinely useful for students? This idea is well understood in grading, but not as so in feedback to students.

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Multiple Choice Questions Feedback Students History 277

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

There is no way to give personalized feedback when I have 600 pages to grade each week. There is no way to give personalized feedback when I have 600 pages to grade each week. Colleagues suggested that I switch to multiple choice exams, but I declined because I believe strongly in the importance of open-ended problem solving.

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Feedback Peer Review Critical Thinking Assignments 134

eSchool News

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Building quizzes, tests, and lesson plans from curriculum materials: Fran Bellas, a professor at Universidade da Coruña in Spain, recommends teachers use ChatGPT as an assistant in crafting quizzes, exams and lesson plans for classes. How can ChatGPT be used for assessment and feedback? You can take these ideas and make them your own.”

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Teaching Quizzes Exams English 278

eSchool News

MAY 1, 2024

“TeachTap is a game-changer for students preparing for AP exams and studying high school courses. Pearson Edgington, a high school senior who piloted TeachTap, shared his experience: “TeachTap made studying for my AP exams actually fun and interesting. Chief Product Officer Phil Hewinson.

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Exams High School High School History 141

EFL Magazine

APRIL 14, 2025

How to Prepare for Your English Exam In my previous article, I discussed a few of the many English tests available online and offline. However, before you register and pay […] The post How to Prepare for Your English Exam appeared first on EFL Magazine.

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Exams English Testing Discussions 96

eSchool News

JUNE 11, 2024

Feedback mechanisms : Create opportunities for students, staff, parents, and community members to provide feedback. Clear communication : Ensure that all stakeholders are well-informed about end-of-year procedures, such as exams, grading, and returning textbooks. Clear communication helps to reduce confusion and stress.

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Achievement Schools Counselling Feedback 303

Edsurge

JUNE 6, 2017

The university has created a way for automated software to give students in large STEM courses feedback on their writing in cases where professors don’t have time to grade hundreds of essays. We always have written exams, but it never hurts to have students communicate more through writing.”

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Essay Feedback Writing Assignments 136

eSchool News

JULY 1, 2024

For instance, AI might be prohibited during exams or in assignments where personal creativity and original thought are paramount. This use of AI can enhance the quality of student submissions and provide valuable feedback that helps students learn and improve their skills over time.

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Ethics Instructors Education Academic Integrity 321

eSchool News

AUGUST 14, 2024

The situation is made even more challenging by the lack of suitable feedback mechanisms to help teachers understand who is struggling in class and to help them quickly find the root cause of the student’s challenges. Most tools that teachers have for this purpose are lagging indicators such as tests, quizzes, and homework.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 12, 2024

At the end of the program of study, which includes three courses, students can earn a certification by taking the Professional Teaching Exam. At FlexPoint, we have a Principles of Teaching program of study that provides high school students with the technical and soft skills needed to become a professional educator.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Johnson’s class for eventually helping me pass the AP Writing exam my senior year without ever taking an AP-level English class. Mr. Johnson was willing to provide feedback on drafts. With all the volumes of content to be covered, there just isn’t time in either the class period or the school year for cycles of feedback.

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Writing Failure Essay English 300

eSchool News

AUGUST 12, 2024

Teachers can use AI-powered tools like MagicSchool.ai , ChatGPT , and Chatterbot AI to create quizzes and exams that align with their course materials. Personalizing feedback at scale In my opinion, personalization at scale is the frontrunner in the diadem of benefits that the AI revolution has inspired.

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Quizzes Lecturing Ethics Exams 297

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. This could mean it will be a long time before students see any innovations to their state exams.

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Exams Testing Disabilities Learning 110

eSchool News

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Effective Assessment: Digital tools make it easier for teachers to create and grade assignments, quizzes, and exams. It also allows opportunities to increase constructive feedback to students and teachers to modify and adapt different teaching strategies for students.

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Collaborative Learning Gamification Teachers Teaching Methods 317

eSchool News

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Schools also tend to rely on spoken communication to teach and written exams to assess learning. The game with the headset focused on visual and audio cues to give feedback and allowed students to interact with the virtual environment around them. In the United States, English is the main language used in classrooms.

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Science English Communication Languages 294

eSchool News

APRIL 2, 2025

On Edia’s platform, an AI coach reads students’ work and gives them personalized feedback based on their mistakes so they can think about their answers, try again, and master concepts. Some FDR classes use Edia several days a week for specific math supports, while others use it for homework assignments. The results?

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Coaching Math Students Assignments 294

Edsurge

MAY 9, 2023

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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Grades Exams Feedback Testing 194

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

A free online course from Rice University uses attention-grabbing videos, interactive lab activities, dramatic physics demonstrations, engaging instructors and a free online textbook to help high school students prepare for the Advanced Placement (AP) Physics 1 Exam. Part 4 will offer a comprehensive exam prep.

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Exams Lecturing Textbooks Instructors 174

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Testing can help students better retain and recall what they studied, not only for the final exam, but as part of their overall educational development. Using their LMS, they can also be notified when students complete a quiz and require feedback on answers. Frequency .

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Quizzes Technology Hybrid Courses Mobile Devices 226

Edsurge

AUGUST 29, 2024

For instance, ETS, one of the oldest and largest players in standardized testing, is moving away from traditional college entrance exams like the SAT to focus on new approaches to measure the skills and persistence of students. It’s been a period of upheaval for academic testing in general and for the 75-year-old nonprofit ETS in particular.

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Testing Multiple Choice Questions Exams Questions 206

eSchool News

APRIL 29, 2024

Interactive quizzes with instant feedback to reinforce learning and save educators’ valuable time. Study.com partners with state education departments, school districts, colleges of education, and education-focused nonprofits to help aspiring educators prepare and pass their credentialing exams.

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Intelligence Exams Ethics Learning Styles 258

eSchool News

JULY 19, 2016

On the 2015 AzMERIT statewide benchmark exam, only 2 percent of ELLs passed the language arts section, and 6 percent passed the math section of the exam. Third, its uses advanced speech recognition technology to give students the opportunity to practice speaking and reading aloud, while receiving real-time corrective feedback.

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English Language Languages Exams 171

eSchool News

JULY 20, 2016

On the 2015 AzMERIT statewide benchmark exam, only 2 percent of ELLs passed the language arts section, and 6 percent passed the math section of the exam. The Arizona Department of Education , along with the Arizona State Board of Education , has embarked on a two-year pilot program with Scientific Learning Corp. Read more.

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Teaching Exams Disabilities Learning 186

Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 15, 2024

Some reasons why you may find these tools beneficial are: Organization: organize lesson plans, assignments, and resources efficiently Communication: between teachers, students, and parents to foster a collaborative relationship, keep everyone informed Student Engagement: to make learning more interesting and interactive Time Management: schedule reminders, (..)

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Classroom Management Mobile Devices Plagiarism Quizzes 183

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

He says he has noticed that students typically organize channels in Discord and GroupMe only when they are frustrated by the level of assistance or timely feedback from instructors. That’s what Joseph Ching, an affiliate scholar at James Madison University, has experienced.

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Exams Instructors Students Lecturing 199

Edsurge

OCTOBER 10, 2024

This year in Tokyo, for instance, an 18-year-old allegedly used smart glasses to try to cheat on a university entrance exam. He apparently took pictures of his exam questions, posted them online during the test, and users on X, formerly Twitter, gave him the answers (which he could presumably hear read to him on his smart glasses).

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Exams Testing Ethics Activities 189

eSchool News

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Through phone calls that allowed her to get to know them and discover what motivates them, she took the extra steps like providing individualized feedback on assessments and checking not just for completion, but for understanding. What’s more, Mira reached out to Debbie and she gave her own feedback on the books and answered the questions!

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Education Exams Motivation Elementary School 269

eSchool News

JUNE 28, 2016

“We see more districts turning to formative assessments as their way of measuring student progress, instead of relying on end-of-course exams–they’re looking at district-wide formative assessments,” Creel said. Students receive targeted feedback if they don’t solve a problem correctly.

Multiple Choice Questions 189

Multiple Choice Questions Exams Coaching Motivation 189

Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2020

Then the professor can either respond to each video with feedback or ask the students to post video responses to each other. Ask Your Students For Feedback on Your Online Teaching For many teachers right now, moving online is like going back to the first year of teaching, when everything was new, argues Eaton. Department of Education.

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Teaching Instructors Distance Learning Lecturing 218

Edsurge

DECEMBER 6, 2018

They give instant feedback on exams. A lot of exams are going online. So materials were removed, replaced or modified based on the data feedback you were able to gather? And what do professors do with it? They flip the classroom. You have been researching learning science and digging into that. A little bit.

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Science Exams Learning Motivation 166

Edsurge

JULY 29, 2020

In the latest episode of EdSurge Live, we interviewed two professors who have long questioned traditional methods of grading about how to approach exams, essays and other assessments next semester: Susan D. Tony Crider, professor of astrophysics at Elon University, offers his students “ epic finales” instead of final exams.

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Exams Motivation Learning Instructors 194

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

BIOZONE has just published an exciting new AP Environmental Science title (in print and eBook) dedicated to addressing the College Board’s new APES Course & Exam Description (2019). I’d be delighted to receive any feedback about your impression of this resource,” Richard Allan Biozone’s President commented.

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Science Exams Coaching Writing 153

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

In addition, the dashboard allows district administrators to distribute surveys to educators to give feedback on seven areas of transformation as defined by Google: vision, learning model, culture, professional development, community engagement, technology implementation and funding. Canada and Mexico.

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Feedback Exams Instructors Assignments 164

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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Testing Exams Internet Fairness 159

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Now you can use Zoom, but take attendance, hand out assignments, give tests or quizzes, proctor those exams, and talk one-on-one with the students,” he says. “We I don’t think we were working as closely as we should have with institutions to be getting that feedback and getting input along the way.”

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Online Learning Technology Quizzes Learning 189