eSchool News

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Growing up on Chicago’s South Side, a neighborhood whose history of gun violence earned it the moniker “Chiraq,” can be traumatic for students. In fact, O’Grady’s third graders last year performed 10 points higher than the national third-grade average on NWEA’s Measures of Academic Progress (MAP) benchmark exam.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

The history and purpose of testing Standardized tests have been pivotal in college admissions for nearly a century. Harvard introduced the SAT ® Exam to identify talented students nationwide, breaking regional biases and creating opportunities for working-class students. Over time, standardized tests have evolved in many ways.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Concept mapping can be particularly beneficial in subjects like history and science. Implementing systems like ExamSoft or Canvas for online exams can facilitate this. Say a student is having difficulty pulling themes from different eras in a history class. Students seek comprehensive understanding and application of knowledge.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Our highest passing rate ever in the history of the school was fifty-two percent before Covid. Our 6th graders, 74% of them passed the state exam. We are witnessing history, and this is just the beginning. Carnegie Learning’s math solution helped them achieve even higher. And 52% got exceeding scores. The sky’s the limit.”

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eSchool News

MARCH 20, 2019

The fact that more candidates fail their professional exams on their first attempt (54 percent) than pass them suggests a lack of adequate preparation and lies in stark comparison to other professions–nursing, for example, achieves an 85 percent first-time pass rate, according to the report.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

UWorld , the worldwide leader in online learning to prepare for high-stakes exams, today announced the launch of AP ® (Advanced Placement ® ) Learning Tools , a new College Readiness solution to help educators enhance instruction, improve student performance, and effectively prepare for AP exams. Pemmasani, M.D., About UWorld.

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Edsurge

MAY 6, 2019

With Advanced Placement exams starting this month, the past weeks have kept Amanda DoAmaral working around the clock. One session on AP European History alone got 845 viewers. “I The company’s name is a reference to the best score possible on the AP exam. On Fiveable, visitors can watch livestreams of AP exam review for free.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

For example, if you’re studying for a biology exam, tagging relevant documents with terms like “photosynthesis” or “cell division” can help you quickly retrieve the information you need. These apps allow you to block out time for each subject, set reminders for upcoming exams and assignments, and visualize your weekly schedule.

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Edsurge

JULY 22, 2020

Those who don’t learn from history are doomed to repeat it. The latest results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress found that scores for eight-grade students on civics, history and geography exams all dipped from 2014 to 2018. And perform worse on tests. This health crisis is really a civics crisis in many ways.”

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

He racked up credits in education courses, inching closer to his degree, but could not, despite his every effort, seem to clinch that math exam. Latiker points out, “but he couldn’t teach elementary education because of his performance on the Praxis math exam.” We don’t need a standardized exam for that. asks James.

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Edsurge

JULY 21, 2022

Dear Bonni, I'll be teaching a course on the history of Ireland later this year. Seeing as how art has been such a big part of Irish history and culture, I was thinking about something artistic in some way, but how on earth do I grade something creative? What do I do? I feel weird about testing them on genocide.”

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Government and Politics and AP Environmental Science exams. Sam Texeira, a high school history and social studies teacher in Illinois, participated in the study, teaching the Knowledge in Action curriculum in AP U.S. In year one of a randomized controlled trial in five U.S. The teacher’s learning is an important part of the equation.”.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 7, 2019

Rounding out the podium for top dollars raised in 2019 with $90 million is Examity , a Boston-based provider of exam proctoring tools used by colleges and universities, assessment groups, professional certification boards and employers. History shows that most funding and deals happen in the first half of the year.

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Edsurge

JULY 25, 2016

In 2013, no females took the exam in Mississippi, Montana, and Wyoming, and 11 states had no black students engage in the exam. Over the past decade, the average AP exam has doubled in enrollment, but in Computer Science A, it’s quadrupled,” Packer says.)

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Edsurge

AUGUST 27, 2019

With that in mind, I recently did some sleuthing of my own and tracked down a half dozen history and geography teachers around my age who remember time spent hunched over TVs and early PCs, discovering for the first time that the world was much bigger and more exciting than our backyards.

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EdTech Magazine

JULY 10, 2019

Increase Cross-Curriculum Communication with Standardized Exams. These end-of-year exams currently help administrators gauge how the general student population is doing on average. Note that this system doesn’t reward academic performance: We i ncentivize individuals based on their personal histories and what motivates them best. .

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Edsurge

JULY 30, 2021

Cofounder Byju Raveendran built a reputation as a compelling and successful tutor, helping students gear up to take India’s Common Admission Test, the entrance exam for the country’s top graduate management schools. Rapid Growth Byju’s got its start by delivering what students and their families would readily pay for: Test prep.

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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

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

This is] the largest launch in College Board history. The adoption of the AP Computer Science Principles course in 2,500 schools marks “the largest launch in College Board history,” Coleman says. In 2013, no females took the exam in Mississippi, Montana, and Wyoming, and 11 states had no black students engage in the exam.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

billion dollars , takes pains to argue that it forbids its users from downloading materials off the site for the purpose of cheating, or to upload answers to homework or exams. It provides a temptation to students who are looking for exam answers and want to cheat in class.” They know my history. They know who I am.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 4, 2019

Several fellows also craved more learning experiences that reflected their everyday lives, whether that comes via more experiential learning opportunities or through bringing in personal histories to classrooms and curriculum. Want to know more about what these students had to say? Download out the full report here.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Louisiana is combining English and social studies exams into unified assessments that students take throughout the year, rather than one longer test at the end of the year. History reminds us it’s often prudent to temper expectations and turn up the humility. And that’s only two of many complex and ambitious sentences in the RFP.

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Edsurge

MARCH 19, 2019

And it stipulates that classes be taught by a qualified teacher in business, math, history or technology. se that offers a financial literacy certification exam. I don't teach to the exam. The bill outlines financial literacy standards that cover credit, understanding loans, paying for college and so forth. Podcast: Money Smart.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 7, 2024

And when it comes to proving what they’ve learned, students can take Adobe Certified Professional exams — we’ve been offering these for 17 years and have issued over 1.8 We’ve loaded it with free lesson plans and resources for teachers, plus a learn tab with videos and guided activities for students to practice on their own.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2018

Moulton has worked in the field for about 15 years with a small family-run company called Educational Data Systems , which makes exams for local districts and high stakes tests for the state of California. There are things like history where every grade is its own story, and the results of one grade are not comparable to another grade.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 5, 2023

I just saw a really interesting tweet from a young person in college [complaining about being] at a party and an exam grade comes in. History and not be getting your calculus grade right now. And I just think nobody ever really thought about that with online grading. Maybe you should just be at AP U.S.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2018

A few years ago I had a student named Abby in my history class, who had always been in self-contained special education classrooms. But I’ve never done well in history,” they say. Sometimes the details former students recall from class is nothing short of amazing. Abby’s story is hardly unique. I’m not smart.”

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Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Students have fun guessing and are usually surprised by the company – in the past I have used FTX (the now bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange), WeWork (the now bankrupt co-working space company), and Apple (one of the most highly valued companies in history).

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

But according to ETS, this marks the first time in its 72-year history that it has invested directly in education startups outside of its core business line, says Scott Weaver, its chief strategy officer, in a prepared statement. ETS is best known for offering assessments like the GRE and TOEFL exams.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 14, 2024

Some of them travel to the campus during the school day to take courses in introductory English, history, psychology and sociology. Of the nearly 10,000 students enrolled at Brookdale Community College in central New Jersey, about 17 percent are still in high school. It transfers so widely.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 22, 2016

This feature can also be used to differentiate homework assignments from exams. The Gradebook feature enables educators to view and analyze students’ history on all past assessments within Kids Discover Online, including offline tests manually entered by educators.

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Multiple Choice Questions Quizzes Social Studies Exams 126

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Students have fun guessing and are usually surprised by the company – in the past I have used FTX (the now bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange), WeWork (the now bankrupt co-working space company), and Apple (one of the most highly valued companies in history).

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Häkkinen leads the Accessibility Standards and Inclusive Technology Research Group at ETS, the 60-plus-year-old nonprofit educational testing and assessment organization that administers K-12 state exams along with the well-known GRE and TOEFL, among other tests.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2024

Differences in lived experiences, values, beliefs, histories, identities, and more will influence how individual students experience the learning environment (Lovett, Bridges, DiPietro, Ambrose, & Norman, 2023). For example, before an exam, I discuss how and why I would prepare differently for a multiple-choice versus an essay exam.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Online Degrees On Hold China actually has a long history of distance learning—mostly at correspondence schools and on broadcast TV. But to earn a fully-accredited degree, students in online pilot programs must take additional exams to qualify—credentials that don’t carry the same academic standing as those awarded on campus.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 2, 2024

Those of us concerned about student anxiety in our courses have history on our side. The pressure to solve problems, answer multiple-choice question, and write essays on an exam scares them. Two recent articles (see the references) explore the anxiety associated with social science statistics courses.

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Edsurge

JULY 11, 2023

His professor said he’d used ChatGPT to take a history exam, the charge buttressed by GPTZero, one of the many new tools that have emerged to try to detect student use of generative AI systems. William Quarterman, a student at the University of California at Davis, was accused of cheating.

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