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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.

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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. And we did not teach to the test. Our 6th graders, 74% of them passed the state exam. The students who exceeded on the state test were from diverse backgrounds. We are witnessing history, and this is just the beginning.

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eSchool News

MARCH 20, 2019

Teacher prep programs are failing to pay attention to the content knowledge teacher candidates need, and an astonishingly high number of elementary teacher candidates fail professional licensing tests teach year, according to a new report. Read more: 5 big ideas for innovation in 2019.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Concept mapping can be particularly beneficial in subjects like history and science. They want to know what they don’t know and prefer to review tests thoroughly, identifying trends in their mistakes. Implementing systems like ExamSoft or Canvas for online exams can facilitate this.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

The world’s biggest private nonprofit test maker is dipping its toes into the world of education technology investments. ETS (short for Educational Testing Service) recently invested in two startups— Knack and NurseDash —in partnership with Village Capital , an early-stage venture capital firm that aims to support social-impact entrepreneurs.

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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. 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).

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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

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.”

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Even as Anderson excelled in his coursework at Jackson State University, he struggled to pass one of the licensure tests required in Mississippi to gain full admittance into the teacher preparation program at his school. Latiker points out, “but he couldn’t teach elementary education because of his performance on the Praxis math exam.”

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

homework, lecture notes, practice tests). 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. Within these folders, further categorize materials by topics, chapters, or types of content (e.g.,

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Edsurge

JULY 22, 2020

Those who don’t learn from history are doomed to repeat it. And perform worse on tests. 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.

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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? I feel weird about testing them on genocide.” What do I do?

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Assignments Grades History Ethics 187

EdTech Magazine

JULY 10, 2019

Increase Cross-Curriculum Communication with Standardized Exams. In supplemental education, it is common practice to conduct comprehensive testing to assess new students upon intake and design a personalized plan using that information. . Schools across the nation already do annual assessments through standardized testing.

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Teachers Exams Motivation Learning 162

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. Outcomes, Testing and Grading Which methods of assessment best measure learning and ability?

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Edsurge

JULY 30, 2021

Rapid Growth Byju’s got its start by delivering what students and their families would readily pay for: Test prep. 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.

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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

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Districts can test different approaches to assessment that could include cumulative year-end assessments, competency-based assessments, instructionally embedded assessments, performance-based assessments, or any mix thereof. History reminds us it’s often prudent to temper expectations and turn up the humility.

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Exams Testing Social Studies History 131

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

For the assessment mavens at Educational Testing Service ( ETS ), these evolving capabilities present both a challenge and an opportunity, says the organization’s Markku “Mark” Häkkinen. We also used Amazon Polly to address a unique challenge with our Graduate Record Examination (GRE) for blind test candidates.

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Edsurge

JULY 25, 2016

Additionally, despite its popularity, data has shown some major disparities in AP Computer Science A test-takers. In 2013, no females took the exam in Mississippi, Montana, and Wyoming, and 11 states had no black students engage in the exam. Additionally, students aren’t just proving their knowledge in a multiple-choice exam.

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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. Learning How to Learn I’ve often heard students tell me they studied for hours on a test only to fail. Abby’s story is hardly unique. I’m not smart.”

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Edsurge

MARCH 2, 2020

Issues With Feedback and Testing It’s much easier to hide in a digital world. In classes like English and History, things are going well. “I But that’s not always the case in subjects such as math and science that require secure environments for test taking. and Khan Academy, which allows for timed tests.

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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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Exams Plagiarism Internet History 193

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. Physical geography is important,” Keller says.

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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. For instance, some schools use standardized test scores to determine which students are eligible to participate, creating barriers since some groups of students consistently score lower than others.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 22, 2016

The newly added Assessments tool gives educators full control to create, distribute, and assess custom quizzes, tests, and homework assignments directly within the platform. This feature can also be used to differentiate homework assignments from exams.

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Multiple Choice Questions Quizzes Social Studies Exams 126

Faculty Focus

MAY 2, 2024

Student are convinced they can’t learn what we’re teaching, worry they won’t do well on the tests, and become filled with anxiety over anything in a course that looks like it might be hard. Those of us concerned about student anxiety in our courses have history on our side. They’re convinced they won’t do well.

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Teaching Multidisciplinary Multiple Choice Questions Exams 111

Faculty Focus

MAY 2, 2024

Student are convinced they can’t learn what we’re teaching, worry they won’t do well on the tests, and become filled with anxiety over anything in a course that looks like it might be hard. Those of us concerned about student anxiety in our courses have history on our side. They’re convinced they won’t do well.

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Teaching Multidisciplinary Multiple Choice Questions Exams 103

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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Plagiarism Academic Integrity Intelligence Instructors 119

Edsurge

APRIL 20, 2022

When asked to rank the importance of alternative credentials during hiring decisions, executives put them in sixth place (behind experience, education, listed skills, work history and interview performance), while supervisors ranked them 10th and HR professionals ranked them 11th.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 1, 2019

I struggled from an early age with comprehension and performed below the average on national reading exams. I struggled from an early age with comprehension and performed below the average on national reading exams. However, this one-time weakness ultimately became an advantage in the classroom.

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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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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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Exams Syllabus Group work Assignments 111

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.

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Edsurge

JULY 29, 2019

I want to transform from a school district that was at the bottom in the state to one of the top school districts in the state—one where you can see success in our test scores, teacher evaluations, our culture and climate and even in our community. US History — In 2018, 19% of students passed; in 2019, 53% passed.

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Students Exams Learning Styles Culture 152

Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 27, 2016

Having students create podcasts to review different topics is a great way to study before an exam. Suggest to your students that they create podcasts either in groups or individually of any material they have to review for an upcoming test. As an independent learning project.

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Exams Assignments Social Studies Study 104

Edsurge

OCTOBER 29, 2019

There’s a long history of political disagreement about what social studies classes should study – and even whether to use the term “social studies” at all – as well as what knowledge and skills constitute a high-quality social studies education. How do AP US History students use this resource? What do they see?

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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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