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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eSchool News

JULY 20, 2016

K-12 classroom instructors, instructional coaches, and educational administrators are invited to enroll. Each session includes expert video screencasts, classroom video clips, readings and resources, and assignments that will help participants create a strong foundation of communication within the classroom. Read more.

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Teaching Exams Disabilities Learning 182

Edsurge

JULY 29, 2020

As colleges ask faculty to prepare for a possible online, hybrid or altered in-person fall semester—or all three simultaneously—many instructors are wondering how to best measure student learning. 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 201

Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 4, 2018

Here are five great websites to prepare you: The classroom is not the only place you can prepare for your IELTS exam. There are many platforms online that offer opportunities for you to prepare for the different stages of the exam: Speaking, Writing, Reading, and Listening. Stress has been taken out of your IELTS exam prep.

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Exams Instructors Testing Quizzes 74

Edsurge

JANUARY 6, 2023

All last year, you read, and we tallied. Thanks for reading, and happy new year. College’s Use of Exam-Proctoring Software to ‘Scan’ Rooms Violated Privacy Rights, Judge Finds By Jeffrey R. Now we’re ready to reveal the top higher education stories that EdSurge published in 2022, based on their popularity with you, our readers.

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Education Exams Instructors Essay 181

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Though 97 percent of education professionals in Kaltura’s State of Video in Education annual report say that video is “ essential to students’ academic experiences ,” when it comes to educational video practices, many instructors are still pressing play. Paratext helps me connect with and make sense of the poem.

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Teaching Instructors Teaching Philosophy Education 191

Edsurge

JUNE 8, 2022

Many instructors describe accommodations they’ve tried, like loosening homework deadlines or offering asynchronous alternatives to class conversations, but some now wonder whether this kind of leniency actually makes the situation worse. Students could access chatbot quizzes ahead of exams to help assess their level of understanding.

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Student Engagement Instructors Hybrid Courses Exams 201

Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2020

The instructor can lecture and students can ask questions, or the instructor can lead a live discussion. For instance, instructors can ask students to post a one-sentence summary or brief reflection after going through an assigned reading or watching a short video lecture. Department of Education.

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Teaching Instructors Distance Learning Lecturing 218

Edsurge

APRIL 30, 2020

Listen to the conversation below, or read a partial transcript, lightly edited for clarity. So we were able to extend our Respondus Monitor license, which monitors the students during an exam. They may not have access to technology or even a webcam, for that matter, to do synchronous sessions or to be monitored during exams.

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Accessibility Disabilities Universal Design Syllabus 218

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Another paid offering, an English proficiency exam for higher-ed admissions, has seen a 15-times growth in the number of test takers this year, with countries like India driving this business. Udemy claims its platform now serves 35 million students and 57,000 instructors who teach over 130,000 courses.

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Exams Languages Language Instructors 189

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. And it had no points on it.

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Grades Exams Feedback Testing 201

Edsurge

MARCH 12, 2018

Instructors can focus on teaching–and not on technical issues. It gave me the ability to ask the questions that I wanted answers to, and get actual answers back from either my instructors or my peers in the classroom. Instructors can focus on teaching–and not on technical issues. Can virtual labs help students succeed in exams?

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Skills Teaching Exams Instructors 139

Edsurge

APRIL 19, 2017

Ninety-two percent of fourth grade ELL students scored below proficiency on the 2015 National Assessment of Educational Progress reading exams. National Assessment of Educational Progress reading exams. Yet in recent years, technology developers focused their efforts on English Language Learners (ELL) like Estrada.

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Language Languages English Exams 155

Edsurge

JANUARY 23, 2025

She hears from teachers who have bad memories of math class when they were growing up of the stress of timed tests and of impatient instructors who discouraged them from pursuing math. Or they prefer reading and literacy over math. Thats why Robinson says she feels like a math therapist.

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Math Coaching Elementary School Elementary School 194

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Instructors can use AI for editing as well. AI can also generate short content, such as answers to take-home quizzes or un-proctored multiple-choice exams. Students and instructors were learning to ask new questions in new ways. A fellow instructor suggested I try audio or video presentation assignments instead.

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Intelligence Plagiarism Quizzes Academic Integrity 144

Edsurge

JUNE 12, 2018

Students may feel relief as they hand in an exam, but the moment marks the beginning of stress and anxiety for instructors and teaching assistants, who may need to grade hundreds of tests in a short time. Second, the tool is not designed to fully-automate grading, meaning instructors aren’t out of the process completely.

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Grades Exams Instructors Teaching Assistants 102

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

As instructors, we want to motivate and engage the whole class and bring everyone to mastery of the course. Below are some examples: Assign a pre-lesson digital reading discussion on a reading text, in which students write comments and ask thoughtful questions. How can we do that? Provide variety in assignments.

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Motivation Instructors Lecturing Feedback 126

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

From the very start of digital education, the big question has always been: ”How can students learn effectively, if they’re not face-to-face with their instructors?” I’d send instructors off into virtual classrooms, practically on their own, with little or no support. Sink or swim. All you need is your imagination.”

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Online Learning Lecturing Learning Instructors 158

Edsurge

MAY 24, 2018

Flipped Research The flipped learning model may seem commonplace to faculty and instructors in the humanities, where courses often ask students to read materials and come to class ready to discuss. But Barba believes it is still uncharted territory for many science, technology, engineering and mathematics disciplines and instructors.

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Lecturing Learning STEM Instructors 163

Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

With so many perspectives, how can instructors meaningfully address them in college or university classrooms? Let’s look at ways instructors can adopt both linear and nonlinear thinking to add depth to their lessons. Instructors begin the presentation by introducing the first concept, systems overview, and zeroing in on its components.

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Teaching Quizzes Instructors Exams 119

Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and Acrobat) to apply built-in page layouts Tables do not work well with screen readers, so consider alternative organizational elements Use descriptive wording for hyperlink text rather than “click here” Post most instructor-created content within LMS content pages (i.e.,

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Disabilities Exams Lecturing Education 144

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. Banning GenAI tools is not the solution Many students use GenAI tools to aid their learning.

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Academic Integrity Writing Syllabus Exams 137

Faculty Focus

JUNE 1, 2023

As such, more instructors are teaching online courses. Asynchronous online courses can create barriers for instructors to connect with students, but instructors can implement small and significant changes to their online courses that can help build community, connection, and relationships. What do you do for fun?

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Instructors Syllabus Assignments Feedback 59

Edsurge

MARCH 16, 2020

during lessons, and offer students a variety of ways to complete assignments rather than requiring everyone to write a paper or take a timed exam. Institutional offices of disability services, academic accommodations, and equality and diversity should be contacting instructors with reminders and information, Del Tufo says.

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Schools Disabilities Exams Distance Learning 178

Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2018

Do exams still serve a purpose? Where there’s an alternative there must be a standard, so we started our chat creating a list of what those standard assignment are: exams, quizzes, essays, reports, lab manuals and the like. But why, then, do so many courses still rely on exams? I'm excited to read more! Yes exactly.

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Assignments Exams Instructors Learning 102

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

As instructors, we want to motivate and engage the whole class and bring everyone to mastery of the course. Below are some examples: Assign a pre-lesson digital reading discussion on a reading text, in which students write comments and ask thoughtful questions. How can we do that? Provide variety in assignments.

Motivation 111

Motivation Instructors Lecturing Feedback 111

Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

With so many perspectives, how can instructors meaningfully address them in college or university classrooms? Let’s look at ways instructors can adopt both linear and nonlinear thinking to add depth to their lessons. Instructors begin the presentation by introducing the first concept, systems overview, and zeroing in on its components.

Teaching 111

Teaching Quizzes Instructors Exams 111

Cult of Pedagogy

APRIL 27, 2025

Two of these authors Dr. Michelle Rivers and Dr. Janell Blunt shared theirs on the podcast you can listen to our conversation in the player above or read the full transcript. And that class, since I started doing that, is a 20 percent improvement in the exam grades. The strategies are summarized below.

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Multiple Choice Questions Teachers Writing Questions 77

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2024

Establish and maintain an inclusive community: During the first days of class, it is important to initiate an anonymous survey and a follow-up discussion about what makes students feel valued, seen, respected, included, challenged, and supported by the instructor and their peers. These assessments must be valid and reliable.

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Syllabus Exams Students Motivation 132

Edsurge

OCTOBER 2, 2017

What’s interesting to me is that students are more concerned about their writing being effective and well done, knowing their peers or people outside their school are going to read it versus just the teacher. They’re starting to analyze the craft of writing and they’re reading like writers and deconstructing models of good writing.”

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Writing Feedback Exams Middle School 129

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

Instructors who flunk a student on an exam can reasonably expect to see an email from a concerned parent every so often. Constant connectivity also makes it a synch to overstep boundaries when it comes to letting their children become independent adults.

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Syllabus Exams Instructors Study 161

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Students take numerous individual and group assessments throughout the semester, and once I have a firm handle on their individual performance (based on our interactions, their individual homework assignments, individual quizzes, creative project, and midterms) I may decide on a group final exam for the course. References Johnson, D.

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Exams Syllabus Group work Assignments 116

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

Here are three strategies for digital tool use to consider, particularly at the start of a new term or when organizing for exams. OneDrive to hold specific documents as well as in my Papers library to contain course readings. When I then search by tag, I can more easily synthesize across courses and readings.

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Lecturing Exams Assignments Textbooks 159

Edsurge

JUNE 6, 2017

We always have written exams, but it never hurts to have students communicate more through writing.” Unfortunately, we know that instructors don’t give enough feedback, often because the teacher-student ratio is such that they don’t have time.” I think people who outright reject these systems forget what the status quo is.

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Essay Feedback Writing Assignments 146

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 15, 2023

Student exam performance then becomes a matter of cramming course content into short-term memory, without ever really mastering, considering, or owning the course material in a meaningful way. It’s a great method for teaching students, and their instructors, how to create their best presentations for active learning.

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Lecturing Instructors Active Learning Activities 122

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Students take numerous individual and group assessments throughout the semester, and once I have a firm handle on their individual performance (based on our interactions, their individual homework assignments, individual quizzes, creative project, and midterms) I may decide on a group final exam for the course. References Johnson, D.

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Exams Syllabus Group work Assignments 111

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Instructors can use AI for editing as well. AI can also generate short content, such as answers to take-home quizzes or un-proctored multiple-choice exams. Students and instructors were learning to ask new questions in new ways. A fellow instructor suggested I try audio or video presentation assignments instead.

Intelligence 111

Intelligence Plagiarism Quizzes Academic Integrity 111