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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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

JULY 27, 2020

As more colleges and school districts prepare to resume remote instruction for the fall, educators may worry how to prevent cheating when assignments and exams are held online. Part of the issue when designing assignments and exams to deter cheating is recognizing what cheating in 2020 looks like.

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Exams Academic Integrity Plagiarism Assignments 218

eSchool News

APRIL 18, 2016

When it comes to mathematics learning technology, students want: Help preparing for tests and exams; 77 percent of instructors provide practice problems or practice tests. Support in completing required assignments; 67 percent of instructors require students to submit or show some homework problems.

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Math Exams Instructors STEM 188

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. You can take these ideas and make them your own.”

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

To remediate the exam preparation study skills that beginning (and other) students are missing, most of us respond by telling students about those skills that make for good exam performance. 272) An analysis of the reflection papers students (in five seminar sections) wrote after the exam revealed five themes. Come to class.”

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

And we did not teach to the test. Our 6th graders, 74% of them passed the state exam. In fact, she continues, “There were a couple of kids who said they had never passed the math SBAC test in the history of their schooling, and that 6th grade was the first time.” Our SBAC data was the best we’ve had for math in 25 years!

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Companies offering proctoring tools that monitor students as they take online exams are now being watched themselves—by Democratic senators. Still, business is booming as more schools and colleges are relying on these tools as so many students attend class and take tests from home during the pandemic. Led by U.S. More than 60,000 U.S.

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Exams Counselling Students Intelligence 213

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.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Amid the chorus of concern, a note of dissonance sounded from the exhibit hall, where controversial test-proctoring tools and services were prominently displayed and their booths generously staffed.

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Exams Academic Integrity Testing Instructors 213

Edsurge

JANUARY 11, 2021

When I started teaching data science and artificial intelligence in Duke University’s Pratt School of Engineering, I was frustrated by how little insight I actually felt I had into how effective my teaching was, until the end-of-semester final exam grades and student assessments came in. So how does one identify a student’s knowledge state?

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Teaching Instructors Quizzes Intelligence 214

Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 4, 2018

If you’re one of the many who must take the IELTS test, one of our Ask a Tech Teacher contributors has come to your rescue. Here are five great websites to prepare you: The classroom is not the only place you can prepare for your IELTS exam. Stress has been taken out of your IELTS exam prep.

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Exams Instructors Testing Quizzes 74

eSchool News

MARCH 14, 2022

SmarterProctoring provides a flexible and credible way to manage and administer proctored exams with support for face-to-face and online proctoring. It integrates with a variety of different LMS to offer safe and reliable testing experiences for students and teachers. ” “This is a big step forward for ClassCalc.

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Academic Integrity Exams Instructors Testing 130

Edsurge

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Pandemic-era disruptions have played a role, but so has the broader worry that a reliance on standardized admissions exams may exacerbate disparities among students of different races and income levels. It’s definitely part of the same conversation: How much of an emphasis do we put on a single test?” It did not use demographic data.

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Exams English Math Instructors 164

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 194

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 207

Math Exams Students Testing 207

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. The student knew the material, but she just wasn’t a good test-taker. The same thing happened on the second exam, and now the student had no way to do any better in the class than a C.

Grades 194

Grades Exams Feedback Testing 194

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 194

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

In research and surveys conducted by Dr. Donald McCabe and the International Center for Academic Integrity over the span of 12 years, 68 percent of undergraduates who responded admitted to cheating on tests or written assignments. Reducing students’ test anxiety can help, Millet said. That will help them feel more confident.”

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Academic Integrity Exams Assignments Instructors 147

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

As college classes start up this fall, instructors are handing out syllabi and pointing students to official platforms for turning in assignments and participating in class discussions. But because these online platforms are easy to hide from instructors and are available 24/7, they can be trickier for students and professors to navigate.

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Exams Instructors Students Lecturing 199

eSchool News

MAY 12, 2016

The funding was primarily to help CodeCombat finish its new classroom offering, which launches today after extensive beta testing by more than 25,000 students in grades 3-12. CodeCombat was designed to make learning to code as easy as playing a game. CodeCombat is also helping boost student interest in computer science careers.

Science 182

Science Teaching Exams Instructors 182

Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

Scratch-offs for test-taking. In this session, Alexandra Herron explains how you can use visually appealing content to engage learners and boost your instructor presence in your online course. Many instructors had different filters (Superman, Mario, etc.) Four key ways to connect with students is through: Instructors.

Testing 111

Testing Instructors Feedback Exams 111

Edsurge

JANUARY 4, 2019

There’s a lot that goes into innovation efforts on campus—think curriculum design, technology training for instructors, and bureaucracy. Outcomes, Testing and Grading Which methods of assessment best measure learning and ability? Are standardized tests a fair gauge for predicting college success?

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Fairness Education Students Disabilities 166

Edsurge

JANUARY 8, 2024

A number of instructors in the math department at San Diego Mesa College, where she's a professor, had started exploring how to weave standards-based grading — an approach that evaluates students on how effectively they have mastered content — into the way they teach calculus. So far, Spoon reports that the changes are invigorating.

Math 168

Math Quizzes Instructors Students 168

Edsurge

JULY 9, 2021

Did you simply practice the same type of A/B testing that’s common throughout the tech sphere? That’s the ethics debate playing out in one online educator space , a lively back-and-forth carried over from a recent workshop on educational A/B testing. But if researchers are A/B testing two innocuous options, what’s the harm?

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Ethics Knowledge Testing Learning 202

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 129

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. This was often for written assignments or take-home quizzes and tests.

Intelligence 144

Intelligence Plagiarism Quizzes Academic Integrity 144

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 178

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. And the ACT?

Schools 167

Schools Disabilities Exams Distance Learning 167

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

What do you think is important for an instructor to do when using classroom response systems (polling software or clickers)? Studies have suggested that these tools, which allow students to respond in real time to questions provided by an instructor, can improve student learning. Select all that apply. What’s the consequence?

Instructors 144

Instructors Multiple Choice Questions Course Design Discussions 144

Faculty Focus

MAY 19, 2024

Consider this scenario (one you have likely experienced): Student: I failed the first exam. Educator: Why did you fail the first exam? If the student changes their environment to support their goal of learning, the outcome on future exams may be different. Student: It did not pass the vertical line test.

Student Engagement 119

Student Engagement Exams Learning Students 119

Faculty Focus

MARCH 14, 2023

These pedagogies provide instructors a powerful opportunity to create learning environments that effectively support all students, minimize student stress, and support overall student mental health, without sacrificing academic rigor. Described below are three ways that instructors support student well-being and mental health.

Syllabus 131

Syllabus Exams Instructors Assignments 131

Edsurge

MARCH 2, 2020

His time as a blended learning instructor in Taos, N.M., Issues With Feedback and Testing It’s much easier to hide in a digital world. 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.

Schools 218

Schools Students Assignments Testing 218

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.,

Disabilities 144

Disabilities Exams Lecturing Education 144

Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

Scratch-offs for test-taking. In this session, Alexandra Herron explains how you can use visually appealing content to engage learners and boost your instructor presence in your online course. Many instructors had different filters (Superman, Mario, etc.) Four key ways to connect with students is through: Instructors.

Testing 89

Testing Instructors Feedback Exams 89

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. It also leads to disparities, because it reduces performance in math to a number on an assessment exam, Su says.

Math 184

Math Coaching Elementary School Elementary School 184

Edsurge

MAY 16, 2017

Today the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) announced a grant partnership with the College Board in an effort to expand access to test preparation tools for assessments such as the PSAT and SAT. Khan Academy already offers free personalized test prep resources online. (It Students will not get money to subsidize them taking the tests.

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Instructors Exams Testing Study 119