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

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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Teaching Quizzes Exams English 278

eSchool News

OCTOBER 17, 2016

.” Over the past 12 years, Hines has prepared more than 150 juniors and seniors for computer networking certification exams and careers in information technology through Laurel High’s Cisco Networking Academy. “Take the Internet away, everything shuts down.” “It’s almost unbelievable.”

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High School High School Exams Schools 237

Dangerously Irrelevant

APRIL 5, 2017

It’s standardized testing season again in American schools. And that means it’s also time for many schools to bribe and punish their children into submission because those tests are ones they don’t want to take. Over the past couple of decades, the political stakes attached to standardized testing have accelerated greatly.

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Testing Exams Motivation Participation 96

Edsurge

JUNE 2, 2020

The College Board has “paused” efforts to let students take the SAT at home, a plan it shared in April as an available option for students who want to take the college-admissions test but are unable to with many testing centers shuttered by the pandemic. million people who took the test were impacted.

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Testing Exams Disabilities Students 117

Edsurge

OCTOBER 14, 2022

According to the American Psychological Association, students from more affluent families are more likely to have access to resources such as devices, internet, dedicated work space and the support necessary to complete their work successfully—and homework can highlight those inequities.

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Exams Students Testing Learning 198

Edsurge

MAY 27, 2021

The problem, critics say, is that the systems often lead to false-positives, add stress to the test-taking process and invade privacy. Instead, it will focus on its longer-standing approach of having human proctors watch exams via webcam in real time. “We Darker skin tones can prove especially tricky for algorithms.

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Exams Distance Learning Academic Integrity Testing 176

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. IELTS Simon.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 4, 2020

Necessity begets ingenuity, and for many businesses no test of survival has been tougher than the current one wrought by a global pandemic. Duolingo Passes Its English Test Don’t worry, the pandemic hasn’t shuttered Duolingo’s popular gamified language learning app. to accept its test scores. Denny’s is selling groceries.

English 206

English Exams Testing Language 206

Edsurge

MARCH 18, 2020

Name: EduRev HQ: Gurgaon, India Founded: 2017 This startup aims to help students in India between 15 and 23 years old study for a variety of entrance and occupational exams. The platform hosts more than 500 courses and 100,000 videos, documents and tests. Users who cannot afford the platform can also apply for partial scholarships.

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Exams Coaching Science Testing 184

Edsurge

APRIL 9, 2020

Laptops and internet connections are not available in every household , and even students who usually have such resources available may now find themselves competing for them with siblings or parents studying or working from home. That’s the approach the College Board is taking this spring with its adapted AP exams.

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Distance Learning Syllabus Internet Learning 212

Edsurge

MARCH 11, 2021

Their exams are recorded. Trust Starts With Transparency From protests about facial recognition tools on campus to outcry about remote exam proctoring services , college students are speaking out against edtech that feels invasive and punitive. Their noses are swabbed. Their Instagram posts are monitored.

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Exams Students Internet Knowledge 204

Edsurge

JULY 29, 2020

Even during the pandemic’s early days, some professors decided to toss out their grade books , figuring that high-stress assessments weren’t appropriate given the uncertain circumstances, which saw students sent away from campuses, sometimes without tech tools or internet access.

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Exams Motivation Learning Instructors 201

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.” The company he’s joining, valued at more than $3.6

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Exams Plagiarism Internet History 199

Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2020

She has her own computer, educational software and high-speed internet. She shares one computer with her family of five, lacks home internet access and uses a smartphone to connect online. Only 60 percent of these families had access to computers or broadband internet at home. Maria is also in the sixth grade.

Education 186

Education Internet Exams Science 186

Edsurge

JULY 10, 2020

Back before the internet made it possible—and popular—for people to document their lives in real time, teenagers found themselves preserved between the pages of their high school yearbooks—forever young. Enshrining cliques and clubs, acne and braces, these artifacts capture students as they are, in the present.

Fairness 217

Fairness Counselling Testing Disabilities 217

Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 19, 2022

When testing moved online, it became painfully apparent to teachers how little students knew about using digital devices other than the internet, some apps, and iPads. The focus on online learning, thanks to COVID, has made that even more critical.

Exams 122

Exams Internet Writing Knowledge 122

Edsurge

JULY 22, 2019

In 2015, fewer than 10 girls of any race took the AP Computer Science exam in ten states, and not a single African-American student took the exam in nine states, including Mississippi, where 50 percent of high school graduates are African-American. In 2013, among B.S.

Beliefs 167

Beliefs Exams Science STEM 167

Edsurge

DECEMBER 10, 2018

K-12 schools can often be at high risk, because they tend to rely on a broad range of apps and software and are big users of web-based learning and testing. K-12 schools can often be at high risk, because they tend to rely on a broad range of apps and software and are big users of web-based learning and testing.

Mobile Devices 156

Mobile Devices Students Ethics Exams 156

Edsurge

JANUARY 12, 2024

billion people worldwide without internet access. It focuses on delivering quality teaching and learning through technology without the internet. billion people without internet access ? The term digital divide often refers to not having affordable access to the internet or specific hardware.

Education 167

Education Internet Accessibility Feedback 167

Edsurge

MARCH 5, 2020

I found some quizzes and tests,” she said, noting that plenty of those materials and PowerPoint slides from other professors were easily found on Course Hero about the subject she was teaching, biomaterials. She didn’t really pay attention to the goal of the site—which is for students to share their notes and other class materials.

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Study Exams Quizzes Academic Integrity 134

Edsurge

JANUARY 27, 2017

According to the 2016 World Economic Forum (WEF)’s The Future of Jobs report , the “fourth industrial revolution,” described as the confluence of emerging technology breakthroughs (such as artificial intelligence, the Internet of things, and 3D printing) are utterly transforming everything we experience and understand. In 2013, among B.A.

Science 148

Science Beliefs Exams STEM 148

Edsurge

APRIL 30, 2020

So one of the challenges we've really been dealing with is test security because of course everyone wants to go right to ProctorU and have that live proctoring experience. So we were able to extend our Respondus Monitor license, which monitors the students during an exam. Do they have internet connections? Can we get it to them?

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Accessibility Disabilities Universal Design Syllabus 218

Edsurge

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Our interviews did find a heavier emphasis on technology in some areas, including in teaching math, and an increased use of technology in summer bridge programs that aim to bring students up to college level quickly, as well as in test preparation for placement exams.

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Technology Education Syllabus Counselling 155

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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Science Exams Accessibility Syllabus 113

Edsurge

APRIL 5, 2021

Spotty internet service makes remote learning hard for many college students. One student described relying on a laptop that could not handle exam-proctoring software, causing the student to miss a test. So does lacking reliable access to a computer.

Students 201

Students Lecturing Assignments Exams 201

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

If your product or services can easily pivot to English-teaching or improving students’ readiness for standardized tests, then Asia may provide a big potential market Back home, I’m a Chicago teacher, but I spend my summers consulting with edtech companies in Asia. But their story is not a blueprint that will make sense for every company.

Mobile Devices 118

Mobile Devices English Exams Testing 118

Edsurge

OCTOBER 2, 2019

Byju’s customers pay for animations, simulations and video lessons for students in grades 4 to 12 and for students preparing for competitive entrance exams to Indian colleges. Raveendran has long claimed he took the test twice just to prove his prowess. His friends encouraged him to teach and help others prepare for the exams.

Exams 121

Exams Internet Math Teaching Methods 121

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 5, 2023

AI can also generate short content, such as answers to take-home quizzes or un-proctored multiple-choice exams. This was often for written assignments or take-home quizzes and tests. These tools compare percentages of the submission to pre-generated content already on the Internet. What are the pros of such uses?

Intelligence 144

Intelligence Plagiarism Quizzes Academic Integrity 144

Edsurge

AUGUST 8, 2016

As a senior in high school he persuaded his parents to upgrade their internet speed so that he could stream online course videos from MIT. However these exceptional students—the kind who are willing to walk three hours to an internet café or can earn a perfect score in an MIT course—always will be a thin slice of the global market.

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Exams Secondary Education Testing Achievement 105

Edsurge

JUNE 29, 2017

For Najera, websites on the internet do not provide enough information for educators to make final decisions on technology, so he traveled to the event in San Antonio to see and interact with the tools in person. The Chinese firm leaders hope to test the products United States companies develop with Chinese students in their programs.

STEM 147

STEM Exams Culture English 147

Faculty Focus

APRIL 2, 2023

Students are required to work with me if they are on probation due to a course failure, and they are recommended to see me if they fail an exam or are deemed to be at risk for failure. I would also review individual exams with students to determine why they weren’t being successful. 2017; Merritt, 2021; Myles, 2018).

Coaching 98

Coaching Exams Failure Learning Styles 98

Faculty Focus

APRIL 2, 2023

Students are required to work with me if they are on probation due to a course failure, and they are recommended to see me if they fail an exam or are deemed to be at risk for failure. I would also review individual exams with students to determine why they weren’t being successful. 2017; Merritt, 2021; Myles, 2018).

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Coaching Exams Failure Learning Styles 98

eSchool News

JUNE 28, 2016

The device-agnostic Ormiboard goes beyond presenting and testing by opening up whole-class creation and participation. Ormiboard comes preloaded with an expanding database of searchable lessons and activities including quick quizzes, click-and-drag assignments, games, and exams.

Mobile Devices 111

Mobile Devices Quizzes Exams Assignments 111

Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 7, 2018

Taking the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) has become a right-of-passage for high school students as they leave formal education and enter the next phase of learning. Over seven million will take SAT tests in 2018 in January, March/April, May, June, October, November, or December. Kaplan Test Prep. UWorld SAT Prep. Veritas Prep.

Exams 89

Exams Learning Styles Testing Questions 89

Edsurge

JANUARY 13, 2017

These are smart because they can connect to the internet and generally do more, or do something better, than their traditional, often analog counterparts. Students participate in simulations, get tested for understanding, are encouraged to reflect on what they learn, and collaborate with others during their journey. Is that adaptive?

Multiple Choice Questions 131

Multiple Choice Questions Instructors Textbooks Feedback 131

Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 1, 2018

Depending upon the level of service subscribed to, students can view videos, take practice quizzes and exams, and get credit for classes passed through a proctored exam. All they need is an internet connection and a webcam (for proctored exams). Take quizzes and proctored exams available in your subscription.

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Exams Quizzes Textbooks Mobile Devices 83