Edsurge

APRIL 9, 2020

That’s the approach the College Board is taking this spring with its adapted AP exams. Because students would be watching the shows at home without guidance from teachers, the stations created learning prompts and questions—similar to those found in textbooks—to run before and after shows. LA schools did indeed close.

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 16, 2019

The amount of engagement you are going to have because you are incorporating technology into a language arts lesson is going to go way up. . Typically, they read about the Silk Road in a textbook, take a quiz in September, and then are tested on that material in May. Students do not love just reading a textbook. .

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 11, 2024

These responsibilities include imparting knowledge and equipping our students with practical life skills beyond textbooks and exams. This is important because whether they’re courting investors or negotiating terms, communicating effectively and using the correct language and mannerisms will be instrumental to their business success.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 15, 2020

During that time, she came to see the importance of having a roadmap for curriculum and assessments so that teachers and administrators had common language and benchmarks for success. Summative: the more comprehensive tools used to measure what a student has learned at the end of a school term, such as exams and final projects.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 24, 2018

Clutch Prep calls themselves “the video version of textbooks” but really, that doesn’t give you the full flavor of what they offer. Their academic how-to videos are textbook-specific so you pick the ones used in your classes, even by your teacher. Videos cover each chapter and can be used as a preview or review.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 4, 2021

With their advanced degrees and English-language skills, they represent a selective set of perspectives. High-stakes entrance exams determine which students are admitted to the top high schools, then the top colleges, then the top jobs in cities that citizens view as “ first-tier.” “You just do it secretly,” she says.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

For students who had previously been told to sit at their desks and open their textbooks to page 37, these choices could feel overwhelming, Watkins shared. In response, they developed a personalized learning rubric to build a shared language to support their conversations. Their math scores improved only marginally.

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Edsurge

MARCH 18, 2019

If students can really cruise on their own, we’d give them 12 years of textbooks and have them study the entire content at home,” Arbaji says. But the language and cultural barriers that came with scaling the business in multiple countries led him to redirect his focus to the U.S.—for But that doesn’t work.”

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Founded in 1986, the company is perhaps best known for its Accelerated Reader and Accelerated Math programs, along with its STAR formative assessments that help teachers and students prepare for their end-of-year state exams. The company claims to service a third of U.S. schools and more than 90 countries.

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Examples include textbooks, peer-reviewed studies, images, videos, and more. Assessments should be diverse with less focus on high-stakes exams. Fetter (2021) shared that in her experience with high-stakes exams, after the pandemic they did not make sense. Before discussing this in earnest, a few terms are important to know.

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Accessibility Exams Learning Peer Review 98

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Examples include textbooks, peer-reviewed studies, images, videos, and more. Assessments should be diverse with less focus on high-stakes exams. Fetter (2021) shared that in her experience with high-stakes exams, after the pandemic they did not make sense. Before discussing this in earnest, a few terms are important to know.

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Accessibility Exams Learning Peer Review 96

Edsurge

JULY 11, 2023

But with this whole wave of ChatGPT and all these large language models and natural language processing, we're now able to process these 5,000 questions and improve them and find out which ones are the best that we can actually then take and use in our course instead of just throwing them blindly back into the course.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 27, 2023

In our small language department, we each teach a different foreign language (Chinese, French, German, and Spanish), but we share the core learning goal of student understanding of culture. Our discoveries took place in language classes, but many other fields can benefit from using mind maps in similar ways.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 27, 2023

In our small language department, we each teach a different foreign language (Chinese, French, German, and Spanish), but we share the core learning goal of student understanding of culture. Our discoveries took place in language classes, but many other fields can benefit from using mind maps in similar ways.

Group work 98

Group work Culture Instructors Languages 98

k12 Online Schools

APRIL 23, 2025

This continuity is particularly beneficial for students preparing for high-stakes exams like the IGCSEs, A-levels, SATs, or IB assessments. Courses include not just live or recorded lessons, but assignments, projects, tests, and exams, just like traditional school. Todays platforms are dynamic, interactive, and designed for engagement.

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Schools Exams Assignments Culture 52

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

And when she realized that she needed help paying for a licensing exam at the end of her college career in order to secure a job in respiratory therapy, the fund supported her financially again. I remember how tough it was every semester to buy textbooks,” she says. “Do We’re in the thick of it with the students.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 9, 2023

Students in these classes study for multiple-choice exams from well-established textbooks in a similar way to their peers for the last century. For example, language-learning apps like Duolingo are now used instead of the TOEFL test for admissions of foreign students, but not so much by language professors.

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Technology Teaching Exams Intelligence 122

Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 17, 2015

Textbooks sugar coat realities a bit. Virtually every sector of the population has to take standardized exams. Like in other states, here in Iowa high stakes exams start in 3rd grade. In wealthy neighborhoods in New York, there are strong parent movements to opt out their kids from the exams. The media does this too.

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Education Exams Testing Fairness 91

Faculty Focus

JULY 9, 2023

Students in these classes study for multiple-choice exams from well-established textbooks in a similar way to their peers for the last century. For example, language-learning apps like Duolingo are now used instead of the TOEFL test for admissions of foreign students, but not so much by language professors.

Technology 98

Technology Teaching Exams Intelligence 98

Edsurge

MAY 26, 2022

That was a time of expensive science textbooks and long lectures in big halls. Students use body language to silently direct each other around the room. In 2017, Jackie took board exams required to become a nurse. From outside the building, Jackie points toward the long flight of steps that descends to the rest of campus.

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Edsurge

JULY 27, 2021

and AP World History exams. During World War II, for example, conservative activists rallied against the textbooks of progressive historian Harold Rugg for lacking patriotic fervor. There's a lot of things that are in the language that would make it really hard to teach civic education.”

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Edsurge

AUGUST 30, 2017

I found that UoPeople provides free tuition and only charges for the exam fees. I don’t have to pay for textbooks or go somewhere to attend a class.” An Unusual Model While the University of the People is technically tuition-free, the institution does require students to pay a small fee—$100—for each final exam they take.

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