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College Board Changes AP Exams Again to Accommodate Pandemic-Era Testing

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Since the Advanced Placement (AP) program began in the 1950s, tens of millions of students have taken their exams in school, with paper and pencil, over the course of several hours. The result was an open book, open note, abbreviated at-home exam , using whatever device a student had available. It was not without its hiccups.

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Retrieval in Action: Creative Strategies from Real Teachers

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” Another advantage is the fact that they require every student to participate “something in social psychology we call the diffusion of responsibility. And that class, since I started doing that, is a 20 percent improvement in the exam grades. “Present students with a multiple choice question.”

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6 tools for real formative assessment

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“We see more districts turning to formative assessments as their way of measuring student progress, instead of relying on end-of-course exams–they’re looking at district-wide formative assessments,” Creel said. Up to 50 students can participate at one time. They can add videos, images and diagrams.

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How AI Can Help Educators Test Whether Their Teaching Materials Work

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One example in particular is getting students that are taking, say, an online chemistry course to create a multiple choice question for us. And so if you have a course with 5,000 students in it, and everyone elects to create a multiple-choice question, you now have 5,000 new multiple-choice questions for that chemistry course.

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?What Makes a Smart Course ‘Smart’?

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After all, one can use the phrase “adaptive” to describe the California DMV computer-based exam because an algorithm dynamically selects the next multiple choice question based on the user’s performance thus far. Adaptive technology that depends on algorithms alone is insufficient to foster learner-centric design.

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How Faculty Can ‘Click’ Their Way to a More Inclusive Classroom

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CRS technology is a key tool in our inclusive teaching tool kit because it supports multiple opportunities for practice for all students (structured course design) and allows for anonymous participation that doesn’t require “ speaking up ” (structured facilitation). Here are a few tips: Scaffold your questions as class progresses.

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QR Codes for Quick Student Engagement

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It might be about current events related to the field, the assigned reading of the day, a difficult problem or concept, or a reflection on the time and method that students are using to prepare for an upcoming exam. To address equity and accessibility, professors could read the questions out loud and allow multiple ways of participation.