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What data is necessary to help students succeed?

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In contrast, medical school can overwhelm students with detailed information, like longitudinal reports on multiple-choice question performance throughout the year. This raises an essential question: What kind of feedback information is genuinely useful for students?

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Will AI Make Standardized Tests Obsolete?

Edsurge

For instance, ETS, one of the oldest and largest players in standardized testing, is moving away from traditional college entrance exams like the SAT to focus on new approaches to measure the skills and persistence of students. It’s been a period of upheaval for academic testing in general and for the 75-year-old nonprofit ETS in particular.

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LearnWith.AI Launches TeachTap, the first AI-powered learning app for AP exam prep and high school courses

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“TeachTap is a game-changer for students preparing for AP exams and studying high school courses. Pearson Edgington, a high school senior who piloted TeachTap, shared his experience: “TeachTap made studying for my AP exams actually fun and interesting. Chief Product Officer Phil Hewinson.

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Retrieval in Action: Creative Strategies from Real Teachers

Cult of Pedagogy

And that class, since I started doing that, is a 20 percent improvement in the exam grades. ” Peer Instruction This strategy turns a simple multiple-choice question into a quick collaborative activity. “Present students with a multiple choice question.” ” Rivers explains.

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Can a Test Ever Be Fair? How Today's Standardized Tests Get Made.

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Moulton has worked in the field for about 15 years with a small family-run company called Educational Data Systems , which makes exams for local districts and high stakes tests for the state of California. Differential item functioning will flag that question as problematic. How are you held accountable for getting this right?

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Teaching Courses that Provoke Student Anxiety

Faculty Focus

Two recent articles (see the references) explore the anxiety associated with social science statistics courses. What causes students to dread the social science statistics course? The pressure to solve problems, answer multiple-choice question, and write essays on an exam scares them. Bailey, M.

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Kids Discover Online unveils custom assessments feature

eSchool News

Kids Discover , a provider of engaging science and social studies curriculum, announced that its interactive digital library, Kids Discover Online, now includes custom assessment capabilities. The Assessments feature includes more than 5,000 pre-built questions covering more than 1,200 science and social studies topics.