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Will AI Make Standardized Tests Obsolete?

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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. So what are the behaviors that you're using to get to the answer?

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Why Old Arguments for Earning a Diploma Don't Resonate With My Students — and Which Ones Will

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In our current educational landscape, you have to either receive a traditional high school diploma or pass the General Educational Development exam to access most postsecondary schooling options, including trade schools and community colleges.

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How Well Would ChatGPT Do in My Course? I Talked to It to Find Out

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The bot has raised many questions, to name just a few: how ChatGPT will affect exams, how to help students use it critically and within the boundaries of academic integrity, how to talk about it in class, and whether it can help faculty plan activities or even generate content like examples or cases. So far, so good.

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How Well Would ChatGPT Do in My Course? I Talked to It to Find Out

Faculty Focus

The bot has raised many questions, to name just a few: how ChatGPT will affect exams, how to help students use it critically and within the boundaries of academic integrity, how to talk about it in class, and whether it can help faculty plan activities or even generate content like examples or cases. So far, so good.

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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. To be able to build tests that actually deal with that mix of skills and expectations, is, I think, a very good thing.

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Teaching Courses that Provoke Student Anxiety

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The pressure to solve problems, answer multiple-choice question, and write essays on an exam scares them. This fear is about the skills needed in the course itself, much like students taking a poetry course are anxious because they think they can’t write poetry. They’re convinced they won’t do well.

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Can Individual Tests Really Measure Collaboration?

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At the end of next school year, thousands of high school students will sit down at individual workstations, laptops in hand, for an end-of-course exam. Is it important to measure those skills? I think there’s more of a question about that. Testing for such skills relies heavily on technology and required a significant retooling.

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