Catlin Tucker

APRIL 10, 2023

Spend less time preparing for tests! Other Problems with Traditional Approaches to Review and Retrieval Practice Review and practice are often focused on preparing for an exam instead of being treated as an integral part of every class. This is much more effective than having a single Jeopardy review game before an exam.

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eSchool News

APRIL 26, 2015

Senate action to give states more testing and evaluation flexibility, Common Core resistance continues. Thousands of students are opting out of new standardized tests aligned to the Common Core standards, defying the latest attempt by states to improve academic performance. Despite U.S.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

The College Board will soon allow high school students to register for Advanced Placement (AP) exams in the fall, rather than having them wait until spring—just before the exams are held. schools, the option to register in the fall led to more underrepresented and low-income students taking the AP exams. More than half of U.S.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 28, 2016

Are employees evaluated using bubble-in tests to prove they know the ins and outs of their job? Why is the culture to drill facts into students’ heads just to pass a test? Well, according to state science exams, my students consistently score higher than other science classes in my district. Is it working?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 27, 2024

When my friend, Emma, was preparing for finals, she used Trello to organize her study schedule, Quizlet for flashcards, and weekly Google Meet sessions with classmates to discuss tough topics, transforming her test stress into an effective study routine. Because studying for exams can feel overwhelming. Why so many digital crutches?

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Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Helping students review for an exam often takes the form of a study guide or review game. I see an opportunity to encourage students to do the heavy cognitive lift of designing fun and engaging test preparation materials that teachers can use to help their classes review vocabulary, content, and skills. Student-created Kahoot!

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eSchool News

JUNE 12, 2024

Developed through Samsung Electronics’ C-Lab venture program, the software revolutionizes exam monitoring with just a smartphone. Leveraging advanced AI algorithms, it analyzes video footage of test-takers to detect cheating and suspicious behavior. It generates detailed reports for administrators within 24 hours.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

CLEPs assess college-level knowledge and passing scores on the exams are accepted as credit at more than 2,900 colleges and universities. I took two CLEP exams, and the credits I earned saved me time and money as I worked toward my degree. History I CLEP exam into my existing classes, instead of treating it as a separate task.

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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. “In the past five years we’ve had everybody pass,” Hines said, referring to the certification exams.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Hyper-focused on standardized testing. Because of the way the education system is structured, a lot of curriculum is centered around standardized testing—passing AP exams, getting into colleges, etc. While these tests are important, they limit the ability to put the scientific method in action.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 10, 2018

The beauty of playful assessment, she says, is that it can be done without interrupting the rhythm of learning, thereby alleviating student anxiety around testing. Teachers are evaluated on those standardized tests. These students rarely take multiple choice tests. They believe it could eventually replace traditional math exams.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

The old SAT was put to bed earlier this year, and it’s in with a new version of the college admissions exam. million test takers took its redesigned test between March and June 2016. million test takers took the old SAT during the same period in 2015. College Board started administering the new test in March 2016.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

The world’s biggest private nonprofit test maker is dipping its toes into the world of education technology investments. ETS (short for Educational Testing Service) recently invested in two startups— Knack and NurseDash —in partnership with Village Capital , an early-stage venture capital firm that aims to support social-impact entrepreneurs.

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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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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

homework, lecture notes, practice tests). For example, if you’re studying for a biology exam, tagging relevant documents with terms like “photosynthesis” or “cell division” can help you quickly retrieve the information you need. Within these folders, further categorize materials by topics, chapters, or types of content (e.g.,

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Even as Anderson excelled in his coursework at Jackson State University, he struggled to pass one of the licensure tests required in Mississippi to gain full admittance into the teacher preparation program at his school. Latiker points out, “but he couldn’t teach elementary education because of his performance on the Praxis math exam.”

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

For this installment of our semester-long Pandemic Campus Diaries series, we’ve asked our participants to reflect on what they’ve learned from this disrupted and stressful semester. For Rachel Davenport, a senior lecturer at Texas State University, one key area where she has thrown out old assumptions has been testing. she asks. “I

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Edsurge

JULY 9, 2021

Did you simply practice the same type of A/B testing that’s common throughout the tech sphere? That’s the ethics debate playing out in one online educator space , a lively back-and-forth carried over from a recent workshop on educational A/B testing. But if researchers are A/B testing two innocuous options, what’s the harm?

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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.

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eSchool News

MARCH 5, 2024

A similar number of states administer weak licensure tests, the report said, creating uncertainty about how well prepared teachers are. Parents cannot ring the alarm or participate in this goal effectively if they don’t know where their children stand,” Executive Director Paula White said. NCTQ makes five main recommendations.

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Edsurge

JULY 11, 2023

Bier and others involved in the project say that they are testing the approach in a variety of educational settings, including public and private K-12 schools, community colleges and four-year colleges. EdSurge: The app you developed helps teachers test out their learning materials to see if they’re effective.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 14, 2024

Most tools that teachers have for this purpose are lagging indicators such as tests, quizzes, and homework. By analyzing patterns in students’ grades, attendance, participation, and other behavioral indicators, AI algorithms can predict potential academic risks and learning disabilities. First, outside-in.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 30, 2023

ESL students need stellar writing skills to pass exams and language tests or enter the university. Encourage them to participate in online writing contests in their target language: The idea of strangers reading your text is a powerful motivator to write it in the best way possible.

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Edsurge

JULY 29, 2020

In the latest episode of EdSurge Live, we interviewed two professors who have long questioned traditional methods of grading about how to approach exams, essays and other assessments next semester: Susan D. Tony Crider, professor of astrophysics at Elon University, offers his students “ epic finales” instead of final exams.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 8, 2018

As spring approaches, my eldest daughter Katherine, now in her junior year, is bracing herself for the upcoming ACT exams, while my youngest, Elizabeth, a sophomore, is getting ready for next year. As for Elizabeth, the exams tap into her love of competition. I think you’ll enjoy her experiences! .

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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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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

It’s not just about test scores and whether people learn, she argues, but there’s an ethical issue that sometimes gets lost in discussions about teaching. And encourage those who still have Popsicle sticks to participate. Longtime professor Cathy Davidson is on a mission to promote the practice of active learning. Trust your students.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2019

Jeremy Singer, the new president of the College Board Expanding access Following stints at the nonprofit Partners in School Innovation and the publisher McGraw-Hill Education , Singer served as president at Kaplan , a test-prep company, before joining the College Board about six years ago. This is a huge change.

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eSchool News

JULY 5, 2023

Orlando, Florida – Certiport, a Pearson VUE business and the leading provider of performance-based IT certification exams that accelerate academic and career opportunities for learners, today announced the winners of the 2023 Microsoft Office Specialist US National Championship. in the United States and other countries.

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eSchool News

JUNE 28, 2016

. “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.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

workforce, citing hostile work conditions, high-stakes testing, diminished autonomy, and lack of planning time as prevailing reasons. With heart pounding, palms sweating and flashes of a failing grade in his mind, 13-year-old Jake is all stressed out because he forgot about his Monday morning science exam with Mr. Bunting. Lucky, Jake.

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

Scratch-offs for test-taking. It also tracks how much eye contact you had with participants, if you need to slow down/speed up, words per minute, your volume, and more. This positive response to their take on the quote encourages other students to participate. Scratch off exam. Thumbnails with a taco. A 3-2-1 activity.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

David Coleman, CEO of the College Board The Good: Large Launches and Closing Participation Gaps. In 2013, no females took the exam in Mississippi, Montana, and Wyoming, and 11 states had no black students engage in the exam. Similar to years past, several states lacked test takers in certain demographics.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

Our participants included high school students in the Glens Falls, N.Y. We collected data from school records, from academic testing results, and from the students directly. In our research, we tracked sleep, mood, health, attendance, tardiness, problem behaviors, and academics, in a high school that delayed start time by 45 minutes.

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eSchool News

JUNE 23, 2016

To better tell that story, Gale, a part of Cengage Learning, is calling all libraries to participate in the My Library Pic contest. From the Stacks – Whether a research paper, entrance exam, practice test, or plain old reading, how do your users read and research in the digital age? Teach us your ways.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 14, 2024

For a lot of students who are not eager to take more purely academic courses — or about test-taking and writing papers — this is an enormous opportunity to get excited about higher education through fields of study not offered in high schools,” Wyner says. It transfers so widely. Four-year colleges are taking those credits,” McElroy says.

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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. Those turned out to be the systems that participants preferred. “By

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