Edsurge

DECEMBER 17, 2020

The pandemic has led to a spike in the use of automated proctoring software, which is designed to curb cheating on online quizzes and exams by recording students via their webcams and flagging suspicious activity. Earlier this month a group of Democratic U.S.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Joseph Ching, a junior at Purdue University, says many of his professors have warned students not to use sites like Chegg, where students are posting homework and quiz questions and getting answers from tutors. is a student will post a graded question in its entirety to Chegg.com,” she adds. They’ve got to take their exams at 3:00 a.m.

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eSchool News

MAY 30, 2024

.” – Cody Ashley, middle school teacher Middle school, high school and college students preparing for class exams and state assessments can build personalized study plans in seconds using Brainly’s generative AI technology. The survey also revealed that exams are the primary cause for anxiety about school for almost 28% of students.

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Edsurge

MAY 3, 2019

Source: Ponddy) Those products also provide the technical backbone for a third element of the program, which employs live, online native speakers working with the Smart Textbooks and Reader. Chen officially started using Ponddy Smart Textbooks in her classes last year, and recently introduced the Ponddy Reader.

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JULY 8, 2021

Keeping up with an ever-increasing workload, with exams and deadlines looming ever closer, can leave many students panicking and striving to juggle their studies and other responsibilities effectively. There’s nothing more anxiety-inducing than realising you have a paper or exam within the next 48 hours! Start By Getting Organised.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

It may be the biggest question in college edtech during the pandemic: Should tests be allowed to robotically watch students? Instead of reserving them for high-stakes assessments like final exams, some professors now use these tools for routine work like weekly quizzes. million exams. In October we did 3.5

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 3, 2023

With educators duking it out in the so-called “math wars” over the curriculum changes in California — which recommended delaying algebra, a critical juncture in the race to calculus in K-12 — the question rose to the fore this year. A professor from Indiana: “I've taught calculus dozens of times, with diverse textbooks, quite successfully.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JANUARY 4, 2021

Students who come to class without pencil, textbook, paper, or homework. . Teachers obliged to ‘cover’ material that’s required by the school or district but whose value and relevance they deeply question. Students who cram for the test but then forget everything as soon as the exam is over. .

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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

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

In California, students at Chula Vista Elementary School District’s Salt Creek Elementary improved their scores by 137 percent over the state average on California’s performance exams in the first year of introducing a blended learning program. .

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Edsurge

MARCH 25, 2021

There’s a high-stakes exam that’s created an entire industry selling test-preparation products and services to people willing to shell out big bucks for help honing their skills and strategies. It’s the exam to become a licensed construction contractor. A full collection of exam books can cost thousands of dollars.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

I watched one of your talks about your book “Choke” and was really struck by the idea that in the brain, the anxiety of just preparing for something like a math exam triggers pain responses. It's a really interesting question. We’ve performed below many countries for many years, and that's really something important to address.

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Edsurge

JUNE 10, 2021

The journalism instructor at the University of Minnesota keeps the process simple, with brief questions similar to these: What should keep happening in this class? Gorman suggests that faculty who are hesitant to open the floodgates with open-ended questions instead experiment by asking targeted inquiries about specific course details.

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 16, 2019

WELCOME: I had a high school teacher ask me a similar question recently, about a final exam they had to prepare the kids for, and the answer I gave was that the style of teaching I have outlined is ideal, but you cannot do it all the time. . Students do not love just reading a textbook. . Students do not speak in “worksheet.”

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Formative: more informal check-ins—quizzes, questions from the front of the room, or even chats with students—that assess how students are absorbing material and allow teachers to adjust lessons on the fly. It is no longer just writing multiple choice test questions. And it’s mind-bending stuff. It's super sophisticated.

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Edsurge

JUNE 8, 2022

Those same questions prompted leaders at Georgia State to adopt some practices common to online-only institutions in spring 2020 when classes moved online. Students could access chatbot quizzes ahead of exams to help assess their level of understanding. It’s not getting them the answers when taking the midterm exam.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Using data from the Pennsylvania System of School Assessment and Keystone Exams, the study found that schools using IXL outperformed schools not using IXL in math and ELA on each exam. Additionally, IXL skills match popular textbooks and state Assessment Anchors, helping teachers easily incorporate IXL’s curriculum into daily lessons.

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k12 Digest

MAY 28, 2025

That vision became AEF Schools , a place designed for students who needed something differenta structured, supportive environment where learning goes beyond textbooks and tests. Instead of pressuring students with high-stakes exams, AEF focuses on mastery-based learning.

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Edsurge

MARCH 5, 2020

I found some homework questions. She took inspiration from what she found (though she said she didn’t copy anything verbatim), and the site made her feel like she had a handle on how others using the same textbook were running their classes. She saw it as a resource for her teaching. “I per month, or $119.40 per month, or $119.40

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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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JANUARY 29, 2020

Quillionz is an online application that automatically and quickly generates reading comprehension questions from any passage of text that you provide. It does this by leveraging the power of artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms–the first to do this–to simplify and target the process of question creation.

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Edsurge

JUNE 5, 2020

These aren’t concepts found in most high-school math textbooks. states , as well as the ACT, SAT and International Baccalaureate exams, now rely on Desmos to power its online graphing tools. That means more exercises that allow for open-ended answers, and less abstract questions that simply ask one to “solve for x ,” says Meyer.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 7, 2019

Fred Singer: The question that struck me was, ‘how could it be that kids—born to a generation in which smart phones and laptops are a part of their everyday existence—have to sit in a classroom where someone just talks to them?’ Students can attend a lecture, which is analog, and link it to the digital textbooks they’re using in class.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Since the days of “Oregon Trail,” educational games have teased at the possibility that learning in school can be freed from the doldrum of textbooks and tests. That question has spurred the creation of many companies, conferences and other collaborative educational gaming efforts.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 2, 2023

Not only did they lose the personal touch of sitting in a classroom with their peers or caring for patients during their clinical experience, but they also lost the one-to-one contact of being able to talk with a faculty member and ask questions as they came up, such as what often occurs during a class or a moment of patient care.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 2, 2023

Not only did they lose the personal touch of sitting in a classroom with their peers or caring for patients during their clinical experience, but they also lost the one-to-one contact of being able to talk with a faculty member and ask questions as they came up, such as what often occurs during a class or a moment of patient care.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 13, 2017

In the early days of "course cartridges”—an LMS feature that allowed instructors to plug published content right into their courses—online courses were essentially digitized versions of static (textbook) content. Smart courses aren’t just about simple plug and play or digitized textbook content. Is that adaptive? A good experience?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 1, 2018

Study.com (formerly called Education-Portal) is a distance learning portal that provides over 70,000 lessons in fifteen subjects (including algebra, calculus, physics, chemistry, macro- and microeconomics, and more) aligned with popular textbooks. All they need is an internet connection and a webcam (for proctored exams).

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eSchool News

APRIL 5, 2024

From traditional classroom learning methods like lectures and textbooks to innovative technologies such as interactive whiteboards and educational apps, these tools aim to facilitate effective learning experiences and foster student growth. What are some examples of teaching techniques?

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Edsurge

AUGUST 27, 2019

It’s an age-old question pinched straight from the ‘90s: Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? Perhaps the question isn’t where she is so much as where she can help the most. That makes it especially valuable to an education company like HMH, which is best known among teachers and students as a textbook publisher.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 16, 2018

One way he looks at the online course is as a competitor to commercial textbooks, but one that is updated and enhanced by a community of professors. The other half are like, ‘This isn’t on the exam so I’m not going to do this.’” Whether we’re right or not is one question, but a very important one is, ‘What’s going to work?’

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Edsurge

JULY 11, 2023

That’s the question posed by a group of researchers who developed a free tool they call the Adaptive Experimentation Accelerator. One example in particular is getting students that are taking, say, an online chemistry course to create a multiple choice question for us. But you might be thinking, how's the quality of those?

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 2, 2019

Byju’s customers pay for animations, simulations and video lessons for students in grades 4 to 12 and for students preparing for competitive entrance exams to Indian colleges. All of which begs the question: How did Byju’s get so big? His friends encouraged him to teach and help others prepare for the exams.

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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. They’re invited to meet the candidates and ask questions during the interview. Their math scores improved only marginally. It’s tricky to determine causation here, Watkins says.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

Here are three strategies for digital tool use to consider, particularly at the start of a new term or when organizing for exams. Tagging helps me to ask better questions of my own work and make deeper connections. We’ve presented them from our dual perspectives of student and professor: Getting Digitally Organized.

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eSchool News

JULY 14, 2016

The College Board will use Learning List’s reviews to select materials for the AP Example Textbooks lists. These reviews will help AP teachers select textbooks and resources that are most aligned to AP course frameworks,” says John Williamson, College Board’s vice president of Advanced Placement instruction.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 4, 2021

For others, the new restrictions have so far mostly raised questions. 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.” We do a lot of boba tea, stuff like that, to boost our emotions,” he says.

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