eSchool News

MAY 1, 2024

TeachTap uses AI to bring historical figures to life as teachers, allowing students to learn, for example, about the Civil War with Abraham Lincoln, the civil rights movement through the lens of Martin Luther King Jr, or the laws of motion from Sir Isaac Newton. Chief Product Officer Phil Hewinson.

Exams 141

Exams High School High School History 141

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

The pandemic is changing the way tests and quizzes are conducted at colleges across the country, with the rapid adoption of new tools that proponents say catch cheating, but in ways that many students say amount to an unacceptable invasion of their privacy. More than 60,000 students across the U.S.

Plagiarism 218

Plagiarism Exams Confidentiality Testing 218

Edsurge

JANUARY 8, 2024

A number of instructors in the math department at San Diego Mesa College, where she's a professor, had started exploring how to weave standards-based grading — an approach that evaluates students on how effectively they have mastered content — into the way they teach calculus.

Math 176

Math Quizzes Instructors Students 176

eSchool News

APRIL 15, 2020

Eko’s virtual classroom experience ensures teachers, students, parents and school staff all stay connected ensuring a sense of school community and spirit, minimizing the disruption to learning and student progress. A library for centralizing useful content, ranging from reading materials to exam papers.

Quizzes 157

Quizzes Exams Learning Communication 157

eSchool News

AUGUST 14, 2024

teachers are outnumbered on average 16 students to 1 teacher in the classroom (though this number can be as high as 23 to 1 in states such as California ). However, when combined with high student to teacher ratios, it is difficult, if not impossible, for teachers to provide individualized support for their students.

Teaching 325

Teaching Gamification Feedback Intelligence 325

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

And that bothers Stoll, who is an associate professor of chemistry at the University of Washington, because he’s a firm believer that “the personal experience that a student has with an instructor is key to learning.” It was hard to find time slots during the week when students are available,” he explains.

Exams 166

Exams Students Quizzes Questions 166

Edsurge

APRIL 30, 2019

Tests these days start by making students prove not what they know, but who they are. Such are the tools developed and offered by Examity , a provider of exam proctoring tools used by colleges and universities, assessment groups, professional certification boards and employers.

Exams 162

Exams Online Learning Testing Quizzes 162

Edsurge

JUNE 8, 2022

As the pandemic progresses, professors are sharing stories about what feels to them like widespread student disengagement. In their anecdotes, fewer students are showing up to class and turning work in on time (or at all). But declining student participation may also stem from the challenges inherent to remote and hybrid learning.

Student Engagement 200

Student Engagement Instructors Hybrid Courses Exams 200

Edsurge

MAY 6, 2019

With Advanced Placement exams starting this month, the past weeks have kept Amanda DoAmaral working around the clock. As students cram, her team of four has been scrambling to meet the demand on Fiveable , where she and other teachers broadcast live test-prep sessions. million students took a combined 5.1 More than 2.8

Testing 158

Testing Exams Teachers History 158

eSchool News

APRIL 29, 2024

“It is critical that we ensure appropriate supports and guardrails are in place for our teachers and students to effectively use generative artificial intelligence. “Our mission is to embrace AI in our classrooms to enhance student learning; centering student inquiry, student reflection, and critical thinking.”

Intelligence 258

Intelligence Exams Ethics Learning Styles 258

Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2018

Sometimes the details former students recall from class is nothing short of amazing. A few years ago I had a student named Abby in my history class, who had always been in self-contained special education classrooms. One day I had been planning to discuss metacognition—a learning strategy I teach to my middle-school students.

Teaching 168

Teaching Failure Quizzes Learning 168

Edsurge

JULY 9, 2021

Imagine you’re an edtech company with thousands of students on your platform. You see an opportunity to make a small change that might improve their learning outcomes, so you roll it out to a group of students who don’t know they are part of the sample. Peterson wondered at the concern over the test expressed in media coverage.

Ethics 207

Ethics Knowledge Testing Learning 207

Edsurge

JANUARY 11, 2021

When I started teaching data science and artificial intelligence in Duke University’s Pratt School of Engineering, I was frustrated by how little insight I actually felt I had into how effective my teaching was, until the end-of-semester final exam grades and student assessments came in.

Teaching 215

Teaching Instructors Quizzes Intelligence 215

Edsurge

MARCH 2, 2020

More recently, governments in Japan and South Korea have kept students home. They mainly serve expat or foreign students and typically follow American or Western curriculum and standards, offering AP classes and International Baccalaureate degrees. And from Singapore to Vietnam, classes are canceled. Well, sort of.

Schools 218

Schools Students Assignments Testing 218

EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 16, 2018

Data Driven Instruction: How Student Data Guides Formative Assessments. As personalized learning becomes a more mainstream pedagogy in K–12 classrooms, teachers have started to adapt assessment processes to get a deeper look at student growth. . eli.zimmerman_9856. Tue, 10/16/2018 - 11:44.

Quizzes 159

Quizzes Students Elementary School Elementary School 159

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

As he watched his own kids adjust to online schooling during the pandemic, he felt that Zoom lacked features to let teachers handle standard classroom activities such as taking attendance or giving quizzes. Most colleges were already doing at least some online education even before the pandemic hit.

Online Learning 198

Online Learning Technology Quizzes Learning 198

Faculty Focus

JUNE 30, 2024

Recently I had reason to revisit Paul Pintrich’s meta-analysis on motivating students. It’s still the piece I most often see referenced when it comes to what’s known about student motivation. Adaptive self-efficacy and competence perceptions motivate students. Adaptive attributions and control beliefs motivate students.

Motivation 111

Motivation Beliefs Exams Students 111

Faculty Focus

JUNE 30, 2024

Recently I had reason to revisit Paul Pintrich’s meta-analysis on motivating students. It’s still the piece I most often see referenced when it comes to what’s known about student motivation. Adaptive self-efficacy and competence perceptions motivate students. Adaptive attributions and control beliefs motivate students.

Motivation 110

Motivation Beliefs Exams Students 110

Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 14, 2023

Imagine a classroom where students are glued to their seats, laser-focused on interactive quiz games displayed on the smartboard. A classroom where healthy competition motivates students to study and collaborate. The tool tracks students’ progress and adapts the difficulty of questions based on their performance.

Quizzes 148

Quizzes Gamification Teaching Methods Feedback 148

Dangerously Irrelevant

OCTOBER 15, 2021

In Powerful Teaching , the authors focus on the potential of: Retrieval practice – “pulling information out of students’ heads (e.g., quizzes and flashcards), rather than cramming information into students’ heads (e.g., quizzes and flashcards), rather than cramming information into students’ heads (e.g.,

Quizzes 143

Quizzes Learning Lecturing Students 143

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

In early 2017, organizations that have focused on digital learning came together to better leverage their strengths and capacities for a common goal: improving student success. Joosten also argued that the field should evaluate trends through subgroups of underrepresented students to promote equity.

Peer Review 218

Peer Review Gamification Mobile Devices Learning 218

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

I use a daily quiz that has a two-fold purpose: first, it tests the students’ knowledge of the day’s reading material; and second, it provides a focus for the lecture and activities scheduled that day in class. My students do the quiz as a group activity. My students do the quiz as a group activity.

Quizzes 108

Quizzes Lecturing Course Evaluations Exams 108

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2024

After four decades of such reflection, I am keenly aware that understanding effective teaching strategies, the students I serve, and how learning works requires my constant attention. When it comes to increasing rates of student achievement, satisfaction, and graduation, what really makes the difference? This is critical work.

Syllabus 132

Syllabus Exams Students Motivation 132

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. It violates the rights of these students to have privacy.” It is very nerve-wracking.

Textbooks 176

Textbooks Quizzes Exams Testing 176

Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 15, 2024

Let students see. “The content presented in this blog is the result of my creative imagination and not intended for use, reproduction, or incorporation into any artificial intelligence training or machine learning systems without prior written consent from the author.”

Classroom Management 183

Classroom Management Mobile Devices Plagiarism Quizzes 183

Edsurge

OCTOBER 28, 2020

College students with learning disabilities experienced a sudden rupture of the status quo this spring when most of their courses moved online. In some cases, the change interfered with the coping strategies students use to learn. There seems to be an environmental factor involved.”

Learning Disabilities 148

Learning Disabilities Disabilities Quizzes Exams 148

Edsurge

MAY 9, 2023

That became clear a few years ago, when a particularly bright student in a calculus class Talbert was teaching bombed the first exam. The student knew the material, but she just wasn’t a good test-taker. The same thing happened on the second exam, and now the student had no way to do any better in the class than a C.

Grades 200

Grades Exams Feedback Testing 200

Edsurge

JUNE 26, 2019

The ACT skill, which provides general information about the exam and can help students prepare for the test, will be available to the public this fall. ACT shows off its new Alexa skill, which gives students access to test prep for subjects such as geometry and trigonometry, at ISTE 2019 in Philadelphia. True or false.”

Skills 167

Skills Quizzes Teachers Testing 167

Edsurge

AUGUST 17, 2018

The question of whether or not to allow students to use smartphones, laptops and other technology in the classroom has been long-debated , and at times, heated. Arnold Glass, a researcher and professor at Rutgers University’s psychology department, ran the study with graduate student Mengxue Kang.

Multiple Choice Questions 138

Multiple Choice Questions Exams Lecturing Attention 138

Faculty Focus

MAY 2, 2024

Do you teach one of those courses that promotes lots of student anxiety? Student are convinced they can’t learn what we’re teaching, worry they won’t do well on the tests, and become filled with anxiety over anything in a course that looks like it might be hard. What causes students to dread the social science statistics course?

Teaching 111

Teaching Multidisciplinary Multiple Choice Questions Exams 111

Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

This helps students answer questions such as: What are the key points I need to know? The approach is linear because it is clearly divided into headings and subheadings and itemizes each aspect of the lesson so that students can easily follow from one subject to the next. What comes next? Will it be on the test?

Teaching 119

Teaching Quizzes Instructors Exams 119

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

I use a daily quiz that has a two-fold purpose: first, it tests the students’ knowledge of the day’s reading material; and second, it provides a focus for the lecture and activities scheduled that day in class. My students do the quiz as a group activity. My students do the quiz as a group activity.

Quizzes 97

Quizzes Lecturing Course Evaluations Exams 97

Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 1, 2018

These web-based classes offer motivated students a self-paced, self-directed path to achieving their college dreams in an affordable, flexible, quality ecosystem that prepares them for future careers in fields they love. All they need is an internet connection and a webcam (for proctored exams). How to get started.

Exams 83

Exams Quizzes Textbooks Syllabus 83

Edsurge

MARCH 5, 2020

She didn’t really pay attention to the goal of the site—which is for students to share their notes and other class materials. I found some quizzes and tests,” she said, noting that plenty of those materials and PowerPoint slides from other professors were easily found on Course Hero about the subject she was teaching, biomaterials.

Study 140

Study Exams Quizzes Academic Integrity 140

Edsurge

MAY 2, 2018

Educators shifting to competency-based models often tout to the power of allowing students to master a topic by taking a test again and again until they do well, rather than failing them if they bomb the first time. It is normally used to help lagging students build math skills. We scratched our heads a little bit about that finding.

Study 128

Study Quizzes Math Exams 128

Faculty Focus

MAY 2, 2024

Do you teach one of those courses that promotes lots of student anxiety? Student are convinced they can’t learn what we’re teaching, worry they won’t do well on the tests, and become filled with anxiety over anything in a course that looks like it might be hard. What causes students to dread the social science statistics course?

Teaching 104

Teaching Multidisciplinary Multiple Choice Questions Exams 104

Faculty Focus

APRIL 16, 2024

Ensuring a successful educational experience for our students is akin to the art of culinary development, where thoughtful preparation is fundamental. Much like a chef assembles ingredients before cooking, pre-courses lay the groundwork for students, offering them a solid foundation to build upon.

Exams 115

Exams Quizzes Students Course Design 115