eSchool News

JUNE 25, 2024

With AI dominating headlines in all industries, it’s a relatively common question: Is everything about AI? Bias and fairness: Bias in AI systems and troubles ensuring fair treatment 3. Despite its potential, AI in the classroom brings with it concerns: 1.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 29, 2025

Key points: Technology works in service of teaching, not the other way around Teaching ethical edtech for future innovators Leveraging edtech to help students, teachers stay connected through illness For more news on AI, visit eSN’s Digital Learning hub Artificial intelligence brings opportunities and questions to classrooms worldwide.

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eSchool News

MARCH 14, 2025

This is a question every educator has faced before. To be fair, its a valid question. In my experience, teachers have two standard replies to this question: Theyll try to explain the subject in detail, which results in a long-winded answer that confuses their students and doesnt satisfy them.

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eSchool News

MARCH 30, 2015

One lawyer defends the practice of monitoring students on social media sites after high-stakes testing. A storm of criticism recently rained down on test publisher Pearson Education after the revelation that it regularly monitors social-media sites for public posts that contain secure content from standardized tests it publishes.

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Edsurge

MAY 10, 2018

Multiple-choice questions don’t belong in college. They’re often ineffective as a teaching tool, they’re easy for students to cheat, and they can exacerbate test anxiety. Defending Multiple-Choice To be fair, not everyone is so down on multiple choice. There are rules to writing good multiple-choice questions.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2018

The 26-year-old entrepreneur has set out to replace the standardized tests that are deeply entrenched in K-12 and higher education, like the SAT and ACT, and she tells EdSurge her efforts to do so are sure to spark controversy. How can you move past multiple choice tests?” It’s just a question of getting marginally better.”.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 28, 2015

When we have our STEM Fair each year, parents are amazed by what they see and hear from the students. As students plan investigations to answer a question posed to them, they conduct tests, record and analyze data, and communicate their results. They’re actually “doing science,” not just memorizing terms and concepts for a test.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

The University of Massachusetts Amherst has historically required prospective undergraduate students to submit a standardized test score as part of their applications. Even now, as testing has resumed—albeit with social distancing, face coverings and limited seating—access to testing centers is not equal, nor equitable.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 23, 2023

A plain-ole paper-and-pencil test tends to get dry and dull pretty quickly, so take this opportunity to experiment with new assessment strategies and determine which ones work best for your students. Let’s dare to think outside the box, try something new, and make 2023 a year to remember in the world of education!

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Oregon teachers wish they didn’t have to give their students Smarter Balanced English and math tests because the tests take too much time, have confusing directions and are unfair for students who don’t have computers at home or who have inadequate technology at school.

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eSchool News

JULY 16, 2024

Test-optional and test-blind admissions in recent years could mean a radical expansion of access to selective colleges. The patchwork of admission test policies in college admissions underscores a larger challenge—and opportunity—for both K-12 and higher education.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Having been in education for more than thirty years, I can’t tell you how many times I have been asked the question, “How can I help my children retain what they learned? It seems like they had it last night when we studied, but then they take the test and struggle to remember.” Learning doesn’t happen by cramming.

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Edsurge

JULY 16, 2018

That’s the idea at least behind the latest summative assessments from Project Lead the Way , a project-based STEM curriculum, which is introducing new tech-based question types to measure a raft of noncognitive skills from collaboration to general problem solving (in addition to subject-specific questions about engineering or coding concepts). “We

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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. 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.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 23, 2023

A plain-ole paper-and-pencil test tends to get dry and dull pretty quickly, so take this opportunity to experiment with new assessment strategies and determine which ones work best for your students. Let’s dare to think outside the box, try something new, and make 2023 a year to remember in the world of education!

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Edsurge

MARCH 5, 2018

When the Opt-Out movement gained traction in 2015, more than 20 percent of New York students (about 200,000) in grades 3 through 8 declined to take state standardized exams, a statistic that raised questions about the future of such testing. Aligning tests with the ways students learn in the classroom is one of Gorin’s goals.

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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2020

The question of who’s most likely to succeed also drives the world of selective college admissions. They question whether new selection systems create opportunity for more students at college, or just replicate a particular model of student success. It’s an endorsement, an expectation and a prophecy from the graduating class.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Terms such as “professional learning communities” and “data-based instruction” take the focus off of children as developing human beings, and force conversations to be about standardized data points from benchmark tests and high-stakes standardized assessments, which can dehumanize the way we address student needs. What do teachers want?

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 12, 2024

The mind of a young student is wired to sniff out fairness, or lack thereof. For example, we ask students to make commitments to the class, such as preparing for a test scheduled on a certain date. But to them, its entirely unfair that we dont make commitments ourselves, such as grading those very tests by a certain date.

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Edsurge

MAY 25, 2021

For decades, that question has largely been decided by a test. A special science and math test developed specifically for the school. And they’re quoting America’s founding fathers, arguing that the ones who are getting in are simply the ones studying the hardest, and that the current system is fair. So who gets to go?

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 7, 2021

The SAT test weighs heavily on our collective imagination—and most everyone can picture the nerve-wracking scene of students sitting at desks, bubbling in Scantron forms with a No. And is it fair? I have witnessed meltdowns in the hallways when students get their test scores,” he said. “I

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Edsurge

JANUARY 4, 2019

Access and Equity Across topics, students have raised questions and concerns around who has access to the benefits of technological innovation, and which students or groups are not being served. Outcomes, Testing and Grading Which methods of assessment best measure learning and ability?

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Cult of Pedagogy

JANUARY 21, 2024

Over the last decade or so , we’ve settled into a choreographed dance around large-scale, state-mandated standardized test scores. Next, people who have nothing to do with the design, administration, taking, or scoring of the tests will then use them to critique states, districts, schools, and/or individual teachers.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JULY 9, 2015

One of the obligatory questions in the interview process is What will you do if you disagree with the Governor? I think that there are some big questions that we have to ask as a state after the Governor’s school funding veto. We have the third-highest average ACT score of states that test at least half of their graduates.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

The most controversial new tech tool for colleges since the start of the pandemic is automated proctoring, which aims to detect cheating on online exams by using algorithms that watch students via their webcam and look for suspicious patterns of behavior—often sending clips of questionable moments to professors for later review.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 30, 2024

Create a timeline that includes important dates such as application deadlines, standardized test dates, and scholarship deadlines. These may include standardized test scores (SAT or ACT), high school transcripts, letters of recommendation, and personal essays. Aim to take the test early enough to allow time for retakes if necessary.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Now, he and Baselice collaborate to create and test games and are actively trying to gather evidence that these activities aren’t just good for engagement, but for long-term learning. When I’m testing a game, I have no way of knowing if it's going to be blocked by the school’s servers,” Angie says. So we made it more open-ended.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 30, 2024

” Survey findings also indicate that high school teachers are more likely to be approached by their students with permission-based AI questions (67 percent vs. 52 percent). In contrast, college teachers are much more likely to get questions about proper use cases (59 percent vs. 40 percent).

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eSchool News

MAY 7, 2019

Our teachers use feedback captured on the Verso Learning platform to answer the following questions: How do you know that kids are learning what you thought you taught in that particular lesson and in that particular community? Next steps: We never talk about test scores or use the word “achievement.”

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Edsurge

MARCH 31, 2021

One student, standing up and projecting his voice, declared: “Virginia objects to New Jersey demanding that She give away Her fair and right voice in the new government. Therefore, it is right and fair we have more influence on the actions of government.” We have a larger population. A student on the opposing side retorted: “No way.

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eSchool News

APRIL 19, 2015

Questions remain on whether LAUSD’s bond use for iPads was legal. That fall, problems immediately plagued the rollout of devices to campuses, and questions soon arose about whether Apple or Pearson had an unfair advantage in the bidding process. billion iPads-for-all project. Unified acknowledged meeting with an agency attorney.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 1, 2024

Many teachers and professors are spending time this summer experimenting with AI tools to help them prepare slide presentations, craft tests and homework questions, and more. As more instructors experiment with using generative AI to make teaching materials, an important question bubbles up.

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eSchool News

JUNE 23, 2023

To be fair, Powerschool’s announcement this week that it will integrate Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service to use OpenAI’s large language models within the company’s Personalized Learning Cloud will probably be the biggest news to come out of ISTE next week. Just try to have a conversation about edTech these days without mentioning AI.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

To Truman, the worksheets, which were meant to fill a bit of time in the morning, had become a form of timed testing, presenting him daily with a task he couldn’t complete. As the students move about, teachers observe, record, confer, participate, push extension questions and use this information to plan next steps.

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eSchool News

MAY 14, 2025

And I think there’s no question that when you think. John Watson So first of all I want to just echo the point that you’re making in your question, which is in these online settings relationships and student engagement are absolutely critical and I don’t. So that’s one version of the answer to your question.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

MAY 21, 2025

Like the smile from acing a test or the joy of earning a reward, those flashes of satisfaction are unforgettable. Turn off the lights and test it out. Differentiated science questions, including short answer, multiple-choice, and fill-in-the-blank, make it easy to reach every learner. Ready to make more of those moments?

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Esther considered the question, sitting in a small room with Ms. And universal assessments that test multilingual students in English can provide inaccurate information that teachers use to guide their practice or can wrongly indicate learning disabilities. “What do you want your teacher to know about you?”

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