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One Standardized Tests Provider Looks to Gaming and Personalized Learning to Innovate Exams

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Yet she is quick to note a raft of concerns surrounding fairness, equity, bias, budgets, structure, logistics and policy, which increase the stakes of any change they choose to implement. Her office has researched methods such as hands-on tasks, classroom-based activities and simulations to measure science proficiency.

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iPads Did Not Revolutionize Campus Teaching (But a Few Colleges Give Every Student One)

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While Rodriguez is a big fan of the iPad and says she’d purchase the device herself even if the university didn’t provide one, she thinks students still prefers traditional research methods. “I Smaller Scale Most colleges that have experimented with iPads in teaching have done much smaller experiments.