EdTech Magazine

JUNE 21, 2018

That’s where artificial intelligence–powered teaching assistants might come in handy. AI Solutions Drive Higher STEM Test Scores. After one year of using Happy Numbers, an AI-assisted teaching assistant, nearly all the students improved their scores to a 35. by Eli Zimmerman.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 10, 2024

In the standardized testing era, students are too often asked to memorize facts and/or recall ideas without being expected to retain a deeper understanding of information. Depth in learning comes from focusing on critical thinking, evaluation of information, and tapping into students’ intrinsic curiosity.

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eSchool News

APRIL 2, 2025

If I couldnt figure something out on my own, I had resources at my disposal: office hours, teaching assistants, or discussions with peers. I cant recall a single homework assignment that was easier than a test question. Whether it was coding a project or working through intricate physics problems, I regularly found myself stuck.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 10, 2020

A thousand hours is about how long it took Goel and his team to create Jill Watson, an AI teaching assistant chatbot that can answer student questions. The Apprentice Learner then makes hypotheses about how the solution steps work and tests those theories on subsequent problems. See the tool in action here.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 19, 2024

These often have consequences in education, from an increase in cheating on assignments enabled by prose-spewing chatbots, to experiments that bring AI into classrooms as teaching assistants or even as students. For some teachers and school leaders, it can feel like an onslaught.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 9, 2015

The teacher’s dashboard includes useful reminders like ‘to be graded’ and ‘students who are late’ The class dashboard includes tabs for ‘today’, ‘calendar’, ‘contents’, and ‘gradebook’ Paper tests can be uploaded to the program (by taking a picture) and then shared out with students.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 7, 2022

And I sometimes delegate some portion of the work to a teaching assistant. Second, I frequently have fewer than ten auto-graded questions to test for understanding of the assigned reading. But goals imposed by others—sales targets, quarterly returns, standardized test scores, and so on—can sometimes have dangerous side effects.”

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Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Automated Grading: AI can automate the scoring of assessment tests, homework, essays and other assignments. Reduced Teacher Workload: AI tutors, virtual teaching assistants and automated admin systems can help reduce teacher workload. This saves teachers time, while giving students quicker feedback.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

ByteLearn.com – Digital math teaching assistant for teachers. With just one click, teachers may produce 7th Grade Math worksheets like Combining Like Terms , Grade 7 Math quizzes like Distributive Property , Seventh Grade Math unit tests , and 7 Grade Math Practice Questions on Distributive Property etc. 2 Khan Academy.

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Edsurge

JUNE 7, 2019

So in 2014, the senior lecturer in public policy at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government decided to test that assumption. While Levy created the app to automate part of the process involved in documenting class participation, it still requires some manual assistance.

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Edsurge

APRIL 13, 2018

Can college students tell the difference between a human teaching assistant and a chatbot? And the answer has profound implications for the future of college teaching. Goel, a professor of computer science and cognitive science, and his team have refined perhaps the first robot teaching assistant, dubbed Jill Watson.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 15, 2020

Together, we committed to an iterative process of examining existing and emerging MBE research and continually learning, testing, reflecting and revising our practices to make sure they’re reflective of the findings. The driving goal was to create a community of practitioners who identify as learning scientists. It started with coffee.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Meanwhile students are setting up unofficial online channels of their own, where they can ask questions of classmates, gripe about the professor and sometimes share homework and test answers. Students increasingly turn to private systems to create online groups around individual college classes.

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Edsurge

JUNE 14, 2019

The chatbot has been in a test phase for the past six months, and Smith admits it doesn’t always give the right answer. So far the project is in the early stages, and is still a year away from testing. One recurring glitch is when the system misunderstands the question.

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Edsurge

JUNE 4, 2024

What was your biggest worry then, and how did the testing go? In fact, it's most valuable in a teaching setting because a teacher's in a class of 30, these kids are at all different levels. Well, if you had support from a teaching assistant who's also their tutor, that's kind of what Khan Academy has always aspired to be.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

“And then all the sudden we’re teaching online. If you’re in graduate school, you often work as a teaching assistant, you’re under a mentoring program, you’re taught to be a teacher. Online teaching is not necessarily the same.” But we are not given the same training that people who are taught face-to-face do.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

She attended her classes and was a great graduate teaching assistant, teaching introductory classes to a broad array of students. Back in the days when tests were mimeographed (some of you also remember the smell of that purple ink!) and there were no adaptive engines to score them, I was the grader.

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Edsurge

JUNE 8, 2022

To test this out, the institution partnered with researchers from Brown University and edtech company Mainstay to select an online political science course that has high enrollment—and high rates of failure—because every student is required to take it. Too Much Help—Or Not Enough?

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 27, 2016

He pointed to a recent computer science class at Georgia Tech, where the professor had teaching assistants and a computer respond to student questions—without telling the students that they might be interacting with a machine. The bot, “Jill Watson,” passed the Turing test—students thought they were interacting with a human TA.

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Edsurge

JUNE 12, 2018

Students may feel relief as they hand in an exam, but the moment marks the beginning of stress and anxiety for instructors and teaching assistants, who may need to grade hundreds of tests in a short time. Arjun Singh knows the feeling well.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 28, 2019

However, there are certainly those who employ methods that put this perspective to the test. When we teach large classes, what approaches can we employ that will have a greater opportunity to engage students and help students learn more?

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

For example, if you look at the Jill Watson experiment at Georgia Tech, where they created a virtual teaching assistant, the students in the class didn't know that they were talking to a bot. Really what mattered where things that were graded, like quizzes and tests and assignments. How does that work?

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eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2022

Tutors can almost act as virtual teaching assistants, helping students grasp even the most nuanced concepts of a lesson—without requiring time and energy that classroom teachers simply don’t have. And our HR department has pivoted to conduct employee interviews, testing, onboarding, and new hire orientations virtually.

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Utilizing CAPTCHA responses to differentiate humans from bots CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart) is a widely employed tool for distinguishing between human users and automated programs. This challenge relies on human visual perception which bots often struggle with.

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Academic Integrity Education Plagiarism Students 135

Edsurge

MAY 4, 2023

ASU couldn’t test this theory by delivering chemicals to students who study online. And when 43 students finally arrived, Austin, along with two teaching assistants, led their organic chemistry lab. But what if instead the university brought remote students to the chemicals — and to campus?

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Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 8, 2024

Test reviews are another great opportunity to incorporate collaborative activities in class. Shanda Hood is a teaching assistant professor for the Fulbright College of Arts & Sciences at the University of Arkansas. You can also help to facilitate study groups through online survey responses or in-class sign-up sheets.

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

This tool is best utilized for generating thinking questions rather than testing for right or wrong answers, helping to minimize student anxiety. Hoekstras research interests lie in enhancing teaching techniques in higher education and the effects of government policy on entrepreneurs. References Ambrose, Susan A.,

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Edsurge

AUGUST 7, 2018

Apart from course evaluation, which is embedded within the normal semester, and kind of a mandatory process, I think the other stakeholder that we often forget is the teaching assistants. Was the faculty member or any teaching assistant involved or was that all student mediated? Reed: This is a followup to Patrick.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Tutors can almost act as virtual teaching assistants, helping students grasp even the most nuanced concepts of a lesson—without requiring time and energy that classroom teachers simply don’t have. And our HR department has pivoted to conduct employee interviews, testing, onboarding, and new hire orientations virtually.

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Hybrid Learning Communication Accessibility Language 291

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Utilizing CAPTCHA responses to differentiate humans from bots CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart) is a widely employed tool for distinguishing between human users and automated programs. This challenge relies on human visual perception which bots often struggle with.

Academic Integrity 111

Academic Integrity Education Plagiarism Students 111

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

This tool is best utilized for generating thinking questions rather than testing for right or wrong answers, helping to minimize student anxiety. Hoekstras research interests lie in enhancing teaching techniques in higher education and the effects of government policy on entrepreneurs. References Ambrose, Susan A.,

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Lecturing Attention Students Discussions 96

Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 31, 2016

paper tests can be uploaded (by taking a picture) and then shared out with students. If students took a paper test, they can take a picture of it and then share that with the teacher for grading. classes can be shared with teaching assistants and co-teachers. classes can be shared with teaching assistants and co-teachers.

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Assignments Testing Grades Classroom Management 71

Edsurge

APRIL 10, 2017

Shiva Kintali: As a teaching assistant at Georgia Tech and while teaching at Princeton, I developed an interest in helping my students learn mathematical concepts in a fun and intuitive way. I observed that students have different readiness levels, but the way we teach is week-by-week lectures with homework.

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Textbooks Intelligence Math Beliefs 104

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Sarina Maneotis, PhD is currently a teaching assistant professor at Kansas State University where she oversees K-States applied Masters in Industrial and Organizational Psychology (MIOP) program. She recently received K-States 2023 Global Campus Excellence in Online Teaching Award in recognition for her teaching practices.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

But a rush to test—and possibly rely on—algorithms raises many questions, none bigger than this: Could the data lead colleges to rethink how they operate to serve students? What I pay most attention to is, how are these technologies going to be used to actually support the teaching and learning process.

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Learning Intelligence Science Questions 89

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 8, 2024

Test reviews are another great opportunity to incorporate collaborative activities in class. Shanda Hood is a teaching assistant professor for the Fulbright College of Arts & Sciences at the University of Arkansas. You can also help to facilitate study groups through online survey responses or in-class sign-up sheets.

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Assignments Instructors Critical Thinking Activities 88

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

fourth graders tested proficient in reading—down from 37 percent in 2017. Lalilo recently won a request for proposal from the government to develop an AI-powered teaching assistant for STEM and literacy. In France, the company may find an easier path to growing its presence thanks to a major partner: the ministry of education.

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