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Higher Education   Feb 11, 2021

4 Ways to Maintain Engagement and Personalization in Formative Assessment

Educators are continually evolving course curriculum, class activities, and assessments to better align with student needs and improve learning outcomes across classes. Teachers use various assessment models to effectively adapt their coursework to their students, such as formative assessments. Formative assessments are low-stakes, qualitative tests that monitor student learning throughout a course. While these assessments typically […]

Higher Education   Feb 04, 2021

3 Ways Online Testing Software Supports Pandemic-Friendly Learning

The world of education is continuously changing, and teachers must continuously refine and adjust their tools and techniques to keep up. For example, COVID-19 left many teachers without a classroom and many of the teaching tools they relied on each day as schools were closed seemingly overnight. In response, teachers quickly developed new teaching and […]

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Higher Education   Jan 28, 2021

4 Strategies for Creating Authentic Assessments

As digital learning becomes more prevalent in K12 education, teachers and administrators are continually looking for tools that support their students throughout the course. When it comes to testing, educators can leverage new, responsive technology that enables them to move away from strict, quantitative exams in favor of “Authentic Assessments.” Authentic assessments allow students to […]

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Higher Education   Jan 07, 2021

How to Eliminate Bias in Online Assessment

In traditional learning environments, instructors may exhibit unconscious biases that, while entirely unintentional, negatively affect learning outcomes for certain groups of students. Instructors may demonstrate bias toward students based on gender, race, socioeconomic status, ability, and various other identifying characteristics. As remote learning grows in popularity, it’s tempting to assume that a lack of face-to-face […]

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Higher Education   Dec 31, 2020

Why User Experience Matters in Online Testing Systems

Remote learning tools are helping students and instructors succeed as we shift to distanced learning. However, they only work if everyone can access and use them effectively. It’s often difficult to know which testing software solutions will work best for your students or even what to look for in a digital learning tool. To create […]

Higher Education   Dec 10, 2020

3 Use Cases that Demonstrate the Future of Digital Assessment in Education

Whether out of necessity, preference, or a mixture of the two, digital education and assessment tools are rapidly gaining popularity across the board. In particular, digital assessment software has come into the spotlight as 2020 has left instructors teaching and testing their students in a remote learning environment. In K12 education, a student’s numerical test score, […]

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