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How to drop alternative grading into coordinated or traditionally graded classes
Improving Classroom Quizzes - The Effortful Educator
How can a few simple modifications to quizzing create a more effective and accurate assessment of learning?
Improving Multiple Choice Questioning - The Effortful Educator
How can a simple modification to multiple choice questioning create a more effective learning opportunity?
Scanning students' rooms during remote tests is unconstitutional, judge rules
In what's believed to be the first case of its kind, a student argued that Cleveland State University violated his Fourth Amendment rights when he complied with a webcam recording of his exam space.
6 Reasons to End (Almost) All Timed Exams | Inside Higher Ed
Can we declare the era of the timed exam (almost) completely over? 6 Reasons to End (Almost) All Timed Exams*:1. Level the Playing Field: Does it really make sense anymore to separate some timed exam and un-timed exam groups? When all exams are un-timed, nobody needs to request accommodation or make separate arrangements. What do we lose by setting time boundaries on exams? Seems to me we are often testing the ability to take a test within a certain amount of time, rather than student understanding.2.
Tech Isn’t the Answer for Test Taking (Published 2020)
Taking tests remotely is a problem. That doesn’t mean technology is the solution.
Reverse Engineering the Multiple-Choice Question - The Effortful Educator
A classroom strategy to enhance multiple choice questioning.
Writing Good Multiple Choice Test Questions
by Cynthia J. Brame Print Version Cite this guide: Brame, C. (2013) Writing good multiple choice test questions. Retrieved [todaysdate] from https://cft.vanderbilt.edu/guides-sub-pages/writing-good-multiple-choice-test-questions/. Constructing an Effective Stem Constructing Effective Alternatives Additional Guidelines for Multiple Choice Questions Considerations for Writing Multiple Choice Items that Test Higher-order Thinking Additional Resources Multiple choice test questions, also known as items,...