Schools of dentistry and dental hygiene serve the important role of educating future dental professionals in the biomedical, clinical, and behavioral sciences. These schools equip students with the cognitive skills re...

With COVID-19 numbers on the rise across campuses, many colleges and universities are being forced to reconsider plans for face-to-face instruction. Some institutions are pivoting from hybrid courses to fully remote c...

Engaged students are those who make a firm commitment to learning. They take pride in making the effort to understand course material and incorporate it into their lives. Educators observe their engagement levels as s...

Healthcare continues to evolve at a rapid pace for a number of reasons: Americans are living longer with multiple chronic illnesses, the healthcare industry has seen technological advances, and healthcare professional...

To be a nurse is to be a teacher. While mentoring the next generation of nurses may be a part of the job on a daily basis in a clinical setting, many nurses want to take their role as an educator to the next level — t...

In the throes of the COVID-19 pandemic or any possible future disruption, universities must deliberate how to present their academic programs to students. The objective should be to provide the most educationally soun...

When it comes to creating an effective assessment, the greatest challenge lies not so much in the questions themselves but in the form they take. An assessment composed of well-crafted questions has the power to deter...

As many institutions of higher learning (IHEs) quickly transitioned to emergency remote learning in the spring of 2020, the focus was often on completing the semester with a Minimum Viable Product (MVP). While faculty...

Thoughtful, planned online educational experiences are markedly different from the emergency remote teaching that institutions faced in the wake of COVID-19. This makeshift experimental period has been largely unsatis...

There are different testing solutions educators can choose from when it comes to exam security technology. Choices like browser-based exam security, also called a locked down browser or exam browser, can seem like a s...

Students at all levels of education are expected to uphold the highest levels of academic integrity, from enrollment to graduation. But the responsibility to minimize cheating and ensure exam integrity ultimately fall...

Pairing Publisher Content with a Student Assessment Software If you’ve found this website, you already know a great assessment platform when you see it. However, when you pair great software with high-quality content,...

If only time wasn’t a limited resource. How much could faculty members accomplish if they were able to give direct and personalized attention to every single student throughout the semester? That would be the ideal, b...

Learning management systems (LMS) have a lot to offer teachers and students alike. They can assist with keeping all curricular materials in one, easy-to-access location. Students have the ability to collaborate on gro...

Of course you feel spread thin. Professors have to fit so much into each day to meet the many obligations that come with the job: preparing lesson plans, preparing lectures, giving lectures, writing exams, administeri...

Over the previous 40 years, higher education has begun to adopt innovative technologies in an attempt to better educate students and holistically optimize the assessment process. However, many undergraduate programs h...

You’d like to think that any student who does the work required to get into law school and pays tuition each semester would know better than to cheat. Nonetheless, it happens. It’s cliché to say it, but it’s true: che...

If you’re using ExamSoft, then you’re probably already using categories in your exam creation and grading to provide students with more informative feedback. Category tagging proves a powerful tool for directing your ...