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Reduce Costs and Improve Student Outcomes through ExamSoft Assessment
Throughout the years, educational institutions have struggled to improve with reduced budgets. Always asked to do more with less, it’s abundantly clear that programs and educators need help. Thankfully, there is a sol... - Link to resourceBlog
Best Practices in Assessment for Graduate-Level Nursing Programs
Preparing advanced-level postgraduate nurse educators, managers, and leaders is no easy task for any graduate nursing program. Graduate nursing programs have to manage and plan student assessment outlines, course desi... - Link to resourceBlog
Create a Level Playing Field with Secure Assessments
Everyone wants secure assessments. Everyone … including students, especially at the professional school level. On the surface, this may seem counterintuitive to think that students are in favor of a more secure assess... - Link to resourceBlog
Importance of Hot Spot Questions in Teaching and Assessment
When delivering content, educators almost always use some sort of visual component. Think about it—when was the last time you gave or attended a lecture that featured nothing more than a person standing in the front o... - Link to resourceBlog
Benefits of Continuous Assessment Content Review
In education, one of the primary tasks of the teacher is to prepare students for what’s next. While this means something different to teachers at various grade levels, at its core, this means educators have the respon... - Link to resourceBlog
Enhanced Formative Assessments: Improving Student Performance through Meaningful Feedback
Mapping summative exam items to a variety of outcomes or objectives has long been best practice when it comes to gathering data to improve institutional processes. Tagging assessment questions to categories allow educ... - Link to resourceBlog
Using Exam Taker Results to Systematically Grade Essay Responses
When students compose essay responses to open-ended questions, it frequently stimulates higher-order thinking skills such as analyzing and evaluating. Moreover, when students receive feedback on their responses, real ... - Link to resourceBlog
Five Ways Technology Makes Nursing Exams Easier
Nursing educators have a lot to balance—if only your job was really all about teaching. Instead, all the other little tasks that need to get done add up to overwhelm your to-do list, making the actual teaching part of... - Link to resourceBlog
Student Economics: Allowing Your Students to Maximize Their Study Time
For our students, time is always of the essence. Class time fills their days, followed by any club activities, and then there’s finally time to study after that. Despite this time crunch, student expectations remain t... - Link to resourceBlog
ExamSoft Fast 5: Benefits for Law Programs
You need an assessment tool that gives your law school an edge. Lucky for you, ExamSoft is that tool. With a combination of easy formative assessment creation, secure offline delivery, and immediate data analysis, Exa... - Link to resourceBlog
Challenges Affecting Distance Education Programs
It’s hard to meet someone today who hasn’t taken an education course online. K-12 students, undergraduate students, graduate students, PhD candidates, and adults with either full-time or part-time jobs are all looking... - Link to resourceBlog
Using Formative Assessment for Student Success
The assessment of student learning comes in many forms and with many different names. The term formative assessment is commonly used to describe low-stakes assessments and assignments, but when you dive into the metho... - Link to resourceBlog
Curriculum Mapping: Are You Teaching What You’re Supposed To?
How do we choose which content we cover in our courses? As subject matter experts, we’re expected to automatically know the answer to this question, which is sometimes easier said than done. Too often, educators are l... - Link to resourceBlog
How to Objectively Evaluate Student Assignments
Often we associate the idea of student assessment solely with the use of traditional multiple-choice question exams. However, these exams should be only a portion of the assessment methods used to understand student c... - Link to resourceBlog
How to Connect with Nursing Students to Raise Retention Rates
Nursing is the nation’s largest healthcare profession, with more than 3.1 million registered nurses practicing across the country and nursing students comprising more than half of all health profession students. With ... - Link to resourceBlog
How to Easily Assess Student Learning
As with any assessment solution, an end-to-end learning assessment platform should be developed with educators in mind. It should also be built to make objective assessment and subjective testing a simpler, more pract... - Link to resourceBlog
Four Easy Ways to Improve Student Retention Rates
A primary goal of educators is to positively influence student learning and help ensure students go on to achieve successful careers. What’s more, improving student success also means improving student retention... - Link to resourceBlog
How to Use Rubrics in Health Sciences Education
Being tasked with training the people who will provide crucial medical care to ill and injured patients is an important job. Your students will go on to tackle jobs that have the highest possible stakes—their decision...