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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...
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Closing the Loop: Telling the Entire Accreditation Story
Whether your site visit is next week or five years from now, accreditation is something all institutions need to have on their minds. Therefore, proactively mapping your curriculum while being conscious of accreditati...
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Creating an Appropriate Exam Creation Workflow Using Blueprinting
It’s that time again—time to build yet another exam. There might be only a midterm and final in your course, but exam creation always seems to be in progress. Therefore, creating a process and workflow that establish ...
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What Does IT Need to Know?
IT professionals play a key role in ensuring successful implementation and adoption of any new technology. So that you can stay up-to-date on all the current ExamSoft information relevant to you and your role, we have...
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The Risks of Using Locked Down Browsers
Educators dedicate their time and effort to help students learn. For all the validation that comes from helping students succeed, it can be disappointing when students don’t maintain academic integrity on assessments ...
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How Mapping Assessment Items Can Make Your Life Easier
Implementing a new educational technology takes time and energy—two things in short supply for just about everyone these days. If you’re going to put the time in to learn how to do things a new way, there needs to be ...
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5 Educational Best Practices for Hot Spots Questions
Hot Spots. They’re here. The new question type that will have a direct impact on assessments AND student outcomes. Now that we have them, let’s chat about how to leverage these items to better engage students with cou...
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More Than Assessment—Using Computer-Based Testing Software to Deliver Instructional Content
For the last decade, my career has had two main focuses: making faculty members’ lives easier and improving student outcomes through the appropriate use of educational technology. Let’s think about both of these tasks...
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Professional Development through ExamSoft Assessment Solutions
All teachers have the same professional goal—to positively affect student outcomes. Educators across all levels and disciplines spend a large amount of time making sure their students are successful. Before we can foc...
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The Increasing Use and Benefits of an Exam Management Software
More and more educators are not only using but also relying on technology to assist with teaching and assessing their students. Some educational programs are providing electronic devices to their exam takers, while ot...
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5 Best Practices for Hot Spots Questions in Health Sciences Education
Hot Spots. They’re here—the new question type that will have a direct impact on assessments AND student outcomes. Now that we have them, let’s chat about how to leverage these items to better engage students with cour...
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Proven NCLEX Pass Rates with ExamSoft
Nursing schools looking for measurable improvement on their program’s NCLEX pass rates should turn to ExamSoft’s assessment software. From 2013 to 2017, nursing programs that found themselves at or below the national ...
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Best Practices in Constructing Multiple-Choice Exam Items
Whether it’s a formative or summative assessment, the multiple-choice exam has proven itself to be an efficient and effective tool to evaluate content knowledge in a variety of settings. The building blocks of those e...
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Item Analysis with ExamSoft
Do You Know How Your Exam Questions Are Performing? Exam data provides students with important feedback, but exam creators can also use post-exam data to improve test questions and exams as a whole. The word “psychome...