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Educating with Intention: An Outcomes-Based Approach to Teaching, Learning, and Assessment
Learn how category tagging from ExamSoft can help you educate with intention by connecting exam items to customizable categories, such as learning outcomes and course objectives. With category tagging in place, you’ll...
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Guidebook: Using Category Tagging to Educate with Intention
How Data-Driven Assessment Supports Intentionality in Education Whether planning a course or developing a curriculum, educators have specific goals in mind for student learning. While it can be challenging to track pr...
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What are Power Skills & How Can We Assess Them in Higher Education?
Modern workplace dynamics are shifting. Employee demands are changing as individuals are expected to collaborate effectively, even in remote situations, while demonstrating skills and values such as empathy, flexibili...
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Promoting Equity with Outcomes-Based Assessment
When we talk about equity in assessment, it’s important to understand what the term equity means. Some educators use equity and equality interchangeably, but there are vast differences between the two terms. Equ...
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3 Things You Need in Your Assessment Software
There are many assessment solutions out there, but before selecting one, it’s important to ask a few crucial questions: Does the solution offer the features and tools that you need, both at the course level and as an ...
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From Content Memorization to Critical Thinking with Digital Assessment
Critical thinking is a key skill that empowers learners in their academic and professional careers. For educators to teach critical thinking skills applicable to students’ goals, learners must first gain a strong comm...
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Using Digital Assessment to Support Academic Research & Publishing
For faculty at many academic institutions, research and publication in peer-reviewed journals is a precursor to employment, a necessary step for promotion, and a requirement to secure and maintain tenure. But the impo...
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3 Pandemic-Related Challenges Facing Admissions Testing Around the World
The COVID-19 pandemic created many challenges in education and brought many others to light. One of the most notable challenges was the inability of students to take standardized admissions tests due to testing center...
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Infographic: Paving the Way to Efficiency
Four Real Examples of How Institutions Gained Efficiencies Through ExamSoft Paperless Assessments Pay Off One client administered 76,000 digital exams in a single semester, saving an estimated $800,000 in printing cos...
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Infographic: Psychometrics at a Glance
An Infographic that illustrates how primary psychometrics are used in exam assessment, their definitions, and how they can improve your exams. Using psychometrics and assessment data from ExamSoft, exam-creators can b...
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Robert Malinowski, Veterinary Specialty Exams
ExamSoft for Vet Med Specialty Certification Exams Dr. Robert Malinowski, a Michigan State University alumnus and faculty member, has coupled his veterinary medicine knowledge with deep experience in educational techn...
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Is Your Exam a Good Candidate for Computer-Based Testing?
Digital transformation has long been on the horizon for testing providers and certification entities, but the global pandemic has hastened planning for the digital future. As evaluators navigate terra incognita in the...
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Trauma-Informed Pedagogy: Success Through Understanding
In the last few years, more people have experienced psychological and physical trauma than ever before. According to the World Health Organization, “there has been a 13% rise in mental health conditions and substance ...
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EEC: Using ExamSoft Data to Evaluate Those Pesky “Select All That Apply” Questions
Literature supports the inclusion of multiple-response type questions to assess critical thinking and higher-level cognitive processing in nursing programs. Multiple-response type questions are often developed with fi...
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5 Myths (and Real Benefits) of Remote Proctoring Technology
When COVID-19 first emerged, educational institutions all over the world made the rapid shift to remote learning. What educators could not have known then was how this shift would define the future of teaching and lea...
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Flexibility in Assessment
Right now, flexibility is everything. Being flexible and having the ability to adjust and pivot is what’s keeping many institutions successful during challenging times. ExamSoft gives schools, universities, businesses...
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How to Write Great Exam Questions
Assessment is a crucial part of education, no matter the subject or level. We usually think of assessments only as tools to measure how much a student has learned, though with the right post-exam data, they can be so ...
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3 Alternative Assessment Types and How to Use Them
Various approaches to assessment have emerged as alternatives to traditional, multiple-choice testing. Most alternative assessment practices distinguish themselves from traditional methods by placing an emphasis on de...