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Topic: Learning Outcomes
On-Demand Webinars
How I Became a Better Teacher During the Time of COVID -19 (EAC 2021)
Over 500 year-two medical students attended problem-based learning session designed using clinical reasoning. This session compares exam questions performance on lecture session versus problem-based learning. Learning...
On-Demand Webinars
ExamSoft Assessment Solutions + You (EAS+Y) (EAC 2021)
In this session, Dr. Divya Bheda, Director of Education and Assessment, conducts a Q&A-style presentation to explain ExamSoft’s EAS+Y portfolio consulting services that help support clients and their needs.
On-Demand Webinars
Course Coordinator Assessment Workflow (CCAW): An Integrated Assessment Tool to Personalized Learning and Teaching (EAC 2021)
There is an increasing focus on the need to ensure that students are competent before they graduate. The goal of this study was to develop an integrated assessment tool to personalize teaching and learning. We develop...
Blog
The Difference Between Subjective and Objective Assessments
To design effective exams, educators need a strong understanding of the difference between objective and subjective assessments. Each of these styles has specific attributes that make them better suited for certain su...
Blog
How Category Tagging Can Help You, Your Students, and Your Program
Category tagging — or connecting individual exam items to specific content areas such as accreditation standards, learning outcomes, and programmatic objectives — is not only beneficial to students, but to exam-makers...
Blog
Delivering Authentic Assessment with Remote Proctoring Technology
The COVID-19 pandemic marked the meteoric rise of the virtual classroom at all levels of education, with students and faculty navigating new technologies and learning formats. Spring 2020 finals loomed as colleges and...
Blog
How Scenario-Based Assessment Contributes to Improved Learning Environments
Many organizations believe they can gain immense value from effective, versatile assessments. Whether you’re an instructor trying to improve learning outcomes and prepare your students for a licensure exam or a corpor...
Blog
Clinical Judgment: An Imperative for Nursing Education
By Tim Bristol, PhD, RN, CNE, ANEF, FAAN At no time in the history of nursing education has the imperative been more clear: We must focus on Clinical Judgment (CJ) with every student every semester. Right now, we know...
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Using ExamSoft to Realize the Benefits of Ipsative Assessments
Using normative or standardized graded assessments, instructors can evaluate individual student performance relative to current and past peers. As valuable as the traditional criterion-referenced and norm-referenced a...
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Improve Teaching and Testing Outcomes by Applying the VARK Concept
As an educator, you may sometimes need to lift the academic performance of an entire class. Or you may need to find better ways to support your under-performers. You may want to know if you are providing a fair opport...
Blog
10 Ways to Cultivate Student Engagement in Higher Education
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...
Case Study
University of Nebraska Medical Center – College of Allied Health Professions
As a fast-growing college with diverse needs across its multiple programs, the University of Nebraska Medical Center’s College of Allied Health Professions needed a platform that could streamline assessment and track ...
Blog
From Professional to Professor: What Nurses Need to Know
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...
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The Art of the Assessment Question
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...
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Why Assessment Still Matters in an Online Education Environment
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...
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Exploring Assessment Technology’s Impact on Undergraduate Education
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...
Blog
Why You Should Use Categories for Curriculum Guidance
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 ...
Blog, Video
How Not to Use Assessments: Common Mishaps Implementing Formative Assessments and How to Correct Them
Instruct. Assess. Feedback. Repeat. This is the timeless methodology of formative assessment applied, in some way, in all levels of education. The application of this process is continuously subject to change based on...