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Topic: Learning Outcomes
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Bloom’s Taxonomy (Part 2): Using Bloom’s Taxonomy in Assessment
Now that we know what Bloom’s Taxonomy is, it’s time to discuss a few helpful tips for applying the framework to assessments as a means of gaining insight into learning comprehension. Tips for Applying Bloom’s Taxonom...
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Bloom’s Taxonomy (Part 1): Bloom’s Basics
Before a new semester begins, it’s important that educators reassess their curriculum. Have the learning objectives changed? How well do students retain the information and how do they demonstrate their knowledge? Is ...
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Data-Driven Educational Assessments Using Longitudinal Analysis
When it comes to data-driven educational assessments, one of the bigger challenges for educators is measuring how teaching methods and course design are quantitatively impacting student learning. ExamSoft’s computer-b...
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Exam Item Development and Analysis in Nursing Education
This featured ExamSoft webinar, hosted by Aimee L. Badeaux, PhD, CRNA, explores the complexity of exam item development and analysis in nursing education. Key Topics: Review best practices for exam item development, c...
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How Good Are Your Exam Questions?
The information needed to evaluate the quality of exam questions and assessment items is found in student performance data by ExamSoft. Experience goes a long way, but the detailed feedback collected after student ass...
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How to Leverage Education Technology to Improve Learning and Assessments
With the right education technology, educators can streamline the entire process of administering both summative assessments and formative assessments. Faculty and educators may reduce the stress of cumbersome adminis...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Benefits of Continuous Assessment Content Review
One of the primary tasks of teachers is to prepare students for the next steps in their academic or professional careers. This is also true of those instructors preparing students for licensure and certification exams...
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Using Categories to Identify Performance in Law Student Learning
Tommy Sangchompuphen, Associate Dean for Student Learning and Assessment and Associate Professor of Law from Lincoln Memorial University School of Law, speaks to why his program uses ExamSoft for more than secure exam...
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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 lower-stakes assessments and assignments, but when you dive into the met...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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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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 ...