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Topic: Reporting & Analytics
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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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How Not to Use Formative Assessments
Here are some common examples of how not to use formative assessments and the simple corrections to get you back to being an assessment pro.
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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 ...
On-Demand Webinars
Putting Data to Work: Incorporating Technology into Curricular Review
Presented by Mr. Eric Ermie, Director of Client Solutions at ExamSoft This webinar demonstrates how ExamSoft can be leveraged to make new curriculum successful, as well as how to properly use assessment data to ensure...
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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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Testimonials: How Students Benefit from Using ExamSoft
ExamSoft’s education software provides unmatched support for faculty, staff, and administration with a comprehensive solution to manage and optimize student assessments. It’s an invaluable platform for students as wel...
Case Study
Uprooting the STEM: How University of North Texas Professor Uses ExamSoft to Increase Student Retention Rates
Using SLO assessment to drastically decrease drop, fail, and withdraw (DFW) rates Background In 2006 at the University of North Texas (UNT), a group of scholars set out to transform the student learning experience on ...
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Learning for the Long Term: Providing Students with the Appropriate Feedback for Retention of Knowledge
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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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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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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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Assessment Reporting and Analytics from ExamSoft
ExamSoft’s suite of assessment software provides educators with the tools needed to track student, course, and even programmatic performance. By “tagging” exam items to any measurable competency or outcome, edu...
On-Demand Webinars
Retiring Exam Questions? How to Use These Items in Formative Assessments
As semesters come and go, new exams are created and used items are retired, never to be used again. While moving on to new exam items due to poor performing statistics or to ensure exam security are sound practices, t...
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Psychometrics 101: Know What Your Assessment Data is Telling You
Keep it? Throw it out? Content/teaching issue? Bad question? Too easy? Too hard? More than likely you have asked some or all of these questions at one point or another when trying to understand the performance of ques...
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Psychometrics 201: Putting Assessment Data into Action
At the conclusion of each exam, a wealth of student assessment data is immediately available to faculty. The short term value of this data is evident – evaluate individual question performance. However, that’s o...