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Topic: Retention & Remediation
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6 New Question Types You Will Find on the Next Gen NCLEX® Exam
The National Council of State Boards of Nursing set the national standard for nursing licensure with the NCLEX® exam. They update it periodically — sometimes with significant changes to reflect major shifts in p...
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ExamSoft Supports Intentional and Informed Decision-Making
The goal of any school or program is to prioritize student performance above all else. This is particularly true for programs in healthcare fields, which are tasked with preparing students to make important, sometimes...
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Benefits of Objectives-Centered Assessment for Growing Programs
There is perhaps no more harrowing task than building a whole new program from the ground up. There are a number of critical milestones — such as student retention, curriculum coverage, and, crucially for the survival...
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How a Mid-Semester Check-In Can Support Teachers and Learners
What is a Mid-Semester Check-In? Many instructors take the opportunity in the middle of the semester to evaluate their students’ understanding and needs. There are several approaches to a mid-semester check-in, includ...
Case Study
Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine
Seeking a solution to improve institutional revenue without increasing tuition rates, Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine (TouroCOM) adopted ExamSoft to aid in the delivery of embedded assessments for student remedi...
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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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Clinical Judgment Exams (CJE) with ExamSoft
For your nursing students, being prepared for the clinical setting and passing the NCLEX are two of the most important goals of their nursing education. And you can help them achieve both through Clinical Judgment Exa...
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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...
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Benefits of a Secure Remote Assessment Platform for International Law Schools
As we proceed with the new normal, many aspects of our lives have changed to a remote-first philosophy, including work, school, and even social gatherings. Law schools are no different. And even as things open up, ins...
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Rx Bricks Assessment Banks: A Better Way to Test
For medical school, physician assistant, and other health science education faculty, student assessment can be challenging simply due to curricular volume. ScholarRx, an innovative digital learning platform for medica...
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How ExamSoft Can Help Improve Board and Licensure Pass Rates
For more than 20 years, ExamSoft has been harnessing the power of data to transform learning and assessments in a range of degree programs, helping graduates improve exam pass rates. The platform also provides faculty...
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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...
Case Study
Northern Arizona University — Physician Assistant Program
A data-driven program with a rich culture of assessment, the Physician Assistant program at NAU implemented ExamSoft to gain performance insights for multiple learning outcomes and educational objectives. With the hel...
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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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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...
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Lincoln Memorial University Law School
Lincoln Memorial University’s law school opened its doors in 2009. As a new and growing program, in a region and at a school that attracts many first-generation college students, LMU wanted to put all the right tools ...
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Ferris State University College of Pharmacy Gains Insight to Improve Instruction
Ferris State University adopted ExamSoft to satisfy accreditation requirements. In addition to sailing through accreditation with robust data from ExamSoft, Ferris faculty gained invaluable insights to improve instruc...
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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...