Assessment issues with an emphasis on the social dimensions of testing and assessment practices.
Steven Singer calls attention to the threat posed to the requirement for standardized testing by the continuing pandemic in the U.S. With schools facing serious challenges in maintaining face-to-face operations and with students and their […]
Check out this CBS News Report on the cheating industry that has sprung up to provide essay writing and other services to students at every degree level. The report highlights that such cheating is connected […]
In an era where this is so much emphasis on clear and unambiguous assignments for students to allow for fair assessments, it is refreshing to see Michael McDowell discussing some of the benefits of teachers […]
The Hill reports on a major scandal at West Point. With the transition to online learning due to the pandemic, over 70 students were accused of cheating on a calculus exam when instructors noticed that […]
As Sherin Shibu writes in PC Magazine, the process of hiring software engineers may not be as merit based as once thought. The article features Aline Lerner who co-founded Interviewing.io, a company that seeks to […]
Those looking for examples of how personal assessments in the workplace can be affected by factors unrelated to performance will be interested in the issues highlighted in a commentary by Rajiv Rao discussing a recent […]
If you have been following the controversy over the automated adjustment of exam grades in the UK in this year of the pandemic, (see Algorithm Penalizes Students from Poorer Regions), you will be interested in […]
An algorithm used to create exam results for students in Scotland who missed the exams because of the pandemic unfairly penalizes students from poorer areas. The algorithm adjusts teachers’ estimates based on the prior performance […]
One of the largest and most enduring sets of assessment practices and rituals is the set of policies regarding college admissions. Challenging and changing these policies is never easy because such moves inevitably upset those […]
Writing in Inside Higher Education, Doug Lederman discusses the current concern about the level of student cheating in online courses, particularly those hastily moved online in the spring of 2020 due to the pandemic. Two […]
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