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Tag: Educational Testing Service (ETS)
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Senators Scrutinize Virtual Proctoring Companies After Students Report Equity Concerns
As COVID-19 popularized virtual proctoring, students have increasingly reported incidents where the technology failed to register their faces, locked them out of their tests or overzealously flagged them for cheating, particularly students of color and students with disabilities. Six U.S. senators sent letters to three exam proctoring companies ā ExamSoft, ProctorU and Proctorio ā calling on them for accountability.
December 14, 2020
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Convening Explores Strategies to Improve Grad Student Diversity
Improving diversity, equity and inclusion in graduate education should involve intentional efforts to enhance student experience by cultivating a nurturing campus climate through broadening access, mitigating bias and providing strong support services.
March 26, 2019
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Dr. Michael T. Nettles: A Researcher With an Agenda
Though dreams of becoming a professional baseball player never became a reality and career interests in sports journalism and political science didnāt pan out, a longtime love of data and information put Dr. Michael T. Nettles on the path to becoming an educational policy researcher of national repute.
March 12, 2019
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Florida High Schooler Receives Support After Accused of Cheating on SAT Test
The NAACP has offered support for Kalimah Campbell, a Florida high school student who is fighting to have her SAT test scores released after test officials claim that she cheated. Campbellās latest score is 300 points higher than her previous score, an improvement that Campbell said is a result of hard work. āI know from [ā¦]
January 6, 2019
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Panel to CGS: Holistic Admissions Strategy Aids Grad Student Diversity
WASHINGTON ā An intentional and campuswide approach and a holistic evaluation of underrepresented students in the admissions process can help graduate schools cultivate a diverse and inclusive student body and produce degree-holders who are culturally competent.
December 8, 2018
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Student Social and Emotional Learning Explored at Gathering
Scholars, policymakers and other stakeholders from 12 countries have gathered here to delve deeply into social and emotional learning, one of the newest frontiers in education that some researchers and practitioners are tying to academic achievement, future labor-market success and personal happiness.
June 7, 2018
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ETS: āTargeted and Tailoredā Strategies Needed to Close Achievement Gaps
An Educational Testing Service report states that racial and ethnic gaps in educational attainment will persist well into the 21st century unless ātargeted and tailoredā strategies are implemented for various underrepresented groups.
October 17, 2017
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Evaluation Tool Gives Writing Instructors a Helping Hand
A web-based evaluation tool is allowing writing instructors to spend more time improving student writing outcomes at their institutions.
September 27, 2017
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