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But some students turn the common conundrum into an opportunity to flex their creative muscles and, hopefully, tickle their teachers' funny bones with hilariously incorrect answers to test questions.

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I was inspired by Shelly's final exam to try my own version of a collaborative, open internet test. The background for this is that students worked in groups of 3 on one of five topics related to the Cold War: Germany, China, Korea, Vietnam, and the arms and space race.

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Apple's push to increase the quality of songs distributed via iTunes has been formally realized in the company's Mastered for iTunes program—but does it really make music sound better?

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An effective school library impacts more than student achievement—it also lifts a school's entire educational climate, says a recent two-phase study by Rutgers University's Center for International Scholarship in School Libraries (CISSL) on behalf of the New Jersey Association of School Librarians (NJASL).

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There was nothing sweeter to the ears of a student than hearing, “Class, this will be an open-book test.” This was far better, of course, than an open-note test, which required you to pay attention and furiously scribble what the teacher said. However, either is preferable to the all-too-common “brain dump” that measures who has the keenest memory. Think about each model of assessment, though. Are we measuring what the student learned when we allow them to utilize their book for answers? Or their notes? Or forcing them to cram in as many factoids as they can before their parents (or sleep deprivation) force them to go to sleep?

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A fun and easy way to test what people remember on your website.

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Why test scores should never drive professional development

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With the grandiose bluster that only an aging juggernaut can pull off, Microsoft has detailed the Internet Explorer Performance Lab and its extraordinary efforts to ensure that IE9 is competitive, and that IE10 is the fastest browser in the world. Here’s a few bullet points to reel you in: 140 computers, 20,000 tests per day, over 850 metrics analyzed, and a granularity of just 100 nanoseconds.

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Here’s a copy of the eighth-grade exam used in schools in Bullitt County, Ky., in 1912. It was recently donated to the Bullitt County History Museum, which is a service of the Bullitt County Genealogical Society and which gave me permission to republish it.

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If you can pronounce correctly every word in this poem, you will be speaking English better than 90% of the native English speakers in the world. After trying the verses, a Frenchman said he’d prefer six months of hard labor to reading six lines aloud.

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So you just bought a superb ultra-flat 25¾" LCD monitor, but it looks like there are a few 'spots' on it. Depending on how many and it'll mean return to the vendor or live with it. Or you could be about to buy one in a store and want to make sure there aren't any dead pixels. Just come to this page !

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EasyTestMaker is a free online test generator to help you create your tests. You can create multiple-choice, fill-in-the-blank, matching, short answer and true and false questions all on the same test. You can also insert instructions and divide your test into multiple sections.

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I just took one of Test Simulator‘s 2-hour TOEIC® preparation tests and it was HARD !!! The last time I checked I was supposed to be a native-speaker of English, and I would’ve thought I’d whip right through it!

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Be prepared for when the web uses IPv6.

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Academic cheating is nothing new but the impact it has on online education seems easier, and more widespread, than in face-to-face classrooms. This is a gut feeling, and the research suggests cheating and plagiarism are widespread in every educational environment, at any age, across every culture.

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Earlier this week the New York Times wondered whether investments in educational technology were worth it since most schools don’t see any concurrent improvement in students’ standardized test scores. That’s not exactly a new issue but it’s worth examining again. After all, we are talking about large sums of money here.

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Wow, there really is an app for everything.

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In that same line of thinking a new app called Skin Scan from Cronian Labs promises to use your iPhone to analyze your skin and monitor your moles to prevent skin cancer. Like all other medical apps, the app isn’t designed to replace professional medical advices, diagnosis, or treatment, but it can be helpful in identifying a potential problem.

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What happens in the classroom when a state begins to evaluate all teachers, at every grade level, based on how well they "grow" their students' test scores? Colorado is about to find out.

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