Rubrics, Assessment and eProctoring in Education

Students have failed assignments because teachers believe a bot did the work.

Cheating students have been caught sneaking mobile phones and other electronic devices into their VCE exams.

Educators often choose to inflate students' scores on standardized tests, and the motivations—and effects—indicate that a little deception isn't always a bad thing.

Plagiarism is only getting more complex in the EdTech era, schools and colleges must invest in plagiarism checkers to combat this issue.

Such has been the unquestioning acceptance of the procedure, sitting exams at the end of school is much like alighting from a train when we reach our destination: a necessary station before we go on to the next stage of our lives.

The consequences of the pandemic should provide an opportunity for school and community leaders to rethink their loyalty to exam-focused learning and consider innovating their programmes to put students at the centre.

Families are braced for end-of-year reports but Australia's leading testing authority says teachers should be grading students continuously throughout the year.

The rollout of online literacy and numeracy testing has been hailed a success with 99.9 per cent of students able to complete the assessment without technical problems.

As an Atlantic writer warned in 1883, failing to teach kids to be good citizens will "endanger the republic."