Standardised tests such as the SAT and ACT have been optional at many US colleges since 2020. But many applicants still took them – and paid a premium for higher scores. For many students in the US, applying for university means sitting for a long, often gruelling standardised tests that could make or break acceptance to their dream school. These tests – commonly the SAT, ACT and Advanced Placement (AP) exams – have been around for decades. For most students, these exams require a lot of p...
Online learning will become a new normal in higher education for the foreseeable future. Not because faculty find emergency remote instruction gratifying or because students enjoy it so much they won’t return to campus. Online learning will flourish because universities will need it to stay afloat during a long and painful recession. Universities face a great deal of uncertainty when it comes to their operations during this academic year. While many hope to stay opened and offer in-person inst...
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Public attention has largely focused on the learning losses of K-12 students who shifted online during the pandemic. Yet, we may have reason to be concerned about postsecondary students too. What can we expect from the move to virtual learning? How does virtual learning impact student outcomes? And how does it compare to in-person instruction at the postsecondary level? · Several new papers shed light on these issues, building on previous work in higher education and assessing the efficacy of online education in new contexts. The results are g ...
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Everyone knows what a typical college student looks like, right? Maybe not. According to a study by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), 74% of college students are nontraditional. Nontraditional is a relatively broad term and includes adult students age 25 and older, students paying their own way through school, students with dependents of their own, students who don’t have traditional high school diplomas, and students attending school part-time while working full-time. ...
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credit, online. Many colleges have announced they will not require impacted students to submit standardized test scores this... to impact their community while they’re in quarantine...
Over the past decade, online education has moved from a second option for those trying to return to school to a critical component of almost every major university’s academic programming. Almost 30% of Americans currently in school take at least some distance education classes and as much 15% exclusively take online courses to obtain their degree. Together with non-degree seeking students, certifications, and the expansion of a la carte online courses such as MOOCs or online boot camp learning...