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What data is necessary to help students succeed?

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These forms of feedback often focus on assignments and homework prior to college, where feedback becomes scarce. In contrast, medical school can overwhelm students with detailed information, like longitudinal reports on multiple-choice question performance throughout the year.

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5 ways to integrate gamification into your classroom

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“Several empirical studies have confirmed that students in gamified learning environments achieve higher levels of motivation and cognitive engagement compared to those in traditional classroom settings” (Dehghanzadeh et al., Quizizz: Turn assessments into fun competitions Quizizz is my top choice for a gamification platform.

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When will assessments finally test deeper learning?

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Technology is making the multiple-choice question obsolete. Because timing of the evidence-gathering step (during instruction) and immediacy of feedback are important to the process, online delivery of multiple-choice tests is what many chose to do in the name of “formative assessment.”. Can testing keep up?

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6 tools for real formative assessment

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From the parent perspective, such assessments can deliver near-immediate information about how children are learning and achieving, said Marty Creel, Discovery Education’s Chief Academic Officer and previously head of curriculum at Montgomery County Public Schools in Maryland. They can add videos, images and diagrams.

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What Happens When a School Closes Its Library?

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The most high-achieving students would be funneled there, too, where they could do worksheets at their own pace and free up teachers to focus on everyone else. And doing worksheets in the library isn’t a reward for high-achievers, she added. For short-answer questions, they wrote on an index card.

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How Intelligent Tutoring Systems Make Deep Learning Possible

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He highlighted crucial aspects of deep learning—why you don’t usually find it in traditional classrooms, how conflict and confusion can inspire it, why people don’t like it, and why it’s so important for today’s students to achieve it. That’s different than the standard delivery of text and multiple choice questions.

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LearnWith.AI Launches TeachTap, the first AI-powered learning app for AP exam prep and high school courses

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TeachTap follows Bloom’s core principles and the educational research that followed: Regular quizzing, identifying knowledge gaps, varying time spent on lessons and constant feedback are key to optimal student achievement.

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