Faculty Focus

MARCH 26, 2023

Although I will focus on the same course (one about how to write multiple-choice questions), this time I want to find out whether ChatGPT can function as my teaching aid. For example, can it come up with examples and questions that I can use in learning materials and activities? It’s similar to a very fast brainstorm.

Multiple Choice Questions 119

Multiple Choice Questions Teaching Participation Writing 119

Edsurge

AUGUST 17, 2018

The study , published in the journal Educational Psychology, found that when students divide attention between electronic devices and a classroom lecture, they still followed the lecture in the moment, but that long-term retention was reduced, resulting in lower grades on unit and final exams. They also took periodic tests and a final exam.

Multiple Choice Questions 131

Multiple Choice Questions Exams Lecturing Attention 131

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

I teach a course for faculty on how to write multiple-choice questions. Professors work with research-based guidelines to write multiple-choice questions for their courses, including questions that target higher-order thinking skills. So far, so good. This is when things started to go downhill.

Multiple Choice Questions 98

Multiple Choice Questions Plagiarism Writing Questions 98

Edsurge

MAY 25, 2017

Millions of students in colleges and schools around the world take classes that require clickers, small remote controls that let students buzz in answers to multiple choice questions during class. They’re gadgets that once seemed novel but now feel pretty mainstream—and uncontroversial.

Study 150

Study Multiple Choice Questions Peer Review Quizzes 150

Edsurge

DECEMBER 16, 2020

From increased anxiety and depression related to unhealthy usage of social media , to our students’ decreased attention spans , it’s time to take a “less is more” approach. But when it comes to education and technology, this prevailing hypothesis is proving itself to be flawed. That may seem counterintuitive.

Distance Learning 218

Distance Learning Multiple Choice Questions Learning Critical Thinking 218

Faculty Focus

MARCH 26, 2023

Although I will focus on the same course (one about how to write multiple-choice questions), this time I want to find out whether ChatGPT can function as my teaching aid. For example, can it come up with examples and questions that I can use in learning materials and activities? It’s similar to a very fast brainstorm.

Multiple Choice Questions 98

Multiple Choice Questions Teaching Participation Writing 98

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

A multiple-choice question asks students to name the terrorist group Osama bin Laden led, and one answer option is “Towelban.” Another question asks students to select the image that “in your opinion best depicts Harriet Tubman’s escape from slavery to freedom in Philadelphia?

Learning 211

Learning Schools Multiple Choice Questions Distance Learning 211

Edsurge

MAY 26, 2020

Top Hat got its start in the “clicker” business, offering a web-based and mobile classroom response tool that lets instructors gauge whether students understood the lesson (or paid attention). The Toronto-based company once relied on textbook publishers to distribute its technology.

Textbooks 151

Textbooks Multiple Choice Questions Quizzes Fairness 151

Edsurge

MARCH 11, 2020

Think Shorter If it’s hard to hold students’ attention in person, it’s even harder online, says Stachowiak: “You'll want to think about shortening that experience. Use Polls to Keep Students Engaged There are many tools available to pose multiple-choice questions to students remotely.

Instructors 202

Instructors Teaching Multiple Choice Questions Ethics 202

Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2018

He recently spoke with us about testing bias, holding psychometricians accountable for the exams they create and whether the future holds any innovation for a field still dominated by math, language and multiple choice questions. Mark Moulton : Here that whole question is, what does fair mean?

Testing 167

Testing Fairness Multiple Choice Questions Exams 167

Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 9, 2018

Gap-filling exercises help students to focus on the text at a word level while with multiple-choice questions you can check how much attention students paid to things like who did what or why something happened. Acting: One can’t learn a language alone from listening, one needs to practice speaking it.

Language 104

Language Languages Teaching Multiple Choice Questions 104

Faculty Focus

MAY 1, 2025

Talking about relating learning experiences to real life brings to my attention how this group of young management students integrated their academic knowledge with their online profiles. For one of the assessments, I conducted an online, objective-type quiz, consisting mainly of multiple-choice questions.

Academic Integrity 104

Academic Integrity Multiple Choice Questions Learning Students 104

Faculty Focus

MAY 1, 2025

Talking about relating learning experiences to real life brings to my attention how this group of young management students integrated their academic knowledge with their online profiles. For one of the assessments, I conducted an online, objective-type quiz, consisting mainly of multiple-choice questions.

Academic Integrity 92

Academic Integrity Multiple Choice Questions Learning Students 92

eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2024

Virtual learning assistants, or mentors, will, with human overseers, autonomously support personalized development: Imagine personalized learning journeys powered by AI agents that bring relevant topics to your students’ attention, based on your interests. AI will have real, conceptual conversations with students to understand their progress.

Gamification 360

Gamification Intelligence Reading Ethics 360

Edsurge

AUGUST 21, 2018

But what brought them together was wanting to give teachers an “extra pair of hands”—for instance, a teacher can ask the assistant to give the class a math problem so that she can momentarily divert her attention to one student. “A The five-hour long test comes with about 100 questions.

Multiple Choice Questions 105

Multiple Choice Questions Testing Questions Essay 105

Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 21, 2019

The videos you show in your classroom likely will be professionally produced with a script that appeals to short attention spans and draws students into the excitement of the material. Rather than check out of the world, viewers willingly dig deeply into the topic in a way that can’t happen from a textbook or lecture.

Multiple Choice Questions 79

Multiple Choice Questions Textbooks Knowledge Discussions 79

eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Many fear that computer-generated grading would only perpetuate the education system’s reliance on multiple-choice questions. When answering basic questions, AI can read a student’s answers. But with AI in schools, that is simply not the case. AI could transform tutoring.

Plagiarism 130

Plagiarism Education Intelligence Textbooks 130

eSchool News

JANUARY 5, 2024

Virtual learning assistants, or mentors, will, with human overseers, autonomously support personalized development: Imagine personalized learning journeys powered by AI agents that bring relevant topics to your students’ attention, based on your interests. AI will have real, conceptual conversations with students to understand their progress.

Gamification 130

Gamification Intelligence Reading Ethics 130

Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

He co-founded the company in 1999 with Maria Machado, who also got her start in the semiconductor industry before turning her attention to education. The Nudge tool is a system for scheduling text messages that pose short questions to students that prompt them to recall things they’ve learned in class after a certain amount of time.

Education 218

Education Learning Textbooks Instructors 218