Faculty Focus

JUNE 30, 2024

Adaptive attributions and control beliefs motivate students. The basic construct refers to beliefs about the causes of success and failure and how much perceived control one has to bring about outcomes or to control one’s behavior.” (p. It needs to be challenging but something that can be accomplished.

Motivation 111

Motivation Beliefs Exams Students 111

Faculty Focus

JUNE 30, 2024

Adaptive attributions and control beliefs motivate students. The basic construct refers to beliefs about the causes of success and failure and how much perceived control one has to bring about outcomes or to control one’s behavior.” (p. It needs to be challenging but something that can be accomplished.

Motivation 109

Motivation Beliefs Exams Students 109

Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 9, 2022

Explain that some students might be debating positions opposite to their beliefs. It uses a combination of videos, whiteboard how-tos, practice exercises, and quick quizzes. Give, say, ten minutes to debate among themselves and choose a topic. Divide into ‘pro’ and ‘con’. Perspective taking’ is an important skill to learn.

Activities 202

Activities Schools Writing Knowledge 202

Scholarly Teacher

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Gabriele Pinto , Baylor University Key Statement: Implementing elements of active learning into a large course may seem daunting task, but think-pair-share aided by quizzing and clickers can be done in any size classroom. Image courtesy of This Is Engineering, Unsplash. 2023; Park et al.,

Lecturing 98

Lecturing Active Learning Activities STEM 98

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2024

Developing the whole student Maslow’s hierarchy of needs (1943) has long been instrumental in shaping educators’ beliefs about human behavior, motivation, and learning. When it comes to increasing rates of student achievement, satisfaction, and graduation, what really makes the difference? food, water, warmth, rest, and security).

Syllabus 132

Syllabus Exams Students Motivation 132

Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 9, 2018

Today, we have a guest post from Philip Perry, founder of Learnclick.com , an online quiz tool lots of teachers use to create and share quizzes. Or have a more general discussion about what beliefs Dickens was trying to challenge with this story. It can help you with coming up with questions.

Language 104

Language Languages Teaching Multiple Choice Questions 104

Edsurge

APRIL 10, 2017

These could include interactive content (such as the ability to manipulate objects and modules on the screen), along with embedded quizzes, simulations, virtual labs and other multimedia features. Dror-Naim believes in giving instructors full control over designing all the different paths of content that learners may encounter.

Teachers 130

Teachers Instructors Learning Quizzes 130

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2025

Low-stakes practice: Use frequent formative assessments such as polls, quizzes, games, or writing and discussion prompts to reinforce and retrieve essential concepts. Grading and Feedback: Support and Guide, Don’t Punish and Penalize Grading practices should reflect the belief that students can grow and improve.

Plagiarism 122

Plagiarism Syllabus Ethics Feedback 122

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

There is no such requirement for tests and quizzes though—so overall grades can certainly be lower than a B.) The network uses a mastery-based learning model, and students must earn 80 percent or higher on independent work before teachers can move on in class. Teachers often get a chance to go more in-depth during one-on-one classes.

Teachers 160

Teachers Schools Students Study 160

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2024

Developing the whole student Maslow’s hierarchy of needs (1943) has long been instrumental in shaping educators’ beliefs about human behavior, motivation, and learning. When it comes to increasing rates of student achievement, satisfaction, and graduation, what really makes the difference? food, water, warmth, rest, and security).

Syllabus 101

Syllabus Exams Students Motivation 101

Edsurge

AUGUST 4, 2018

They adopted a similar strategy in Maryland, offering schools quizzes that aligned to the state’s high-stakes assessment. Although few at the time shared LaHayne’s belief SEL was crucial for student success, that did not deter her.

Counselling 116

Counselling Quizzes Essay Beliefs 116

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2025

Low-stakes practice: Use frequent formative assessments such as polls, quizzes, games, or writing and discussion prompts to reinforce and retrieve essential concepts. Grading and Feedback: Support and Guide, Don’t Punish and Penalize Grading practices should reflect the belief that students can grow and improve.

Plagiarism 98

Plagiarism Syllabus Ethics Feedback 98

Cult of Pedagogy

AUGUST 4, 2024

” The underlying belief, whether we realized it or not, seemed to be that if these kids wanted to do better, they would. Weathers used to have students organize their materials in a more typical way — with sections for notes, homework, quizzes, and handouts — but he found that this kind of system didn’t serve him or his students.

Teaching 132

Teaching Students Assignments Skills 132

Edsurge

JULY 4, 2017

The platform uses a “gamified” approach, full of quizzes that give users a chance to demonstrate skills and share their interests and goals. EdSurge sat down with Jungegard to talk about his views on the future of the job search process, and about how being an edtech entrepreneur in Europe differs from being one in the U.S.

Quizzes 96

Quizzes Beliefs Skills Motivation 96

Edsurge

JUNE 26, 2017

But my belief is that a learning management system is like an operating system for education. The way that I thought about it was that there’s 20 percent of functionality tools that 80 percent of faculty care about and use—discussion boards, chat tools, grading engines, certain parts of quizzes.

Quizzes 104

Quizzes Beliefs Distance Learning Culture 104

Edsurge

AUGUST 3, 2016

Underlying Seymour’s research on computers, games, and other instructional tools and methods is the idea that children must be empowered to take charge of their own thinking and learning process, rather than be forced to become passive receptor for top-down instruction and multiple-choice quizzes.

Knowledge 128

Knowledge Curriculum Design Intelligence Math 128

Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 7, 2017

Explain that some students might be debating positions opposite to their beliefs. It uses a combination of videos, whiteboard how-tos, practice exercises, and quick quizzes. Give, say, ten minutes to debate among themselves and choose a topic. Divide into ‘pro’ and ‘con’. Perspective taking’ is an important skill to learn.

Activities 91

Activities Schools Writing Knowledge 91

Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 16, 2016

Explain that some students might be debating positions opposite to their beliefs. It uses a combination of videos, white board how-tos, practice exercises, and quick quizzes. Offer a list of topics. Give, say, ten minutes to debate among themselves and choose topic. Divide into ‘pro’ and ‘con’.

Activities 79

Activities Schools Writing Knowledge 79

k12 Online Schools

MAY 3, 2025

Host quizzes, storytelling hours, or digital exhibitions of local art. A future activist may have built campaigns alongside peers from across the globe, united not by birthplace but by belief. Virtual cultural festivals, when done thoughtfully, can be incredibly engaging. Even asynchronous forums can be powerful.

Culture 52

Culture Schools Languages Language 52

eSchool News

MAY 17, 2023

This video shows why these allies mistakenly thought Iraq possessed WMDs and the role Iraqi President Saddam Hussein played in perpetuating that belief in order to project strength and instill fear in his enemies.

Social Studies 254

Social Studies Teaching History Quizzes 254

Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

There are widespread beliefs about the best way to teach and learn that have been proven wrong by science, yet they persist. Mimicry of others who are equally untrained, instinct, and what feels right tend to provide the guidance. As a result, teaching is, to use another building metaphor, not up to code.

Education 218

Education Learning Textbooks Instructors 218

eSchool News

MAY 28, 2025

Students can listen to, read, and take quizzes on books of their choosing or assigned by their teacher. Learning A-Z provides a variety of digital literacy programs for educators. Raz-Kids offers a leveled library of books in English and Spanish.

Blended Learning 267

Blended Learning Learning Quizzes Beliefs 267