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How Well Would ChatGPT Do in My Course? I Talked to It to Find Out

Faculty Focus

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.

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How Well Would ChatGPT Do in My Course? I Talked to It to Find Out

Faculty Focus

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.

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Teaching Courses that Provoke Student Anxiety

Faculty Focus

The pressure to solve problems, answer multiple-choice question, and write essays on an exam scares them. Or, students may be anxious because they’ve done poorly in related courses. The anxiety some students feel about a course grows out of fears associated with test-taking. They’re convinced they won’t do well.

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Teaching Courses that Provoke Student Anxiety

Faculty Focus

The pressure to solve problems, answer multiple-choice question, and write essays on an exam scares them. Or, students may be anxious because they’ve done poorly in related courses. The anxiety some students feel about a course grows out of fears associated with test-taking. They’re convinced they won’t do well.

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School’s Out for the Latest Y Combinator Batch, and Here’s What Its Edtech Graduates Are Up to

Edsurge

Here’s what that one classroom-facing company is offering, and what the other six edtech startups hope to accomplish off the school campus. askMyClass This Menlo Park-based startup seeks to offer teachers classroom management strategies, lesson support and social-emotional support for students via voice technology.

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How Semantic Pulse Surveys Can Boost Your School Climate

Cult of Pedagogy

The kinds of surveys I recommended were pretty much what you’d expect — some multiple-choice questions and a lot of Likert scale items, where you have to choose an item from, say, 1 to 5, or a word on a scale that ranges from always to sometimes to never.

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DIY Dry Erase Boards!

Organized Classroom

Grab this 15-pack of eBooks created specifically for classroom teachers! For a good lesson idea, you could use improper fractions Mad Libs. They could fill in the words on their dry erase cover and then check each other’s work when both are finished.