eSchool News

MARCH 14, 2016

is a free game-based learning platform that allows teachers—or students—to create their own learning games using videos, images, and multiple-choice questions. Along the way, students valuable entrepreneurial skills, VentureLab says—including the 4 Cs: creativity, critical thinking, communication, and collaboration.

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Multiple Choice Questions Game-Based Learning Science Critical Thinking 189

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.

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Multiple Choice Questions Teaching Participation Writing 98

Edsurge

OCTOBER 25, 2016

But one word in that phrase often raises a host of questions: What counts as “data”? To shed some light on the questions above, EdSurge talked to six educators to get their take. Here’s the big takeaway: Data doesn’t just come in the form of grades, attendance records and answers on multiple choice questions.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

A) Choose questions that most students will be able to answer correctly. B) Vary the types of poll questions beyond multiple choice. D) Stress that students answer questions independent of their peers. Here are a few tips: Scaffold your questions as class progresses. Select all that apply.

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Instructors Multiple Choice Questions Course Design Discussions 140

Edsurge

MARCH 11, 2020

Use Polls to Keep Students Engaged There are many tools available to pose multiple-choice questions to students remotely. So I felt like I was able to answer some of their questions, but also re-emphasize that we need to be looking to science at times like this [to learn about the coronavirus].

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Instructors Teaching Multiple Choice Questions Ethics 207

eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2024

This begs the question: What’s next for education? Anne Brown, CEO & President, Cook Center for Human Connection More meaningful, tailored school-home communication will be imperative to supporting academic recovery and addressing chronic absenteeism. What are the projections for edtech?

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Gamification Intelligence Reading Ethics 360

Edsurge

JANUARY 19, 2017

17, Rudolph explained the motivation behind the decision: “It’s hard to argue with personalized learning… but when everybody is sitting there saying ‘yes, this looks good,’ maybe we should ask some more critical questions.” That's one of the hallmarks on our community.” Communication is Key Still many questions and lessons remain.

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Learning Multiple Choice Questions Math Evaluation 147

Edsurge

JANUARY 13, 2017

Peripheral connections through Bluetooth and Wi-Fi enable devices to track our movements and communicate faster to improve our productivity, fitness or health. Smart devices create opportunities for interactive and, in some cases, autonomous operation. Is that adaptive? A good experience?

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Multiple Choice Questions Instructors Textbooks Feedback 131

Cult of Pedagogy

JUNE 9, 2024

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. On one of them was the question “How are you doing?”

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Schools Multiple Choice Questions Questions Feedback 112

Edsurge

JULY 16, 2018

That’s the idea at least behind the latest summative assessments from Project Lead the Way , a project-based STEM curriculum, which is introducing new tech-based question types to measure a raft of noncognitive skills from collaboration to general problem solving (in addition to subject-specific questions about engineering or coding concepts). “We

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Testing Exams Multiple Choice Questions STEM 107

Cult of Pedagogy

JANUARY 21, 2024

Generally speaking, a standardized test is an assessment wherein the conditions and test (directions, prompts, questions, etc.) And yet, that benign definition doesn’t explain why parents and communities started a standardized testing opt-out movement. Although they defy simple categorization, we can, at least, define them.

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Testing Multiple Choice Questions Languages Language 106

Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 26, 2016

Yes, the lessons are built around a presentation platform, but Nearpod does a good job of incorporating interactive elements like polls, question and response, the ability to draw on screen, and so much more. What’s more, they have a fantastic library of lessons created by teachers who use Nearpod in their own classrooms.

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Math Fairness Assignments Multiple Choice Questions 105

Teaching with a Mountain View

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Teach (and start practicing) Mnemonic Devices Mnemonic devices can help students approach questions with structure and clarity. SLAM for Multiple-Choice: Skim the question, Look for keywords, Analyze choices, Match evidence to your answer. Often, a distractor choice may be close but not quite correct.

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Testing Multiple Choice Questions Math Writing 52

eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

When ChatGPT was first released, questions swirled around higher ed about it stoking an increase in plagiarism, promoting a lack of critical thinking, and what the future would hold for classic functions like the college admission essay. When answering basic questions, AI can read a student’s answers. How can I use AI as a teacher?

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Plagiarism Education Intelligence Textbooks 130

Scholarly Teacher

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Felten and Lambert (2020) contend that institutions should recognize and promote four principles to guide relationship-rich education: (1) relentless welcome, (2) inspired learning, (3) webs of relationships, and (4) meaningful questions. Our questions and subsequent review focused on implementing collaborative quizzes.

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Quizzes Education Multiple Choice Questions Feedback 52

eSchool News

JANUARY 5, 2024

This begs the question: What’s next for education? Anne Brown, CEO & President, Cook Center for Human Connection More meaningful, tailored school-home communication will be imperative to supporting academic recovery and addressing chronic absenteeism. What are the projections for edtech?

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Gamification Intelligence Reading Ethics 130

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Sure, it reflects the age-old communications gulf between adults and kids. Yet too frequently, those communications channels become largely one-way megaphones for teachers, who then nudge parents into prodding students to finish upcoming assignments or study for the next test. And so far, Stock says, the response has been stunning.

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