eSchool News

MARCH 14, 2016

Ardusat offers kits and curriculum with everything students need to design their own science experiments in outer space, receive and analyze data, and publish their results. 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.

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Multiple Choice Questions Game-Based Learning Science Critical Thinking 190

eSchool News

JULY 4, 2023

The challenge Aldine ISD faced at the beginning of the 2022-23 school year was to prepare their students for the redesign of the math State of Texas Assessment of Academic Readiness (STAAR), which added non-multiple-choice questions to align with the deep critical thinking and conceptual mathematics learning students should be doing in class.

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Multiple Choice Questions Math Middle School Middle School 145

Edsurge

AUGUST 27, 2020

Undoubtedly, much of this was due to the fact that teachers had limited time to move their entire curriculum online, and few were trained to carry out what was essentially emergency remote instruction. If there’s one thing everyone can agree on from this past spring, it’s that distance learning is challenging. But this wasn’t the only reason.

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Distance Learning Teaching Multiple Choice Questions Math 218

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

La Mesa-Spring Valley had been using the 18-year-old online curriculum provider in a limited capacity—with fewer than 50 kids per year, through its homeschool program—for the last two years and had experienced no issues. In them, other examples of the troubling curriculum content are laid out.

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Learning Schools Multiple Choice Questions Distance Learning 213

Edsurge

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Provide a Simplified View of Deeper Data Insights Curriculum providers can offer teachers instructional guidance connected to their students’ growth and proficiency data. To do this, teachers need quick insights in the form of reports that are understandable “at a glance” and consider the individualized progression of student learning.

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Multiple Choice Questions Math Reading Achievement 172

Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 24, 2024

Remember that fluctuating moods can cloud your judgment and impair your decision-making – a critical aspect when facing multiple-choice questions or mapping the outline of an essay. More importantly, they influence key hormones and neurotransmitters like serotonin, which directly affects your overall sense of well-being.

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Achievement Multiple Choice Questions Students Study 167

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Teachers have adopted a district-approved curriculum that some feel is rote and uninspiring. It’s Segregation’ It was last November that Yarborough, the Houston teacher and parent, stepped outside the bounds of the new NES curriculum for the final time. For short-answer questions, they wrote on an index card.

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Schools Multiple Choice Questions Testing Reading 218

Edsurge

DECEMBER 16, 2020

What are we going to use for curriculum? Less frequently asked were some more fundamental questions: How might we preserve a sense of belonging and connectedness between students? Far too many distance learning discussions in the spring began with identifying digital tools. School leaders asked: Which apps should we download?

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Distance Learning Multiple Choice Questions Learning Critical Thinking 218

eSchool News

AUGUST 22, 2016

Kids Discover , a provider of engaging science and social studies curriculum, announced that its interactive digital library, Kids Discover Online, now includes custom assessment capabilities. Kids Discover will automatically grade all true/false and multiple-choice questions, giving teachers more time to focus on their students.

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Multiple Choice Questions Quizzes Social Studies Exams 118

Dangerously Irrelevant

APRIL 27, 2015

More videos with multiple choice questions! and/or because. The students are unmotivated or disengaged (including when engaged students are in classrooms with disengaged students who disrupt instruction or create a negative learning environment). . via [link]. Image credit: timlewisnm. . Related Posts.

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Multiple Choice Questions Schools Skills Curriculum 98

eSchool News

MAY 1, 2024

The app offers a personalized feed of entertaining and educational videos, images, questions, and memes, ensuring that students remain engaged while mastering the material. All TeachTap course material is trained on the exact curriculum set by the College Board and Common Core educational standards.

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Exams High School High School History 137

eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2024

There is a clear need for science-driven curriculum, and the thoughtful implementation of emerging technologies. Jeri Larsen, COO, YouScience In 2024 and beyond, we will see increased adoption of core curriculum tools and technology by school districts.

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Gamification Intelligence Reading Ethics 359

Edsurge

JANUARY 19, 2017

Students work through the TTO curriculum at their own speed via 90 minute digital math lessons. At the end of the session, a personalized five-question assessment (known as an “Exit Slip”) is given to test concepts they individually worked on that day. That's one of the hallmarks on our community.”

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Learning Multiple Choice Questions Math Evaluation 144

Faculty Focus

MAY 1, 2025

This contrast raised several questions: What are we missing as educators when it comes to student engagement? Are the challenges related to the curriculum, the school, or the larger context extending beyond the school to the home and society? Is it the collective perception toward education a factor in fostering student engagement?

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Academic Integrity Multiple Choice Questions Learning Students 105

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.

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Language Languages Teaching Multiple Choice Questions 104

Faculty Focus

MAY 1, 2025

This contrast raised several questions: What are we missing as educators when it comes to student engagement? Are the challenges related to the curriculum, the school, or the larger context extending beyond the school to the home and society? Is it the collective perception toward education a factor in fostering student engagement?

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Academic Integrity Multiple Choice Questions Learning Students 93

Cult of Pedagogy

OCTOBER 14, 2024

But in fact, it actually helps to have a closed question if you really want to check for understanding.” Because that’s what doubles the learning — same curriculum, same teacher with and without formative assessment done well, it’s a difference in years’ worth of learning. And is it being done well?

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Multiple Choice Questions Culture Questions Grades 129

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).

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Testing Exams Multiple Choice Questions STEM 104

Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 5, 2016

This is also useful as a formative assessment with videos where the class can be watching a video and the teacher can pause it as needed, ask a multiple choice question, and have students answer quickly on their Google form. This allows the teacher to be agile and flexible in adapting to a student-paced environment.

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Multiple Choice Questions Questions Testing Grades 80

Cult of Pedagogy

JANUARY 21, 2024

We recognize that there’s something fundamentally different about large-scale, externally mandated standardized tests that rely on multiple-choice questions. “ As a concrete example of why that synchronization is necessary, multiple states allow a high degree of local control over the curriculum.

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Testing Multiple Choice Questions Language Languages 111

Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Teachers pick the video; enrich it with a variety of options like multiple choice questions, class discussions and graded fill-in-the blanks; push it out to their class; and then track data showing effectiveness. PlayPosit makes it easy to create interactive videos that engage and excite students.

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Multiple Choice Questions Textbooks Knowledge Discussions 75

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Some activities involve multiple-choice questions; others ask children to read words and passages in order to assess their oral fluency. market for supplemental literacy tools is hotly contested, with established brands including Achieve 3000, Curriculum Associates and Renaissance Learning all jostling for market share.

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English Multiple Choice Questions Teaching Assistants Special Education 65

eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

In a structured classroom setting, an educator can only be expected to teach a certain amount of curriculum, and learners can only retain so much information at one time. Many fear that computer-generated grading would only perpetuate the education system’s reliance on multiple-choice questions. Is this a problem?

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Plagiarism Education Intelligence Textbooks 130

Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 26, 2016

Just a disclaimer though, I am a high school math teacher, so a few of the tech-tools I reference in this post belong mostly in a secondary math classroom, but with a little elbow grease and ingenuity, there are ways to fit them into any K-12 math curriculum as well.

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Math Fairness Assignments Multiple Choice Questions 105

eSchool News

JANUARY 5, 2024

There is a clear need for science-driven curriculum, and the thoughtful implementation of emerging technologies. Jeri Larsen, COO, YouScience In 2024 and beyond, we will see increased adoption of core curriculum tools and technology by school districts.

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Gamification Intelligence Reading Ethics 130

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Source: PowerMyLearning Here’s what a Family Playlist is: Once every week or two (often at the end of a unit), a teacher creates a homework assignment with two parts: First the student does an assignment, for instance, reviewing how to graph coordinates on a plane and answering multiple-choice questions.

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Multiple Choice Questions Assignments Schools Mobile Devices 165

Edsurge

APRIL 16, 2017

At worst, it can narrow the curriculum, undermine meaningful learning, and stifle student interest and motivation. Materials are typically decontextualized, with multiple-choice items that mimic the format of standardized tests. At best, test prep can yield modest, short-term gains in scores.

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Testing Exams Multiple Choice Questions Students 160