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. Those are questions Stone says the district is now asking. 25, two days before her district’s first day of school.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

But with rigid standards and a packed curriculum, it's challenging to dedicate two weeks to it. Start by identifying areas in your curriculum where students need to dive deep into a concept or fully demonstrate their understanding. The benefits of this creative assignment are clear to every educator.

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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

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? You know the apps I’m talking about: the ones that send students question after question, incentivizing them through points, badges, and “leveling up.”

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Distance Learning Multiple Choice Questions Learning Critical Thinking 218

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. If a student is getting a question “wrong,” richer information about how the student is solving problems can help their teacher more effectively intervene to support them.

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Multiple Choice Questions Math Reading Achievement 172

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

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. The Assessments feature includes more than 5,000 pre-built questions covering more than 1,200 science and social studies topics.

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Multiple Choice Questions Quizzes Social Studies Exams 122

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

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

This begs the question: What’s next for education? 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

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

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.” Students work through the TTO curriculum at their own speed via 90 minute digital math lessons.

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Learning Multiple Choice Questions Math Evaluation 144

Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 9, 2018

It is also ideal for teaching language as it has many options for asking questions in context. Dialogue: Asking questions about movies is an excellent way to get your students talking. It can help you with coming up with questions. Even the shy ones will be more likely to open up. Or ask them to describe certain characters.

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Language Languages Teaching Multiple Choice Questions 104

Cult of Pedagogy

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Choose a System that Checks All Students Asking your class if they have any questions, or even doing a “thumbs up, thumbs down” check on understanding is highly unlikely to help you determine which students need help. Which leads us to the next condition: The question itself has to be a good one.

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Multiple Choice Questions Culture Questions Grades 129

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

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

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 104

Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 5, 2016

There are lots of free survey and polling sites (two popular options are PollDaddy and Survey Monkey ), but often they limit the number of surveys you can create or how many questions you can include without ‘leveling up’ to a premium version. Edit form title, questions, descriptions, and answers by clicking in the field.

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Multiple Choice Questions Questions Testing Grades 80

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. I enjoy using generative AI to draft engaging class discussion questions and even synthesize education research. Is this a problem? How can I use AI as a teacher?

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Plagiarism Education Intelligence Textbooks 130

Cult of Pedagogy

JANUARY 21, 2024

Generally speaking, a standardized test is an assessment wherein the conditions and test (directions, prompts, questions, etc.) We recognize that there’s something fundamentally different about large-scale, externally mandated standardized tests that rely on multiple-choice questions.

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Testing Multiple Choice Questions Languages Language 111

Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Teachers provide the essential question and big idea, and then share a collection of videos students can select from as they design their own learning. What they WILL do is watch closely, be prepared to ask/answer questions, take notes as appropriate, and relate what they see to the lesson’s essential question.

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Multiple Choice Questions Textbooks Knowledge Discussions 75

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

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

That question led them to start Lalilo, a web-based program to support early literacy in English and French, in 2016. Some activities involve multiple-choice questions; others ask children to read words and passages in order to assess their oral fluency. He says Lalilo has reached some 4,000 U.S.

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English Multiple Choice Questions Teaching Assistants Special Education 65

eSchool News

JANUARY 5, 2024

This begs the question: What’s next for education? 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