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Retrieval in Action: Creative Strategies from Real Teachers

Cult of Pedagogy

And that class, since I started doing that, is a 20 percent improvement in the exam grades. ” Peer Instruction This strategy turns a simple multiple-choice question into a quick collaborative activity. “Present students with a multiple choice question.” ” Rivers explains.

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Why Old Arguments for Earning a Diploma Don't Resonate With My Students — and Which Ones Will

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In our current educational landscape, you have to either receive a traditional high school diploma or pass the General Educational Development exam to access most postsecondary schooling options, including trade schools and community colleges.

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How Faculty Can ‘Click’ Their Way to a More Inclusive Classroom

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A) Choose questions that most students will be able to answer correctly. B) Vary the types of poll questions beyond multiple choice. C) Ask students “Please discuss your answer with a neighbor.” D) Stress that students answer questions independent of their peers. Select all that apply. Play with the polls.

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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. The collected data from students can be used to start a discussion. Or, students may be anxious because they’ve done poorly in related courses. They’re convinced they won’t do well.

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Kids Discover Online unveils custom assessments feature

eSchool News

The Assessments feature includes more than 5,000 pre-built questions covering more than 1,200 science and social studies topics. Question types vary to include discussion prompts, short answer, multiple choice, and true/false. This feature can also be used to differentiate homework assignments from exams.

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How AI Can Help Educators Test Whether Their Teaching Materials Work

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The discussion took place at the recent ISTE Live conference in Philadelphia in front of a live audience. One example in particular is getting students that are taking, say, an online chemistry course to create a multiple choice question for us. But you might be thinking, how's the quality of those?

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?What Makes a Smart Course ‘Smart’?

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Print content was uploaded and accessible via the LMS, where faculty could view discussion prompts and suggestions. After all, one can use the phrase “adaptive” to describe the California DMV computer-based exam because an algorithm dynamically selects the next multiple choice question based on the user’s performance thus far.