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AUGUST 14, 2024

Most tools that teachers have for this purpose are lagging indicators such as tests, quizzes, and homework. Worries about using AI for academic help and answering questions led to many discussions on its role in the classroom. These lagging indicators exacerbate the issue of lack of capacity.

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AUGUST 23, 2022

The role of labor unions and strikes — A mini-lesson discusses the founding of union organizations and highlights how union employees went on strike to protest poor working conditions, low wages, and dangerous jobs. They include everything instructors need to teach a subject, including lessons, e-books, bell ringers, quizzes, and tests.

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APRIL 5, 2024

First, students individually reflect on a question or prompt, then they discuss their thoughts with a partner, and finally, they share their ideas with the class. Here are some examples: Practice Retrieval : Self-testing or using flashcards to actively recall information from memory strengthens memory recall and retention.

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APRIL 15, 2024

Preparation for an Assessment: To prepare for upcoming tests or assessments, must-do stations provide practice and support in areas where data shows students struggle. These formative assessments can take the form of quizzes, short written responses, exit tickets, online discussions, and graphic organizers.

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JULY 3, 2024

can help transform traditional quizzes or tests into more engaging, game-like experiences. It can provide instant feedback through quizzes, polls, and exit tabs. It will help mentors assess student level and understanding so the instruction may be tailored as the need arises.

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JULY 9, 2021

Did you simply practice the same type of A/B testing that’s common throughout the tech sphere? That’s the ethics debate playing out in one online educator space , a lively back-and-forth carried over from a recent workshop on educational A/B testing. But if researchers are A/B testing two innocuous options, what’s the harm?

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OCTOBER 6, 2022

“Students like Bell Ringers because they use media-rich content that sparks their curiosity and leads to thought-provoking discussions.”. Poptential course packages include everything instructors need to teach a subject, including lessons, e-books, bell ringers, quizzes, and tests.

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APRIL 17, 2020

Essay topics, discussion questions, full texts of literary classics, editorially curated Topic Centers, interactive games and quizzes, and self-assessment questions allow students to easily delve deep into their subject matter and test themselves along the way.

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JANUARY 11, 2021

Yet as instructors in the new world of online education, we have access to ever-increasing amounts of data—from recorded lecture videos, electronically submitted homework, discussion forums, and online quizzes and assessments—that may give us insights into individual student learning.

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MARCH 10, 2023

6.6 ) By 3rd grade, Common Core discusses the use of keyboarding to produce work, i.e., CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.3.6 Keyboarding Quizzes Students understand the concept of ‘quiz’ It’s a test of knowledge, a line in the sand where students show their grasp of the subject or suffer a bad grade. for example.

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OCTOBER 31, 2018

One day I had been planning to discuss metacognition—a learning strategy I teach to my middle-school students. Learning How to Learn I’ve often heard students tell me they studied for hours on a test only to fail. For too many students, that aha-moment happens while they’re taking the big test. And by then it’s too late.

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APRIL 28, 2020

Researchers at California Polytechnic State University conducted a study in 1994, which showed conclusively that the group that was given a random assortment of pitches did much better in the post test than the group that received blocked pitches—several of one kind followed by several of another—and the control group.

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DECEMBER 6, 2023

Now, he and Baselice collaborate to create and test games and are actively trying to gather evidence that these activities aren’t just good for engagement, but for long-term learning. When I’m testing a game, I have no way of knowing if it's going to be blocked by the school’s servers,” Angie says. The role of the facilitator is key.

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Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

I use a daily quiz that has a two-fold purpose: first, it tests the students’ knowledge of the day’s reading material; and second, it provides a focus for the lecture and activities scheduled that day in class. As such, it effectively engages students in discussion of the correct answers, and just as importantly, the incorrect answers.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Add up test scores and see what the student earned. Does s/he participate in class discussions? It used to be simple to post grades. Very defensible. Everyone understood. It’s not that way anymore. Does s/he show evidence of learning by using tech class knowledge in classroom or home? Does s/he save to their network folder?

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Quizzes Critical Thinking Knowledge Testing 149

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JUNE 25, 2018

Google Classroom , the company’s online tool that lets teachers, students and parents manage assignments and discussions, will be getting a small facelift as part of 12 updates that Google is announcing at this week’s ISTE conference, an annual K-12 educational technology expo. It may have captured pole position in the U.S., Outside the U.S.,

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OCTOBER 27, 2020

Initial growth came as a repository for students to share course specific material such as tests, quizzes, study guides and lecture notes. Discussions with Symbolab were ongoing for more than a year before the deal was concluded, Grauer said. Course Hero was founded in 2006. to $40 per month.

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Plagiarism Lecturing Quizzes Math 155

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

I use a daily quiz that has a two-fold purpose: first, it tests the students’ knowledge of the day’s reading material; and second, it provides a focus for the lecture and activities scheduled that day in class. As such, it effectively engages students in discussion of the correct answers, and just as importantly, the incorrect answers.

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Quizzes Lecturing Course Evaluations Exams 92

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

When Ray was my student, I decided to test out gamifying my Greek Mythology Unit by creating a new Edmodo class, chunking the content into small groups, and providing my students with a paper game board to support the blended learning within the unit. You can play the “This or That?”

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Distance Learning Culture Gamification Learning 218

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 5, 2023

I created this article not to discuss potential legal and ethical issues surrounding AI, but rather to share my observations from a broad perspective. AI can also generate short content, such as answers to take-home quizzes or un-proctored multiple-choice exams. This was often for written assignments or take-home quizzes and tests.

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Intelligence Plagiarism Quizzes Academic Integrity 144

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FEBRUARY 18, 2015

This doesn’t stop with quizzes, tests, and memorizing facts. Sometimes it derives evidence of learning from anecdotal observation, watching students apply prior learning, working in groups, or participating in classroom discussions. Quick Quizzes. that students think creatively with their new information.

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MAY 9, 2023

The student knew the material, but she just wasn’t a good test-taker. Her score on that exam was so low, in fact, that she realized she had no chance to get an A in the course, no matter how well she might do on future tests and assignments. After that, this professor vowed never to use traditional grades on tests again.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

3 rd grade Begin touch typing–the right finger for the right key without looking at the keyboard; begin discussions about accuracy; make good posture a habit. Quarterly speed/accuracy quizzes (grades 3-8). Quarterly blank keyboarding quizzes (grades 3-8). Typing tests. Online keyboarding websites.

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Quizzes Grades Knowledge Questions 173

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MARCH 2, 2020

Some are keeping to their regular bell schedule with teachers responsible for hosting online discussions via their learning management system and assigning peer collaboration work that must be completed in real time before the class period ends. Issues With Feedback and Testing It’s much easier to hide in a digital world.

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Schools Students Assignments Testing 218

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NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Inquizitive One problem open educational resources present, says Bowen, is that they don’t always come with a bank of quizzes and tests, and professors often have to add such options on their own, which can be time-consuming. So his team built Inquizitive, a quiz generation engine.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2015

comment on Discussion Boards and blogs. take online quizzes (like PARCC, SB). By 3rd grade, Common Core discusses the use of keyboarding to produce work, i.e., CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.3.6 Keyboarding Quizzes. Give these quizzes every grading period so students can track their progress. Team Challenge.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2020

It is continuously tested as new ideas are added, either causing long-held beliefs to evolve or be replaced. It’s a learning philosophy like Habits of Mind or John Hattie’s Visible Learning (click for a discussion on those). That, in turn, is dependent upon their society, culture, past knowledge, personal experiences, and more.

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JANUARY 19, 2023

Civil Rights Legislation: The Civil Rights Act of 1964, one of the landmark civil rights laws passed to eliminate segregation, is discussed in a moving video of Lyndon Johnson’s speech announcing the Act. ● They include everything instructors need to teach a subject, including lessons, e-books, bell ringers, quizzes, and tests.

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History Curriculum Social Studies Quizzes 130

Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

pre-test quizzes. We can activate students’ prior knowledge with: quizzes and exercises to reach back to concepts and learning covered earlier in the course, as well as covered in previously required courses. a discussion, brainstorm, list, or map of what they already know about a new topic. a workbook to preview.

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Knowledge Quizzes Learning Students 126

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OCTOBER 28, 2020

“What it seems like is disabilities services providers [are] having to think about new barriers placed in an online environment,” Lalor says, such as difficulty reading text on screens or heightened anxiety from being filmed during class discussions or while taking tests.

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Learning Disabilities Disabilities Quizzes Exams 149

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NOVEMBER 19, 2022

This article will discuss some of the best tools for tutoring math online, and the way they can help teachers to improve their student’s skills. I think this will better reflect what’s going on today in our classrooms: It can be difficult to teach math, but with the proper tools, it can often be made easier. 2 Khan Academy.

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JUNE 9, 2022

Once resources have been collected, present to the group for discussion. Start with a discussion on 1) the difference between an amateur and professional writer, 2) what it means to be ‘published’, and 3) publication options. Introduce this project with a guest speaker who will discuss the special needs and learning styles of seniors.

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MAY 24, 2018

They come primed to discuss those things and learn in classroom,” says Barba. “We There, students enrolled in the online or in-person course can access a discussion board about the course to ask questions or see how others got through a certain challenge. STEM has always been lecture heavy,” she says, “and that's the big difference.”

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JANUARY 7, 2022

To incentivize that, I typically assign reading exercises and quizzes. A common format I use is a 5-3-1 structure: where they identify five main points that stood out to them, three ways they might apply what they read and one question they have as a discussion prompt for others who read the same passages.

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OCTOBER 20, 2023

It’s never too early for teachers to engage students in discussions about the history of the stock market, its impact on economic growth or decline, and how it can potentially empower students to invest in their own futures,” said Julie Smitherman, a former social studies teacher and director of content at Certell, Inc., Click to tweet.

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JANUARY 26, 2021

When you’re in the classroom, there are reminders about homework, quizzes, test reviews, etc. A few of them come together to discuss what’s going on in class and utilize Google Whiteboard to share notes. How stressful is that for a student if they are virtually learning and their internet goes out?

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AUGUST 22, 2016

The newly added Assessments tool gives educators full control to create, distribute, and assess custom quizzes, tests, and homework assignments directly within the platform. Question types vary to include discussion prompts, short answer, multiple choice, and true/false.

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Multiple Choice Questions Quizzes Social Studies Exams 108