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How Gimkit engages my students

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According to a tutorial , “Gimkit is an excellent game-based learning platform that combines fun and education, making it a highly engaging tool for both teachers and students. Question Breakdown: This part is very powerful. It shows how everyone did on each question you asked. What is Gimkit? To begin with, what is Gimkit?

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Can a Test Ever Be Fair? How Today's Standardized Tests Get Made.

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Then there are the psychometricians—the math savants who design tests and create complex algorithms that attempt to make them fair to all students. Mark Moulton : Here that whole question is, what does fair mean? And the people we interact with are the people at the state, the California Department of Education, CDE.

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Should Professors (a) Use Multiple Choice Tests or (b) Avoid Them At All Costs?

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Multiple-choice questions don’t belong in college. Yet more professors seem to be turning to the format these days, as teaching loads and class sizes grow, since multiple-choice quizzes and tests can be easily graded by machines. Defending Multiple-Choice To be fair, not everyone is so down on multiple choice.

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eSchool Live@ISTE23 Preview

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It took about five minutes for Ryan Imbriale, PowerSchool’s VP of Education Solutions, and me before we cracked. The happy hour will feature a panel of K-12 teachers, leaders, and former educators discussing generative AI, learning loss, personalized learning and other factors impacting the education space.

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How AI Can Help Educators Test Whether Their Teaching Materials Work

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What if educators could use the same strategy of “adaptive experimentation” to regularly improve their teaching materials? That’s the question posed by a group of researchers who developed a free tool they call the Adaptive Experimentation Accelerator. “In They're not fair [ because of false positives ].

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My Second Conversation with ChatGPT: Can It Be My Teaching Aid?

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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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Why There’s Little Consistency in Defining Competency-Based Education

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Department of Education issued grants to support CBE programs, focused on helping adult learners, at postsecondary institutions. One of the virtues of a CBE system is that we’re not going to tolerate a lack of mastery or gaps of learning,” says Julia Freeland Fisher, Director of Education at the Clayton Christensen Institute.

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