eSchool News

APRIL 17, 2025

Designing effective quizzes takes timeespecially when crafting well-balanced multiple-choice questions with plausible wrong answers to encourage critical thinking. Speedup : A fast-paced front-of-classroom race where students compete to answer questions quickly, with the first car crossing the finish line declared the winner.

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Multiple Choice Questions Quizzes Technology Teachers 199

Edsurge

AUGUST 29, 2024

"Can you look at those data in different ways and extrapolate from those data the extent to which a young person is developing certain skills?” — Timothy Knowles, president of the Carnegie Foundation “The idea is to build an insight system that'd be useful for kids and families and educators,” he says. “So

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Testing Multiple Choice Questions Exams Questions 210

Edsurge

MAY 10, 2018

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. There are rules to writing good multiple-choice questions.

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Testing Multiple Choice Questions Quizzes Assignments 157

Cult of Pedagogy

APRIL 27, 2025

” Peer Instruction This strategy turns a simple multiple-choice question into a quick collaborative activity. “Present students with a multiple choice question.” “Multiple choice is great because you can assess students’ knowledge quickly and equitably. .

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Multiple Choice Questions Teachers Writing Questions 77

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

Rogers says the district hopes LearnBop will help educators make the shift to the new Florida Standards Assessments (FSA), because it allows teachers to assign specific standards and track data on student progress in mastering those standards.

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Math Multiple Choice Questions Blended Learning Assignments 208

Edsurge

OCTOBER 25, 2016

If you’re an educator, chances are you’ve heard the phrase “data-driven instruction,” where you’re asked to constantly assess, analyze, and adjust how you teach students. But one word in that phrase often raises a host of questions: What counts as “data”? How do you collect it? That’s where the data truly tells a story.”

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Multiple Choice Questions Beliefs Education Culture 164

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

It turns out that cultivating critical thinking skills can be difficult, even though many educators believe “that’s the point of what we’re training our students to be able to do,” says Ben Motz, a research scientist in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Indiana University.

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Critical Thinking Multiple Choice Questions Peer Review Testing 217

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Many fear that computer-generated grading would only perpetuate the education system’s reliance on multiple-choice questions. When answering basic questions, AI can read a student’s answers. In turn, this generates better insights into the teachers’ understanding of the student’s efforts.

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Teachers Textbooks Multiple Choice Questions Essay 278

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

The image below shows both the essential questions and multiple-choice questions that were generated. You can also export the questions you have chosen and integrate them into a quizzing system or LMS such as Canvas, Quizziz, Kahoot, Blackboard, and more. Eduaide.ai

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Multiple Choice Questions Teaching Assistants Education Learning Outcomes 124

eSchool News

JUNE 14, 2016

They’ll like it a lot more than answering multiple choice questions on a worksheet, which will lead to deeper thinking and higher quality work. From reading response to explanation of math lessons, you can have your students blog in virtually any subject area. And guess what?

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Multiple Choice Questions Students Writing Assignments 189

eSchool News

JUNE 28, 2016

As education policy moves away from the much-maligned No Child Left Behind and toward new legislation focusing on learning outcomes, technology-enabled formative assessments are moving to the foreground as a way to gauge student learning in real time. Delivering formative assessments is made easier with classroom technology tools.

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Multiple Choice Questions Exams Coaching Motivation 189

Edsurge

JULY 11, 2023

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 But you might be thinking, how's the quality of those?

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Testing Multiple Choice Questions Teaching Education 124

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

In the last few weeks, ChatGPT has been one of the main topics of conversation for most people working in education. I teach a course for faculty on how to write multiple-choice questions. wrong answers), and to write multiple-choice questions that target higher-order thinking skills. So far, so good.

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Multiple Choice Questions Plagiarism Writing Questions 111

EdTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

Clark, an educational strategist for EdTechTeam , which bills itself as “a global network of educational technologists,” spoke at the TCEA Convention & Exposition about formative assessment tools that help make that happen. She avoids using multiple choice questions, however. “I You haven’t.”.

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Multiple Choice Questions Technology Quizzes Students 128

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

The State Department of Education released a summary of how roughly 260,000 students scored collectively, saying only 42 percent performed well enough on English tests to suggest they’re moving toward being ready for college or a career. The figure for the math tests was 34 percent. “We can get these kids up to a higher bar.”

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Testing Multiple Choice Questions English Math 181

Faculty Focus

MARCH 26, 2023

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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Multiple Choice Questions Teaching Participation Writing 118

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Truly rare are those careers where employees advance based on their ability to regularly answer multiple-choice questions correctly! The Buck Institute for Education , for example, has been supporting project based-learning across schools and organizations for 20 years. Where and how do young people learn these skills?

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Multiple Choice Questions Multidisciplinary Social Studies English 154

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

For many years, educators have envisioned personalized learning as a way to tailor education to each student's unique needs. EdSurge: How can educators safely and responsibly leverage AI for more personalized learning? The first step is to check if the AI tool is actually designed for education specifically.

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Multiple Choice Questions Assignments Intelligence Skills 204

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

The image below shows both the essential questions and multiple-choice questions that were generated. You can also export the questions you have chosen and integrate them into a quizzing system or LMS such as Canvas, Quizziz, Kahoot, Blackboard, and more. Eduaide.ai

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Multiple Choice Questions Teaching Assistants Education Learning Outcomes 109

eSchool News

JANUARY 20, 2016

20 announced its new TravelMate B117 notebook, made for the education market featuring by Windows 10 Pro. For example, teachers can post multiple-choice questions to the entire class. Acer TeachSmart solution with LED status indicator embedded on the lid enables new ways for classroom participation. Acer on Jan.

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Multiple Choice Questions Assignments Attention Participation 169

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

In the last few weeks, ChatGPT has been one of the main topics of conversation for most people working in education. I teach a course for faculty on how to write multiple-choice questions. wrong answers), and to write multiple-choice questions that target higher-order thinking skills. So far, so good.

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Multiple Choice Questions Plagiarism Writing Questions 97

Edsurge

AUGUST 27, 2020

Using technology effectively in any environment—education or otherwise—necessitates a human-centered and needs-based approach. We have a chance to take stock of our priorities, remedy our past errors and rethink how we teach students in a way that recognizes the humanity inherent in education.

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Distance Learning Teaching Multiple Choice Questions Math 218

Edsurge

MAY 22, 2017

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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Education Multiple Choice Questions Fairness Questions 138

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 152

eSchool News

MARCH 14, 2016

That was a key area of focus at the 2016 South by Southwest Education ( SXSWedu ) conference in Austin, Texas, March 7-10, and a number of ed-tech companies and organizations demonstrated possible solutions. We need to find ways of approaching STEAM education differently.”. I didn’t know that word when I was in the third grade.”.

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Multiple Choice Questions Game-Based Learning Science Critical Thinking 189

eSchool News

MARCH 25, 2020

In an effort to assist K-12 teachers during the COVID-19 crisis with the transition from onsite to remote education, Gravic, Inc. As many educators are now working remotely, the application can still be used to assist with your grading tasks using our Electronic Bubble Sheet technology.

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Testing Grades Multiple Choice Questions Teachers 105

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

The Texas Education Agency awards letter grades to schools and districts based on test scores and other student performance metrics. When Wheatley High received a seventh “F” rating from the Texas Education Agency in 2019, it triggered the state takeover of the district. A year later, the early consequences are becoming clear.

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Schools Multiple Choice Questions Testing Reading 218

Faculty Focus

MARCH 26, 2023

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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Multiple Choice Questions Teaching Participation Writing 98

eSchool News

JUNE 23, 2023

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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Multiple Choice Questions Fairness Language Languages 141

Edsurge

DECEMBER 16, 2021

It sent multiple-choice questions asking how they felt about the transition to college, with options such as: [1] Excited and ready to start already! [2] One saved Oli’s number in her phone as “Helpful Education Robot.” Oli also checked in with students about how they were coping. 2] Feeling a little nervous. [3]

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Multiple Choice Questions Motivation Intelligence Writing 216

Edsurge

DECEMBER 16, 2020

But when it comes to education and technology, this prevailing hypothesis is proving itself to be flawed. You might be wondering how this is possible—how one might actually minimize their dependence on education technology in an era of remote instruction and screen-dependent learning. That may seem counterintuitive.

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Distance Learning Multiple Choice Questions Learning Critical Thinking 218

Edsurge

MARCH 6, 2024

The competitive, one-size-fits-all, industrial model of American education has persisted for over a century, but it feels increasingly outdated and even irrelevant, at times. How the Value of a Diploma Has Changed Just as teachers are navigating all the changes happening in education, so are students.

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Multidisciplinary Counselling Multiple Choice Questions Exams 206

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

There is no evidence, he adds, to suggest that the modified, shorter tests last year were easier, and in fact he has heard from students that they were more difficult because they did not include any multiple choice questions, on which students typically perform better.

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Exams Testing Multiple Choice Questions Internet 218

Edsurge

MAY 25, 2017

The study , which appears in the latest issue of the peer-reviewed journal “Computers & Education,” states the surprising finding in its long title: “Clickers can promote fact retention but impede conceptual understanding: The effect of the interaction between clicker use and pedagogy on learning.”

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Study Multiple Choice Questions Peer Review Quizzes 156

Edsurge

OCTOBER 28, 2022

If we don’t empower educators by providing support, skills and relevant, job-embedded professional learning, we risk that too few teachers will join and remain in the profession. We must invest in our teachers. They should also ensure that classroom tools provide engaging, relevant, personalized and effective experiences for students.

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Multiple Choice Questions Math Reading Achievement 174

Edsurge

AUGUST 17, 2018

The study , published in the journal Educational Psychology, found that when students divide attention between electronic devices and a classroom lecture, they still followed the lecture in the moment, but that long-term retention was reduced, resulting in lower grades on unit and final exams. They also took periodic tests and a final exam.

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Multiple Choice Questions Exams Lecturing Attention 140

Edsurge

MARCH 17, 2021

To address this, The Learning Accelerator interviewed educators around the country in order to develop concrete guidance on the subject and capture and share specific strategies that have helped teachers and students succeed. Don’t put them in a room to talk about a multiple choice question.

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Hybrid Learning Teachers Multiple Choice Questions Learning 218