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. Monster Quiz and Team Quiz : Game-based activities that foster collaboration and competition as students work in teams to answer questions on their devices.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 29, 2024

What that means is that we are going to create experiences that allow us to measure the behaviors of a user, not what the answer to the question is,” she adds. “So The question, he says, is “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?”

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Testing Multiple Choice Questions Exams Questions 210

Cult of Pedagogy

APRIL 27, 2025

rapid retrieval: During a lecture, stop every 10 minutes or so to ask a question about a topic you’ve covered. To make the tents more useful, students are then asked to answer a retrieval question on the back of the paper and turn it in at the end of class. “Present students with a multiple choice question.”

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Multiple Choice Questions Teachers Writing Questions 77

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

A similar question was asked by McKinsey three years ago , right before the worldwide pandemic caused the lowest reading and math scores in 30 years. AI can also reduce the teacher’s time creating questions, as it automatically generates possible learning assessments. But what if every single teacher could have an AI assistant?

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Teachers Textbooks Multiple Choice Questions Essay 278

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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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Ask that question to a group of adults, and many are likely to tell you that the finding checks out. Perhaps education has been missing a key ingredient when it comes to teaching students to detect faulty reasoning: practice. She concluded that the supplement promotes weight loss. Is that claim accurate, or faulty?

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Critical Thinking Multiple Choice Questions Peer Review Testing 217

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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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. It was an open-ended question that required a short-answer response. And guess what? From there, I posted an assignment on my blog, in reference to a novel we were reading.

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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 211

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

” The image below shows: the generated sources (all clickable with a direct link), the answer to your question, and other related prompts or questions. QuestionWell allows you to input an article, reading, or a video and writes questions based on what you’ve input and your learning outcomes. What can it do?

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Multiple Choice Questions Teaching Assistants Education Learning Outcomes 124

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

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

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 I hadn’t thought of that.’”.

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Multiple Choice Questions Technology Quizzes Students 128

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.

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Multiple Choice Questions Plagiarism Writing Questions 111

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

AUGUST 27, 2020

Using technology effectively in any environment—education or otherwise—necessitates a human-centered and needs-based approach. Mistake 3: Conflating Work Completion With Learning Completing worksheets and answering questions isn’t learning. See Think Wonder”) to make inferences and ask questions about income inequality in Chicago.

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Distance Learning Teaching Multiple Choice Questions Math 218

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 183

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

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

” The image below shows: the generated sources (all clickable with a direct link), the answer to your question, and other related prompts or questions. QuestionWell allows you to input an article, reading, or a video and writes questions based on what you’ve input and your learning outcomes. What can it do?

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Multiple Choice Questions Teaching Assistants Education Learning Outcomes 109

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

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

So then the question became how to pull that off. Some students answered the free-response questions on paper, then snapped a photo of their handwritten work on their smartphone and uploaded it. “We They said, ‘Please don’t take that away,’” Packer recalls. It also needed to be accessible by smartphone, to help with the access issue.

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Exams Testing Multiple Choice Questions Internet 218

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

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Deann Ragsdale, assistant superintendent of educational services at La Mesa-Spring Valley Schools, located outside of San Diego, first heard about the issues with Acellus on Aug. The content in question includes a first-grade language arts video lesson that shows an Acellus instructor teaching about the letter “G.” We don’t know.

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Learning Schools Multiple Choice Questions Distance Learning 213

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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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 106

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] Students learned the answer to that last question this past October. One saved Oli’s number in her phone as “Helpful Education Robot.” 3] Stressed.

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Multiple Choice Questions Motivation Intelligence Writing 216

Edsurge

MARCH 6, 2024

Having taught and worked with seniors in high school for over half of my career, these questions are always present, rarely asked, and, for me, often remain unanswered. 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.

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Multidisciplinary Counselling Multiple Choice Questions Exams 206

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.

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Multiple Choice Questions Plagiarism Writing Questions 97

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

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

Edsurge

MARCH 17, 2021

Dallas ISD’s Director of Personalized Learning Kristen Watkins noted that with challenges of hybrid models like simultaneous learning, the driving question for her team this year is, “How might we design learning experiences so that students in any environment get equitable learning opportunities?” Give them a real question to discuss.

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Hybrid Learning Teachers Multiple Choice Questions Learning 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

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

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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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

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. similar method exists for reading.

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Multiple Choice Questions Math Reading Achievement 174

Edsurge

AUGUST 17, 2018

The question of whether or not to allow students to use smartphones, laptops and other technology in the classroom has been long-debated , and at times, heated. If you ask the a question right then, they’ll get it right,” he says. The students answered 126 multiple-choice questions in class on materials that were just presented.

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