Educational Technologies Fairness Multiple Choice Questions 
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JANUARY 10, 2018
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? It makes the test more fair because it guarantees that everyone is being measured with the same degree of precision.
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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. Defending Multiple-Choice To be fair, not everyone is so down on multiple choice.
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MAY 26, 2020
The term comes from the physical devices that other companies used to sell, where students literally pressed buttons to respond to multiple-choice questions. The Toronto-based company once relied on textbook publishers to distribute its technology.
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JUNE 27, 2017
Google also announced Cast for Education, a Chrome application that allows teachers and students to wirelessly share their screens with the class. Quizzes on Google Forms now allow for a bit more customization: Teachers can offer partial credit for answers choices while auto-grading multiple choice questions.
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JULY 11, 2023
One example in particular is getting students that are taking, say, an online chemistry course to create a multiple choice question for us. And so if you have a course with 5,000 students in it, and everyone elects to create a multiple-choice question, you now have 5,000 new multiple-choice questions for that chemistry course.
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MAY 28, 2020
A fair warning when playing Minecraft Earth, especially while walking: The app is a significant battery hog unless you turn on battery saver mode. The Scavengar app allows educators and students to build hunts that move you around a designated space to collect points and answer multiple-choice questions correctly.
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MAY 22, 2017
Is it fair to only cover the standards that are going to be on the test?” How one demonstrates “mastery” may vary according to the subject or skill in question. Certain low-level yet fundamental concepts, such as single-digit multiplication, can be demonstrated through conventional assessments, such as multiple-choice questions.
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