Edsurge

MAY 28, 2020

When you get close enough to the heart, you can feel it beating in your hand through phone vibrations (known as haptic feedback). 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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Activities Mobile Devices Multiple Choice Questions Motivation 192

Edsurge

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.

Textbooks 155

Textbooks Multiple Choice Questions Quizzes Fairness 155

Edsurge

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.

Multiple Choice Questions 154

Multiple Choice Questions Assignments Quizzes Game-Based Learning 154

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

TTQs help students accurately gauge areas they might need to shore up prior to the next assessment and understand the level of depth required to solve a question. Faculty typically default to using polls in a very unidimensional fashion—a multiple choice question with a single correct answer. Play with the polls.

Instructors 145

Instructors Multiple Choice Questions Course Design Discussions 145

eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2024

Ten years ago, when we began building equitable, offline-first education technology for the 2/3 of the world who didn’t have internet access, many people told us to just wait and the gap would close naturally. Immediate feedback also helps students develop self-efficacy.

Gamification 360

Gamification Intelligence Reading Ethics 360

Edsurge

JANUARY 19, 2017

I want my 5th grader to be well-educated… Tapping away at multiple choice questions is not high level math,” another parent said. But the mixed-results, coupled with negative qualitative feedback from parents, proved to be too much, and the district decided to call it quits. Don’t experiment with our children.” “I

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Learning Multiple Choice Questions Math Evaluation 151

Faculty Focus

JULY 27, 2023

Many times, learning a new educational technology tool is time-consuming. In this case, I am proposing using technology that we already use in our daily lives and applying it to our classrooms. To address equity and accessibility, professors could read the questions out loud and allow multiple ways of participation.

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Student Engagement Syllabus Students Lecturing 98

eSchool News

JANUARY 5, 2024

Ten years ago, when we began building equitable, offline-first education technology for the 2/3 of the world who didn’t have internet access, many people told us to just wait and the gap would close naturally. Immediate feedback also helps students develop self-efficacy.

Gamification 130

Gamification Intelligence Reading Ethics 130

Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

Among the choices educators make are what instructional technique to use, when and how to give feedback, and when and how to test student knowledge. What’s more, for each of these choices, there are additional decisions about which media to use (video, audio, hands-on), whether to give concrete examples, and more.

Education 218

Education Learning Textbooks Instructors 218

Edsurge

MAY 28, 2019

What you are essentially getting is the type of interaction and feedback that can be provided through multiple-choice questioning.” “The reality is the type of interaction occurring [between students and teachers] in these automated settings is cursory and requires a low level of student knowledge,” he says.

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Blended Learning Multiple Choice Questions Schools Achievement 167

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Of the 100 students participating in the pilot that began last January, 91 percent of families participated; of those, 84 percent submitted optional feedback, amounting to more than 300 personal messages to teachers last spring. Baer described the involvement of the families as “fantastic.”

Multiple Choice Questions 166

Multiple Choice Questions Assignments Schools Mobile Devices 166

Faculty Focus

JULY 6, 2023

Immediate feedback is a successful engagement strategy that promotes active learning and fosters a supportive, inclusive classroom, especially when used with low stakes assignments or to gauge transfer of knowledge (Epstein & Brosvic, 2002, Goldstein & Wallis, 2015). Kahoot allows you to create a set of multiple-choice questions.

Instructors 98

Instructors Multiple Choice Questions Internet Participation 98

Faculty Focus

JULY 6, 2023

Immediate feedback is a successful engagement strategy that promotes active learning and fosters a supportive, inclusive classroom, especially when used with low stakes assignments or to gauge transfer of knowledge (Epstein & Brosvic, 2002, Goldstein & Wallis, 2015). Kahoot allows you to create a set of multiple-choice questions.

Instructors 98

Instructors Multiple Choice Questions Internet Participation 98