Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

These are the moments where creative activities can replace traditional methods like note-taking or multiple-choice questions and garner a much wider and deeper set of learning outcomes. Start by identifying areas in your curriculum where students need to dive deep into a concept or fully demonstrate their understanding.

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Multiple Choice Questions Assignments Intelligence Skills 199

Edsurge

AUGUST 27, 2020

But sometimes, distance learning can take an “app-centric” approach, where students spend more time watching instructional videos and answering multiple-choice questions than talking about concepts with their peers and teachers.

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Distance Learning Teaching Multiple Choice Questions Math 218

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

OCTOBER 25, 2016

To shed some light on the questions above, EdSurge talked to six educators to get their take. Here’s the big takeaway: Data doesn’t just come in the form of grades, attendance records and answers on multiple choice questions.

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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] I want you to remember something: you’re a superstar, and there are great things coming your way no matter what path you decide to take this year!” 3] Stressed.

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Multiple Choice Questions Motivation Intelligence Writing 216

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

But three months in, she had had enough of watching students in her English language arts class mentally check out from the monotony of the new structure: She read off district-created slides, and then students answered a multiple-choice question by holding up a markerboard where they scribbled an A, B, C or D.

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Schools Multiple Choice Questions Testing Reading 218

Edsurge

MARCH 17, 2021

Don’t put them in a room to talk about a multiple choice question. Give them a real question to discuss. Provide meaningful, engaging work : Make sure students are invested in the work by giving them engaging activities. Give students real meaningful work,” Watkins recommends.

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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 150

Edsurge

MARCH 6, 2024

Why Our Approach Must Change I am tired of practicing approaches to multiple choice questions and breaking down unnecessarily confusing writing prompts at the expense of project-based assignments relevant to my students’ daily lives, or deep discussions of texts that provide windows and mirrors to validate and challenge their experiences.

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Multidisciplinary Counselling Multiple Choice Questions Exams 201

Edsurge

AUGUST 30, 2016

It may sound like an oxymoron, but it is possible to assess where your students are on their learning path without taking home a stack of papers or forcing your students to complete mundane multiple choice questions in a simulated testing environment. The free account also includes free writing and drawing options.

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Multiple Choice Questions Assignments Exams Questions 107

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

Students who correctly answer 60 percent of the 10 multiple-choice questions on a pre-test can skip that unit. The Times acknowledges that the district’s online credit-recovery courses, developed by Edgenuity , are rigorous. But it notes that students can pass them without completing assignments.

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Multiple Choice Questions Assignments Testing Evaluation 132

Edsurge

AUGUST 17, 2018

The students answered 126 multiple-choice questions in class on materials that were just presented. However, a week later, they don’t remember it because that’s the effect of dividing attention.” In the study, students in two sections of a college course were instructed to use digital devices in only half the lectures.

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Multiple Choice Questions Exams Lecturing Attention 131

Edsurge

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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Testing Multiple Choice Questions Teaching Education 120

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Change.org petitions have been circulated opposing the use of Acellus in Hawaii Department of Education schools and at Alameda Unified. A multiple-choice question asks students to name the terrorist group Osama bin Laden led, and one answer option is “Towelban.”

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Learning Schools Multiple Choice Questions Distance Learning 211

Edsurge

JANUARY 28, 2019

The data included traditional ABC metrics drawn from student information systems, as well as data from the Panorama Social-Emotional Learning Survey , which asks students to reflect on their behavior, attitudes and mindsets through psychometrically-validated , multiple-choice questions.

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Multiple Choice Questions Learning Grades Special Education 167

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

That’s different than the standard delivery of text and multiple choice questions. One thing we do is build agents that hold a conversation in natural language. The computer has to understand as best it can what the meaning is behind what the student said. This is more interactive, and it attempts to pick up emotions.

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Intelligence Lecturing Multiple Choice Questions Learning 167

eSchool News

MAY 1, 2024

matching; multiple choice questions; free response questions graded in real time to provide students with instant feedback; and controversial conversations: Two historical figures debate on the most controversial topics within a particular course. To learn more about TeachTap or to download the app, visit [link].

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Exams High School High School History 141

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.

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Textbooks Multiple Choice Questions Quizzes Fairness 151

Edsurge

MARCH 11, 2020

Use Polls to Keep Students Engaged There are many tools available to pose multiple-choice questions to students remotely. Or professors can just ask students to respond to a prompt in the text chat included in most video conference platforms.

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Instructors Teaching Multiple Choice Questions Ethics 202

Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2018

He recently spoke with us about testing bias, holding psychometricians accountable for the exams they create and whether the future holds any innovation for a field still dominated by math, language and multiple choice questions. Mark Moulton : Here that whole question is, what does fair mean?

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Testing Fairness Multiple Choice Questions Exams 167

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.

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Multiple Choice Questions Assignments Quizzes Game-Based Learning 148

Edsurge

MAY 28, 2020

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. The app integrates artificial intelligence to find and capture specific items such as colors or objects.

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Activities Mobile Devices Multiple Choice Questions Motivation 180

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.

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Instructors Multiple Choice Questions Course Design Discussions 140

Edsurge

JANUARY 13, 2017

Adaptive technology that depends on algorithms alone is insufficient to foster learner-centric design. After all, one can use the phrase “adaptive” to describe the California DMV computer-based exam because an algorithm dynamically selects the next multiple choice question based on the user’s performance thus far.

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Multiple Choice Questions Instructors Textbooks Feedback 123

Edsurge

JANUARY 9, 2025

She lays out the need for graduation requirements to evolve, considering how little the multiple choice questions or essay prompts on standardized tests have to do with students lives after high school and their ability to thrive. Social-Emotional Learning Strategies Don't Work for Every Student.

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Essay Disabilities Multiple Choice Questions Math 105

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. “Not every child responds to learning on a computer,” one mother said at the study session. Don’t experiment with our children.” “I 16, urging the district to discontinue the program.

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Learning Multiple Choice Questions Math Evaluation 143

Edsurge

MAY 22, 2017

Certain low-level yet fundamental concepts, such as single-digit multiplication, can be demonstrated through conventional assessments, such as multiple-choice questions. Figuring out which assessments that are appropriate for each competency takes work.

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Education Multiple Choice Questions Fairness Questions 133

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. One thing that cannot be denied is the disconnect in today’s education technology between AV and IT and various domains.

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Gamification Intelligence Reading Ethics 360

Edsurge

JULY 16, 2018

Technology-Enhanced What’s easier to agree on is that multiple-choice questions are a poor way to measure soft skills. Darling-Hammond says the format is rarely used outside the U.S, where it’s unusually popular. “In

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Testing Exams Multiple Choice Questions STEM 105

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

Edsurge

AUGUST 21, 2018

The five-hour long test comes with about 100 questions. There are multiple-choice questions, coding exercises and two essay questions. Cofounder James Lin likens it to an “SAT for software engineers.” The test costs $19 to take, and CSPA can waive the fee for those with financial difficulties.

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Multiple Choice Questions Testing Questions Essay 105

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Some activities involve multiple-choice questions; others ask children to read words and passages in order to assess their oral fluency. Lalilo’s online literacy product focuses on helping K-2 students develop phonics, word recognition and reading comprehension skills through a series of online exercises and stories.

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English Multiple Choice Questions Teaching Assistants Special Education 65

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Some offered multiple-choice questions, for instance, that simply asked kids to pick the correct pronunciation—hardly a useful exercise. She noticed another problem: Many of the apps used speech recognition technologies that were trained with adult data samples.

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Laboratory Multiple Choice Questions English Testing 73

eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

In a structured classroom setting, an educator can only be expected to teach a certain amount of curriculum, and learners can only retain so much information at one time. Many fear that computer-generated grading would only perpetuate the education system’s reliance on multiple-choice questions.

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Plagiarism Education Intelligence Textbooks 130

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. One thing that cannot be denied is the disconnect in today’s education technology between AV and IT and various domains.

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Gamification Intelligence Reading Ethics 130

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

Source: PowerMyLearning Here’s what a Family Playlist is: Once every week or two (often at the end of a unit), a teacher creates a homework assignment with two parts: First the student does an assignment, for instance, reviewing how to graph coordinates on a plane and answering multiple-choice questions.

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Multiple Choice Questions Assignments Schools Mobile Devices 166