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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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Multiple Choice Questions Quizzes Technology Teachers 199

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

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Testing Multiple Choice Questions Quizzes Assignments 157

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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

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AUGUST 17, 2018

The students answered 126 multiple-choice questions in class on materials that were just presented. Glass believes that there are appropriate uses for digital devices, explaining that he uses them during demonstrations and for pop quizzes, but those uses are “all classroom-related.”

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Multiple Choice Questions Exams Lecturing Attention 140

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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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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. But don’t expect to see them on screens just yet.

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Textbooks Multiple Choice Questions Quizzes Fairness 155

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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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