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5 AI tools for classroom creativity

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Through writing prompts and AI-generated illustrations, students bring their stories to life with engaging visuals. AI-powered writing assistants help students refine their essays and creative writing, offering suggestions that improve clarity and expression. What are you using AI for in your school/classroom?

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Should Professors (a) Use Multiple Choice Tests or (b) Avoid Them At All Costs?

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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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College Board Changes AP Exams Again to Accommodate Pandemic-Era Testing

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These changes come on the heels of the College Board’s decision last month to move away from SAT subject tests and optional essay tests, which it also produces. Testing a New Approach Digital and paper exams in some subjects—though not all—may have minute differences for questions where a student is limited by the digital format.

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Here Are the 10 Stories K-12 Readers Couldn’t Put Down in 2024

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As we look back at the K-12 stories that resonated the most with our readers last year, a trend quickly emerges: 2024 was the year of the personal essay. Our top post of the entire year was a vulnerable essay about an administrators leadership failure and how he made things right.

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Teaching Courses that Provoke Student Anxiety

Faculty Focus

The pressure to solve problems, answer multiple-choice question, and write essays on an exam scares them. This fear is about the skills needed in the course itself, much like students taking a poetry course are anxious because they think they can’t write poetry. They’re convinced they won’t do well.

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Test prep works

Dangerously Irrelevant

I don’t rely on essay formulas to craft my briefs, and of course I have never encountered an MBE-style multiple choice question. She might become a genius at immersing herself in the logic of the test makers, but will she learn to write purposefully and well? But the thing is… PMBR and BAR/BRI worked.

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Teaching Courses that Provoke Student Anxiety

Faculty Focus

The pressure to solve problems, answer multiple-choice question, and write essays on an exam scares them. This fear is about the skills needed in the course itself, much like students taking a poetry course are anxious because they think they can’t write poetry. They’re convinced they won’t do well.

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