Faculty Focus

APRIL 17, 2025

In my mind, the purpose of learning was to get good grades. Grades were everythingsymbols of success and a source of validation. I continued this pattern in college, focused solely on grades and making my parents proud. In my confusion, I began reading for curiosity rather than exams. But when I graduated, I felt lost.

Grades 101

Grades Social Studies Learning Feedback 101

Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 15, 2024

Some reasons why you may find these tools beneficial are: Organization: organize lesson plans, assignments, and resources efficiently Communication: between teachers, students, and parents to foster a collaborative relationship, keep everyone informed Student Engagement: to make learning more interesting and interactive Time Management: schedule reminders, (..)

Classroom Management 183

Classroom Management Mobile Devices Plagiarism Quizzes 183

Edsurge

JANUARY 11, 2021

When I started teaching data science and artificial intelligence in Duke University’s Pratt School of Engineering, I was frustrated by how little insight I actually felt I had into how effective my teaching was, until the end-of-semester final exam grades and student assessments came in. This is where machine learning comes in.

Teaching 214

Teaching Instructors Quizzes Intelligence 214

Edsurge

JUNE 26, 2019

The ACT skill, which provides general information about the exam and can help students prepare for the test, will be available to the public this fall. Kahoot, a game-based learning company with a trove of millions of educational quizzes, also announced its first Alexa skill this week. True or false.”

Skills 167

Skills Quizzes Teachers Testing 167

Edsurge

JANUARY 8, 2024

A number of instructors in the math department at San Diego Mesa College, where she's a professor, had started exploring how to weave standards-based grading — an approach that evaluates students on how effectively they have mastered content — into the way they teach calculus.

Math 168

Math Quizzes Instructors Students 168

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

I vary both the number and type of questions I use on the quizzes. The grading scheme I use allows students to choose how much the quiz will count. The grading scheme gives instructors the flexibility to vary the points as they see fit. I administer two daily quizzes in that course. My use of these quizzes has evolved.

Quizzes 107

Quizzes Lecturing Course Evaluations Exams 107

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

I vary both the number and type of questions I use on the quizzes. The grading scheme I use allows students to choose how much the quiz will count. The grading scheme gives instructors the flexibility to vary the points as they see fit. I administer two daily quizzes in that course. My use of these quizzes has evolved.

Quizzes 97

Quizzes Lecturing Course Evaluations Exams 97

Edsurge

AUGUST 17, 2018

The study , published in the journal Educational Psychology, found that when students divide attention between electronic devices and a classroom lecture, they still followed the lecture in the moment, but that long-term retention was reduced, resulting in lower grades on unit and final exams.

Multiple Choice Questions 132

Multiple Choice Questions Exams Lecturing Attention 132

Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2018

Yet every year I see these same students soar and complete the class with high grades. And how can we teach that poor grades don't indicate failure, but rather that we haven’t found the correct learning strategy? Those mini-quizzes became a way for the students to differentiate what they knew from what they didn’t. The purpose?

Teaching 168

Teaching Failure Quizzes Learning 168

eSchool News

AUGUST 22, 2016

The newly added Assessments tool gives educators full control to create, distribute, and assess custom quizzes, tests, and homework assignments directly within the platform. Using the question bank as a starting point, educators can create custom assessments ranging from short multiple-choice quizzes to longer mixed-question assessments.

Multiple Choice Questions 126

Multiple Choice Questions Quizzes Social Studies Exams 126

Edsurge

MAY 6, 2019

With Advanced Placement exams starting this month, the past weeks have kept Amanda DoAmaral working around the clock. The company’s name is a reference to the best score possible on the AP exam. On Fiveable, visitors can watch livestreams of AP exam review for free. And she’s starting with subjects that she knows best.

Testing 153

Testing Exams Teachers History 153

Edsurge

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Formative: more informal check-ins—quizzes, questions from the front of the room, or even chats with students—that assess how students are absorbing material and allow teachers to adjust lessons on the fly. We want teachers to teach the grade-level content, but they cannot go back and teach everything that a student may have missed.

Education 211

Education Quizzes Exams Textbooks 211

Edsurge

MARCH 5, 2020

I found some quizzes and tests,” she said, noting that plenty of those materials and PowerPoint slides from other professors were easily found on Course Hero about the subject she was teaching, biomaterials. She didn’t really pay attention to the goal of the site—which is for students to share their notes and other class materials.

Study 132

Study Exams Quizzes Assignments 132

EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 16, 2018

Summative assessments, such as final exams, can be a great way to assess the efficacy of a curriculum within a school , offering a view of an entire class in order to judge what materials or classroom structures may need to be adjusted for the next year. . Microsoft Forms is flexible enough to support formative assessments of an entire grade.

Quizzes 160

Quizzes Students Elementary School Elementary School 160

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 5, 2023

AI can also generate short content, such as answers to take-home quizzes or un-proctored multiple-choice exams. On the faculty side, AI can generate grading rubrics and well-stated course objectives in line with specified learning domains and Bloom’s taxonomy. What are the pros of such uses?

Intelligence 144

Intelligence Plagiarism Quizzes Academic Integrity 144

eSchool News

JUNE 28, 2016

Ormiboard comes preloaded with an expanding database of searchable lessons and activities including quick quizzes, click-and-drag assignments, games, and exams. Ormiboard users can also share their creations with anyone, anywhere in the world through an online marketplace.

Mobile Devices 133

Mobile Devices Quizzes Exams Assignments 133

Dangerously Irrelevant

OCTOBER 15, 2021

quizzes and flashcards), rather than cramming information into students’ heads (e.g., Here is an example third grade mathematics proficiency scale [intentionally anonymized]: And, once again, we have to ask ourselves the tougher question of ‘ Proficiency scaling and student leveling ON WHAT? lectures)” (p.

Quizzes 143

Quizzes Learning Lecturing Students 143

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 28, 2024

Assigning a small number of points associated with the pre-lab quizzes allows students to accumulate “low-stakes” points, potentially benefiting their overall grade. Improving a cademic p erformance: The most beneficial aspect of incorporation of pre-lab videos is their positive effect on student grades. 2006; Saxena et al.,

Laboratory 124

Laboratory Teaching Exams Quizzes 124

Edsurge

MARCH 2, 2020

I wasn’t requiring teachers to include an instructional video or a voiceover audio for lessons,” says Boyle, who oversees about 450 students in grades 6-12. “No Some of the teachers we know, who teach first and second grade, for the first couple of weeks were working 18 hour days,” says Robin Shawver, a librarian at the school.

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Schools Students Assignments Testing 218

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Whether a feature film or an instructional video, the ‘80s and ‘90s were a ‘press-play’ culture that expected students to sit still, absorb and retain, while the educator sat in the back grading. In other words, too often we merely administer a high stakes exam or a pop quiz to check whether they watched a video.

Teaching 181

Teaching Instructors Teaching Philosophy Education 181

Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 1, 2018

Depending upon the level of service subscribed to, students can view videos, take practice quizzes and exams, and get credit for classes passed through a proctored exam. All they need is an internet connection and a webcam (for proctored exams). Take quizzes and proctored exams available in your subscription.

Exams 83

Exams Quizzes Textbooks Syllabus 83

Faculty Focus

MARCH 27, 2025

Every semester, a student hoping to “earn their desired grade” approaches me at the last minute, asking to make up all their missed assignments. Why shouldnt a professor simply allow a student to complete all the assignments before final grades are due without regard to timing? So why enforce due dates at all.

Assignments 108

Assignments Exams Learning Quizzes 108

Cult of Pedagogy

APRIL 27, 2025

I have encouraged giving frequent quizzes , think-pair-shares , and teaching students to use flashcards , but there are a lot of other ways to do it. And that class, since I started doing that, is a 20 percent improvement in the exam grades. Joining me on the podcast are three cognitive scientists. The first is Dr. .

Multiple Choice Questions 77

Multiple Choice Questions Teachers Writing Questions 77

Faculty Focus

JUNE 30, 2024

If the student comes to class, does the homework, and studies for the exam, will that produce a high score? Another implication: students’ motivation increases when they are given the chance to make choices and exercise some control over learning, say, for example, deciding the relative weight of quizzes and exams within a designated range.

Motivation 111

Motivation Beliefs Exams Students 111

Edsurge

JULY 9, 2021

In June, Dartmouth College dropped a cheating investigation into medical students following the dubious use of Canvas to track perceived activity during exams. It’s a timely one, too, as recent news has shown just how tired students are of secret monitoring. But if researchers are A/B testing two innocuous options, what’s the harm?

Ethics 202

Ethics Knowledge Testing Learning 202

Edsurge

JUNE 8, 2022

Students could access chatbot quizzes ahead of exams to help assess their level of understanding. Students receiving the text messages were more likely to earn a B or higher in the class; 60 percent of the control group earned at least that grade, compared to 68 percent of the intervention group.

Student Engagement 194

Student Engagement Instructors Hybrid Courses Exams 194

Faculty Focus

JUNE 30, 2024

If the student comes to class, does the homework, and studies for the exam, will that produce a high score? Another implication: students’ motivation increases when they are given the chance to make choices and exercise some control over learning, say, for example, deciding the relative weight of quizzes and exams within a designated range.

Motivation 109

Motivation Beliefs Exams Students 109

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2024

However, courses characterized by rigid policies, bell-curve grading, and multiple assignments that lack clarity, purpose, and/or authenticity create a level of logistical rigor that depletes students’ motivation, engagement, and limited cognitive bandwidth. This type of intellectual rigor is desirable in course design.

Syllabus 132

Syllabus Exams Students Motivation 132

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 28, 2024

Assigning a small number of points associated with the pre-lab quizzes allows students to accumulate “low-stakes” points, potentially benefiting their overall grade. Improving a cademic p erformance: The most beneficial aspect of incorporation of pre-lab videos is their positive effect on student grades. 2006; Saxena et al.,

Laboratory 111

Laboratory Teaching Exams Quizzes 111

Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2018

Do exams still serve a purpose? How do we move beyond grades to more meaningful demonstrations of learning? Where there’s an alternative there must be a standard, so we started our chat creating a list of what those standard assignment are: exams, quizzes, essays, reports, lab manuals and the like. Yes exactly.

Assignments 96

Assignments Exams Instructors Learning 96

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

For example, each semester I assign students an individual “creative project” worth a good amount of their overall grade. This allows students great control over their project (worth 10% of their course grade), and it allows them to incorporate their interests into a subject that can often be viewed as a ‘dry’.

Exams 116

Exams Syllabus Group work Assignments 116

Faculty Focus

APRIL 16, 2024

PowerPoints, brief lectures or lecture videos, images, diagrams, quizzes, and interactive activities can be utilized to deliver prelusive course content. The pre-course can be non-graded but consider including opportunities for students to assess their own understanding and progress through self-assessment quizzes.

Exams 115

Exams Quizzes Students Course Design 115

Faculty Focus

MARCH 27, 2025

Every semester, a student hoping to “earn their desired grade” approaches me at the last minute, asking to make up all their missed assignments. Why shouldnt a professor simply allow a student to complete all the assignments before final grades are due without regard to timing? So why enforce due dates at all.

Assignments 96

Assignments Exams Learning Quizzes 96

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

However, assessment is more than just grading and is often misunderstood. In order to provide useful information to instructors and students about student achievement, it must be understood that student assessment is more than just a grade because it should link student performance to specific learning objectives.

Fairness 122

Fairness Instructors Feedback Evaluation 122

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

For example, each semester I assign students an individual “creative project” worth a good amount of their overall grade. This allows students great control over their project (worth 10% of their course grade), and it allows them to incorporate their interests into a subject that can often be viewed as a ‘dry’.

Exams 111

Exams Syllabus Group work Assignments 111

Edsurge

APRIL 28, 2020

These activities take no more than 15 minutes and are graded so students are incentivized to try in earnest. I see now that it is important for students to have practice opportunities to differentiate between similar skills when the stakes are low so that they can be more successful on high stakes assessments like quizzes and unit tests.

Math 215

Math Coaching Testing Assignments 215

Faculty Focus

MAY 2, 2024

The pressure to solve problems, answer multiple-choice question, and write essays on an exam scares them. Is it related to the course specifically, their confidence as learners, worries about the grade, test anxiety, or the absence of some necessary skill? They’re convinced they won’t do well.

Teaching 111

Teaching Multidisciplinary Multiple Choice Questions Exams 111