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What data is necessary to help students succeed?

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In contrast, medical school can overwhelm students with detailed information, like longitudinal reports on multiple-choice question performance throughout the year. This raises an essential question: What kind of feedback information is genuinely useful for students?

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LearnWith.AI Launches TeachTap, the first AI-powered learning app for AP exam prep and high school courses

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“TeachTap is a game-changer for students preparing for AP exams and studying high school courses. Pearson Edgington, a high school senior who piloted TeachTap, shared his experience: “TeachTap made studying for my AP exams actually fun and interesting. History, World History, European History, U.S.

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Can a Test Ever Be Fair? How Today's Standardized Tests Get Made.

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Moulton has worked in the field for about 15 years with a small family-run company called Educational Data Systems , which makes exams for local districts and high stakes tests for the state of California. There are things like history where every grade is its own story, and the results of one grade are not comparable to another grade.

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Kids Discover Online unveils custom assessments feature

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This feature can also be used to differentiate homework assignments from exams. Kids Discover will automatically grade all true/false and multiple-choice questions, giving teachers more time to focus on their students.

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Teaching Courses that Provoke Student Anxiety

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Those of us concerned about student anxiety in our courses have history on our side. The pressure to solve problems, answer multiple-choice question, and write essays on an exam scares them. Two recent articles (see the references) explore the anxiety associated with social science statistics courses.

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How You Can Take the Pain Out Of Data-Driven Classrooms

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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. There’s also a summative assessment option (think end-of-unit exams).

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Teaching Courses that Provoke Student Anxiety

Faculty Focus

Those of us concerned about student anxiety in our courses have history on our side. The pressure to solve problems, answer multiple-choice question, and write essays on an exam scares them. Two recent articles (see the references) explore the anxiety associated with social science statistics courses.

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