eSchool News

JUNE 28, 2016

“We see more districts turning to formative assessments as their way of measuring student progress, instead of relying on end-of-course exams–they’re looking at district-wide formative assessments,” Creel said. “[Districts] are really looking to publishers to help them with that.

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Multiple Choice Questions Exams Coaching Motivation 189

Cult of Pedagogy

APRIL 27, 2025

And that class, since I started doing that, is a 20 percent improvement in the exam grades. “You want just enough to get people motivated, but not so much that people feel anxious,” Blunt explains. ” Peer Instruction This strategy turns a simple multiple-choice question into a quick collaborative activity.

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Multiple Choice Questions Teachers Writing Questions 77

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 124

Edsurge

JANUARY 19, 2017

17, Rudolph explained the motivation behind the decision: “It’s hard to argue with personalized learning… but when everybody is sitting there saying ‘yes, this looks good,’ maybe we should ask some more critical questions.” “Not every child responds to learning on a computer,” one mother said at the study session.

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Learning Multiple Choice Questions Math Evaluation 151

Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

The third is motivational — the fuel that keeps students pushing forward when they get stuck on difficult material. But Newkirk wanted to improve students’ motivation as well, so he brought in Mark Lepper, a psychology professor at Stanford who has studied how best to keep learners on task. That’s referred to as the cognitive aspect.

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Education Learning Textbooks Instructors 218

Edsurge

APRIL 16, 2017

Students across the country are gearing up to take federally mandated, state-administered exams, and teachers, administrators and parents all feel the heat. At worst, it can narrow the curriculum, undermine meaningful learning, and stifle student interest and motivation. At best, test prep can yield modest, short-term gains in scores.

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Testing Exams Multiple Choice Questions Students 160