Edsurge

JULY 16, 2018

At the end of next school year, thousands of high school students will sit down at individual workstations, laptops in hand, for an end-of-course exam. Is it important to measure those skills? I think there’s more of a question about that. Testing for such skills relies heavily on technology and required a significant retooling.

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Testing Exams Multiple Choice Questions STEM 104

Edsurge

AUGUST 30, 2016

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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Multiple Choice Questions Assignments Questions Exams 105

Edsurge

JANUARY 19, 2017

Among the tools the district found was Teach to One: Math (TTO), a digital personalized learning program by New Classrooms , a New York-based nonprofit, that adapts to a student’s individual skills and gaps. I want my 5th grader to be well-educated… Tapping away at multiple choice questions is not high level math,” another parent said.

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Learning Multiple Choice Questions Math Evaluation 144

Edsurge

AUGUST 21, 2018

The five-hour long test comes with about 100 questions. There are multiple-choice questions, coding exercises and two essay questions. His hope is that CSPA can become an authority to certifying this skill. Cofounder James Lin likens it to an “SAT for software engineers.” According to cofounder Ba?ar

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Multiple Choice Questions Testing Questions Essay 102

Faculty Focus

JULY 27, 2023

It might be about current events related to the field, the assigned reading of the day, a difficult problem or concept, or a reflection on the time and method that students are using to prepare for an upcoming exam. To address equity and accessibility, professors could read the questions out loud and allow multiple ways of participation.

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Student Engagement Syllabus Students Lecturing 98

Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

“Instrumenting” classrooms means being able to track what students are doing as they go through learning materials, such as digital textbooks and online labs, and seeing which behaviors tend to lead to the best performance on quizzes, exams or other measures of student learning.

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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. State exams should aim to understand students’ ability to apply their knowledge from one situation to the next, a process cognitive scientists call “transfer.”

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