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APRIL 24, 2024

How Low-Carb Diets Fuel High-Achieving Students Have you ever considered that your diet could be the secret weapon in your quest for academic success? 5 Ways Low-Carb Diets Fuel High-Achieving Students Unlock the academic prowess within you by exploring how a low-carb diet could energize your studies.

Achievement 167

Achievement Multiple Choice Questions Students Study 167

Edsurge

AUGUST 17, 2018

The question of whether or not to allow students to use smartphones, laptops and other technology in the classroom has been long-debated , and at times, heated. Arnold Glass, a researcher and professor at Rutgers University’s psychology department, ran the study with graduate student Mengxue Kang.

Multiple Choice Questions 138

Multiple Choice Questions Exams Lecturing Attention 138

Faculty Focus

MAY 2, 2024

Do you teach one of those courses that promotes lots of student anxiety? Student are convinced they can’t learn what we’re teaching, worry they won’t do well on the tests, and become filled with anxiety over anything in a course that looks like it might be hard. What causes students to dread the social science statistics course?

Teaching 111

Teaching Multidisciplinary Multiple Choice Questions Exams 111

Faculty Focus

MAY 1, 2025

I taught a group of students unlike any I had taught over the span of my long teaching experience in diverse settings and institutions. The students portrayed an exceptional level of behavioral engagement. At the end of my visit, I left those students and went back home to my regular educational setting.

Academic Integrity 108

Academic Integrity Multiple Choice Questions Learning Students 108

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

The bot has raised many questions, to name just a few: how ChatGPT will affect exams, how to help students use it critically and within the boundaries of academic integrity, how to talk about it in class, and whether it can help faculty plan activities or even generate content like examples or cases. So far, so good.

Multiple Choice Questions 111

Multiple Choice Questions Plagiarism Writing Questions 111

Faculty Focus

MAY 2, 2024

Do you teach one of those courses that promotes lots of student anxiety? Student are convinced they can’t learn what we’re teaching, worry they won’t do well on the tests, and become filled with anxiety over anything in a course that looks like it might be hard. What causes students to dread the social science statistics course?

Teaching 104

Teaching Multidisciplinary Multiple Choice Questions Exams 104

Faculty Focus

MAY 1, 2025

I taught a group of students unlike any I had taught over the span of my long teaching experience in diverse settings and institutions. The students portrayed an exceptional level of behavioral engagement. At the end of my visit, I left those students and went back home to my regular educational setting.

Academic Integrity 95

Academic Integrity Multiple Choice Questions Learning Students 95

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

The bot has raised many questions, to name just a few: how ChatGPT will affect exams, how to help students use it critically and within the boundaries of academic integrity, how to talk about it in class, and whether it can help faculty plan activities or even generate content like examples or cases. So far, so good.

Multiple Choice Questions 98

Multiple Choice Questions Plagiarism Writing Questions 98

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JANUARY 10, 2018

To some, standardized testing overwhelms our schools and helps eradicate differences between students. For others, they remain the best way to compare students objectively and hold schools accountable. Whatever your thoughts, there’s no denying that students are taking lots of tests. Two years ago, U.S. asks Mark Moulton.

Testing 167

Testing Fairness Multiple Choice Questions Exams 167

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AUGUST 30, 2016

Formative assessments give us an idea of what our students are understanding during instruction, and can be embedded in the lesson activities. Expose your students to questions requiring higher order thinking skills and manipulation of TEI using a few of these tried and true techy apps. These are painless assessment tools.

Multiple Choice Questions 110

Multiple Choice Questions Assignments Exams Questions 110

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NOVEMBER 21, 2018

A) Choose questions that most students will be able to answer correctly. B) Vary the types of poll questions beyond multiple choice. C) Ask students “Please discuss your answer with a neighbor.” D) Stress that students answer questions independent of their peers. Select all that apply.

Instructors 145

Instructors Multiple Choice Questions Course Design Discussions 145

eSchool News

AUGUST 22, 2016

Kids Discover Online enables educators to mix and match material from science and social studies to facilitate students’ exploration of big ideas through cross-curricular learning. The tool was created to be as flexible as possible, giving educators the freedom to edit existing questions or create their own.

Multiple Choice Questions 112

Multiple Choice Questions Quizzes Social Studies Exams 112

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JULY 11, 2023

When you think about that in an educational context, it … really opens up the opportunity to give more students the kinds of things that are better supporting their learning.” If we're going to average out everything, we're going to have student populations for whom the intervention that's good for everybody isn't good for them individually.

Testing 124

Testing Multiple Choice Questions Teaching Education 124

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JANUARY 13, 2017

Online courses are “smart,” one might assume, because they use technology to improve educational outcomes or, at least, create new efficiencies or extend the abilities of faculty and students. They understand where students may struggle and build in adaptive feedback to provide real-time support. Designed Adaptivity.

Multiple Choice Questions 135

Multiple Choice Questions Instructors Textbooks Feedback 135

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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. I think there’s more of a question about that. But those had traditionally focused on subject-specific skills, and were entirely multiple choice. Their goal?

Testing 112

Testing Exams Multiple Choice Questions STEM 112

Faculty Focus

JULY 27, 2023

QR codes can be used to share materials with students and to engage students in active learning activities. Not all students will come to class with a laptop but many will have a phone with a camera. And most students will know what to do when they see a QR code! The entry ticket asks students to answer a question.

Student Engagement 98

Student Engagement Syllabus Students Lecturing 98

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JANUARY 19, 2017

Ayindé Rudolph, superintendent at Mountain View Whisman School District (MVWSD), wants to see students improve, be challenged and get excited about learning. But that’s not always easy when students perform at different proficiency levels and speeds. A few days later, at a study session with parents on Jan.

Learning 151

Learning Multiple Choice Questions Math Evaluation 151

Cult of Pedagogy

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Any time we teach our students something , we need to check to see how well they learned it. The most common way to do this is with some kind of a test, which traditionally happens at the end of a unit — a final exam of some kind. Which leads us to the next condition: The question itself has to be a good one.

Multiple Choice Questions 125

Multiple Choice Questions Culture Questions Grades 125

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AUGUST 21, 2018

askMyClass This Menlo Park-based startup seeks to offer teachers classroom management strategies, lesson support and social-emotional support for students via voice technology. Companies that use Goodly only pay for those employees that decide to take advantage of a student loan repayment matching program.

Multiple Choice Questions 109

Multiple Choice Questions Testing Questions Essay 109

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JUNE 9, 2020

In the late 1960s, Nobel Prize-winning economist Herbert Simon posed the following thought exercise: Imagine you are an alien from Mars visiting a college on Earth, and you spend a day observing how professors teach their students. Only 58% of students who started college in 2012 had graduated 6 years later.

Education 218

Education Learning Textbooks Instructors 218

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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. Schools will be in competition to attract students and the publicly funded voucher dollars that come along with them.

Testing 160

Testing Exams Multiple Choice Questions Students 160