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

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

Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 24, 2024

Let’s break it down: Stamina During Exams: A stable release of glucose provides prolonged energy. Remember that fluctuating moods can cloud your judgment and impair your decision-making – a critical aspect when facing multiple-choice questions or mapping the outline of an essay.

Achievement 167

Achievement Multiple Choice Questions Students Study 167

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

CRS technology is a key tool in our inclusive teaching tool kit because it supports multiple opportunities for practice for all students (structured course design) and allows for anonymous participation that doesn’t require “ speaking up ” (structured facilitation). In our own teaching, we call these “typical test questions” or TTQs.

Instructors 140

Instructors Multiple Choice Questions Course Design Discussions 140

Faculty Focus

MAY 1, 2025

Though hesitant at first, I accepted the opportunity to do what turned out to be one of my most rewarding teaching experiences. I taught a group of students unlike any I had taught over the span of my long teaching experience in diverse settings and institutions. One student advised me: Next time you teach here, be tougher on students.

Academic Integrity 104

Academic Integrity Multiple Choice Questions Learning Students 104

Edsurge

AUGUST 30, 2016

After all, no one wants to spend days or even weeks teaching an objective only to find out at the end of the unit, half the class was totally lost! Expose your students to questions requiring higher order thinking skills and manipulation of TEI using a few of these tried and true techy apps. Nearpod First, there’s Nearpod.

Multiple Choice Questions 107

Multiple Choice Questions Assignments Exams Questions 107

Edsurge

JANUARY 13, 2017

It turns out that what makes a course smart isn’t necessarily the use of impressive technology or data; it’s about the way technology enhances the practices of good teaching and learning. Here are four key attributes of a smart course: Learner-Centric Design. Smart courses aren’t just about simple plug and play or digitized textbook content.

Multiple Choice Questions 128

Multiple Choice Questions Instructors Textbooks Feedback 128

Faculty Focus

MAY 1, 2025

Though hesitant at first, I accepted the opportunity to do what turned out to be one of my most rewarding teaching experiences. I taught a group of students unlike any I had taught over the span of my long teaching experience in diverse settings and institutions. One student advised me: Next time you teach here, be tougher on students.

Academic Integrity 92

Academic Integrity Multiple Choice Questions Learning Students 92

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. But in fact, it actually helps to have a closed question if you really want to check for understanding.”

Multiple Choice Questions 129

Multiple Choice Questions Culture Questions Grades 129

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. Effective immediately, the district will discontinue using Teach to One,” Rudolph wrote in a letter to parents on Jan.

Learning 146

Learning Multiple Choice Questions Math Evaluation 146

Faculty Focus

JULY 27, 2023

In my work supporting faculty, I have learned that professors always appreciate strategies to make their teaching more efficient. To address equity and accessibility, professors could read the questions out loud and allow multiple ways of participation. Many times, learning a new educational technology tool is time-consuming.

Student Engagement 98

Student Engagement Syllabus Students Lecturing 98

Edsurge

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. Teaching at colleges is often done without any formal training.

Education 218

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

Testing 159

Testing Exams Multiple Choice Questions Students 159