eSchool News

AUGUST 14, 2024

teachers are outnumbered on average 16 students to 1 teacher in the classroom (though this number can be as high as 23 to 1 in states such as California ). One issue facing teachers is the seemingly never-ending stream of curriculum changes and standardization. So, what is the root of the problem, and what can we do about it?

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Edsurge

JUNE 26, 2019

The ACT skill, which provides general information about the exam and can help students prepare for the test, will be available to the public this fall. Kahoot, a game-based learning company with a trove of millions of educational quizzes, also announced its first Alexa skill this week. Her passion project took off from there.

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Edsurge

MAY 6, 2019

With Advanced Placement exams starting this month, the past weeks have kept Amanda DoAmaral working around the clock. As students cram, her team of four has been scrambling to meet the demand on Fiveable , where she and other teachers broadcast live test-prep sessions. They didn’t like the new teacher, and felt unprepared and stressed.

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Testing Exams Teachers History 158

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

The pandemic is changing the way tests and quizzes are conducted at colleges across the country, with the rapid adoption of new tools that proponents say catch cheating, but in ways that many students say amount to an unacceptable invasion of their privacy. million exams. In October we did 3.5

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eSchool News

APRIL 29, 2024

. “It is critical that we ensure appropriate supports and guardrails are in place for our teachers and students to effectively use generative artificial intelligence. This partnership will enable teachers across Canada to offer ethical, quality AI training to their students.

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Intelligence Exams Ethics Learning Styles 258

eSchool News

APRIL 15, 2020

Eko’s virtual classroom experience ensures teachers, students, parents and school staff all stay connected ensuring a sense of school community and spirit, minimizing the disruption to learning and student progress. A library for centralizing useful content, ranging from reading materials to exam papers.

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Quizzes Exams Learning Communication 157

Edsurge

JANUARY 11, 2021

When I started teaching data science and artificial intelligence in Duke University’s Pratt School of Engineering, I was frustrated by how little insight I actually felt I had into how effective my teaching was, until the end-of-semester final exam grades and student assessments came in. So how does one identify a student’s knowledge state?

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Teaching Instructors Quizzes Intelligence 215

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

As he watched his own kids adjust to online schooling during the pandemic, he felt that Zoom lacked features to let teachers handle standard classroom activities such as taking attendance or giving quizzes. If you tell them, ‘It’s at seven o'clock on Wednesday night, there's a teacher there,’ everybody shows up.

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Online Learning Technology Quizzes Learning 198

Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 4, 2018

If you’re one of the many who must take the IELTS test, one of our Ask a Tech Teacher contributors has come to your rescue. Here are five great websites to prepare you: The classroom is not the only place you can prepare for your IELTS exam. Stress has been taken out of your IELTS exam prep. IELTS Simon.

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Exams Instructors Testing Quizzes 74

Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 14, 2023

Tools like Siri, Alexa, ChatGPT, and a plethora of apps seem perfect for handling the repetitive and time-consuming aspects of education that take teachers away from the core of most lessons that require critical thinking, creativity, and problem-solving. But what sets QuizGecko apart is its innovative use of AI.

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Quizzes Gamification Teaching Methods Feedback 148

Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 15, 2024

Classroom management tools are useful for teachers to create an organized, productive, and conducive learning environment. She is the editor/author of over a hundred tech ed resources including a K-12 technology curriculum , K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 Digital Citizenship curriculum.

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Classroom Management Mobile Devices Plagiarism Quizzes 183

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

At the start of her introductory chemistry class, rising sophomore Olivia takes out her laptop and begins following along while the teacher in front of her navigates a slideshare presentation. Halfway through, Olivia asks a question and later demonstrates what she’s just learned on a whiteboard behind the teacher’s desk.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 8, 2024

Not long after, Spoon started changing up how she handled quizzes in a calculus class she taught. The problem with this approach, she notes, is that if a student scores a 50 percent on an early exam, sometimes that doesn't feel recoverable and they put in less effort over the rest of the semester or drop the class.

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Math Quizzes Instructors Students 176

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

The professor, who also teachers physiology and biophysics, relies on the university’s learning management system, Canvas, to host the office hours through the platform’s video conferencing feature. Before exams, I have had two-thirds of students attending, which is really hard to achieve in in-person office hours,” he says.

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Exams Students Quizzes Questions 166

Edsurge

APRIL 3, 2017

On March 22, Google and the Lemann Foundation, an education nonprofit in Brazil, announced plans for an initiative that will deliver digital lessons directly to the cellphones of elementary school teachers. The Prova Brasil [the standardized Brazilian national exam]data tell us which are the most problematic areas.

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Teachers Quizzes Exams Elementary School 108

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

As a teacher or a student, you may remember a holiday-week screening of E.T. I still remember one teacher I had pointing to his TV cart and saying, “that’s the busy teacher’s best friend.” Teachers can begin by helping students draw personal connections with that video.

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Teaching Instructors Teaching Philosophy Education 190

Edsurge

DECEMBER 15, 2020

She has served as a classroom teacher, principal and central office administrator. During that time, she came to see the importance of having a roadmap for curriculum and assessments so that teachers and administrators had common language and benchmarks for success. What are you going to do with it?’ We've always done it.’

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Education Quizzes Exams Textbooks 213

Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2018

Her teacher wanted her in my class for socialization purposes, and she did well. Those mini-quizzes became a way for the students to differentiate what they knew from what they didn’t. To me, it indicated that students were using their time with their dedicated special ed teacher wisely and learning to review what they didn’t know.

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Teaching Failure Quizzes Learning 168

EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 16, 2018

As personalized learning becomes a more mainstream pedagogy in K–12 classrooms, teachers have started to adapt assessment processes to get a deeper look at student growth. . Formative assessments, meanwhile, provide for more fluid interaction between teachers and students. eli.zimmerman_9856. Tue, 10/16/2018 - 11:44.

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Quizzes Students Elementary School Elementary School 159

Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 1, 2018

Depending upon the level of service subscribed to, students can view videos, take practice quizzes and exams, and get credit for classes passed through a proctored exam. All they need is an internet connection and a webcam (for proctored exams). Take quizzes and proctored exams available in your subscription.

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Exams Quizzes Textbooks Syllabus 83

Edsurge

JULY 9, 2021

In June, Dartmouth College dropped a cheating investigation into medical students following the dubious use of Canvas to track perceived activity during exams. A researcher like Lynch might learn something from the experiment, but some students and their teacher would suffer the consequences. We’re always running experiments.

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Ethics Knowledge Testing Learning 207

Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 14, 2024

6 Key trends in education to be looking at, from the Ask a Tech Teacher team: Key Digital Innovations for Today’s Education Professionals The digital transformation is underway, and while its impact on society is undeniable, education is among the most disproportionately affected areas.

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Gamification Hybrid Learning Education Motivation 167

Faculty Focus

JUNE 30, 2024

It does have a clear, easy to follow organizational structure and most notably, it spells out implications—what teachers might consider doing in response to what the research says motivates students. The first implication for teachers involves the feedback they provide students. It needs to be accurate.

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Motivation Beliefs Exams Students 111

Dangerously Irrelevant

OCTOBER 15, 2021

quizzes and flashcards), rather than cramming information into students’ heads (e.g., practicing math problems, quizzes, flashcards, teacher lectures, and so on). A number of educators across the country are finding great value in ‘learning science’ books such as Powerful Teaching: Unleash the Science of Learning.

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Quizzes Learning Lecturing Students 143

eSchool News

AUGUST 22, 2016

The newly added Assessments tool gives educators full control to create, distribute, and assess custom quizzes, tests, and homework assignments directly within the platform. Using the question bank as a starting point, educators can create custom assessments ranging from short multiple-choice quizzes to longer mixed-question assessments.

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Multiple Choice Questions Quizzes Social Studies Exams 111

Edsurge

JUNE 8, 2022

Students could access chatbot quizzes ahead of exams to help assess their level of understanding. But Meyer believes it’s reasonable for students to need extra guidance when they make the transition from small high school classes with highly involved teachers to large college college classes that offer less instructional support.

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Student Engagement Instructors Hybrid Courses Exams 200

Faculty Focus

JUNE 30, 2024

It does have a clear, easy to follow organizational structure and most notably, it spells out implications—what teachers might consider doing in response to what the research says motivates students. The first implication for teachers involves the feedback they provide students. It needs to be accurate.

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Motivation Beliefs Exams Students 110

Edsurge

MARCH 2, 2020

But for thousands of so-called international schools in Asia, many of which follow American curriculum and employ American teachers, it’s already daily life. In general, teachers and schools are not used to an online environment,” explains Watts, who taught for years in Hong Kong but is now based in Princeton, N.J. “So Here in the U.S.

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Schools Students Assignments Testing 218

Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Here are a few more: Quizzes : Assigning tests and quizzes throughout the semester is necessary to assess student understanding of important course content. A nonlinear approach to testing incorporates student-generated quizzes. that demonstrate the content in a more creative way. References Capra, F. & & Luisi, P.

Teaching 119

Teaching Quizzes Instructors Exams 119

eSchool News

JUNE 28, 2016

The device-agnostic, Google Classroom-integrated, collaborative tool allows teachers and students to build lessons, activities, and interactive games. Ormiboard gives teachers and students the freedom to build lessons, activities, and interactive games for use in any classroom that has displays and/or mobile devices.

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Mobile Devices Quizzes Exams Assignments 115

Edsurge

APRIL 28, 2020

So, where does this come into play for me as a math teacher? In fact, the Saxon math curriculum my teachers used when I was in middle school over 25 years ago leveraged interleaving. On one especially tough day, she wrote me a note explaining that she thought I was a good teacher but that she felt like she would fail the class.

Math 216

Math Coaching Testing Assignments 216

Faculty Focus

MAY 2, 2024

The pressure to solve problems, answer multiple-choice question, and write essays on an exam scares them. The authors of the Teaching Sociology article recommend teachers respond first by finding out if they have anxious students, how many, and what’s causing the anxiety. They’re convinced they won’t do well.

Teaching 111

Teaching Multidisciplinary Multiple Choice Questions Exams 111

Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Here are a few more: Quizzes : Assigning tests and quizzes throughout the semester is necessary to assess student understanding of important course content. A nonlinear approach to testing incorporates student-generated quizzes. that demonstrate the content in a more creative way. References Capra, F. & & Luisi, P.

Teaching 111

Teaching Quizzes Instructors Exams 111

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2024

In school, a sense of belonging refers to a general feeling of being accepted, respected, connected, and supported by one’s peers, teachers, and other staff. For example, before an exam, I discuss how and why I would prepare differently for a multiple-choice versus an essay exam. These assessments must be valid and reliable.

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Syllabus Exams Students Motivation 132

Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2018

Do exams still serve a purpose? Where there’s an alternative there must be a standard, so we started our chat creating a list of what those standard assignment are: exams, quizzes, essays, reports, lab manuals and the like. But why, then, do so many courses still rely on exams? In other words, exams do serve a purpose.

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Assignments Exams Instructors Learning 101

Faculty Focus

MAY 2, 2024

The pressure to solve problems, answer multiple-choice question, and write essays on an exam scares them. The authors of the Teaching Sociology article recommend teachers respond first by finding out if they have anxious students, how many, and what’s causing the anxiety. They’re convinced they won’t do well.

Teaching 104

Teaching Multidisciplinary Multiple Choice Questions Exams 104

eSchool News

APRIL 5, 2024

Moreover, traditional assessment tools, including quizzes, tests, and exams, remain essential for gauging student comprehension and mastery of material. What tools do teachers use? By facilitating interactive quizzes, surveys, and discussions, these tools promote active engagement and participation in the learning process.

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Teaching Textbooks Learning Styles Teaching Methods 130