Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 5, 2023

This utilization is often compared to utilizing Grammarly, or meeting with a writing tutor. Like Grammarly or writing tutors, students can take time to learn from AI’s corrections and suggestions. AI can also generate short content, such as answers to take-home quizzes or un-proctored multiple-choice exams.

Intelligence 144

Intelligence Plagiarism Quizzes Academic Integrity 144

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. software with or without encouraging messages, she writes. “If It’s a timely one, too, as recent news has shown just how tired students are of secret monitoring.

Ethics 207

Ethics Knowledge Testing Learning 207

Edsurge

MAY 6, 2019

With Advanced Placement exams starting this month, the past weeks have kept Amanda DoAmaral working around the clock. The company’s name is a reference to the best score possible on the AP exam. On Fiveable, visitors can watch livestreams of AP exam review for free. And she’s starting with subjects that she knows best.

Testing 158

Testing Exams Teachers History 158

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

I vary both the number and type of questions I use on the quizzes. If the class meets three days a week, I allow three points for attendance and students get those points simply by writing the numeral 3 beside their name on the quiz. I administer two daily quizzes in that course. My use of these quizzes has evolved.

Quizzes 97

Quizzes Lecturing Course Evaluations Exams 97

Cult of Pedagogy

APRIL 27, 2025

I have encouraged giving frequent quizzes , think-pair-shares , and teaching students to use flashcards , but there are a lot of other ways to do it. And that class, since I started doing that, is a 20 percent improvement in the exam grades. “As educators, we’re very used to writing learning objectives,” Rivers says.

Multiple Choice Questions 77

Multiple Choice Questions Teachers Writing Questions 77

EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 16, 2018

A skilled teacher can re-direct instruction based on feedback that they are receiving from their students throughout the flow of a lesson,” writes Alexis Roesser, an English teacher and department chair at Salamanca High School in New York. Formative assessments, meanwhile, provide for more fluid interaction between teachers and students.

Quizzes 159

Quizzes Students Elementary School Elementary School 159

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

In other words, too often we merely administer a high stakes exam or a pop quiz to check whether they watched a video. For example, you can embed prompts, quizzes, asynchronous discussions and range of other dynamic activities right in the middle of videos using tools like PlayPosit, Edpuzzle and Nearpod.

Teaching 190

Teaching Instructors Teaching Philosophy Education 190

Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2018

I’d randomly choose five things we learned the day before and ask them to write what they could recall. Those mini-quizzes became a way for the students to differentiate what they knew from what they didn’t. I eliminated homework and came up with the idea of a mini-quiz: a low or no-stakes retrieval exercise. Was retrieval possible?

Teaching 168

Teaching Failure Quizzes Learning 168

Edsurge

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Formative: more informal check-ins—quizzes, questions from the front of the room, or even chats with students—that assess how students are absorbing material and allow teachers to adjust lessons on the fly. It is no longer just writing multiple choice test questions. It's super sophisticated. It is definitely not that!”.

Education 213

Education Quizzes Exams Textbooks 213

Edsurge

APRIL 28, 2020

One example that resonated for me is what Agarwal calls a “Brain Dump,” meaning at the midpoint of a unit, as an opening or bellringer, I could ask my students to write all they know about the unit. Spacing The third technique is spacing. The spacing effect is when material is distributed over a period of time to strengthen learning.

Math 216

Math Coaching Testing Assignments 216

Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 14, 2024

These include writing and adapting lesson plans, forming and updating schedules, and creating student assessment reports. AI is again helpful in streamlining tasks like creating and evaluating exams or quizzes, letting teachers focus more on refining their methods or helping students who need extra attention.

Gamification 167

Gamification Hybrid Learning Education Motivation 167

Edsurge

JUNE 8, 2022

Students could access chatbot quizzes ahead of exams to help assess their level of understanding. It’s not getting them the answers when taking the midterm exam. It’s not writing papers for them,” Renick says. “It And Renick points out that it’s still up to students to actually do their assignments.

Student Engagement 200

Student Engagement Instructors Hybrid Courses Exams 200

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 5, 2023

This utilization is often compared to utilizing Grammarly, or meeting with a writing tutor. Like Grammarly or writing tutors, students can take time to learn from AI’s corrections and suggestions. AI can also generate short content, such as answers to take-home quizzes or un-proctored multiple-choice exams.

Intelligence 111

Intelligence Plagiarism Quizzes Academic Integrity 111

Faculty Focus

MAY 2, 2024

The pressure to solve problems, answer multiple-choice question, and write essays on an exam scares them. This fear is about the skills needed in the course itself, much like students taking a poetry course are anxious because they think they can’t write poetry. They’re convinced they won’t do well.

Teaching 111

Teaching Multidisciplinary Multiple Choice Questions Exams 111

Faculty Focus

MARCH 27, 2025

They have after all been in school for the last 13 years and they have become really good at taking quizzes and exams and writing essays with thesis statements. The questions are a sampling of the final exam. Lets view the situation from the perspective of a student. My pre- and post-quiz data for the course reveals this.

Assignments 109

Assignments Exams Learning Quizzes 109

Faculty Focus

MAY 2, 2024

The pressure to solve problems, answer multiple-choice question, and write essays on an exam scares them. This fear is about the skills needed in the course itself, much like students taking a poetry course are anxious because they think they can’t write poetry. They’re convinced they won’t do well.

Teaching 104

Teaching Multidisciplinary Multiple Choice Questions Exams 104

Edsurge

MARCH 2, 2020

Already she’s reached out to Screencastify, Explain Everything, EdPuzzle and Pear Deck, the latter which is being used to let students draw their understanding and take short quizzes quickly. (A A Pear Deck spokesperson says the company is working with 154 schools in the region, offering free access to impacted educators.)

Schools 218

Schools Students Assignments Testing 218

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2024

For example, I want to make sure my quizzes and/or exams consistently measure deep content understanding and analytical skills as opposed to my students’ competency in reading, writing, or the English language. These assessments must be valid and reliable. I often embed study and time management strategies into the curriculum.

Syllabus 132

Syllabus Exams Students Motivation 132

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Write a reflection summarizing the major themes and their content. Take positive student comments as evidence of this improvement—for example, “eight students commented favorably that when I added weekly quizzes they felt more prepared for exams.” Or, “previously, students questioned my knowledge.

Course Evaluations 122

Course Evaluations Evaluation Gamification Lecturing 122

Faculty Focus

MARCH 27, 2025

They have after all been in school for the last 13 years and they have become really good at taking quizzes and exams and writing essays with thesis statements. The questions are a sampling of the final exam. Lets view the situation from the perspective of a student. My pre- and post-quiz data for the course reveals this.

Assignments 96

Assignments Exams Learning Quizzes 96

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Write a reflection summarizing the major themes and their content. Take positive student comments as evidence of this improvement—for example, “eight students commented favorably that when I added weekly quizzes they felt more prepared for exams.” Or, “previously, students questioned my knowledge.

Course Evaluations 111

Course Evaluations Evaluation Gamification Lecturing 111

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2024

For example, I want to make sure my quizzes and/or exams consistently measure deep content understanding and analytical skills as opposed to my students’ competency in reading, writing, or the English language. These assessments must be valid and reliable. I often embed study and time management strategies into the curriculum.

Syllabus 105

Syllabus Exams Students Motivation 105

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 3, 2023

Now, students are wondering why they have to do assignments that AI chatbots could do for them, especially when AI could do the work, like write an essay or research paper, in just a few seconds. Against the use of GPTZero and other LLM-detection tools on student writing. link] Currier, J. 2022, December). link] Gegg-Harrison, W.

Failure 98

Failure Academic Integrity Assignments Universal Design 98

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 3, 2023

Now, students are wondering why they have to do assignments that AI chatbots could do for them, especially when AI could do the work, like write an essay or research paper, in just a few seconds. Against the use of GPTZero and other LLM-detection tools on student writing. link] Currier, J. 2022, December). link] Gegg-Harrison, W.

Failure 98

Failure Academic Integrity Assignments Universal Design 98

Lab to Class

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Every teacher has experienced the frustration of teaching students a concept very clearly, then giving a test and having students completely flop the quiz or exam. This should be a sign for every teacher that they need to add more variety of practice into their lesson. Absolutely not.

Study 52

Study Lecturing Learning Activities 52

Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

Studies have consistently shown that students tasked with responding to interactive exercises, like answering online quizzes, retain more than those tasked with passive learning activities such as reading or watching videos. That sentiment is backed by learning-science research in a concept called the “doer effect.”

Education 218

Education Learning Textbooks Instructors 218

Edsurge

APRIL 20, 2017

Under the new pricing model, the exams sit behind a paywall (similar to the way Coursera operates). They also contain some basic quizzes and interactive coding assignments (mostly in Python). The media got excited because they got to write clickbait titles about the death of universities.

Assignments 135

Assignments Quizzes Exams Grades 135