Fairness Grades Multiple Choice Questions 
Edsurge
JANUARY 10, 2018
Then there are the psychometricians—the math savants who design tests and create complex algorithms that attempt to make them fair to all students. Mark Moulton : Here that whole question is, what does fair mean? It makes the test more fair because it guarantees that everyone is being measured with the same degree of precision.
Edsurge
MAY 10, 2018
Multiple-choice questions don’t belong in college. Yet more professors seem to be turning to the format these days, as teaching loads and class sizes grow, since multiple-choice quizzes and tests can be easily graded by machines. You can use an LMS rubric tool, and click, click, click, you have a grade.”
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eSchool News
JUNE 23, 2023
To be fair, Powerschool’s announcement this week that it will integrate Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service to use OpenAI’s large language models within the company’s Personalized Learning Cloud will probably be the biggest news to come out of ISTE next week. Just try to have a conversation about edTech these days without mentioning AI.
Edsurge
JUNE 27, 2017
Quizzes on Google Forms now allow for a bit more customization: Teachers can offer partial credit for answers choices while auto-grading multiple choice questions. Now teachers can create and assign a “Kahoot”—essentially a gamified multiple-choice quiz—and students can compete against their peers for top score.
Edsurge
MAY 22, 2017
Is it fair to only cover the standards that are going to be on the test?” How one demonstrates “mastery” may vary according to the subject or skill in question. Certain low-level yet fundamental concepts, such as single-digit multiplication, can be demonstrated through conventional assessments, such as multiple-choice questions.
Cult of Pedagogy
JANUARY 21, 2024
We recognize that there’s something fundamentally different about large-scale, externally mandated standardized tests that rely on multiple-choice questions. Tests also facilitate special education services, instruction, grades, reporting, placement, and more.
Ask a Tech Teacher
JULY 26, 2016
The basic premise behind Kahoot is fairly simple: Teachers create a series of multiple choice questions that are projected on the screen while the students answer those questions on their own devices. Twitter is probably one of the most misunderstood tech tools available to teachers today.
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