Edsurge

AUGUST 29, 2024

Providers of some of the most popular standardized tests are rethinking their offerings as new AI tools are challenging traditional techniques for finding out what students know — and allowing new ways to give and score tests. Experts are urging caution, however, especially when AI is used in analyzing data and building test questions. “AI

Testing 209

Testing Multiple Choice Questions Exams Questions 209

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Only 49 percent of this time involves direct student interaction. Indeed, the time spent on teaching class is less than the time spent on preparation, evaluation, and feedback (grading). Schools can leverage the teacher’s AI-generated lesson on the same subject, while teachers can track and monitor a student’s progress.

Teachers 269

Teachers Textbooks Multiple Choice Questions Essay 269

eSchool News

JUNE 28, 2016

As education policy moves away from the much-maligned No Child Left Behind and toward new legislation focusing on learning outcomes, technology-enabled formative assessments are moving to the foreground as a way to gauge student learning in real time. Students receive targeted feedback if they don’t solve a problem correctly.

Multiple Choice Questions 189

Multiple Choice Questions Exams Coaching Motivation 189

Edsurge

AUGUST 27, 2020

But sometimes, distance learning can take an “app-centric” approach, where students spend more time watching instructional videos and answering multiple-choice questions than talking about concepts with their peers and teachers. Meanwhile, teachers deliver individualized feedback and support to students.

Distance Learning 218

Distance Learning Teaching Multiple Choice Questions Math 218

Faculty Focus

MARCH 26, 2023

Although I will focus on the same course (one about how to write multiple-choice questions), this time I want to find out whether ChatGPT can function as my teaching aid. For example, can it come up with examples and questions that I can use in learning materials and activities? It’s similar to a very fast brainstorm.

Multiple Choice Questions 119

Multiple Choice Questions Teaching Participation Writing 119

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

The image below shows both the essential questions and multiple-choice questions that were generated. You can also export the questions you have chosen and integrate them into a quizzing system or LMS such as Canvas, Quizziz, Kahoot, Blackboard, and more. You can add and edit any of the slides. Eduaide.ai

Multiple Choice Questions 125

Multiple Choice Questions Education Teaching Assistants Learning Outcomes 125

Faculty Focus

MARCH 26, 2023

Although I will focus on the same course (one about how to write multiple-choice questions), this time I want to find out whether ChatGPT can function as my teaching aid. For example, can it come up with examples and questions that I can use in learning materials and activities? It’s similar to a very fast brainstorm.

Multiple Choice Questions 98

Multiple Choice Questions Teaching Participation Writing 98

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 104

Academic Integrity Multiple Choice Questions Learning Students 104

Edsurge

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 122

Testing Multiple Choice Questions Teaching Education 122

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

One fear expressed was about how the mostly Black and Latino students at 28 schools would fare under a plan created by new Superintendent Mike Miles that would require school libraries to cease, in essence, functioning as libraries. Instead, they would become “team centers,” where teachers would send disruptive students to work independently.

Schools 218

Schools Multiple Choice Questions Testing Reading 218

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. Educators can save content to their Classroom and have questions specifically corresponding to a given article automatically populate the question bank. “It

Multiple Choice Questions 118

Multiple Choice Questions Quizzes Social Studies Exams 118

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

The image below shows both the essential questions and multiple-choice questions that were generated. You can also export the questions you have chosen and integrate them into a quizzing system or LMS such as Canvas, Quizziz, Kahoot, Blackboard, and more. You can add and edit any of the slides. Eduaide.ai

Multiple Choice Questions 110

Multiple Choice Questions Education Teaching Assistants Learning Outcomes 110

Edsurge

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 128

Multiple Choice Questions Instructors Textbooks Feedback 128

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 92

Academic Integrity Multiple Choice Questions Learning Students 92

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

The higher ed award honored Timothy Renick, Senior Vice President for Student Success and Professor of Religious Studies at Georgia State University. EdSurge spoke with him about ITS and how it encourages students to go beyond memorization and practice the concepts they’re learning. What drove you to develop these systems?

Intelligence 167

Intelligence Lecturing Multiple Choice Questions Learning 167

Edsurge

JUNE 27, 2017

Notable updates include a new Expeditions app—an add-on to the Pioneer program—where students can explore in virtual reality on several different devices. Google also announced Cast for Education, a Chrome application that allows teachers and students to wirelessly share their screens with the class. The book costs $4.99

Multiple Choice Questions 152

Multiple Choice Questions Assignments Quizzes Game-Based Learning 152

Edsurge

MAY 26, 2020

Top Hat got its start in the “clicker” business, offering a web-based and mobile classroom response tool that lets instructors gauge whether students understood the lesson (or paid attention). The company says its materials are used by over three million students across 750 of the top 1,000 higher-ed institutions in North America.

Textbooks 153

Textbooks Multiple Choice Questions Quizzes Fairness 153

eSchool News

MAY 1, 2024

TeachTap uses AI to bring historical figures to life as teachers, allowing students to learn, for example, about the Civil War with Abraham Lincoln, the civil rights movement through the lens of Martin Luther King Jr, or the laws of motion from Sir Isaac Newton.

Exams 137

Exams High School High School History 137

Edsurge

MAY 28, 2020

When you get close enough to the heart, you can feel it beating in your hand through phone vibrations (known as haptic feedback). Similar to classic Minecraft, students can create in the app, but with the additional benefit of playing in AR. An upcoming feature will allow premium users to upload 3D content in the hunt.

Activities 185

Activities Mobile Devices Multiple Choice Questions Motivation 185

Edsurge

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 140

Instructors Multiple Choice Questions Course Design Discussions 140

eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2024

In 2023, a new popular kid in town, better known as AI, dominated headlines and prompted debates around how students could abuse–and should use–the generative tool for learning. On the down side, as the technology evolves it will also enable hackers to be more adept at infiltrating systems that store sensitive student data.

Gamification 359

Gamification Intelligence Reading Ethics 359

Edsurge

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 146

Learning Multiple Choice Questions Math Evaluation 146

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

eSchool News

JUNE 27, 2016

Achieve3000 offers innovative new ways to empower blended learning and accelerate student literacy gains through differentiated instruction in the 2016-2017 school year. The program continuously evaluates each student’s exact skill level, learning temperament and learning pace. Smarty Ants® Foundational Literacy Program.

Blended Learning 100

Blended Learning Textbooks Multiple Choice Questions Learning 100

Cult of Pedagogy

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Any time we teach our students something , we need to check to see how well they learned it. But if we only do this check at the very end, after all the teaching is done, and we find that our students haven’t learned the material quite well enough, it’s too late to do anything about it.

Multiple Choice Questions 129

Multiple Choice Questions Culture Questions Grades 129

Cult of Pedagogy

JUNE 9, 2024

The students and teachers in your building are the best sources of data on how things are going in your school; when they feel heard, when they believe that their input matters, the climate of your school just gets better. or “What are five words you’d use to describe your job (or experience as a student), right now?”

Schools 116

Schools Multiple Choice Questions Questions Feedback 116

Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 26, 2016

Desmos has created an activity builder that teachers can use to build interactive lessons that students can do on their own tablet or Chromebook devices while the teacher monitors student work in real time. and make it super easy for teachers to instantly gather student data on any given subject. Google Apps For Education.

Math 99

Math Fairness Assignments Multiple Choice Questions 99

Scholarly Teacher

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Background and Relevance In their 2023 book, Connections Are Everything: A College Student’s Guide to Relationship Education , Leo Lambert, Peter Felten, Isis Artze-Vega, and Oscar Miranda Tapia provide tips to students for creating meaningful connections in college. Please explain your answer and be personal, specific, and candid.

Quizzes 52

Quizzes Education Multiple Choice Questions Feedback 52

eSchool News

JANUARY 5, 2024

In 2023, a new popular kid in town, better known as AI, dominated headlines and prompted debates around how students could abuse–and should use–the generative tool for learning. On the down side, as the technology evolves it will also enable hackers to be more adept at infiltrating systems that store sensitive student data.

Gamification 130

Gamification Intelligence Reading Ethics 130

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. Only 58% of students who started college in 2012 had graduated 6 years later.

Education 218

Education Learning Textbooks Instructors 218

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

And boosting that engagement can be a key part of unlocking student success. For the past 18 months, a pilot program in a South Bronx public school, called “Family Playlists,” developed by the New York-based nonprofit, PowerMyLearning , has used technology to increase families’ involvement in their students’ learning.

Multiple Choice Questions 166

Multiple Choice Questions Assignments Schools Mobile Devices 166

Edsurge

MAY 28, 2019

The number of K-12 students enrolling in full-time virtual and blended learning schools continues to grow, despite research suggesting that students in these programs do not perform as well as their peers in traditional settings. One of the elements that’s lacking in the virtual school sector, the NEPC authors argue, is accountability.

Blended Learning 167

Blended Learning Multiple Choice Questions Schools Achievement 167

Faculty Focus

JULY 6, 2023

Immediate feedback is a successful engagement strategy that promotes active learning and fosters a supportive, inclusive classroom, especially when used with low stakes assignments or to gauge transfer of knowledge (Epstein & Brosvic, 2002, Goldstein & Wallis, 2015). Kahoot allows you to create a set of multiple-choice questions.

Instructors 98

Instructors Multiple Choice Questions Internet Participation 98

Faculty Focus

JULY 6, 2023

Immediate feedback is a successful engagement strategy that promotes active learning and fosters a supportive, inclusive classroom, especially when used with low stakes assignments or to gauge transfer of knowledge (Epstein & Brosvic, 2002, Goldstein & Wallis, 2015). Kahoot allows you to create a set of multiple-choice questions.

Instructors 97

Instructors Multiple Choice Questions Internet Participation 97