eSchool News

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

The teaching profession is in crisis. Indeed, the time spent on teaching class is less than the time spent on preparation, evaluation, and feedback (grading). This is widely known as the worst part of teaching. When answering basic questions, AI can read a student’s answers. AI can eliminate much of this.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 29, 2024

One example of that work is the group’s new focus is its Skills for the Future initiative, a joint effort with the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching to reimagine assessments. And AI does things like give me feedback on the tone of my voice or the rate of my speech or my eye contact with you.

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Testing Multiple Choice Questions Exams Questions 209

Faculty Focus

MARCH 26, 2023

Not long ago, I had a conversation with ChatGPT to find out how well it would do in a course I teach for professors at my institution. 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.

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Edsurge

JULY 11, 2023

What if educators could use the same strategy of “adaptive experimentation” to regularly improve their teaching materials? That’s the question posed by a group of researchers who developed a free tool they call the Adaptive Experimentation Accelerator. But you might be thinking, how's the quality of those?

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Testing Multiple Choice Questions Teaching Education 122

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Many of you have probably tinkered with Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications and programs, or perhaps you are advanced in your journey of AI tools and could teach us a few things about how you are using AI in the classroom. The image below shows both the essential questions and multiple-choice questions that were generated.

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Multiple Choice Questions Education Teaching Assistants Learning Outcomes 125

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Many of you have probably tinkered with Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications and programs, or perhaps you are advanced in your journey of AI tools and could teach us a few things about how you are using AI in the classroom. The image below shows both the essential questions and multiple-choice questions that were generated.

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Multiple Choice Questions Education Teaching Assistants Learning Outcomes 110

eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2024

Additionally, AI can shorten the feedback loop on student work, allowing students to quickly identify any misunderstandings they may have. Immediate feedback also helps students develop self-efficacy. This customized approach helps all students practice and learn new concepts in a way that works for them. Chris Klein, Head of U.S.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

I teach them to love to read,” Hensley said. “If For short-answer questions, they wrote on an index card. Over and over, until it was time for a five-question quiz. “It Yarborough quit her teaching job in January. Because if a kid loves to read, they will read more.

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Schools Multiple Choice Questions Testing Reading 218

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

EdSurge: Intelligent tutoring systems are computer systems that simulate human tutors by providing customized instruction and feedback to learners. Arthur Graesser We have an intelligent tutoring system on the web that tries to teach learners difficult topics. Wendy Kopp , President and Founder, Teach for America.

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Intelligence Lecturing Multiple Choice Questions Learning 167

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. They understand where students may struggle and build in adaptive feedback to provide real-time support. Is that adaptive? A good experience?

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Multiple Choice Questions Instructors Textbooks Feedback 128

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.

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Instructors Multiple Choice Questions Course Design Discussions 140

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. Google also announced Cast for Education, a Chrome application that allows teachers and students to wirelessly share their screens with the class.

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Multiple Choice Questions Assignments Quizzes Game-Based Learning 152

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.

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Learning Multiple Choice Questions Math Evaluation 146

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.

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Academic Integrity Multiple Choice Questions Learning Students 104

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. ” David-Lang says.

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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.

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Academic Integrity Multiple Choice Questions Learning Students 92

Cult of Pedagogy

JUNE 9, 2024

I’ve advised teachers to regularly seek feedback from students and I’ve urged principals to get feedback from their teachers. Join our mailing list and get weekly tips, tools, and inspiration that will make your teaching more effective and fun. I’ve been a big advocate of surveys for a long time.

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Schools Multiple Choice Questions Questions Feedback 116

Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 26, 2016

If you are teaching in a 1-to-1 device classroom, the Desmos team has done an exceptional job in bringing math education into the 21st century. 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.

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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.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 5, 2024

Additionally, AI can shorten the feedback loop on student work, allowing students to quickly identify any misunderstandings they may have. Immediate feedback also helps students develop self-efficacy. Using AI is going to be a skill students need and for that to happen we first need to teach our teachers how to use it.

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Gamification Intelligence Reading Ethics 130

Scholarly Teacher

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Wesley Erwin, III , Indiana University Bloomington Keywords: Pedagogy, Relationship-Rich Education, Engaged Learning Key Statement: Meaningful teaching and learning should include evidence-based, relationship-rich education tailored to respective contexts. Our questions and subsequent review focused on implementing collaborative quizzes.

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Quizzes Education Multiple Choice Questions Feedback 52

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.

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Education Learning Textbooks Instructors 218

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Of the 100 students participating in the pilot that began last January, 91 percent of families participated; of those, 84 percent submitted optional feedback, amounting to more than 300 personal messages to teachers last spring. She means inviting students to teach their families what they’re learning in school.

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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.

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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.

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Instructors Multiple Choice Questions Internet Participation 97