eSchool News

JULY 11, 2024

However, a combined total of 69 percent said their primary motive was to prepare for upcoming courses, develop better study skills or improve their grades. Despite this desire for flexibility, a vast majority (80 percent) also stated the importance of regular assessments, quizzes, and checkpoints to ensure they are on the right track.

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Quizzes Motivation Languages Language 273

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

The CoderZ platform provides a research-based, pedagogically-advanced approach to teaching STEM and computer science for grades 3-12. The program develops core knowledge in coding, physics, geometry, literacy, and algebra as well as critical life skills such as problem-solving, collaboration, and grit.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Fear of technology influences a teacher’s thinking, perhaps thinking that many students have more knowledge of the technology. Effective Assessment: Digital tools make it easier for teachers to create and grade assignments, quizzes, and exams. Most of the time, this is not true.

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Collaborative Learning Gamification Teachers Teaching Methods 317

eSchool News

MAY 1, 2024

It is a dynamic, interconnected space where knowledge flows freely, and learners are active participants in their educational journey. Learning management systems (LMS) that facilitate online content delivery, assignments, and grading. Classroom response systems for instant feedback and engagement through quizzes, polls, and surveys.

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Internet Critical Thinking Quizzes Teaching Methods 308

eSchool News

JANUARY 8, 2024

He talked about how he dropped in on a calligraphy class, and from that knowledge he created the idea of different types of computer fonts some 10 years later. The larger problem is that grading overemphasizes students’ final product of learning instead of their process of learning. If so, why? What is our role as a teacher?

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Quizzes Learning Testing Intelligence 310

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

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 6, 2022

What is wrong with grades? Instructors and students have different ideas about what grades are supposed to measure: Should they be about how much students have learned? Grades can perpetuate bias , inequalities, and injustice, reduce student motivation and willingness to challenge themselves , and add enormous administrative burdens.

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Grades Instructors Motivation Metacognitive Skills 122

eSchool News

APRIL 30, 2024

Discovery Education : Through the Discovery Education Experience product, Discovery Education offers hundreds of ready-made lessons, quizzes, activity calendars, and ready-to-use resources that use features such as closed captioning, immersive reader, and self-paced activities. Students love them because they are interesting and engaging.

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Art Students Culture Coaching 332

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

The main drawback is that this model simultaneously holds all students to the same learning objective , preventing them from getting the proper lesson unless the teacher has built thousands of lessons and allowed students to jump back or forward to different grade levels according to their levels. 4, 2020, [link].

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Quizzes Textbooks Testing Essay 245

Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 10, 2023

Sure, it does when students are just starting, but by third grade students should be comfortable enough with key placement to be working on speed. The ‘pages in a single sitting’ starts in 4th grade with one page and continues through 6th where it’s increased to three–see CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.6.6 45 wpm is good. for example.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

I am a third grade teacher in an urban school district in Kansas City, Missouri. Currently, the building I teach in is transitioning to a trans-disciplinary approach to instruction that will utilize a variety of technologies to enhance teaching and learning across the grade levels.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Middle school students in grades 6-8 flex their civics knowledge for a chance to win recognition and cash prizes. “We are sounding the alarm on the declining civic knowledge among our nation’s youth,” said Carolyn Cawley president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation.

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Math Middle School Middle School Essay 261

Faculty Focus

APRIL 17, 2025

In my mind, the purpose of learning was to get good grades. Grades were everythingsymbols of success and a source of validation. I continued this pattern in college, focused solely on grades and making my parents proud. He compared knowledge to an adventurous exploration, best enjoyed with an open and curious mind.

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Grades Social Studies Learning Feedback 104

eSchool News

JANUARY 25, 2024

enlightenAI , San Francisco, CA Enlighten AI is creating an AI-powered personalized teacher’s assistant designed to enhance educators’ impact while making their work more sustainable, including grading and giving feedback. Dover, DE Quizard is an academic app designed to help students study for tests and quizzes. Quizard AI, Inc.

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Textbooks Education Intelligence Quizzes 299

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 6, 2022

What is wrong with grades? Instructors and students have different ideas about what grades are supposed to measure: Should they be about how much students have learned? Grades can perpetuate bias , inequalities, and injustice, reduce student motivation and willingness to challenge themselves , and add enormous administrative burdens.

Grades 98

Grades Instructors Motivation Metacognitive Skills 98

Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

How important is teacher knowledge of teaching keyboarding or can anyone teach it? Two criteria are mentioned over and over in keyboarding research: Keyboarding instruction is most effective when spread out over several years and designed to build on the student’s prior knowledge. Age-appropriate use of hand covers (grades 2-8).

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Quizzes Grades Knowledge Questions 174

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

ChatGPT does have major limitations: its limited knowledge base only pulls from data prior to September 2021; it has no personal experiences or emotions to draw from; it may generate inaccurate information; and it does not have the ability to critically think and/or analyze information.

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Ethics Essay Syllabus Feedback 338

Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

It used to be simple to post grades. Here are factors I consider when I’m posting grades for my tech students: Does s/he remember skills from prior lessons as they complete current lessons? Does s/he show evidence of learning by using tech class knowledge in classroom or home? Does s/he use core classroom knowledge (i.e.,

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Quizzes Critical Thinking Knowledge Testing 149

Edsurge

JANUARY 8, 2024

A number of instructors in the math department at San Diego Mesa College, where she's a professor, had started exploring how to weave standards-based grading — an approach that evaluates students on how effectively they have mastered content — into the way they teach calculus.

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Math Quizzes Instructors Students 176

Edsurge

AUGUST 1, 2017

We all have that one teacher who seems to take months to grade even a single test. We spend the entire semester wondering what our grade is. Socrative helps counteract this slow grading syndrome. It’s a student response system that allows teachers to make quizzes that students can take on their device.

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Quizzes Textbooks Syllabus Students 144

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

I use a daily quiz that has a two-fold purpose: first, it tests the students’ knowledge of the day’s reading material; and second, it provides a focus for the lecture and activities scheduled that day in class. I vary both the number and type of questions I use on the quizzes. I administer two daily quizzes in that course.

Quizzes 108

Quizzes Lecturing Course Evaluations Exams 108

Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 20, 2017

How many times have you experienced teachers who based report card grades on how well students complete classwork, homework, and quizzes? For example, a book report may require a certain number of written (or typed) pages or paragraphs rather than evidence that the student drew conclusions and summarized knowledge.

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Grades Assignments Quizzes Writing 84

Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 18, 2015

To prepare students well for college and career means they must deeply learn the material and its application to their lives and future learning.That means assessing student knowledge authentically and accountably. This doesn’t stop with quizzes, tests, and memorizing facts. Quick Quizzes. Time: a few minutes.

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Authentic Assessment Quizzes Knowledge Discussions 152

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

These students rose to the challenges demanded by an ongoing global pandemic, and the real world skills that they learned and applied should not be ignored simply because they do not fit into the current framework of seat time or grading. serving 98 percent students of color, most on free and reduced lunch.

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Learning Schools Students History 203

Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 4, 2023

The exception is BrainPOP — there are no ads, but it requires a hefty annual fee: BrainPOP Fremium BrainPOP is a collection of three-five minute animated movies, learning games, quizzes, and interactive activities for grades 3-8 addressing a wide variety of topics such as math, science, social studies, health, art, and technology.

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Quizzes History Students Motivation 148

Edsurge

MAY 25, 2017

There was one exception: students who had prior knowledge of physics concepts were not thrown off by the clicker quizzes). Getting that factual question got them to hyperfocus on factual knowledge,” she says. “It It was almost like implicit statement of, ‘just memorize it.’”

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Study Multiple Choice Questions Peer Review Quizzes 155

Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

Sure, it does when students are just starting, but by third grade students should be comfortable enough with key placement to be working on speed. take online quizzes (like PARCC, SB). The ‘pages in a single sitting’ starts in 4th grade with one page and continues through 6th where it’s increased to three–see CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.6.6

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Quizzes Grades Art Discussions 130

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

the company offers an app that lets kids access unlimited books, educational videos, quizzes and audiobooks — and it’s free for educators. The content is personalized overtime as kids start reading, interacting and taking quizzes. founders Suren Markosian and Kevin Donahue set out to build the Netflix of children’s books.

Reading 167

Reading Quizzes Elementary School Elementary School 167

Dangerously Irrelevant

OCTOBER 15, 2021

quizzes and flashcards), rather than cramming information into students’ heads (e.g., Here is an example third grade mathematics proficiency scale [intentionally anonymized]: And, once again, we have to ask ourselves the tougher question of ‘ Proficiency scaling and student leveling ON WHAT? lectures)” (p. Probably not often…” (p.

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Quizzes Learning Lecturing Students 143

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

I use a daily quiz that has a two-fold purpose: first, it tests the students’ knowledge of the day’s reading material; and second, it provides a focus for the lecture and activities scheduled that day in class. I vary both the number and type of questions I use on the quizzes. I administer two daily quizzes in that course.

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Quizzes Lecturing Course Evaluations Exams 97

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

At its most basic, grading of multiple choice quizzes and tests is now essentially instantaneous. With the wealth of different sources of knowledge available on the internet, why ask a single teacher? In education, this increase in capacity is already showing up in numerous forms.

Intelligence 218

Intelligence Schools Quizzes Ethics 218

eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Several key areas highlight the transformative effects of technology on education: Access to Information: The internet has become a vast repository of information, providing students and educators with unprecedented access to a wealth of knowledge. Innovative Assessment Methods: Technology has introduced innovative assessment methods.

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Technology Education Textbooks Learning Styles 229

eSchool News

JUNE 18, 2020

The new BrainPOP Family allows kids to learn independently across multiple subject areas with a fun, personalized experience that is tailored to their interests and grade level from K-8. “Between these three offerings, kids have the freedom and the flexibility to indulge their curiosity while closing knowledge gaps. .

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Activities Quizzes Learning Knowledge 135

Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 4, 2018

I left third grade and my third-grade teacher Ms. My fourth-grade teacher, Ms. She didn’t try to be my best friend and she didn’t make excuses for my third-grade failures. I started by reviewing knowledgeable websites like Benchmark Education. They are knowledgeable. In my case, it was Ms.

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Teachers Failure Quizzes Knowledge 141

Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Because new information is blended into prior knowledge, the result is – of course – subjective, heavily dependent upon the personal lens of each learner. That, in turn, is dependent upon their society, culture, past knowledge, personal experiences, and more. Students constantly build new understanding on old knowledge.

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Beliefs Local Government Knowledge Lecturing 170

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. ’ and then applying it to new knowledge.” The first is Dr. .

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Multiple Choice Questions Teachers Writing Questions 77

Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

With just one click, teachers may produce 7th Grade Math worksheets like Combining Like Terms , Grade 7 Math quizzes like Distributive Property , Seventh Grade Math unit tests , and 7 Grade Math Practice Questions on Distributive Property etc. Give ByteLearn a try in your classroom today! 2 Khan Academy.

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Math Mobile Devices Quizzes Teaching Assistants 157