Edsurge

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

In my school, the award ceremonies began in first grade, and after I received my first one, I wanted more. Competition can be thrilling and motivating to those who choose to engage. They were used as gimmicks and antics to “motivate” students. They believed that students’ motivation should come from within.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 8, 2024

The larger problem is that grading overemphasizes students’ final product of learning instead of their process of learning. You can use it to generate quizzes and students can use it to answer the quizzes, so why do we even matter as educators? AI won’t motivate a student to learn. If so, why?

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eSchool News

AUGUST 14, 2024

Most tools that teachers have for this purpose are lagging indicators such as tests, quizzes, and homework. By analyzing patterns in students’ grades, attendance, participation, and other behavioral indicators, AI algorithms can predict potential academic risks and learning disabilities.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Effective Assessment: Digital tools make it easier for teachers to create and grade assignments, quizzes, and exams. These tools can allow teachers to create dynamic and engaging lessons to motivate students. Student and teacher collaboration promotes an effective understanding of different concepts.

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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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eSchool News

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Are they grade-level appropriate and aligned to standards? For example, you can reinforce concepts using interactive videos, games, and quizzes. Related : What does learning fueled by student motivation look like? Narrow down the activities you “have to do.” Is all of the information up-to-date and accurate?

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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. Review all your reading quizzes (or any other small assignments). But when I graduated, I felt lost.

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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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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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Edsurge

MAY 10, 2018

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. After all, she notes, “you’re never going to encounter multiple-choice quizzes on the job somewhere.”

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 4, 2023

No doubt, these are excellent sources, but if students aren’t motivated by them, they won’t get a lot out of them. This is a great primary source for students third grade and up in researching almost any topic, but especially history. They can even create quizzes to assess their learning.

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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 excited to help students practice for the National Civics Bee through quizzing and conversations with Khanmigo,” said Kristen DiCerbo, Khan Academy’s chief learning officer.

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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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eSchool News

JULY 28, 2022

Educators can refine instruction to keep students motivated with the classroom engagement tool, Quiz. The total of 400 existing quizzes makes it quick and easy to customize, or educators can create quizzes from scratch or use as-is for turnkey assignments.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Fully asynchronous online learning is probably best suited to adult learners who are motivated to apply what they learn to their work. Students remember more and experience less mind-wandering when lectures are interpolated with other learning activities, such as short quizzes.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

AI tools can create content quickly, such as quizzes and worksheets and complete administrative tasks, such as grading assignments and generating progress reports , freeing up more time for instructional activities.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 31, 2017

This past April, while administering the 5th grade ELA standardized test in Louisiana, I did as I was supposed to—I circulated and stuck to the script. Somehow Mike scored ‘Approaching Basic,’ which is not the lowest score, but is below the grade level standard. And this was a mistake because kids are motivated by goals—not grades.

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Testing Students Motivation Assignments 168

Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 9, 2024

Here’s an easy-to-read bullet list of what we found: Platform : Android iOS Web Overview: SplashLearn is an innovative online learning platform tailored for PreK through Grade 5 kids. Age Group and Subjects: Parents: SplashLearn offers Math and Reading curriculum from PreK through Grade 5 for parents. You can get started here !

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 20, 2016

GradeCraft is an award-winning, game-oriented LMS designed to boost student engagement and motivation. Gameful learning has a strong focus on students’ self-motivation. Their grades are determined by points accumulated. Gameful Design. Our goal is really to help people think differently about teaching and learning,” Niemer says.

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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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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Digital platforms for enrollment, grading, and communication enhance efficiency, allowing educators to focus more on teaching and students’ individual needs. Digital quizzes, online assignments, and real-time feedback mechanisms offer a more dynamic and varied approach to evaluating students’ understanding and progress.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Interestingly, before this point, Jeslyn and her peers had always needed my guidance on these kinds of projects; all of a sudden, they were working bell-to-bell, motivated by their passion for the issue. Due to the expectation that teachers can cover unrealistic grade-level standards, they are often strapped for time.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2018

Yet every year I see these same students soar and complete the class with high grades. And how can we teach that poor grades don't indicate failure, but rather that we haven’t found the correct learning strategy? Those mini-quizzes became a way for the students to differentiate what they knew from what they didn’t. The purpose?

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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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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

APM Studios’ award-winning science podcast for kids, into classrooms nationwide as a learning resource for grades 2-5. to enhance our elementary teaching resources for grades 2-5,” said Monica Brady-Myerov, Founder and CEO of Listenwise. They are perfect to pair with our teaching resources, interactive transcripts and quizzes.”

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

These technologies capture students’ attention and help them stay focused, leading to improved motivation and participation in the learning process. Lastly, technology streamlines administrative tasks, such as grading and record-keeping. Personalized learning is another key benefit.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Students can work together on digital platforms, sharing ideas and feedback in real-time, while teachers can provide immediate, constructive feedback, which can enhance student engagement and motivation. The platform allows students to submit work electronically, receive grades, and track their progress over time.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 2018

Solution: When curating or building digital lessons and resources for teachers, look to the The Education Trust’s Assignment Analysis Framework to ensure that instruction is aligned to state standards, cognitively challenging, and conducive to student motivation and engagement. 5th Grade Narrative Writing: How do germs help or harm us?

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eSchool News

JULY 26, 2016

The Brightspace platform enabled students to personally craft their experiences to adapt to their learning needs, while quizzes and other formative assessments made sure students were on track for success. D2L currently serves learners in 50 countries, and the company’s track record of innovation has been widely recognized.

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Edsurge

JULY 24, 2018

Louis showed dramatic benefits on student achievement —even increasing students’ grades from a C to an A. Now, a decade later, I see the same clicker-like trend: tools like Kahoot, Quizlet, Quizizz and Plickers are wildly popular due to the increased student engagement and motivation they can provide.

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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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Edsurge

JANUARY 26, 2021

When you’re in the classroom, there are reminders about homework, quizzes, test reviews, etc. NASA STEM @ Home For Students Grades K-4. How are you keeping yours motivated and engaged? Now, kids have to become more self-sufficient in knowing when these dates are coming up. Bongiorno’s recommended STEM resources for parents.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 30, 2017

Teachers can add quizzes that assess student math knowledge by selecting the grade, the topic, one of the suggested Zap Zap Math games, and the duration. Multiplayer quizzes can be created for any quiz, pitting students against each other in a friendly math challenge. Grade K math app will be launched in June 2017.

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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. Joining me on the podcast are three cognitive scientists. The first is Dr. .

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2024

Developing the whole student Maslow’s hierarchy of needs (1943) has long been instrumental in shaping educators’ beliefs about human behavior, motivation, and learning. At the time, I go over any written assignment, I provide students with clear and detailed instructions, as well as the rubric I will use for grading their work.

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Teach Hub

JUNE 7, 2024

Teaching is a balancing act, with constantly juggling creating lesson plans , grading papers, and many other tasks. For example, you can create a chart that monitors homework completion motivating students to meet classroom expectations. Canva is a free tool designed to simplify your daily tasks so you can work smarter, not harder.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 10, 2020

They needed to find ways to reach their students, engage them, motivate them and connect with them in ways that built on the lessons they had learned from the first few months of the pandemic. One thing was clear: Many felt that what happened in the spring should not happen again.

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