Faculty Focus

JULY 1, 2025

AI-enabled systems such as adaptive learning platforms, chatbots, and generative tools like ChatGPT can provide students with on-demand explanations, simulate peer discussions, offer low-stakes quizzes, and give instant feedback. Simply replacing lectures with videos or adding quizzes does not constitute a true flip.

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Critical Thinking Student Engagement Lecturing Quizzes 94

eSchool News

JUNE 13, 2025

In a ninth grade class, he researched the earning potential for a STEM degree (“so much more money”) and the demand for mechanical engineers (“exploding”). By the end of eighth grade, they’ve learned about 10 different careers. The Toppenish sophomore often gets “education” as an answer when she takes career quizzes.

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Teach Hub

APRIL 23, 2025

Quizzes to review material in a high-energy way. Whether its through learning stations, real-world applications, technology, or a little competition, there are plenty of ways to keep students engagedno matter their grade level. Gamify Math with Friendly Competition Middle schoolers thrive on a little competition. Online Kahoot !

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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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Multiple Choice Questions Teachers Writing Questions 80

Teachers Pay Teachers

JULY 16, 2025

Start the year off with foundational lessons based on CCSS from the previous grade (or even the grade below that) to ensure students have the tools they need to succeed. Once reluctant learners know that success is in their control, you’ll find their grades starting to rise.

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k12

JULY 10, 2025

Polls and Quizzes: Encourage your child to participate in polls or mini quizzes if their online platform offers them. Some programs also include regular quizzes or assessments, which can help demonstrate how well they absorb the material. Why should you learn how to engage your students in online learning?

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Online Learning Quizzes Learning Motivation 52

1 plus 1 plus 1 equals 1

JULY 1, 2025

Grades: Grades 4th–12th (levels vary) Approach: Editing-based. Grades: 1st–8th Approach: Traditional workbook style, incremental lessons with exercises. Grades: 1st–4th (Books 1–4) Approach: Classical, scripted, teacher-led lessons with memorization and copywork. GRAMMAR We used Fix It! See a full review I wrote here !

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Curriculum Teaching Philosophy Quizzes Learning Styles 52

Edsurge

JANUARY 17, 2018

It could be books read, quizzes finished, activities completed.) For example, DreamBox, an online math software, recommends that students in grades 6-8 use it for 60 to 90 minutes a week. Teachers can also set weekly usage targets for individual students and track their progress against those goals.

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Catlin Tucker

JULY 2, 2019

In a blog post I wrote titled Ask Yourself, Why Am I Grading This? , I encourage teachers to think about the purpose of the work students are doing and evaluate whether it makes sense for them to invest their time and energy grading that work. How is one teacher supposed to grade all of the work that 150+ students complete?

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Grades Assignments Evaluation Coaching 419

eSchool News

JUNE 2, 2017

Grading papers is still a daunting teaching duty. An important aspect of starting to use an online learning platform is to consider the type of assignments teachers want to grade. Although teachers can post quizzes, writing assignments, and projects, it is important to evaluate how much time teachers have to learn the system.

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Grades Technology Blended Learning Quizzes 254

Edsurge

MAY 9, 2023

And the way the grading system in education works has long bothered him. Gradually these quizzes and tests and timed assessments and the way it all fits together with points and averaging, it just wore her down,” Talbert says. After that, this professor vowed never to use traditional grades on tests again.

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Grades Exams Feedback Testing 198

Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 18, 2015

This year as I was preparing for my own first day, I realized…my 9th and 10th grade students are perfectly capable of reading, so why would I spent 20 minutes of this precious first day reading to them? Students love taking online quizzes, so they enjoy the experience and I get to know their learning styles! So, I didn’t.

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Syllabus Learning Styles Schools Quizzes 420

eSchool News

JANUARY 6, 2025

Today, Beanstack announces the addition of Book Talks with Benny, an AI-powered teachers assistant that promotes reading integrity without the need for quizzes or grading.

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Quizzes Ethics History Intelligence 275

Catlin Tucker

JANUARY 25, 2019

Many teachers collect homework and take piles of student work home to grade. Homework is designed to be practice, so I’ve never understood why it is graded and often becomes punitive. I’d suggest using a quizzing tool that automatically grades the students’ answers (e.g., 3 Homework Check & Review.

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Teachers Essay Feedback Quizzes 420

eSchool News

APRIL 10, 2025

The pre-made quizzes also offer instant feedback, helping students reflect on their learning process. I love that I can find a library of pre-created quizzes or create my own. According to a recent study, over 60 percent of educators believe traditional assessments fail to fully measure student understanding.

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Evaluation Quizzes Critical Thinking Feedback 276

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Because TAs often work with students who are working below grade level, TAs can take course materials and use a general chatbot or a specialized tool designed to support teachers, like MagicSchoolAI or Eduaide.ai , to reduce the reading level to make materials accessible for each student.

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Teaching Assistants Teaching Quizzes Intelligence 293

eSchool News

AUGUST 12, 2024

Teachers can use AI-powered tools like MagicSchool.ai , ChatGPT , and Chatterbot AI to create quizzes and exams that align with their course materials. Teachers can provide ChatGPT with their lessons by uploading them as PDFs or text files and then asking it to create quizzes and tests that include both objective and subjective questions.

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Quizzes Lecturing Ethics Exams 293

eSchool News

MAY 6, 2015

Creating, sharing, delivering and grading of tests, along with analysis of results, happens in real-time in one platform. Being able to easily create and deliver quizzes and tests to students in the classroom, and then put the results of those tests to work immediately to help improve student learning was the motivation behind Apperson, Inc.

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Quizzes Education Essay Testing 254

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 1, 2015

ExitTicket is a rapid-response tool that lets teachers instantly poll, survey, or test student knowledge via custom quizzes called tickets. Grades : 5-12. Click here to read the full app review. ExitTicket. What’s It Like? Teachers can create their own tickets or browse a library of tickets created by other educators.

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Quizzes Feedback Knowledge Testing 253

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

You can create quizzes for the books your students are reading and assign collections to your students. Vooks : Vooks is a wonderful resource for the PK-2 grade teacher. For the primary grades it has read aloud stories with lessons provided to go with the story. I have been able to use it at every level I have taught.

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Elementary School Elementary School Schools Quizzes 338

eSchool News

JUNE 15, 2017

Creating them, administering them, and grading them are just the beginning. It takes so much effort on the part of the teacher, not to mention all the paper and by-hand grading and recording that has to happen on the teacher’s personal time. Kahoot allows the teacher to build fun quizzes, flashcards and games.

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Quizzes Mobile Devices Essay Assignments 216

eSchool News

OCTOBER 6, 2016

The winning school will receive a one-year subscription to EasyTech and EasyCode Premium, Learning.com ’s digital literacy and coding curriculum for grades K-8. Learning.com announces its first Code-a-Thon, a nationwide competition that will run from Nov.

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Skills Quizzes Middle School Middle School 279

Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 4, 2025

June 4th-6th: Buy any K-8 School License get 2 free print books of the grade level you purchased with this code: 2FREEPRINTBOOKS (Please note: domestic or freight-forwarders only–no international shipping) Usually, you get one desk copy for each grade level included in your school license.

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Schools Quizzes Intelligence Grades 81

eSchool News

AUGUST 1, 2017

With this new view, teachers and students can see the status of every assignment, and can use filters to see assigned work, missing work, or returned and graded work. Decimal grading: As teachers know, grading is often more complicated than a simple point value. G Suite for Education-Decimal Grading. Sneak Peak!

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Quizzes Teachers Mobile Devices Assignments 198

eSchool News

MAY 20, 2024

Checkology virtual classroom , NLP’s browser-based platform, is designed for students in grades 6-12 and helps prepare the next generation to easily identify misinformation. NLP’s resource library includes lesson plans, classroom activities, posters and infographics, quizzes, and more for educators teaching news literacy.

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Critical Thinking Students Quizzes Evaluation 326

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

MARCH 25, 2020

Remark Test Grading Cloud available to all teachers for free, including electronic bubble sheets for distributing and grading assessments. is offering instructors a free 60-day subscription to its popular Remark Test Grading Cloud application.

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Testing Grades Multiple Choice Questions Teachers 112

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? If so, why? This creates scenarios in which cheating is almost inevitable.

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Quizzes Learning Testing Intelligence 308

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 Language Languages 283

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 platform helps educators monitor student progress through quizzes, grading, assessment tools, and detailed reports at the district, school, instructor, and student levels.

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Game-Based Learning Instructors STEM Quizzes 256

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

It’s not specific to any grade level or subject and can be used across many disciplines. Teachers have used the app to create quizzes, scavenger hunts, and breakout rooms. Teachers have used the app to create quizzes, scavenger hunts, and breakout rooms. It also comes with a few lessons to help teachers get started. Metaverse .

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Quizzes History STEM Science 280

eSchool News

JULY 15, 2024

AI should be used as a support tool to handle administrative tasks such as grading and scheduling, and to provide supplementary personalized learning aids like simulations and adaptive quizzes. Proposing a hybrid model To maximize the benefits of both AI and human educators, a hybrid approach is recommended.

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Ethics Education Learning Quizzes 314

eSchool News

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Effective Assessment: Digital tools make it easier for teachers to create and grade assignments, quizzes, and exams. Student and teacher collaboration promotes an effective understanding of different concepts.

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Collaborative Learning Gamification Teachers Teaching Methods 314

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.

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Art Students Culture Coaching 329

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 256

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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Quizzes Grades Art Knowledge 167

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. Finding someone who can help you find those positives is key to ensuring your success in the classroom, as well as your students. Narrow down the activities you “have to do.”

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Teachers Quizzes Coaching Motivation 335