Edsurge

MAY 10, 2018

They’re often ineffective as a teaching tool, they’re easy for students to cheat, and they can exacerbate test anxiety. 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.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 8, 2024

In January 2023, about one month after the release of ChatGPT, there were already stories about colleges switching to “pen-and-paper” tests to battle the AI bots. 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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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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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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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 220

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Then, they find or create digital content, objective tests, and performance tasks aligned to those learning objectives, which they post to an LMS. Suppose Ella is working on 9th-grade English as a 10-year-old. The content her teacher makes for the LMS is likely several grade levels beneath Ellas level and a waste of her time.

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Quizzes Textbooks Testing Essay 266

Edsurge

JUNE 27, 2016

Back in September of 2015, Google launched its beta Expeditions Pioneer Program in order to test the use of virtual reality (VR) in classrooms. Erin Turnbach,a 2nd grade teacher, piloted Cast in her New Jersey classroom and describes the experience: “One group was researching frogs. Quizzes in Google Forms. Source: Google).

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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 199

Edsurge

MAY 6, 2019

As students cram, her team of four has been scrambling to meet the demand on Fiveable , where she and other teachers broadcast live test-prep sessions. In its first year, she claims, more than 90 percent of the 400-plus students on the platform passed their AP World History and US History tests. More than 2.8

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Testing Exams Teachers History 153

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

“Because of COVID-19, we live in a world where students are not allowed to share resources or materials in school, or they simply don’t have access because they are learning virtually at home,” says Mr. Gabe Haydu, 5th grade teacher at the Singapore American School. Integrated quizzes and classroom management tools.

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Teaching Mobile Devices Science Quizzes 305

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. First, outside-in.

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Teaching Gamification Feedback Intelligence 325

Edsurge

APRIL 25, 2017

Instructors might send students to the Khan Academy website for additional practice, or have computer stations in class where students complete online quizzes. We can add more subjects, practice modalities, lightweight quizzes and assessments, and also get data quicker.” Khan also remains optimistic.

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Testing Quizzes Teachers Assignments 163

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

NEW YORK — Tutor.com , one of the world’s largest and most innovative online tutoring organizations, announced today that it has been selected by the South Orange & Maplewood School District to provide round-the-clock online tutoring for students in grades 3 through 12 at no cost to them.

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eSchool News

MAY 28, 2024

The district was among the first in the country to test the chatbot called Khanmigo, an AI program developed by online learning giant Khan Academy that is designed for classrooms and acts as a tutor for students and an assistant for teachers. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is a Chalkbeat funder. Learn more about our funding here.)

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Schools Math Testing Intelligence 273

Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 3, 2024

From spanning out schedules and lesson planning to grading, the responsibilities seem a never-ending cycle and quite overwhelming. It allows more educators like you to create, distribute, and grade assignments, albeit paperless, especially in online learning sessions.

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Activities Quizzes Education Feedback 159

Faculty Focus

APRIL 17, 2025

I found myself sitting in a classroom, staring at a test I couldnt answer. In my mind, the purpose of learning was to get good grades. Grades were everythingsymbols of success and a source of validation. This fear intensified in high school, where frequent tests ranked students publicly. Where was my future?

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Grades Social Studies Learning Feedback 101

Edsurge

JUNE 26, 2019

The nonprofit ACT, which is best-known for its standardized college entrance test, privately demonstrated its new skill on an Amazon Echo Dot. The ACT skill, which provides general information about the exam and can help students prepare for the test, will be available to the public this fall. Alexa, when is the next ACT test date?

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Skills Quizzes Teachers Testing 167

Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Here’s the sign-up link if the image above doesn’t work: [link] Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years.

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Quizzes Peer Review Failure Essay 159

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.

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Textbooks Education Intelligence Quizzes 300

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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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

MAY 6, 2020

Teachers can also take advantage of time-saving features such as automatic grading and the computerized compilation of points awarded for correct answers so that test administration takes less time and there is more time teaching. Creating quick quizzes linked to personalized practice.

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Quizzes Evaluation Testing Curriculum 165

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Some believe it will cripple the education system and replace human workers ; others denounce ChatGPT as a free essay-writing and test-taking tool that makes it laughably easy to cheat on assignments, while the validity of responses generated by ChatGPT has also been called into question.

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Ethics Essay Syllabus Feedback 339

Edsurge

OCTOBER 6, 2020

While many students say they’re looking for the assistance they’re not getting from their colleges, professors argue that students are using these sites to cheat on quizzes and tests. Still, he hopes that other students in his classes are not cheating, because that could bring down his grade, since many classes are graded on a curve.

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Study Exams Quizzes Lecturing 191

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 168

Edsurge

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Now, he and Baselice collaborate to create and test games and are actively trying to gather evidence that these activities aren’t just good for engagement, but for long-term learning. When I’m testing a game, I have no way of knowing if it's going to be blocked by the school’s servers,” Angie says.

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Teachers Quizzes Testing Learning Outcomes 213

Gaggle Speaks

JULY 14, 2015

In addition, finding paperless grading workflows becomes more important as blended learning environments expand and teachers no longer communicate with students solely face-to-face. In fact, a major barrier for students completing various assignments online has been the lack of a digital grading workflow that instructors can adopt.

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Grades Quizzes Essay Instructors 94

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? Learning How to Learn I’ve often heard students tell me they studied for hours on a test only to fail. The purpose?

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Teaching Failure Quizzes Learning 168

eSchool News

MARCH 26, 2020

Dictionary.com announced today it has launched the Dictionary.com Learning At Home Center , offering free, educator-reviewed materials and resources for kids from pre-K through 12th grade and their parents. Written by the Dictionary.com editors with the help of educators from around the U.S.,

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Quizzes Middle School Middle School Education 143

Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 4, 2024

June 4th-6th: Buy any K-8 School License get 2 free print books of the grade level you purchased (Please note: new orders only; domestic or freight-forwarders only) Usually, you get one desk copy for each grade level included in your school license. Between June 4th-6th get two per grade level.

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Quizzes Schools Textbooks Grades 159

Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Here’s an overview of keyboarding for grades K-8: Kindergarten Kindergarten is about mouse skills, getting hands on the keyboard and learning good posture. 1st grade Review mouse skills while focusing on key placement and posture, getting hands on the correct side of the keyboard. Online keyboarding websites.

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Quizzes Grades Knowledge Questions 174

Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

It used to be simple to post grades. Add up test scores and see what the student earned. 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? I have a grade! Very defensible. Everyone understood. Then–Magic!

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Quizzes Critical Thinking Knowledge Testing 149

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Students are required to complete online chapter quizzes based on the course objectives and textbook for the course within D2L. When the course was taught in-person, three tests were administered to students and evenly spaced throughout the semester. There were no intermittent due dates throughout the semester.

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Quizzes Teaching Learning Feedback 126

Edsurge

JULY 9, 2021

Did you simply practice the same type of A/B testing that’s common throughout the tech sphere? That’s the ethics debate playing out in one online educator space , a lively back-and-forth carried over from a recent workshop on educational A/B testing. But if researchers are A/B testing two innocuous options, what’s the harm?

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Ethics Knowledge Testing Learning 202

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

And for the first half of his 9th grade year, he did enough to pass, earning Cs and Ds. When Ray was my student, I decided to test out gamifying my Greek Mythology Unit by creating a new Edmodo class, chunking the content into small groups, and providing my students with a paper game board to support the blended learning within the unit.

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Distance Learning Culture Gamification Learning 218

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 137

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 107