eSchool News

AUGUST 23, 2022

I NDIANAPOLIS, (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — When teaching about the labor movement in the United States, instructors often focus on Cesar Chavez and Peter McGuire to illustrate the rise of unions and workers’ rights. They include everything instructors need to teach a subject, including lessons, e-books, bell ringers, quizzes, and tests.

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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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eSchool News

JANUARY 19, 2023

They include everything instructors need to teach a subject, including lessons, e-books, bell ringers, quizzes, and tests. Poptential uses a variety of pop culture media to illustrate concepts, including those taken from sitcoms, movies, animations, cartoons, late-night shows, news programs, and other sources.

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History Curriculum Social Studies Quizzes 246

eSchool News

AUGUST 18, 2022

Poptential curriculum includes everything instructors need to teach a subject, including lessons, e-books, bell ringers, quizzes, and tests. All content is available via our digital platform, which allows students to access lessons even in poor bandwidth environments.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Key points : Today’s students will undoubtedly encounter generative AI in their careers Two higher-ed instructors have designed a guide for using generative AI in life design and career education See related article: A scholar’s embrace of ChatGPT-4 Innovations that have transformed education have often been met with skepticism.

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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.

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Schools Math Testing Intelligence 273

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. So far, Spoon reports that the changes are invigorating.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Poptential course packages include everything instructors need to teach a subject, including lessons, e-books, bell ringers, quizzes, and tests. The lessons use a variety of pop culture media to illustrate concepts, including those taken from sitcoms, movies, animations, cartoons, late-night shows, and other sources.

Social Studies 177

Social Studies Study Curriculum Quizzes 177

Edsurge

JANUARY 7, 2022

Instructors first need to consider how we use grades in our teaching—and then explore what kinds of intrinsic and extrinsic motivations exist and persist for our students. Two common concerns that I’ve come across are that: Grading takes up too much time for instructors, and that.

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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 11, 2020

And that’s what instructors strive to offer their service-member students at the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center, which looks out over Monterey Bay. Small class sizes mean instructors can give individuals assignments on topics relevant to their personal interests. That's the Cadillac version," she says.

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Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Instructors can use AI for editing as well. AI can also generate short content, such as answers to take-home quizzes or un-proctored multiple-choice exams. Students and instructors were learning to ask new questions in new ways. This was often for written assignments or take-home quizzes and tests.

Intelligence 144

Intelligence Plagiarism Quizzes Academic Integrity 144

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

At its most basic, grading of multiple choice quizzes and tests is now essentially instantaneous. One of the primary applications of AI is to massively increase an organization’s capacity to do tasks that require some form of reasoning. In education, this increase in capacity is already showing up in numerous forms.

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Intelligence Schools Quizzes Ethics 218

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Until today, Kahoot’s website and mobile app, which feature nearly 60 million multiple-choice quizzes, have been completely free for students and teachers. Annually, Kahoot Pro costs $12 per teacher for K-12, the company’s primary market in education, and $60 per instructor for higher education.

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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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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

That ruffled feathers early on, particularly as professors claimed copyright over their lecture and test materials, and said that services like these made it easier for students to cheat. If anything, Course Hero has doubled down on its model by replicating its resource-sharing platform for instructors and faculty members.

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Quizzes Lecturing Textbooks Instructors 160

Edsurge

JUNE 8, 2022

Many instructors describe accommodations they’ve tried, like loosening homework deadlines or offering asynchronous alternatives to class conversations, but some now wonder whether this kind of leniency actually makes the situation worse. Students could access chatbot quizzes ahead of exams to help assess their level of understanding.

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Student Engagement Instructors Hybrid Courses Exams 194

Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

With so many perspectives, how can instructors meaningfully address them in college or university classrooms? Will it be on the test? Let’s look at ways instructors can adopt both linear and nonlinear thinking to add depth to their lessons. A nonlinear approach to testing incorporates student-generated quizzes.

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Teaching Quizzes Instructors Exams 119

Edsurge

MARCH 2, 2020

His time as a blended learning instructor in Taos, N.M., Issues With Feedback and Testing It’s much easier to hide in a digital world. But that’s not always the case in subjects such as math and science that require secure environments for test taking. and Khan Academy, which allows for timed tests.

Schools 218

Schools Students Assignments Testing 218

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 97

Quizzes Lecturing Course Evaluations Exams 97

Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

With so many perspectives, how can instructors meaningfully address them in college or university classrooms? Will it be on the test? Let’s look at ways instructors can adopt both linear and nonlinear thinking to add depth to their lessons. A nonlinear approach to testing incorporates student-generated quizzes.

Teaching 111

Teaching Quizzes Instructors Exams 111

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

Additionally, Certell introduced a powerful new dashboard for teachers called Engauge , which helps instructors understand student engagement with Poptential e-books in real time. The integration of American Principles into Poptential social studies courses is a significant milestone.

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Social Studies Study History Critical Thinking 130

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

From the very start of digital education, the big question has always been: ”How can students learn effectively, if they’re not face-to-face with their instructors?” I’d send instructors off into virtual classrooms, practically on their own, with little or no support. Sink or swim. All you need is your imagination.”

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Edsurge

MAY 24, 2018

Flipped Research The flipped learning model may seem commonplace to faculty and instructors in the humanities, where courses often ask students to read materials and come to class ready to discuss. But Barba believes it is still uncharted territory for many science, technology, engineering and mathematics disciplines and instructors.

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Lecturing Learning STEM Instructors 161

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Instructors can use AI for editing as well. AI can also generate short content, such as answers to take-home quizzes or un-proctored multiple-choice exams. Students and instructors were learning to ask new questions in new ways. This was often for written assignments or take-home quizzes and tests.

Intelligence 111

Intelligence Plagiarism Quizzes Academic Integrity 111

Edsurge

MAY 9, 2023

The student knew the material, but she just wasn’t a good test-taker. Her score on that exam was so low, in fact, that she realized she had no chance to get an A in the course, no matter how well she might do on future tests and assignments. After that, this professor vowed never to use traditional grades on tests again.

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Grades Exams Feedback Testing 194

eSchool News

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Poptential course packages include everything instructors need to teach a subject, including lessons, e-books, bell ringers , quizzes, and tests. This video in Volume 2 offers a look at how Europeans took control of Africa in the late 1800s to reap the financial benefits of its many natural resources.

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History Social Studies Quizzes Instructors 141

eSchool News

MAY 6, 2022

Poptential courses, used by more than 30,000 teachers in 50 states, include everything instructors need to teach a subject, digitally accessible in one place, including lessons, ebooks, bell ringers, quizzes, and tests, as well as pop culture media to make lessons interesting and relatable to students. the maker of Poptential.

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History Curriculum Social Studies Culture 130

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 9, 2024

In this way, backchannels serve as a formative assessment for instructors to identify ways to improve the delivery and impact of our teaching. Conducting regular assessments using real-time polls and quizzes allow students to understand how well they’re doing and where they may need to place additional effort. Dillinger, K (2023).

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Course Design Feedback Instructors Students 128

eSchool News

JANUARY 19, 2023

They include everything instructors need to teach a subject, including lessons, e-books, bell ringers, quizzes, and tests. Poptential uses a variety of pop culture media to illustrate concepts, including those taken from sitcoms, movies, animations, cartoons, late-night shows, news programs, and other sources.

History 130

History Curriculum Social Studies Quizzes 130

Edsurge

MAY 2, 2018

Educators shifting to competency-based models often tout to the power of allowing students to master a topic by taking a test again and again until they do well, rather than failing them if they bomb the first time. The philosophy is that such repeated testing will make sure they get to a level where the material truly sinks in.

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Study Quizzes Math Exams 123

Edsurge

JULY 5, 2016

Now, the school is taking its relationship with OpenStax —the nonprofit publisher of open source textbooks that contributed to most of those savings—to a new level, test driving next-generation adaptive courseware. Instructors can exclude questions to ensure students aren’t quizzed on material that hasn’t been covered.

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Quizzes Textbooks Coaching Testing 99

eSchool News

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Poptential course packages include everything instructors need to teach a subject, including lessons, e-books, bell ringers , quizzes, and tests. The curriculum is standards-based and developed by teachers.

High School 130

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EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 16, 2018

They do not require the same level of planning or execution as a summative assessment, so they are easier to insert into a lesson when the instructor needs to take a quick ‘temperature check.’”. Formative assessments, meanwhile, provide for more fluid interaction between teachers and students.

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Quizzes Students Elementary School Elementary School 160

Scholarly Teacher

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Gabriele Pinto , Baylor University Key Statement: Implementing elements of active learning into a large course may seem daunting task, but think-pair-share aided by quizzing and clickers can be done in any size classroom. Image courtesy of This Is Engineering, Unsplash.

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Cult of Pedagogy

APRIL 27, 2025

But if you’re new here, I’ll give you a very quick overview: Retrieval practice is the act of trying to recall something you learned from memory by doing things like taking a test on it or using flashcards instead of just looking at, rereading, or reviewing the information. “So basically, why did you pick that response?

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

00:01:06 Speaker 1 But it’s got all the tools and capabilities that enable the uh, the educators, the instructors to uh, implement those type of programs. But we’re not testing the teachers. 00:01:02 Speaker 1 On their phone, on their computer, on their iPad. 00:01:39 Speaker 1 But then why is computer science?

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