eSchool News

JUNE 28, 2016

Below are a handful of different tools and resources for formative assessments (ed note: these tools have not been endorsed or reviewed by eSM staff): Using Kahoot , educators can create learning games from a series of multiple choice questions to assess student understanding. They can add videos, images and diagrams.

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Multiple Choice Questions Exams Coaching Motivation 189

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

But from the individual teacher’s perspective, I think the best approach is to start by having a conversation with the bot: try to find out how knowledgeable it is about your subject, how accurately it answers your questions, how it performs in the activities you set, and how it reacts when challenged. So far, so good.

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Multiple Choice Questions Plagiarism Writing Questions 111

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Truly rare are those careers where employees advance based on their ability to regularly answer multiple-choice questions correctly! Truly rare are those careers where employees advance based on their ability to regularly answer multiple-choice questions correctly!

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Multiple Choice Questions Multidisciplinary Social Studies English 153

Faculty Focus

MARCH 26, 2023

Although I will focus on the same course (one about how to write multiple-choice questions), this time I want to find out whether ChatGPT can function as my teaching aid. For example, can it come up with examples and questions that I can use in learning materials and activities? It’s similar to a very fast brainstorm.

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Multiple Choice Questions Teaching Participation Questions 119

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Now, with AI, we're in the second phase, which isn't just about personalizing content but also about how students present their understanding and share their knowledge. The first phase really focused on getting the right content to the right student at the right time. Because a hallmark of creativity is uniqueness.

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Multiple Choice Questions Assignments Intelligence Skills 202

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

But from the individual teacher’s perspective, I think the best approach is to start by having a conversation with the bot: try to find out how knowledgeable it is about your subject, how accurately it answers your questions, how it performs in the activities you set, and how it reacts when challenged. So far, so good.

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Multiple Choice Questions Plagiarism Writing Questions 98

Edsurge

MAY 25, 2017

Millions of students in colleges and schools around the world take classes that require clickers, small remote controls that let students buzz in answers to multiple choice questions during class. There was one exception: students who had prior knowledge of physics concepts were not thrown off by the clicker quizzes).

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Study Multiple Choice Questions Peer Review Quizzes 155

Edsurge

DECEMBER 16, 2020

They are, in fact, the epitome of passive screen time, causing students to focus more on mindlessly consuming academic content through videos and multiple-choice questions, as opposed to learning through critical thinking and problem solving.

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Distance Learning Multiple Choice Questions Learning Critical Thinking 218

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Sometimes the two agents can agree on information that is false and clashes with the knowledge of the learner. That’s different than the standard delivery of text and multiple choice questions. That’s fine for entertaining or inspiring and shallow knowledge, but it isn’t deep knowledge.

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Intelligence Lecturing Multiple Choice Questions Learning 167

Faculty Focus

MARCH 26, 2023

Although I will focus on the same course (one about how to write multiple-choice questions), this time I want to find out whether ChatGPT can function as my teaching aid. For example, can it come up with examples and questions that I can use in learning materials and activities? It’s similar to a very fast brainstorm.

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Multiple Choice Questions Teaching Participation Questions 98

Edsurge

MARCH 6, 2024

Many of my students who are already successfully applying their extensive knowledge and skills on class assignments and extracurricular activities are told that because they cannot demonstrate mastery of academic content through a specific set of conditions, they have failed.

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Multidisciplinary Counselling Multiple Choice Questions Exams 206

eSchool News

AUGUST 22, 2016

“With pre-built questions, customization features, automated grading, and Gradebook tracking, teachers will now be able to use our science and social studies content to accurately assess their students’ knowledge and understanding within those subjects.”. The Assessments feature was in high demand, so we built it.”.

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Multiple Choice Questions Quizzes Social Studies Exams 118

Edsurge

JULY 11, 2023

One example in particular is getting students that are taking, say, an online chemistry course to create a multiple choice question for us. And so if you have a course with 5,000 students in it, and everyone elects to create a multiple-choice question, you now have 5,000 new multiple-choice questions for that chemistry course.

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Testing Multiple Choice Questions Teaching Education 123

Faculty Focus

MAY 2, 2024

The pressure to solve problems, answer multiple-choice question, and write essays on an exam scares them. In addition to clarifying what skills and knowledge students need to do well in the course, the conversation can revisit the reasons why it’s a required course. They’re convinced they won’t do well. Becker, J.

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Teaching Multidisciplinary Multiple Choice Questions Exams 111

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

TTQs help students accurately gauge areas they might need to shore up prior to the next assessment and understand the level of depth required to solve a question. Faculty typically default to using polls in a very unidimensional fashion—a multiple choice question with a single correct answer. Play with the polls.

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Instructors Multiple Choice Questions Course Design Discussions 138

Faculty Focus

MAY 2, 2024

The pressure to solve problems, answer multiple-choice question, and write essays on an exam scares them. In addition to clarifying what skills and knowledge students need to do well in the course, the conversation can revisit the reasons why it’s a required course. They’re convinced they won’t do well. Becker, J.

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Teaching Multidisciplinary Multiple Choice Questions Exams 102

Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2018

He recently spoke with us about testing bias, holding psychometricians accountable for the exams they create and whether the future holds any innovation for a field still dominated by math, language and multiple choice questions. Mark Moulton : Here that whole question is, what does fair mean?

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Testing Fairness Multiple Choice Questions Exams 167

eSchool News

MAY 1, 2024

TeachTap follows Bloom’s core principles and the educational research that followed: Regular quizzing, identifying knowledge gaps, varying time spent on lessons and constant feedback are key to optimal student achievement.

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Exams High School High School History 137

Edsurge

MAY 22, 2017

Yet preparing students to take them may dis-incentivize teachers from helping students acquire a wider range of skills and knowledge, says Sturgis. “Is How one demonstrates “mastery” may vary according to the subject or skill in question. Is it fair to only cover the standards that are going to be on the test?”

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Education Multiple Choice Questions Fairness Questions 135

Faculty Focus

MAY 1, 2025

Talking about relating learning experiences to real life brings to my attention how this group of young management students integrated their academic knowledge with their online profiles. For one of the assessments, I conducted an online, objective-type quiz, consisting mainly of multiple-choice questions.

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Academic Integrity Multiple Choice Questions Learning Students 105

eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2024

The future of education is changing, and global workforce demands will be influenced by the need for knowledge around and skills in fast-growing technologies such as AI. This begs the question: What’s next for education? Rather than traditional, multiple-choice questions, technology will interact with students at a greater clip.

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Gamification Intelligence Reading Ethics 359

Faculty Focus

MAY 1, 2025

Talking about relating learning experiences to real life brings to my attention how this group of young management students integrated their academic knowledge with their online profiles. For one of the assessments, I conducted an online, objective-type quiz, consisting mainly of multiple-choice questions.

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Academic Integrity Multiple Choice Questions Learning Students 93

Faculty Focus

JULY 27, 2023

The questions do not have right or wrong answers. They are meant to help students organize existing knowledge, pull relevant information into working memory, and encourage reflection and metacognition. To address equity and accessibility, professors could read the questions out loud and allow multiple ways of participation.

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Student Engagement Syllabus Students Lecturing 98

Edsurge

JULY 16, 2018

Technology-Enhanced What’s easier to agree on is that multiple-choice questions are a poor way to measure soft skills. None of the problems we gave students required a lot of content knowledge or problem-solving expertise. Darling-Hammond says the format is rarely used outside the U.S, where it’s unusually popular. “In

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Testing Exams Multiple Choice Questions STEM 104

Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 21, 2019

provide background knowledge on topics being discussed — not for testing but to round out learning or for pure enjoyment. They should be active participants in viewing, sharing ideas, testing understanding, and blending this new knowledge with everything they know. show experiments that can’t be done in class.

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Multiple Choice Questions Textbooks Knowledge Discussions 75

Cult of Pedagogy

JANUARY 21, 2024

We recognize that there’s something fundamentally different about large-scale, externally mandated standardized tests that rely on multiple-choice questions. First, the mandated ELA tests are content-free; students do not need particular content knowledge to demonstrate mastery of the standards.

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Testing Multiple Choice Questions Language Languages 111

Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 5, 2016

This is also useful as a formative assessment with videos where the class can be watching a video and the teacher can pause it as needed, ask a multiple choice question, and have students answer quickly on their Google form. This allows the teacher to be agile and flexible in adapting to a student-paced environment.

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Multiple Choice Questions Questions Testing Grades 80

eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

This created a depth of knowledge at the click of mouse, which has become a valued resource for learners of all ages. Many fear that computer-generated grading would only perpetuate the education system’s reliance on multiple-choice questions. When answering basic questions, AI can read a student’s answers.

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Plagiarism Education Intelligence Textbooks 130

Scholarly Teacher

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Collaborative quizzes foster purposeful relationships with peers as well as the knowledge, skills, and self-efficacy necessary to engage in respectful and fruitful dialogue toward a shared goal. Collaborative quizzes: Deepening content knowledge & increasing interpersonal communication skills [Video]. 2022, October 17).

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Quizzes Education Multiple Choice Questions Feedback 52

eSchool News

JANUARY 5, 2024

The future of education is changing, and global workforce demands will be influenced by the need for knowledge around and skills in fast-growing technologies such as AI. This begs the question: What’s next for education? Rather than traditional, multiple-choice questions, technology will interact with students at a greater clip.

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Gamification Intelligence Reading Ethics 130

Edsurge

MAY 28, 2019

“The reality is the type of interaction occurring [between students and teachers] in these automated settings is cursory and requires a low level of student knowledge,” he says. What you are essentially getting is the type of interaction and feedback that can be provided through multiple-choice questioning.”

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Blended Learning Multiple Choice Questions Schools Achievement 167

Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

We find no one with a professional knowledge in the laws of learning, or the techniques for applying them,” he wrote. For instance, an online biology textbook might include a short section about protein synthesis, followed by a question. But at a university? “We Teaching at colleges is often done without any formal training.

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Education Learning Textbooks Instructors 218

Faculty Focus

JULY 6, 2023

Immediate feedback is a successful engagement strategy that promotes active learning and fosters a supportive, inclusive classroom, especially when used with low stakes assignments or to gauge transfer of knowledge (Epstein & Brosvic, 2002, Goldstein & Wallis, 2015). Kahoot allows you to create a set of multiple-choice questions.

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Instructors Multiple Choice Questions Internet Participation 98

Faculty Focus

JULY 6, 2023

Immediate feedback is a successful engagement strategy that promotes active learning and fosters a supportive, inclusive classroom, especially when used with low stakes assignments or to gauge transfer of knowledge (Epstein & Brosvic, 2002, Goldstein & Wallis, 2015). Kahoot allows you to create a set of multiple-choice questions.

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Instructors Multiple Choice Questions Internet Participation 98

Edsurge

APRIL 16, 2017

Because unlike dribbling, the skills, background knowledge and critical thinking required to perform well on those exams aresophisticated (despite the deceptively simple format of multiple-choice questions). Doing well on tests is the result of years of accumulated knowledge and cognitive abilities.

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Testing Exams Multiple Choice Questions Students 160