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

JUNE 23, 2023

To be fair, Powerschool’s announcement this week that it will integrate Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service to use OpenAI’s large language models within the company’s Personalized Learning Cloud will probably be the biggest news to come out of ISTE next week. Want to dive deep into what Microsoft’s Azure technology is all about?

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Multiple Choice Questions Fairness Language Languages 143

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

The content in question includes a first-grade language arts video lesson that shows an Acellus instructor teaching about the letter “G.” That means evaluating the curriculum’s illustrations, questioning the story lines, looking at the narratives laid out and the lifestyles depicted to scan for bias. We don’t know.

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Learning Schools Multiple Choice Questions Distance Learning 213

eSchool News

JULY 4, 2023

The challenge Aldine ISD faced at the beginning of the 2022-23 school year was to prepare their students for the redesign of the math State of Texas Assessment of Academic Readiness (STAAR), which added non-multiple-choice questions to align with the deep critical thinking and conceptual mathematics learning students should be doing in class.

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Multiple Choice Questions Math Middle School Middle School 154

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

The bot has raised many questions, to name just a few: how ChatGPT will affect exams, how to help students use it critically and within the boundaries of academic integrity, how to talk about it in class, and whether it can help faculty plan activities or even generate content like examples or cases.

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Multiple Choice Questions Plagiarism Writing Questions 96

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

” The image below shows: the generated sources (all clickable with a direct link), the answer to your question, and other related prompts or questions. QuestionWell allows you to input an article, reading, or a video and writes questions based on what you’ve input and your learning outcomes. What can it do?

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Multiple Choice Questions Teaching Assistants Education Learning Outcomes 124

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

With advances in educational data mining, we can infer learners’ emotions from their natural language interaction with systems, their facial expressions, even their body posture. One thing we do is build agents that hold a conversation in natural language. That’s where it’s important to track the emotions of the learner.

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Intelligence Lecturing Multiple Choice Questions Learning 167

Edsurge

JULY 11, 2023

That’s the question posed by a group of researchers who developed a free tool they call the Adaptive Experimentation Accelerator. One example in particular is getting students that are taking, say, an online chemistry course to create a multiple choice question for us.

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Testing Multiple Choice Questions Teaching Education 124

Edsurge

OCTOBER 25, 2016

But one word in that phrase often raises a host of questions: What counts as “data”? To shed some light on the questions above, EdSurge talked to six educators to get their take. Here’s the big takeaway: Data doesn’t just come in the form of grades, attendance records and answers on multiple choice questions.

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Multiple Choice Questions Beliefs Education Culture 164

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

But three months in, she had had enough of watching students in her English language arts class mentally check out from the monotony of the new structure: She read off district-created slides, and then students answered a multiple-choice question by holding up a markerboard where they scribbled an A, B, C or D.

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Schools Multiple Choice Questions Testing Reading 218

Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 24, 2024

Language Acquisition: If you’re pursuing a new language or delving into technical terminologies , improved memory can expedite your mastery. Remember that fluctuating moods can cloud your judgment and impair your decision-making – a critical aspect when facing multiple-choice questions or mapping the outline of an essay.

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Achievement Multiple Choice Questions Students Study 167

Edsurge

JANUARY 28, 2019

To answer these questions, Panorama Education analyzed data from more than 100,000 students at nearly 200 schools across the country. More specifically, how is SEL associated with attendance, behavior and course performance (ABC)—and how do these associations vary across student demographics or educational contexts?

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Multiple Choice Questions Learning Grades Special Education 167

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

A) Choose questions that most students will be able to answer correctly. B) Vary the types of poll questions beyond multiple choice. D) Stress that students answer questions independent of their peers. Here are a few tips: Scaffold your questions as class progresses. Select all that apply.

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Instructors Multiple Choice Questions Course Design Discussions 140

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

” The image below shows: the generated sources (all clickable with a direct link), the answer to your question, and other related prompts or questions. QuestionWell allows you to input an article, reading, or a video and writes questions based on what you’ve input and your learning outcomes. What can it do?

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Multiple Choice Questions Teaching Assistants Education Learning Outcomes 108

eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2024

This begs the question: What’s next for education? But, with ESSER funds set to expire at the end of the 2023-24 school year, districts are asking important questions as they manage these unwieldy edtech ecosystems: Which tools support effective pedagogy? What are the projections for edtech?

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Gamification Intelligence Reading Ethics 360

eSchool News

JUNE 27, 2016

To support schools and districts across the country and around the world, the company has created state-customized editions of its patented, nonfiction blended learning literacy solutions: · KidBizPro®, TeenBizPro®, and EmpowerPro® for English language arts, science and social studies in grades two through 12.

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Blended Learning Textbooks Multiple Choice Questions Learning 100

Cult of Pedagogy

JANUARY 21, 2024

Generally speaking, a standardized test is an assessment wherein the conditions and test (directions, prompts, questions, etc.) We recognize that there’s something fundamentally different about large-scale, externally mandated standardized tests that rely on multiple-choice questions. Move 2: Strive for precise language.

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Testing Multiple Choice Questions Language Languages 106

Faculty Focus

JULY 27, 2023

The entry ticket asks students to answer a question. The questions do not have right or wrong answers. At the end of class, the professor displays one more QR code that leads to a short survey asking students to reflect on what they have learned, how it connects with their lives, and what questions remain in their minds.

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Student Engagement Syllabus Students Lecturing 98

Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Teachers provide the essential question and big idea, and then share a collection of videos students can select from as they design their own learning. What they WILL do is watch closely, be prepared to ask/answer questions, take notes as appropriate, and relate what they see to the lesson’s essential question.

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Multiple Choice Questions Textbooks Knowledge Discussions 79

Teaching with a Mountain View

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Teach (and start practicing) Mnemonic Devices Mnemonic devices can help students approach questions with structure and clarity. SLAM for Multiple-Choice: Skim the question, Look for keywords, Analyze choices, Match evidence to your answer. Often, a distractor choice may be close but not quite correct.

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Testing Multiple Choice Questions Math Writing 52

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Some offered multiple-choice questions, for instance, that simply asked kids to pick the correct pronunciation—hardly a useful exercise. In 2013, after watching her three-year-old daughter work through phonics exercises on an iPad, it struck Scanlon that the apps at the time often did poorly measuring oral fluency.

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Laboratory Multiple Choice Questions English Testing 73

eSchool News

JANUARY 5, 2024

This begs the question: What’s next for education? But, with ESSER funds set to expire at the end of the 2023-24 school year, districts are asking important questions as they manage these unwieldy edtech ecosystems: Which tools support effective pedagogy? What are the projections for edtech?

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Gamification Intelligence Reading Ethics 130

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Source: PowerMyLearning Here’s what a Family Playlist is: Once every week or two (often at the end of a unit), a teacher creates a homework assignment with two parts: First the student does an assignment, for instance, reviewing how to graph coordinates on a plane and answering multiple-choice questions.

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Multiple Choice Questions Assignments Schools Mobile Devices 166