eSchool News

JANUARY 10, 2025

“Several empirical studies have confirmed that students in gamified learning environments achieve higher levels of motivation and cognitive engagement compared to those in traditional classroom settings” (Dehghanzadeh et al., Quizizz: Turn assessments into fun competitions Quizizz is my top choice for a gamification platform.

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Gamification Multiple Choice Questions Motivation Social Studies 294

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

Jackson County implements LearnBop to help students master math skills, computer-based testing. Florida’s Jackson County School District will deploy LearnBop, a math learning system, to students across the school district. We didn’t know what the specific gaps were. Material from a press release was used in this report.

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Math Multiple Choice Questions Blended Learning Assignments 226

eSchool News

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Key points: Digital learning tools must engage students in modern ways How 5 educators use digital tools in the classroom Hands-on learning will help Gen Alpha reach new levels of technical innovation For more on digital classrooms, visit eSN’s Digital Learning hub Todays kids are built differently. Superintendents see it.

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Technology Gamification Multiple Choice Questions Intelligence 300

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Key points: Digital learning tools must engage students in modern ways How 5 educators use digital tools in the classroom Hands-on learning will help Gen Alpha reach new levels of technical innovation For more on digital classrooms, visit eSN’s Digital Learning hub Today’s kids are built differently.

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Technology Gamification Multiple Choice Questions Intelligence 288

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

In contrast, medical school can overwhelm students with detailed information, like longitudinal reports on multiple-choice question performance throughout the year. This raises an essential question: What kind of feedback information is genuinely useful for students?

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Multiple Choice Questions Feedback Students History 268

Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 17, 2015

Sarah Blaine said: ten years into private practice, I don’t draw on my two months of intensive bar test prep to advise my clients or manage my work. I don’t rely on essay formulas to craft my briefs, and of course I have never encountered an MBE-style multiple choice question. Test prep works. via [link].

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Testing Multiple Choice Questions Essay History 93

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. The system, which harnesses AI, recently won first place in the annual XPrize Digital Learning Challenge , which boasts a purse of $1 million split among winners. “In What’s new in your approach?

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Testing Multiple Choice Questions Teaching Education 123

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

A researcher tested a new weight loss supplement. Ask that question to a group of adults, and many are likely to tell you that the finding checks out. Each group of study participants started the experiment by taking a pre-test and receiving training about critical thinking. Is that claim accurate, or faulty? lack of control.

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Critical Thinking Multiple Choice Questions Peer Review Testing 217

Edsurge

JULY 16, 2018

I think there’s more of a question about that. Linda Darling-Hammond Project Lead the Way, or PLTW as it’s known for short, is a K-12 STEM curriculum that’s big on hands-on learning and having groups of students co-design solutions to science and engineering problems. I think there’s more of a question about that.” Their goal?

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Testing Exams Multiple Choice Questions STEM 109

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

We’ve identified what the learning-centered emotions are. This year, there were three prizes: for work in pre-K-12 education, higher education and a newly created prize, for learning science research. EdSurge spoke with him about ITS and how it encourages students to go beyond memorization and practice the concepts they’re learning.

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Intelligence Lecturing Multiple Choice Questions Learning 167

Cult of Pedagogy

JANUARY 21, 2024

Over the last decade or so , we’ve settled into a choreographed dance around large-scale, state-mandated standardized test scores. Next, people who have nothing to do with the design, administration, taking, or scoring of the tests will then use them to critique states, districts, schools, and/or individual teachers.

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Testing Multiple Choice Questions Language Languages 111

eSchool News

JUNE 28, 2016

As education policy moves away from the much-maligned No Child Left Behind and toward new legislation focusing on learning outcomes, technology-enabled formative assessments are moving to the foreground as a way to gauge student learning in real time. They can add videos, images and diagrams.

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Multiple Choice Questions Exams Coaching Motivation 189

Edsurge

JANUARY 28, 2019

Historically, students have been evaluated primarily on the basis of test scores and subject matter mastery. Our findings, shared below, echo those of social scientists whose evidence shows that how students think about themselves, each other and their learning is at the core of success in college, career and life.

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Multiple Choice Questions Learning Grades Special Education 167

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

The Texas Education Agency awards letter grades to schools and districts based on test scores and other student performance metrics. In addition to districts, schools in Texas are individually given A through F grades based partially on standardized test scores. Miles quickly created big and controversial plans to improve scores.

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Schools Multiple Choice Questions Testing Reading 218

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Where and how do young people learn these skills? Truly rare are those careers where employees advance based on their ability to regularly answer multiple-choice questions correctly! Learning by doing has been a thread in U.S. schooling for young children since John Dewey’ s time.

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Multiple Choice Questions Multidisciplinary Social Studies English 154

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 145

eSchool News

MAY 1, 2024

By combining a social media-style interface with academically rigorous content, TeachTap makes learning more fun, efficient and accessible than ever before. By combining a social media-style interface with academically rigorous content, TeachTap makes learning more fun, efficient and accessible than ever before.

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Exams High School High School History 137

Edsurge

MARCH 6, 2024

Theoretically, a diploma indicates that you have learned a broad variety of information and skills across many disciplines and that you are in some ways prepared for life and work after compulsory schooling. Standardized testing has long been protested by educators, parents and students due to its racist origins.

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Multidisciplinary Counselling Multiple Choice Questions Exams 205

Edsurge

JANUARY 19, 2017

Like all district administrators, Dr. Ayindé Rudolph, superintendent at Mountain View Whisman School District (MVWSD), wants to see students improve, be challenged and get excited about learning. We are committed to personalized learning, but can't continue a program that does not meet the needs of all of our students.”

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Learning Multiple Choice Questions Math Evaluation 149

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 137

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

In a recent editorial , the Los Angeles Times called into question the district’s record-high 75 percent graduation rate, as it said that the figure was based in part on LA Unified’s dependence on its less-than-rigorous online credit-recovery courses. Actual learning—not a piece of paper—should be the goal for every student.

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Multiple Choice Questions Assignments Testing Evaluation 134

Elementary Nest

MARCH 4, 2025

Elementary Nest 5 Strong Test Taking Strategies for Multiple Choice Reading Passages Raise your hand if your students love multiple choice questions. Multiple choice questions might seem easy at first glance, but for young readers, it can feel like a tricky guessing game.

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Testing Multiple Choice Questions Reading Questions 52

Edsurge

DECEMBER 16, 2021

So the folks behind the Common App have been testing a tool that might help more students successfully apply to college, both by giving them accurate information about deadlines and resources and by encouraging them to keep at it when it feels overwhelming. Students learned the answer to that last question this past October.

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Multiple Choice Questions Motivation Intelligence Writing 216

Edsurge

OCTOBER 25, 2016

And what types of data can best offer insights into whether students are learning in your classroom? 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 165

eSchool News

APRIL 9, 2018

note : App of the Week picks are now being curated by the editors of Common Sense Education , which helps educators find the best ed-tech tools, learn best practices for teaching with tech, and equip students with the skills they need to use technology safely and responsibly. Cons : Some dull multiple-choice questions and confusing images.

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Multiple Choice Questions Assignments Testing Questions 118

Edsurge

AUGUST 17, 2018

The students answered 126 multiple-choice questions in class on materials that were just presented. They also took periodic tests and a final exam. In the study, students in two sections of a college course were instructed to use digital devices in only half the lectures.

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Multiple Choice Questions Exams Lecturing Attention 137

Teaching with a Mountain View

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

State testing season is just around the corner, and we know the pressure it brings… not just for students but for you as their guide and biggest cheerleader. To help make test prep a little easier, were sharing the BEST test-taking strategies that set your students up for success!

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Testing Multiple Choice Questions Math Writing 52

eSchool News

JUNE 27, 2016

Achieve3000 offers innovative new ways to empower blended learning and accelerate student literacy gains through differentiated instruction in the 2016-2017 school year. The program continuously evaluates each student’s exact skill level, learning temperament and learning pace. ELA Test Challenge Courses.

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Blended Learning Textbooks Multiple Choice Questions Learning 100

eSchool News

AUGUST 22, 2016

Kids Discover Online enables educators to mix and match material from science and social studies to facilitate students’ exploration of big ideas through cross-curricular learning. The Assessments feature includes more than 5,000 pre-built questions covering more than 1,200 science and social studies topics.

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Multiple Choice Questions Quizzes Social Studies Exams 118

Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 24, 2024

Opting for meals that sustain rather than drain elevates your learning potential and sets a cornerstone for overall well being amidst the academic pressures. Here’s the role memory retention plays in academia: Recall During Tests: Enhanced memory retention means an improved recall ability.

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Achievement Multiple Choice Questions Students Study 167

eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2024

Moving away from the pandemic, educators still grapple with learning loss and academic disparities and inequities. In 2023, a new popular kid in town, better known as AI, dominated headlines and prompted debates around how students could abuse–and should use–the generative tool for learning.

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Gamification Intelligence Reading Ethics 359

Edsurge

AUGUST 30, 2016

It may sound like an oxymoron, but it is possible to assess where your students are on their learning path without taking home a stack of papers or forcing your students to complete mundane multiple choice questions in a simulated testing environment. These are painless assessment tools.

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Multiple Choice Questions Assignments Exams Questions 109

Edsurge

JANUARY 13, 2017

It turns out that what makes a course smart isn’t necessarily the use of impressive technology or data; it’s about the way technology enhances the practices of good teaching and learning. The smartphone generation expects a level of engagement from software-based learning experiences that require deliberate design. Designed Adaptivity.

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Multiple Choice Questions Instructors Textbooks Feedback 131

Faculty Focus

MAY 2, 2024

Student are convinced they can’t learn what we’re teaching, worry they won’t do well on the tests, and become filled with anxiety over anything in a course that looks like it might be hard. The anxiety some students feel about a course grows out of fears associated with test-taking. They’re convinced they won’t do well.

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Teaching Multidisciplinary Multiple Choice Questions Exams 111

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

Studies have suggested that these tools, which allow students to respond in real time to questions provided by an instructor, can improve student learning. If used thoughtfully, we’ve seen that CRSs can help facilitate active learning in a classroom. In our own teaching, we call these “typical test questions” or TTQs.

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Instructors Multiple Choice Questions Course Design Discussions 143

Faculty Focus

MAY 2, 2024

Student are convinced they can’t learn what we’re teaching, worry they won’t do well on the tests, and become filled with anxiety over anything in a course that looks like it might be hard. The anxiety some students feel about a course grows out of fears associated with test-taking. They’re convinced they won’t do well.

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Teaching Multidisciplinary Multiple Choice Questions Exams 101

Edsurge

MAY 22, 2017

Enter competency-based learning (CBE), a term introduced in the 1970s when the U.S. One of the virtues of a CBE system is that we’re not going to tolerate a lack of mastery or gaps of learning,” says Julia Freeland Fisher, Director of Education at the Clayton Christensen Institute. Julia Freeland Fisher. What does ‘mastery’ look like?

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Education Multiple Choice Questions Fairness Questions 140