eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

A majority of Kansas public school students aren’t on track to be ready academically for college based on their scores on standardized English and math tests this past spring, a state report said Tuesday. The figure for the math tests was 34 percent. The figure for the math tests was 34 percent.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 27, 2020

But sometimes, distance learning can take an “app-centric” approach, where students spend more time watching instructional videos and answering multiple-choice questions than talking about concepts with their peers and teachers. See Think Wonder”) to make inferences and ask questions about income inequality in Chicago.

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Edsurge

MAY 10, 2018

Multiple-choice questions don’t belong in college. 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. Defending Multiple-Choice To be fair, not everyone is so down on multiple choice.

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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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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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Edsurge

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Less frequently asked were some more fundamental questions: How might we preserve a sense of belonging and connectedness between students? Building critical-thinking and problem-solving skills in math. Far too many distance learning discussions in the spring began with identifying digital tools. What are we going to use for curriculum?

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Following years of disrupted learning during the pandemic, the recently released Nation’s Report Card shows an overall drop in both reading and math scores, with math scores falling in nearly every state. similar method exists for reading. similar method exists for reading.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 26, 2016

Math teachers: This is for you. Here are some great suggestions from efriend and math afficionado, Matt Kim: Before I was ever a high school math teacher, I was always a hardcore technophile. It really is an exciting time for technology in education and the tools available to us to use today in our math classes is no exception.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Truly rare are those careers where employees advance based on their ability to regularly answer multiple-choice questions correctly! An ornithologist or an engineer, for instance, might use a videoconference to help teach a math lesson. Where and how do young people learn these skills?

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eSchool News

MARCH 25, 2020

Using electronic bubble sheets, you can create a customized answer sheet that can include multiple choice questions, math grids, or open response items such as short answers or essays. Teachers will see the multiple choice questions automatically graded, and can review and grade any open response items easily on screen.

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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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Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2018

Then there are the psychometricians—the math savants who design tests and create complex algorithms that attempt to make them fair to all students. Mark Moulton : Here that whole question is, what does fair mean? So they write a bunch of tests items or questions of different kinds. EdSurge: What might make a test unfair?

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Edsurge

MARCH 17, 2021

Dallas ISD’s Director of Personalized Learning Kristen Watkins noted that with challenges of hybrid models like simultaneous learning, the driving question for her team this year is, “How might we design learning experiences so that students in any environment get equitable learning opportunities?” Give them a real question to discuss.

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eSchool News

MARCH 14, 2016

In a conversation with Education Week , Bdeir said schools need to find ways to make science, technology, engineering, arts, and math (STEAM) education more fun, engaging, and accessible for students. “I “We want to unleash the inventor in everyone,” Bdeir said. We need to find ways of approaching STEAM education differently.”.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

If you're invested so much in reading and math, then you're missing a major component [by closing libraries]. For short-answer questions, they wrote on an index card. Over and over, until it was time for a five-question quiz. I teach them to love to read,” Hensley said. “If Because if a kid loves to read, they will read more.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 19, 2017

Among the tools the district found was Teach to One: Math (TTO), a digital personalized learning program by New Classrooms , a New York-based nonprofit, that adapts to a student’s individual skills and gaps. Students work through the TTO curriculum at their own speed via 90 minute digital math lessons.

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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. Nearpod First, there’s Nearpod. Sounds simple enough.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 9, 2025

They gave their takes on innovating in math and social emotional learning. When Teaching Students Math, Concepts Matter More Than Process By Nicola Hodkowski Researcher Nicola Hodkowski makes a case for moving beyond students memorizing the process of doing math and instead fostering a deep understanding of mathematical concepts.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 2, 2024

They question their abilities and wonder if they have what it takes. The pressure to solve problems, answer multiple-choice question, and write essays on an exam scares them. The pressure to solve problems, answer multiple-choice question, and write essays on an exam scares them.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 2, 2024

They question their abilities and wonder if they have what it takes. The pressure to solve problems, answer multiple-choice question, and write essays on an exam scares them. The pressure to solve problems, answer multiple-choice question, and write essays on an exam scares them.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2024

This begs the question: What’s next for education? Currently, more than 25 percent of K-12 students are chronically absent and most students have ground to make up in math and reading. The policy has passed, but questions remain on how universities will be held accountable. What are the projections for edtech?

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 17, 2015

I don’t rely on essay formulas to craft my briefs, and of course I have never encountered an MBE-style multiple choice question. Why meaningful math problems are defined out of online assessments. But the thing is… PMBR and BAR/BRI worked. Test prep works. Assessing messy learning.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 21, 2018

But what brought them together was wanting to give teachers an “extra pair of hands”—for instance, a teacher can ask the assistant to give the class a math problem so that she can momentarily divert her attention to one student. “A The five-hour long test comes with about 100 questions. According to cofounder Ba?ar

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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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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.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

When ChatGPT was first released, questions swirled around higher ed about it stoking an increase in plagiarism, promoting a lack of critical thinking, and what the future would hold for classic functions like the college admission essay. When answering basic questions, AI can read a student’s answers. How can I use AI as a teacher?

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Organized Classroom

APRIL 2, 2025

You could have students do their math facts timed tests in them by placing students down at a center with a timer, and they can sit and fill in their test until the timer goes off. I have a fun math lesson plan solution for the week AFTER Halloween! I only put it on two sides because I wanted to be able to see the paper well.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 5, 2024

This begs the question: What’s next for education? Currently, more than 25 percent of K-12 students are chronically absent and most students have ground to make up in math and reading. The policy has passed, but questions remain on how universities will be held accountable. What are the projections for edtech?

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Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

And while many educators believe that word problems in math class are tougher for students to grasp than ones with mathematical notation, research shows that the opposite is true. For instance, an online biology textbook might include a short section about protein synthesis, followed by a question.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

A sixth-grade math teacher, who is deeply dedicated to innovative learning practices, agreed to lead the effort. The family member must answer a few yes or no questions about whether the student understands the assignment before it can be submitted to the teacher. We were a little nervous,” conceded Baer. You can’t guarantee results.

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Edsurge

APRIL 16, 2017

While test prep has been on the rise since state tests were mandated by federal law in 2002, reading and math scores have largely remained flat. Mathina Calliope of NWEA, which develops the widely used MAP assessment, answers the question of whether you can prepare students for the test: “Of course; it’s called good teaching.

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