eSchool News

DECEMBER 30, 2024

You know the formula–students watch an instructional video or read an overview of a concept, complete a cookie-cutter practice set that may or may not include a game or two, and demonstrate their mastery by completing a few multiple choice questions. They dont want to learn math with clipart of apples and oranges.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

You know the formula–students watch an instructional video or read an overview of a concept, complete a cookie-cutter practice set that may or may not include a game or two, and demonstrate their “mastery” by completing a few multiple choice questions. They don’t want to learn math with clipart of apples and oranges.

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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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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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eSchool News

JUNE 28, 2016

They’re looking for things that don’t feel like a test, and looking for experiences that engage students and capture their understanding in a unique way.” Discovery Education’s Math Techbook offers a digital coach to help students work through the Techbook’s practice section.

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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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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. For short-answer questions, they wrote on an index card.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 25, 2016

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. Firman is not the only educator who looks for data in areas other than test performance.

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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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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. Nowadays that seems to apply to all sorts of courses.

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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! Here’s a set to get you started!

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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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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. 17 study session. “We

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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. Nowadays that seems to apply to all sorts of courses.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2024

When students can bring models to life and test them in real world situations, they are expanding beyond paper and screen into the world around them. Currently, more than 25 percent of K-12 students are chronically absent and most students have ground to make up in math and reading.

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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. The free account also includes free writing and drawing options.

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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 test costs $19 to take, and CSPA can waive the fee for those with financial difficulties.

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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! Then I also left this side open so that way I can get papers in and out.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 5, 2024

When students can bring models to life and test them in real world situations, they are expanding beyond paper and screen into the world around them. Currently, more than 25 percent of K-12 students are chronically absent and most students have ground to make up in math and reading.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

AI can also reduce the teacher’s time creating questions, as it automatically generates possible learning assessments. Furthermore, when it comes to subjects like math, AI education tools can quickly adapt to a student’s level, so homework becomes a way to have a deeper understanding of a student’s mastery of a subject.

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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. Today, students frequently work in digital environments to read course materials, take tests and complete assignments.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

For instance, Remind makes it possible for teachers to let families know what assignments or tests students have coming up. Yet too frequently, those communications channels become largely one-way megaphones for teachers, who then nudge parents into prodding students to finish upcoming assignments or study for the next test.

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Edsurge

APRIL 16, 2017

Spring means one thing to many elementary and middle schools across the country: test prep. Parents, in an effort to find the best school for their children, may latch on to state test results as a comparative measure they can easily understand. At best, test prep can yield modest, short-term gains in scores.

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