eSchool News

OCTOBER 19, 2017

The research found students in the classes with the games outperformed their peers on essay and multiple choice questions. Each teacher taught at least one class with the games and one class without. Next page: 5 benefits of educational games, straight from teachers).

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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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eSchool News

APRIL 17, 2025

Designing effective quizzes takes timeespecially when crafting well-balanced multiple-choice questions with plausible wrong answers to encourage critical thinking. Monster Quiz and Team Quiz : Game-based activities that foster collaboration and competition as students work in teams to answer questions on their devices.

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Multiple Choice Questions Quizzes Technology Teachers 211

Cult of Pedagogy

APRIL 27, 2025

rapid retrieval: During a lecture, stop every 10 minutes or so to ask a question about a topic you’ve covered. To make the tents more useful, students are then asked to answer a retrieval question on the back of the paper and turn it in at the end of class. “Present students with a multiple choice question.”

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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. Personalized learning 2.0

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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. Personalized learning 2.0

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Edsurge

AUGUST 29, 2024

What that means is that we are going to create experiences that allow us to measure the behaviors of a user, not what the answer to the question is,” she adds. “So The question, he says, is “can you look at those data in different ways and extrapolate from those data the extent to which a young person is developing certain skills?”

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

A similar question was asked by McKinsey three years ago , right before the worldwide pandemic caused the lowest reading and math scores in 30 years. AI can also reduce the teacher’s time creating questions, as it automatically generates possible learning assessments. But what if every single teacher could have an AI assistant?

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

Like many new state assessments, the FSA use computer-based testing, eliminating multiple choice questions and offering fill-in-the-blank, drag-and-drop, graph drawing, and other interactive features.

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Math Multiple Choice Questions Blended Learning Assignments 240

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 14, 2016

They’ll like it a lot more than answering multiple choice questions on a worksheet, which will lead to deeper thinking and higher quality work. It was an open-ended question that required a short-answer response. And guess what? From there, I posted an assignment on my blog, in reference to a novel we were reading.

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eSchool News

MARCH 30, 2016

Technology is making the multiple-choice question obsolete. The No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) required high-stakes testing at many grades and quick turnaround of results to accommodate parental choice decisions. Can testing keep up? Gaming and simulations, especially, create all kinds of possibilities.

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Testing Multiple Choice Questions Learning Feedback 189

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Ask that question to a group of adults, and many are likely to tell you that the finding checks out. She gave it to 200 overweight adults and discovered that their average weight, as measured by a precise weight scale, declined after two months of taking the supplement. She concluded that the supplement promotes weight loss.

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Critical Thinking Multiple Choice Questions Peer Review Testing 217

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

The new tests emphasize critical thinking more than old tests and rely far less on multiple-choice questions, department officials said ahead of the report. “We can do better,” said Scott Smith, the Department of Education’s testing director. “We can get these kids up to a higher bar.”

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eSchool News

JULY 11, 2018

Christopher Bugaj, Kendra Grant, and Luis Perez echoed exactly this perspective on Wednesday morning as they “walked the walk” in their session on the many ways to frontload multi-modality voice and choice to all students. Multiple-choice questions are shared on a screen. Multiple-choice questions are shared on a screen.

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Multiple Choice Questions Education Quizzes Game-Based Learning 189

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 111

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. Test forms can either be created as traditional answer sheets or the instructor can include question text and answer areas on the same form.

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Testing Grades Multiple Choice Questions Teachers 122

EdTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

And now, I can hear what they said in their response to a question and I can go, ‘Hmm, that was a good way of saying that. Clark said she often uses Flipgrid for this purpose, a tool that allows teachers to upload discussion-style questions and students to answer by adding video responses. “They learn best from each other,” she said.

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Multiple Choice Questions Technology Quizzes Students 128

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 Writing 119

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

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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eSchool News

JANUARY 20, 2016

For example, teachers can post multiple-choice questions to the entire class. Students can toggle between four colors through a software interface to indicate their status, allowing teachers to easily keep track at a glance.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

So then the question became how to pull that off. Some students answered the free-response questions on paper, then snapped a photo of their handwritten work on their smartphone and uploaded it. “We They said, ‘Please don’t take that away,’” Packer recalls. It also needed to be accessible by smartphone, to help with the access issue.

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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 98

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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eSchool News

APRIL 9, 2018

Pros : AP and IB teachers will love the clearly targeted and complex questions to help their students improve. Cons : Some dull multiple-choice questions and confusing images. Bottom line : A variety of question types and on-the-spot analytics help teachers individualize test-prep practice. Grades : 9-12.

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Multiple Choice Questions Assignments Testing Questions 131

Edsurge

DECEMBER 16, 2021

It sent multiple-choice questions asking how they felt about the transition to college, with options such as: [1] Excited and ready to start already! [2] Students learned the answer to that last question this past October. Oli also checked in with students about how they were coping. 2] Feeling a little nervous. [3]

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Multiple Choice Questions Motivation Intelligence Writing 216

Edsurge

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Less frequently asked were some more fundamental questions: How might we preserve a sense of belonging and connectedness between students? You know the apps I’m talking about: the ones that send students question after question, incentivizing them through points, badges, and “leveling up.”

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Distance Learning Multiple Choice Questions Learning Critical Thinking 218

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 22, 2015

After a detailed tutorial, teachers can upload or create assignments that let students type, enter numbers, draw (with a mouse or their finger, depending on the device), upload an image, or answer multiple-choice questions.

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Multiple Choice Questions Assignments Grades Reading 131

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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Hybrid Learning Teachers Multiple Choice Questions Learning 218

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. “It didn’t sit well with us.”

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Learning Schools Multiple Choice Questions Distance Learning 211

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 Writing 98

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

These are the moments where creative activities can replace traditional methods like note-taking or multiple-choice questions and garner a much wider and deeper set of learning outcomes. Start by identifying areas in your curriculum where students need to dive deep into a concept or fully demonstrate their understanding.

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Multiple Choice Questions Assignments Intelligence Skills 201

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. Getting that factual question got them to hyperfocus on factual knowledge,” she says. “It

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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

MARCH 6, 2024

Having taught and worked with seniors in high school for over half of my career, these questions are always present, rarely asked, and, for me, often remain unanswered. These questions are at the forefront of my mind, questions that I wish more of us educators could spend time discussing and planning around.

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Multidisciplinary Counselling Multiple Choice Questions Exams 202

eSchool News

MARCH 14, 2016

is a free game-based learning platform that allows teachers—or students—to create their own learning games using videos, images, and multiple-choice questions. Nova Labs is a free digital platform that engages teens in games that foster scientific inquiry.

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