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

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Gradient Learning, 2023 ) On average, students give their school a C+ rating in making them feel excited about learningPerhaps relatedly, students give their school a C+ in teaching them in ways that adapt to their unique learning needs. EAB, 2023 ) Eighty percent of educators are worried about student engagement.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

When schools opened back up after the pandemic, they welcomed back a legion of students with entirely new vocabularies and worldviews shaped by 30-second video clips. Schools are also fighting back to the best of their ability by instituting a variety of cell phone bans to reverse downward trends in student inattentiveness and disengagement.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

HOUSTON — On a Saturday morning in August 2023, a crowd gathered outside the Houston Independent School District administration building with protest signs in hand. Teachers, parents and politicians took turns at the microphone, united in their criticism of the controversial state takeover of Texas’ largest school district.

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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 Schools and school systems already have rich data that they don’t make much use of, he says. So we want to look at things like perseverance.

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Testing Multiple Choice Questions Exams Questions 210

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

As a new school year begins, a number of district leaders are scrambling to address concerns from parents and staff that their chosen online learning platform features content that is racist, sexist or inappropriate for children. 25, two days before her district’s first day of school. It didn’t sit well with us.” We don’t know.

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Learning Schools Multiple Choice Questions Distance Learning 213

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 provide schools tools to foster a less stressful, more flexible work environment. The substitute teacher shortage is dire and hinders a school’s ability to function.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

Florida’s Jackson County School District will deploy LearnBop, a math learning system, to students across the school district. With all of the digital programs, the curriculum training, and integrating tablets, teachers are jumping in head first,” said Missy Rogers, Jackson County School District’s math coordinator.

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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. Next page: How schools can assess deeper learning. Can testing keep up?

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Testing Multiple Choice Questions Learning Feedback 189

eSchool News

JULY 11, 2018

The keynotes, presenters, vendors, and attendees of #ISTE18 dialed in hard with a connected line of perspective, practical strategies, and game-changing edtech tools to push all students full STEAM ahead into the new school year. Multiple-choice questions are shared on a screen. All means all. and “Is it Awesome?”.

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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

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Since the Advanced Placement (AP) program began in the 1950s, tens of millions of students have taken their exams in school, with paper and pencil, over the course of several hours. Schools can also choose between different dates and formats for different tests. So then the question became how to pull that off.

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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

From the parent perspective, such assessments can deliver near-immediate information about how children are learning and achieving, said Marty Creel, Discovery Education’s Chief Academic Officer and previously head of curriculum at Montgomery County Public Schools in Maryland. They can add videos, images and diagrams.

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Multiple Choice Questions Exams Coaching Motivation 189

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. Majority of students are not on track for college success, according to a new report. The figure was 80 percent for math tests.

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Testing Multiple Choice Questions English Math 185

Edsurge

AUGUST 27, 2020

As many schools resume remote instruction this fall, watch out for these three mistakes you may be making. 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.

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Distance Learning Teaching Multiple Choice Questions Math 218

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Truly rare are those careers where employees advance based on their ability to regularly answer multiple-choice questions correctly! schooling for young children since John Dewey’ s time. Truly rare are those careers where employees advance based on their ability to regularly answer multiple-choice questions correctly!

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 16, 2021

For 12 months, Oli kept company with about 500,000 students from the high school class of 2021, more than half of them low-income, minorities, or aspiring first-generation college students. 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]

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Multiple Choice Questions Motivation Intelligence Writing 216

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 108

Edsurge

MARCH 17, 2021

After making a major shift to remote learning at the beginning of the pandemic, some teachers had to adjust to another unfamiliar environment when their school buildings reopened: teaching students online and in-person at the same time. We have to bring them back to the mentality that they’re still in school and keep them engaged.”

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Hybrid Learning Teachers Multiple Choice Questions Learning 218

Edsurge

DECEMBER 16, 2020

School leaders asked: Which apps should we download? Less frequently asked were some more fundamental questions: How might we preserve a sense of belonging and connectedness between students? As an elementary school teacher, my highest priorities were always the following: Cultivating agency, autonomy and independence in my students.

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Distance Learning Multiple Choice Questions Learning Critical Thinking 218

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

MARCH 6, 2024

After 12 years of compulsory schooling, they approach the edge of the nest — and many feel unprepared, realizing they are about to lose the comfort of seeing their friends every day, the support of trusted adults outside their families and the predictability of a daily school schedule.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

As for deploying AI safely and responsibly, schools are paying attention to a number of things right now. 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.

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Multiple Choice Questions Assignments Intelligence Skills 205

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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Dangerously Irrelevant

APRIL 27, 2015

Howie Knoff said: I am not in favor of extending the school day (or year) when students need the extra time to learn things they should have learned earlier in the day. More videos with multiple choice questions! and/or because. via [link]. via [link]. Image credit: timlewisnm. . Related Posts.

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eSchool News

MARCH 14, 2016

How can schools prepare students to be the designers, innovators, and entrepreneurs our economy needs for future success? Until now, the company has focused mostly on the consumer market, but during a March 8 keynote session, littleBits founder and CEO Ayah Bdeir announced a new kit made specifically for schools. “We

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Multiple Choice Questions Game-Based Learning Science Critical Thinking 190

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 166

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

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

MAY 1, 2024

The app offers a personalized feed of entertaining and educational videos, images, questions, and memes, ensuring that students remain engaged while mastering the material. “TeachTap is a game-changer for students preparing for AP exams and studying high school courses. Chief Product Officer Phil Hewinson.

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Exams High School High School History 141

Edsurge

AUGUST 17, 2018

The question of whether or not to allow students to use smartphones, laptops and other technology in the classroom has been long-debated , and at times, heated. And just as a new school year is set to begin, a new study raises fresh concerns about potential downsides of multitasking during class.

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Multiple Choice Questions Exams Lecturing Attention 138

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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Multiple Choice Questions Assignments Exams Questions 110

Edsurge

OCTOBER 28, 2022

This dismal news further intensifies the pressure on district leaders to address learning gaps exacerbated by the pandemic, all while more than half of schools report teacher and staffing shortages. Recent headlines suggest it will take until 2028 for students to recover from these pandemic-related achievement declines.

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Multiple Choice Questions Math Reading Achievement 172

Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2018

To some, standardized testing overwhelms our schools and helps eradicate differences between students. For others, they remain the best way to compare students objectively and hold schools accountable. Mark Moulton : Here that whole question is, what does fair mean? Opinions run the gamut. Two years ago, U.S.

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Testing Fairness Multiple Choice Questions Exams 167

Cult of Pedagogy

JUNE 9, 2024

Listen to my interview with Karen Borchert ( transcript ): Sponsored by Alpaca We have a lot of conversations about what should be done to make schools better. I also recommended including some open-ended questions to make room for topics that weren’t covered elsewhere. On one of them was the question “How are you doing?”

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Schools Multiple Choice Questions Questions Feedback 112

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

The Los Angeles Unified School District is back in the news for its use of technology, this time for its online credit-recovery courses. Graduation rates should not be the standard by which school districts are judged. Students who correctly answer 60 percent of the 10 multiple-choice questions on a pre-test can skip that unit.

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