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.

Critical Thinking

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 But when she arrived at the MIT Media Lab for her master’s of science degree, “it was the exact opposite.

Multiple Choice Questions

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Truly rare are those careers where employees advance based on their ability to regularly answer multiple-choice questions correctly! For example, Nepris , a Houston-based company, connects professionals in STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics) fields to classrooms to give lessons related to their jobs.

Multiple Choice Questions

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.

Multiple Choice Questions

Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2018

He recently spoke with us about testing bias, holding psychometricians accountable for the exams they create and whether the future holds any innovation for a field still dominated by math, language and multiple choice questions. Mark Moulton : Here that whole question is, what does fair mean?

Testing

eSchool News

AUGUST 22, 2016

Kids Discover , a provider of engaging science and social studies curriculum, announced that its interactive digital library, Kids Discover Online, now includes custom assessment capabilities. The Assessments feature includes more than 5,000 pre-built questions covering more than 1,200 science and social studies topics.

Multiple Choice Questions

eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2024

This begs the question: What’s next for education? There is a clear need for science-driven curriculum, and the thoughtful implementation of emerging technologies. With increased funding challenges and various political pressures surrounding wellness programs, science will drive decision-making.

Gamification

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. Government, Environmental Science, Biology, Psychology, Macroeconomics and Human Geography Two general high school courses: Physics and U.S.

Exams

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

This year, there were three prizes: for work in pre-K-12 education, higher education and a newly created prize, for learning science research. That’s different than the standard delivery of text and multiple choice questions. We’ve identified what the learning-centered emotions are.

Intelligence

Edsurge

MARCH 11, 2020

Use Polls to Keep Students Engaged There are many tools available to pose multiple-choice questions to students remotely. So I felt like I was able to answer some of their questions, but also re-emphasize that we need to be looking to science at times like this [to learn about the coronavirus].

Instructors

Faculty Focus

MAY 2, 2024

Two recent articles (see the references) explore the anxiety associated with social science statistics courses. What causes students to dread the social science statistics course? They question their abilities and wonder if they have what it takes. Bailey, the political science author, quips, “Somehow math freezes brains.” (p.

Teaching

Edsurge

JANUARY 13, 2017

Professional courseware design teams made up of subject matter experts, instructors, front-end software developers, and multimedia producers work together to develop courses that are rooted in applied learning science. A learner doesn’t waste time trying to navigate the course, but instead spends all of their time learning. Is that adaptive?

Multiple Choice Questions

Edsurge

MAY 28, 2020

My children are now on regular video chats, as is my husband, a middle school science teacher. We’ve redesigned our home to adapt to multiple meeting spaces and upgraded our Wi-Fi to meet the demands. Now that COVID-19 is keeping many of us home, I understand their struggles, ranging from isolation to time management.

Activities

Faculty Focus

MAY 2, 2024

Two recent articles (see the references) explore the anxiety associated with social science statistics courses. What causes students to dread the social science statistics course? They question their abilities and wonder if they have what it takes. Bailey, the political science author, quips, “Somehow math freezes brains.” (p.

Teaching

Edsurge

JULY 16, 2018

That’s the idea at least behind the latest summative assessments from Project Lead the Way , a project-based STEM curriculum, which is introducing new tech-based question types to measure a raft of noncognitive skills from collaboration to general problem solving (in addition to subject-specific questions about engineering or coding concepts). “We

Testing

eSchool News

JUNE 27, 2016

To support schools and districts across the country and around the world, the company has created state-customized editions of its patented, nonfiction blended learning literacy solutions: · KidBizPro®, TeenBizPro®, and EmpowerPro® for English language arts, science and social studies in grades two through 12.

Blended Learning

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AUGUST 21, 2018

CSPA CSPA stands for “Computer Science Proficiency Assessment.” The five-hour long test comes with about 100 questions. There are multiple-choice questions, coding exercises and two essay questions. As we solve more questions everyday, we need fewer tutors.” According to cofounder Ba?ar

Multiple Choice Questions

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.

Testing

Faculty Focus

JULY 27, 2023

The entry ticket asks students to answer a question. The questions do not have right or wrong answers. At the end of class, the professor displays one more QR code that leads to a short survey asking students to reflect on what they have learned, how it connects with their lives, and what questions remain in their minds.

Student Engagement

Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 26, 2016

Yes, the lessons are built around a presentation platform, but Nearpod does a good job of incorporating interactive elements like polls, question and response, the ability to draw on screen, and so much more. What’s more, they have a fantastic library of lessons created by teachers who use Nearpod in their own classrooms.

Math

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NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Amine Mezzour and Laurent Jolie were classmates at École Polytechnique in France, and later at UC Berkeley, where they studied computer science, engineering and entrepreneurship. That question led them to start Lalilo, a web-based program to support early literacy in English and French, in 2016.

English

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.

Testing

eSchool News

JANUARY 5, 2024

This begs the question: What’s next for education? There is a clear need for science-driven curriculum, and the thoughtful implementation of emerging technologies. With increased funding challenges and various political pressures surrounding wellness programs, science will drive decision-making.

Gamification

Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

There are widespread beliefs about the best way to teach and learn that have been proven wrong by science, yet they persist. For instance, an online biology textbook might include a short section about protein synthesis, followed by a question. That sentiment is backed by learning-science research in a concept called the “doer effect.”

Education

Faculty Focus

JULY 6, 2023

Kahoot allows you to create a set of multiple-choice questions. Kahoot is user-friendly, it is very simple to set up a question set, and many students already know how to use it. You create a set of questions, and students can respond using either an app on a smart device or a web browser.

Instructors

Faculty Focus

JULY 6, 2023

Kahoot allows you to create a set of multiple-choice questions. Kahoot is user-friendly, it is very simple to set up a question set, and many students already know how to use it. You create a set of questions, and students can respond using either an app on a smart device or a web browser.

Instructors