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. New AI technologies can be used directly by publishers to auto-convert textbooks into engaging video lessons. When answering basic questions, AI can read a student’s answers.

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Teachers Textbooks Multiple Choice Questions Essay 278

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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Testing Multiple Choice Questions Exams Questions 206

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. LearnBop mirrors the FSA by providing grade-appropriate content to help students prepare for new, interactive test-taking.

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Math Multiple Choice Questions Blended Learning Assignments 237

eSchool News

MARCH 30, 2016

Technology is making the multiple-choice question obsolete. But the major focus of assessment technology in recent years, of course, has been on efficiency of test delivery and administration—with little true innovation making it to students’ test booklets or computer screens. Can testing keep up?

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Testing Multiple Choice Questions Learning Feedback 189

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. I’m a firm believer in not asking students to do anything that I’ve never done before, especially when it comes to technology. And guess what? Begin by starting your own blog.

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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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Testing Multiple Choice Questions Quizzes Assignments 155

Edsurge

AUGUST 27, 2020

If your first step in technology integration is making a list of apps to download, you may want to reconsider your approach to technology. Using technology effectively in any environment—education or otherwise—necessitates a human-centered and needs-based approach. We must first ask ourselves, What am I trying to accomplish?

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Distance Learning Teaching Multiple Choice Questions Math 218

eSchool News

JUNE 28, 2016

Delivering formative assessments is made easier with classroom technology tools. As education policy moves away from the much-maligned No Child Left Behind and toward new legislation focusing on learning outcomes, technology-enabled formative assessments are moving to the foreground as a way to gauge student learning in real time.

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Multiple Choice Questions Exams Coaching Motivation 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

MARCH 25, 2020

As many educators are now working remotely, the application can still be used to assist with your grading tasks using our Electronic Bubble Sheet technology. 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.

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Testing Grades Multiple Choice Questions Teachers 118

Edsurge

DECEMBER 16, 2020

But when it comes to education and technology, this prevailing hypothesis is proving itself to be flawed. You might be wondering how this is possible—how one might actually minimize their dependence on education technology in an era of remote instruction and screen-dependent learning. That may seem counterintuitive.

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Distance Learning Multiple Choice Questions Learning Critical Thinking 218

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

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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Exams Testing Multiple Choice Questions Internet 218

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.

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Multiple Choice Questions Multidisciplinary Social Studies English 150

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

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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Study Multiple Choice Questions Peer Review Quizzes 150

eSchool News

APRIL 9, 2018

note : App of the Week picks are now being curated by the editors of Common Sense Education , which helps educators find the best ed-tech tools, learn best practices for teaching with tech, and equip students with the skills they need to use technology safely and responsibly. Cons : Some dull multiple-choice questions and confusing images.

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Multiple Choice Questions Assignments Testing Questions 126

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

A 2019 Gallup report found that educators who focus on creativity and use technology in transformative ways see significant gains — students are more engaged, demonstrate better critical thinking, retain more, make connections between subjects and achieve deeper learning. And AI opens up more opportunities for student creation.

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Multiple Choice Questions Assignments Intelligence Skills 200

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

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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Multiple Choice Questions Math Middle School Middle School 152

Edsurge

OCTOBER 28, 2022

These professional learning opportunities, which can be driven and supported by innovative technology tools such as New Perspectives Online and Defined Learning , should include continuous modules and on-demand experiences where teachers can learn how to gather insights about student learning and use them to personalize instruction.

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Multiple Choice Questions Math Reading Achievement 164

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

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

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. I studied engineering, and almost on a weekly basis I wanted to quit,” she said.

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Multiple Choice Questions Game-Based Learning Science Critical Thinking 190

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

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

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 201

eSchool News

JUNE 23, 2023

The educator can then leverage generative AI within the PowerSchool LearningNav product to create multiple-choice questions within diagnostic tests personalized to each student’s competency level to assist in instruction and measure progress against learning goals.

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Multiple Choice Questions Fairness Language Languages 141

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

But three months in, she had had enough of watching students in her English language arts class mentally check out from the monotony of the new structure: She read off district-created slides, and then students answered a multiple-choice question by holding up a markerboard where they scribbled an A, B, C or D.

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Schools Multiple Choice Questions Testing Reading 218

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. If you ask the a question right then, they’ll get it right,” he says. The students answered 126 multiple-choice questions in class on materials that were just presented.

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Multiple Choice Questions Exams Lecturing Attention 132

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. Students who correctly answer 60 percent of the 10 multiple-choice questions on a pre-test can skip that unit. But it notes that students can pass them without completing assignments.

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Multiple Choice Questions Assignments Testing Evaluation 135

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

A) Choose questions that most students will be able to answer correctly. B) Vary the types of poll questions beyond multiple choice. D) Stress that students answer questions independent of their peers. Here are a few tips: Scaffold your questions as class progresses. Select all that apply.

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Instructors Multiple Choice Questions Course Design Discussions 144

Edsurge

JULY 11, 2023

That’s the question posed by a group of researchers who developed a free tool they call the Adaptive Experimentation Accelerator. One example in particular is getting students that are taking, say, an online chemistry course to create a multiple choice question for us.

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Testing Multiple Choice Questions Teaching Education 120

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?

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Testing Fairness Multiple Choice Questions Exams 167

eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2024

The future of education is changing, and global workforce demands will be influenced by the need for knowledge around and skills in fast-growing technologies such as AI. This begs the question: What’s next for education? With AI, we have just begun to see the possibilities this technology can provide for education.

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Gamification Intelligence Reading Ethics 360

Edsurge

MAY 26, 2020

The term comes from the physical devices that other companies used to sell, where students literally pressed buttons to respond to multiple-choice questions. The Toronto-based company once relied on textbook publishers to distribute its technology. The question is: ‘How well can Top Hat do it?’”

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Textbooks Multiple Choice Questions Quizzes Fairness 152