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. Microsoft Learning Tools : Free tools to improve reading and writing skills for all ages and abilities.

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Multiple Choice Questions Education Quizzes Game-Based Learning 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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Distance Learning Teaching Multiple Choice Questions Math 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?

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Multiple Choice Questions Teaching Participation Writing 119

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

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

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

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

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

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

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Less frequently asked were some more fundamental questions: How might we preserve a sense of belonging and connectedness between students? Ensuring my students have ample time for independent reading and writing. Far too many distance learning discussions in the spring began with identifying digital tools.

Distance Learning 218

Distance Learning Multiple Choice Questions Learning Critical Thinking 218

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

As an example inspired by my time as a social studies teacher, instead of asking students to write a paragraph about continuity and change in a historical era, you could have them choose an era, pick a topic that shows continuity, and design an imaginary propaganda poster from that period.

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Multiple Choice Questions Assignments Intelligence Skills 200

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?

Multiple Choice Questions 98

Multiple Choice Questions Teaching Participation Writing 98

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

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

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?

Multiple Choice Questions 111

Multiple Choice Questions Teaching Assistants Education Learning Outcomes 111

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

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

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

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

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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Multiple Choice Questions Assignments Exams Questions 110

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].

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Instructors Teaching Multiple Choice Questions Ethics 202

Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 9, 2018

It is also ideal for teaching language as it has many options for asking questions in context. Dialogue: Asking questions about movies is an excellent way to get your students talking. It can help you with coming up with questions. Writing exercise: Ask the students to write a summary of the movie or a particular scene.

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Language Languages Teaching Multiple Choice Questions 104

Faculty Focus

MAY 2, 2024

They question their abilities and wonder if they have what it takes. The pressure to solve problems, answer multiple-choice question, and write essays on an exam scares them. Or, students may be anxious because they’ve done poorly in related courses.

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Teaching Multidisciplinary Multiple Choice Questions Exams 111

Cult of Pedagogy

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Choose a System that Checks All Students Asking your class if they have any questions, or even doing a “thumbs up, thumbs down” check on understanding is highly unlikely to help you determine which students need help. Which leads us to the next condition: The question itself has to be a good one.

Multiple Choice Questions 125

Multiple Choice Questions Culture Questions Grades 125

Faculty Focus

MAY 2, 2024

They question their abilities and wonder if they have what it takes. The pressure to solve problems, answer multiple-choice question, and write essays on an exam scares them. Or, students may be anxious because they’ve done poorly in related courses.

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Teaching Multidisciplinary Multiple Choice Questions Exams 103

Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 17, 2015

I don’t rely on essay formulas to craft my briefs, and of course I have never encountered an MBE-style multiple choice question. She might become a genius at immersing herself in the logic of the test makers, but will she learn to write purposefully and well? But the thing is… PMBR and BAR/BRI worked. Test prep works.

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Testing Multiple Choice Questions Essay History 93

eSchool News

JUNE 27, 2016

Additionally, the redesigned homepage allows teachers to develop and strengthen students’ writing skills by quickly and easily providing feedback and assigning grades to Thought Questions at point of use. Single sign-on (SSO) options mean that teachers do not have to log into multiple systems, saving both time and effort.

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Blended Learning Textbooks Multiple Choice Questions Learning 100

eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2024

This begs the question: What’s next for education? While many schools are looking at the ramifications of students using AI to “cheat” or “avoid” classwork and writing papers, it is important to note that teachers themselves will be thrust into the AI world. What are the projections for edtech?

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Gamification Intelligence Reading Ethics 360

Edsurge

JANUARY 9, 2025

She lays out the need for graduation requirements to evolve, considering how little the multiple choice questions or essay prompts on standardized tests have to do with students lives after high school and their ability to thrive. Social-Emotional Learning Strategies Don't Work for Every Student.

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Essay Disabilities Multiple Choice Questions Math 105

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

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Testing Exams Multiple Choice Questions STEM 108

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.

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Student Engagement Syllabus Students Lecturing 98

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.

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Testing Multiple Choice Questions Languages Language 106

Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 26, 2016

It makes sense that when Jacqui and I were talking about popular tech tools and ways to bring tech into the k-12 math class, I had a lot to share and get excited about and jumped at the opportunity to write this post. What’s more, they have a fantastic library of lessons created by teachers who use Nearpod in their own classrooms.

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Math Fairness Assignments Multiple Choice Questions 105

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.

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Testing Multiple Choice Questions Math Writing 52

eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

When ChatGPT was first released, questions swirled around higher ed about it stoking an increase in plagiarism, promoting a lack of critical thinking, and what the future would hold for classic functions like the college admission essay. When answering basic questions, AI can read a student’s answers. How can I use AI as a teacher?

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Plagiarism Education Intelligence Textbooks 130

Organized Classroom

APRIL 2, 2025

I needed something that was clear, reusable, would write and wipe off easily, and was light to transport an entire class set. Personally, I find that the plastic report covers have a firmer surface to write on and tend to wipe off cleaner from the marker residue. In fact, I have personally done all above. I got mine at Wal-Mart.

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Multiple Choice Questions Writing Activities Testing 83

Elementary Nest

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Color by Code: Making Connections (nonfiction)- Your students will read the passage, answer the multiple choice questions, then use the answers of the multiple choice to color a picture using the Letter answers from the questions. They will read the question and write the answer in the worksheet.

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Multiple Choice Questions Activities Reading Critical Thinking 52