Multiple Choice Questions Quizzes Teaching 
Edsurge
MAY 10, 2018
Multiple-choice questions don’t belong in college. They’re often ineffective as a teaching tool, they’re easy for students to cheat, and they can exacerbate test anxiety. After all, she notes, “you’re never going to encounter multiple-choice quizzes on the job somewhere.”
Cult of Pedagogy
APRIL 27, 2025
In the 10 years since I chose a book called Make it Stick for a book study in the summer of 2015, I’ve been encouraging teachers to add more retrieval practice to their teaching. I have encouraged giving frequent quizzes , think-pair-shares , and teaching students to use flashcards , but there are a lot of other ways to do it.
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eSchool News
JULY 11, 2018
As teachers, our number-one mission and passion is to reach all the students we teach in a way that is equitable, meaningful, and impactful. In order to capture the outcomes we seek, we must embrace an inclusive and flexible mindset where student voice and student choice are driving the bus forward in their journey of learning.
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. There was one exception: students who had prior knowledge of physics concepts were not thrown off by the clicker quizzes).
Faculty Focus
MAY 2, 2024
This article first appeared in The Teaching Professor on April 22, 2019© Magna Publications. For more articles like this, check out The Teaching Professor subscription! Do you teach one of those courses that promotes lots of student anxiety? Teaching Sociology, 46 (4), 346-355. All rights reserved. Bailey, M.
Faculty Focus
MAY 2, 2024
This article first appeared in The Teaching Professor on April 22, 2019© Magna Publications. For more articles like this, check out The Teaching Professor subscription! Do you teach one of those courses that promotes lots of student anxiety? Teaching Sociology, 46 (4), 346-355. All rights reserved. Bailey, M.
Ask a Tech Teacher
MARCH 9, 2018
Today, we have a guest post from Philip Perry, founder of Learnclick.com , an online quiz tool lots of teachers use to create and share quizzes. It is also ideal for teaching language as it has many options for asking questions in context. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 25 years.
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