eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

The new tests emphasize critical thinking more than old tests and rely far less on multiple-choice questions, department officials said ahead of the report. ” For the 2012-13 school year, the state reported that 86 percent of the students scored well enough on reading tests to be considered proficient or better.

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Testing Multiple Choice Questions English Math 199

Edsurge

AUGUST 29, 2024

Whereas last year, her focus was on using AI to help create traditional multiple-choice questions, now, she says, “what I am really focused on now is dynamic generation of content on the fly. McWilliams, of ETS, says she’s had a “mindset shift” in the past year about how she thinks about AI in testing.

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Testing Multiple Choice Questions Exams Questions 206

eSchool News

JULY 11, 2018

In addition, specialized apps and extensions are available through the Chrome store, including Read&Write for Google Chrome, Screencastify, Move It, Vysor, and Grammarly, to name a few. Microsoft Learning Tools : Free tools to improve reading and writing skills for all ages and abilities. Definitely worth checking out!

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Multiple Choice Questions Education Quizzes Game-Based Learning 189

eSchool News

JUNE 28, 2016

Below are a handful of different tools and resources for formative assessments (ed note: these tools have not been endorsed or reviewed by eSM staff): Using Kahoot , educators can create learning games from a series of multiple choice questions to assess student understanding. They can add videos, images and diagrams.

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Multiple Choice Questions Exams Coaching Motivation 189

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

But only one group spent time actually putting that training into practice, through an exercise that asked them to read passages about scientific claims—like the one in the first paragraph of this article—and answer multiple choice questions about possible problems in the logic.

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Critical Thinking Multiple Choice Questions Peer Review Testing 217

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.

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Distance Learning Teaching Multiple Choice Questions Math 218

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

I read a lot, and I just feel like that is not what needs to happen.” The principal is a super supporter of libraries and books and literature and reading, all over, I mean 100 percent,” Hensley said, “and so she was thinking I would be OK. I teach them to love to read,” Hensley said. “If “I live in Fifth Ward.

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Schools Multiple Choice Questions Testing Reading 218

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

I teach a course for faculty on how to write multiple-choice questions. Professors work with research-based guidelines to write multiple-choice questions for their courses, including questions that target higher-order thinking skills. So far, so good. This is when things started to go downhill.

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Multiple Choice Questions Plagiarism Writing Questions 111

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

NOVEMBER 22, 2015

To read the full app review, c lick here. . After a detailed tutorial, teachers can upload or create assignments that let students type, enter numbers, draw (with a mouse or their finger, depending on the device), upload an image, or answer multiple-choice questions. What’s It Like?

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Multiple Choice Questions Assignments Grades Reading 126

eSchool News

APRIL 9, 2018

Click here to read the full app review. Pros : AP and IB teachers will love the clearly targeted and complex questions to help their students improve. Cons : Some dull multiple-choice questions and confusing images. What’s It Like? . Price : Free to Try, Paid. Grades : 9-12. Rating : 4/5.

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Multiple Choice Questions Assignments Testing Questions 126

Edsurge

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Ensuring my students have ample time for independent reading and writing. Believe it or not, this handful of applications takes care of most of my needs when teaching from a distance, aside from the additional apps for math manipulatives or e-books for independent reading. Building critical-thinking and problem-solving skills in math.

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Distance Learning Multiple Choice Questions Learning Critical Thinking 218

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

I teach a course for faculty on how to write multiple-choice questions. Professors work with research-based guidelines to write multiple-choice questions for their courses, including questions that target higher-order thinking skills. So far, so good. This is when things started to go downhill.

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Multiple Choice Questions Plagiarism Writing Questions 98

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

QuestionWell allows you to input an article, reading, or a video and writes questions based on what you’ve input and your learning outcomes. The image below shows both the essential questions and multiple-choice questions that were generated. You can also adapt it to specific reading levels.

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Multiple Choice Questions Teaching Assistants Education Learning Outcomes 124

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

There is no evidence, he adds, to suggest that the modified, shorter tests last year were easier, and in fact he has heard from students that they were more difficult because they did not include any multiple choice questions, on which students typically perform better.

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Exams Testing Multiple Choice Questions Internet 218

Elementary Nest

MARCH 4, 2025

Elementary Nest 5 Strong Test Taking Strategies for Multiple Choice Reading Passages Raise your hand if your students love multiple choice questions. Multiple choice questions might seem easy at first glance, but for young readers, it can feel like a tricky guessing game.

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Testing Multiple Choice Questions Reading Questions 52

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] I want you to remember something: you’re a superstar, and there are great things coming your way no matter what path you decide to take this year!” 3] Stressed.

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Multiple Choice Questions Motivation Intelligence Writing 216

Edsurge

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Following years of disrupted learning during the pandemic, the recently released Nation’s Report Card shows an overall drop in both reading and math scores, with math scores falling in nearly every state. We should equip teachers with tools like DreamBox Math and DreamBox Reading (which my company created) to assess how a student is thinking.

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Multiple Choice Questions Math Reading Achievement 164

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

We have evidence that when you take a demanding test that requires reasoning, reading a book or listening to a lecture in preparation is no different than doing nothing. That’s different than the standard delivery of text and multiple choice questions. Here, read a book, or listen to a lecture.

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Intelligence Lecturing Multiple Choice Questions Learning 167

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

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

QuestionWell allows you to input an article, reading, or a video and writes questions based on what you’ve input and your learning outcomes. The image below shows both the essential questions and multiple-choice questions that were generated. You can also adapt it to specific reading levels.

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Multiple Choice Questions Teaching Assistants Education Learning Outcomes 111

eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2024

Kris Astle, Global Education Strategist, SMART Technologies Far too many students continue to struggle with reading, with post-pandemic recovery remaining slow—and in some cases, stagnant—among our young readers. Lindsay Dworkin, SVP of Policy & Government Affairs, NWEA The pendulum has swung quickly toward the Science of Reading.

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Gamification Intelligence Reading Ethics 360

Edsurge

JUNE 27, 2017

Quizzes on Google Forms now allow for a bit more customization: Teachers can offer partial credit for answers choices while auto-grading multiple choice questions. READ WHAT YOU LIKE: Fashion. These are just a few of the topics Achieve3000 discovered students want to read about—and now they can.

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Multiple Choice Questions Assignments Quizzes Game-Based Learning 149

Edsurge

AUGUST 17, 2018

The students answered 126 multiple-choice questions in class on materials that were just presented. But the day after he read Glass and Kang’s paper, he told his students about the findings, and announced that he’d immediately take any phone he saw that students had out without permission until the end of the day.

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Multiple Choice Questions Exams Lecturing Attention 132

Edsurge

JULY 11, 2023

Or read a partial transcript below, lightly edited for clarity. One example in particular is getting students that are taking, say, an online chemistry course to create a multiple choice question for us. Learn more about EdSurge ethics and policies here and supporters here.) What’s new in your approach?

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Testing Multiple Choice Questions Teaching Education 120

Edsurge

MARCH 11, 2020

Or read the highlights here, edited and condensed for clarity and readability. Use Polls to Keep Students Engaged There are many tools available to pose multiple-choice questions to students remotely. Her campus is still open—for now—but she is bracing for disruption and sees it all around her.

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Instructors Teaching Multiple Choice Questions Ethics 202

Faculty Focus

MAY 1, 2025

When I gave a break during a session, many would open books and read until the class resumed. I asked the class after the holiday to think of a new years resolution, and to my surprise, a handful of students said that they intended to increase the number of books they would read in the coming year.

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Academic Integrity Multiple Choice Questions Learning Students 107

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? Then you give a pilot test.

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Testing Fairness Multiple Choice Questions Exams 167

Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 9, 2018

Read the article 6 ways to test your students listening comprehension to learn how to make use of cloze tests to test for specific vocabulary or general listening skills. Read Jacqui’s tech thriller series, To Hunt a Sub and Twenty-four Days. Listening comprehension: Use a clip from the movie for a listening exercise.

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Languages Language Teaching Multiple Choice Questions 104

Edsurge

JANUARY 9, 2025

There were also highly read pieces about the ways that educators and school systems are grappling with rapid change: how to make access to algebra equitable for historically disadvantaged students and catch up to new technology standards aiding students with disabilities. They shared first-hand experiences with racism in the workplace.

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Essay Disabilities Multiple Choice Questions Math 105

Faculty Focus

MAY 1, 2025

When I gave a break during a session, many would open books and read until the class resumed. I asked the class after the holiday to think of a new years resolution, and to my surprise, a handful of students said that they intended to increase the number of books they would read in the coming year.

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Academic Integrity Multiple Choice Questions Learning Students 94

eSchool News

JUNE 27, 2016

Each solution has embedded interim and formative assessments available in both English and Spanish that measure and monitor students’ reading levels to measure growth and show impact. Smarty Ants® Foundational Literacy Program. The program continuously evaluates each student’s exact skill level, learning temperament and learning pace.

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Blended Learning Textbooks Multiple Choice Questions Learning 100

Edsurge

JANUARY 19, 2017

I want my 5th grader to be well-educated… Tapping away at multiple choice questions is not high level math,” another parent said. Our teachers and students stated that they find value in the math advisory, teacher-led instruction, virtual instruction and reinforcement, and task portions of TTO,” the district letter reads.

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Learning Multiple Choice Questions Math Evaluation 146

Cult of Pedagogy

JANUARY 21, 2024

We recognize that there’s something fundamentally different about large-scale, externally mandated standardized tests that rely on multiple-choice questions. As Jen Serravallo and Kelly Cartwright explored in their recent conversation on reading instruction, large-scale tests have shaped schools in big and small ways.

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Testing Multiple Choice Questions Language Languages 106

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Lalilo’s online literacy product focuses on helping K-2 students develop phonics, word recognition and reading comprehension skills through a series of online exercises and stories. Some activities involve multiple-choice questions; others ask children to read words and passages in order to assess their oral fluency.

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English Multiple Choice Questions Teaching Assistants Special Education 66

Faculty Focus

JULY 27, 2023

The entry ticket asks students to answer a question. It might be about current events related to the field, the assigned reading of the day, a difficult problem or concept, or a reflection on the time and method that students are using to prepare for an upcoming exam. The questions do not have right or wrong answers.

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Student Engagement Syllabus Students Lecturing 98

Edsurge

JULY 16, 2018

Technology-Enhanced What’s easier to agree on is that multiple-choice questions are a poor way to measure soft skills. This new breed of tech-laden items lets students answer questions through drag and drop, highlighting text or fill-in-the-blanks. Darling-Hammond says the format is rarely used outside the U.S,

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