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

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] Research about social robots shows that children view them as “sort of alive” and make “an attempt to build a mutual relationship,” writes MIT professor Sherry Turkle.

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Multiple Choice Questions Motivation Intelligence Writing 216

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 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

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

But from the individual teacher’s perspective, I think the best approach is to start by having a conversation with the bot: try to find out how knowledgeable it is about your subject, how accurately it answers your questions, how it performs in the activities you set, and how it reacts when challenged. So far, so good.

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Multiple Choice Questions Plagiarism Writing Questions 98

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.

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Distance Learning Multiple Choice Questions Learning Critical Thinking 218

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

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.

Multiple Choice Questions 111

Multiple Choice Questions Teaching Assistants Education Learning Outcomes 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?

Multiple Choice Questions 98

Multiple Choice Questions Teaching Participation Writing 98

Edsurge

AUGUST 17, 2018

The students answered 126 multiple-choice questions in class on materials that were just presented. Oliver Lovell, a learning specialist and head of senior mathematics at a secondary school in Australia, writes in an email interview that he previously gave his students a warning before confiscating their phone in class.

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Multiple Choice Questions Exams Lecturing Attention 132

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

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. Also, the kinds of questions and feedback that they're giving us is helping us better improve the course materials.

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Testing Multiple Choice Questions Teaching Education 120

Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 9, 2018

Writing exercise: Ask the students to write a summary of the movie or a particular scene. Or you can ask a few questions about things that happened in the movie, e.g. “Why did the main character hesitate on calling the police?”. Read Jacqui’s tech thriller series, To Hunt a Sub and Twenty-four Days.

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Language Languages Teaching Multiple Choice Questions 104

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

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

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. Single sign-on (SSO) options mean that teachers do not have to log into multiple systems, saving both time and effort. State-Customized Solutions.

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Blended Learning Textbooks Multiple Choice Questions Learning 100

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

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 Languages Language 106

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

Teaching with a Mountain View

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Read-alouds are a great way to cement and reinforce the positive mindset you’ve worked to build all year. Teach (and start practicing) Mnemonic Devices Mnemonic devices can help students approach questions with structure and clarity. Analyze the Choices: Remind students to read all the options before choosing their answer.

Testing 52

Testing Multiple Choice Questions Math Writing 52

Edsurge

JULY 16, 2018

In some cases they’re collaborative, asking groups of students to test and present their solution together and write up their findings and contributions separately. Technology-Enhanced What’s easier to agree on is that multiple-choice questions are a poor way to measure soft skills. (Several U.S.

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Testing Exams Multiple Choice Questions STEM 108

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. Read and follow other teacher’s blogs.

Math 105

Math Fairness Assignments Multiple Choice Questions 105

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

The Winter Reading Challenge Escape Room that I created in particular is reading comprehension focused! Each activity practices a reading skill. How to Achieve : Solve reading challenges and riddles to earn Picture Pieces to build the way to block the yeti. What’s the Student Objectives?

Multiple Choice Questions 52

Multiple Choice Questions Activities Reading Critical Thinking 52

eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

In this case, whether pulling insight specifically from a lecture or digging deeper into the curriculum with additional insight from ChatGPT, the learner is still understanding, analyzing, and writing the assignment. Many fear that computer-generated grading would only perpetuate the education system’s reliance on multiple-choice questions.

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Plagiarism Education Intelligence Textbooks 130

eSchool News

JANUARY 5, 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 130

Scholarly Teacher

OCTOBER 2, 2024

In the fall of 2022, students in three sections of a required 200-level business writing course at a large, Midwestern university (N=72) participated in seven collaborative quizzes and three independent quizzes taken throughout the fall semester. When taking a collaborative quiz, the students prepared independently (e.g., McGraw-Hill.

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Quizzes Education Multiple Choice Questions Feedback 52

Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

Reading back over a textbook or taking lecture notes with a highlighter at the ready is often done by students, for instance, but these practices have proven of limited merit, and in some cases even counterproductive in aiding recall. That data, he says, comes from him asking questions like ‘What did you learn this semester?’

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Education Learning Textbooks Instructors 218