eSchool News

MARCH 30, 2016

Technology is making the multiple-choice question obsolete. Is it any wonder there are concerns about students’ lack of higher-order thinking skills and the ability to apply foundational knowledge and skills to more complex real-world problems? Can testing keep up?

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Testing Multiple Choice Questions Learning Feedback 189

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

This approach not only boosts engagement but also prepares students for a future where creative thinking and problem-solving are indispensable skills. In just a few years, AI skills have become essential. The 2024 Work Trend Index Report found that 66 percent of industry leaders wouldn't hire someone without AI skills.

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eSchool News

JULY 11, 2018

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. Microsoft Learning Tools : Free tools to improve reading and writing skills for all ages and abilities. Flexibility. Definitely worth checking out!

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Multiple Choice Questions Education Quizzes Game-Based Learning 189

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Where and how do young people learn these skills? Truly rare are those careers where employees advance based on their ability to regularly answer multiple-choice questions correctly! But how can we integrate more of these skills into core academic classes such as English, algebra, physics and social studies?

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Multiple Choice Questions Multidisciplinary Social Studies English 153

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. From reading response to explanation of math lessons, you can have your students blog in virtually any subject area. And guess what?

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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 Questions 119

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. Meanwhile, teachers deliver individualized feedback and support to students.

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Distance Learning Teaching Multiple Choice Questions Math 218

eSchool News

MARCH 14, 2016

The ability to innovate is a critical skill that will prepare students for the jobs of the future, Bdeir said—many of which don’t even exist yet. is a free game-based learning platform that allows teachers—or students—to create their own learning games using videos, images, and multiple-choice questions.

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Multiple Choice Questions Game-Based Learning Science Critical Thinking 190

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

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

MARCH 6, 2024

Many of my students who are already successfully applying their extensive knowledge and skills on class assignments and extracurricular activities are told that because they cannot demonstrate mastery of academic content through a specific set of conditions, they have failed.

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Multidisciplinary Counselling Multiple Choice Questions Exams 206

Edsurge

OCTOBER 28, 2022

If we don’t empower educators by providing support, skills and relevant, job-embedded professional learning, we risk that too few teachers will join and remain in the profession. We must invest in our teachers. Substantive insights for teachers, rather than just numerical reports, will require less time spent decoding data.

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Multiple Choice Questions Math Reading Achievement 172

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 Questions 98

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

That’s different than the standard delivery of text and multiple choice questions. One other aspect is that agents can model good thinking skills, good interaction skills, and being a good social partner. This is more interactive, and it attempts to pick up emotions. Op eration ARIES!, It’s a different world.

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Intelligence Lecturing Multiple Choice Questions Learning 167

Edsurge

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Building critical-thinking and problem-solving skills in math. They are, in fact, the epitome of passive screen time, causing students to focus more on mindlessly consuming academic content through videos and multiple-choice questions, as opposed to learning through critical thinking and problem solving.

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Distance Learning Multiple Choice Questions Learning Critical Thinking 218

Edsurge

MARCH 17, 2021

Having conversations on what led to or prevented success helps build skills like goal setting and self-monitoring. Don’t put them in a room to talk about a multiple choice question. Give them a real question to discuss. Give students real meaningful work,” Watkins recommends.

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Hybrid Learning Teachers Multiple Choice Questions Learning 218

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

Dangerously Irrelevant

APRIL 27, 2015

More videos with multiple choice questions! and/or because. The students are unmotivated or disengaged (including when engaged students are in classrooms with disengaged students who disrupt instruction or create a negative learning environment). . via [link]. Image credit: timlewisnm. . Related Posts.

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Multiple Choice Questions Schools Skills Curriculum 98

Edsurge

JANUARY 28, 2019

The data included traditional ABC metrics drawn from student information systems, as well as data from the Panorama Social-Emotional Learning Survey , which asks students to reflect on their behavior, attitudes and mindsets through psychometrically-validated , multiple-choice questions. Subscribe to the Panorama newsletter.

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Multiple Choice Questions Learning Grades Special Education 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? This helps build strong retrieval pathways and helps students more efficiently master concepts and skills.

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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.

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Multiple Choice Questions Assignments Exams Questions 105

Edsurge

OCTOBER 25, 2016

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. Luckily, these six educators have recommendations that anyone can start implementing immediately.

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Multiple Choice Questions Beliefs Education Culture 162

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

Faculty Focus

MAY 2, 2024

The pressure to solve problems, answer multiple-choice question, and write essays on an exam scares them. This fear is about the skills needed in the course itself, much like students taking a poetry course are anxious because they think they can’t write poetry. They’re convinced they won’t do well.

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Teaching Multidisciplinary Multiple Choice Questions Exams 111

Faculty Focus

MAY 2, 2024

The pressure to solve problems, answer multiple-choice question, and write essays on an exam scares them. This fear is about the skills needed in the course itself, much like students taking a poetry course are anxious because they think they can’t write poetry. They’re convinced they won’t do well.

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Teaching Multidisciplinary Multiple Choice Questions Exams 102

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. Sarah Blaine said: ten years into private practice, I don’t draw on my two months of intensive bar test prep to advise my clients or manage my work. But the thing is… PMBR and BAR/BRI worked.

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Testing Multiple Choice Questions Essay History 93

Edsurge

MAY 22, 2017

This is the standard definition of competency-based education that most educators, policymakers and researchers largely agree with: a system in which students progress based on their demonstration of mastery of a certain concept or skill. How one demonstrates “mastery” may vary according to the subject or skill in question.

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Education Multiple Choice Questions Fairness Questions 135

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. Try an anchor chart!

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Testing Multiple Choice Questions Reading Questions 52

eSchool News

JUNE 27, 2016

Smarty Ants is a research-driven solution for students in grades PreK-1 that differentiates instruction in foundational reading skills and accelerates student achievement in a motivating, interactive, online learning environment. 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

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. Acting: One can’t learn a language alone from listening, one needs to practice speaking it.

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Language Languages Teaching Multiple Choice Questions 102

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 104

Edsurge

JANUARY 19, 2017

Among the tools the district found was Teach to One: Math (TTO), a digital personalized learning program by New Classrooms , a New York-based nonprofit, that adapts to a student’s individual skills and gaps. I want my 5th grader to be well-educated… Tapping away at multiple choice questions is not high level math,” another parent said.

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Learning Multiple Choice Questions Math Evaluation 144

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. Rather, they’re expected to use ELA skills to correctly answer the multiple choice questions and respond to writing prompts.

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Testing Multiple Choice Questions Languages Language 111

Edsurge

AUGUST 21, 2018

The five-hour long test comes with about 100 questions. There are multiple-choice questions, coding exercises and two essay questions. His hope is that CSPA can become an authority to certifying this skill. Cofounder James Lin likens it to an “SAT for software engineers.”

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Multiple Choice Questions Testing Questions Essay 102

Teaching with a Mountain View

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Look for Specific Question Types From multiple-choice and short answers to TDA (text-dependent analysis) prompts and subject-specific skills, we spend time learning how to handle each question type. Interacting with Paired Passages is a HUGE skill in state assessment. Not sure where to start?

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Testing Multiple Choice Questions Math Writing 52

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 64