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. So far, so good.

Multiple Choice Questions 96

Multiple Choice Questions Plagiarism Writing Questions 96

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.

Multidisciplinary 206

Multidisciplinary Counselling Multiple Choice Questions Exams 206

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

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Ensuring my students have ample time for independent reading and writing. Building critical-thinking and problem-solving skills in math. As an elementary school teacher, my highest priorities were always the following: Cultivating agency, autonomy and independence in my students.

Distance Learning 218

Distance Learning Multiple Choice Questions Learning Critical Thinking 218

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.

Gamification 360

Gamification Intelligence Reading Ethics 360

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?

Testing 167

Testing Fairness Multiple Choice Questions Exams 167

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.

Schools 218

Schools Multiple Choice Questions Testing Reading 218

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.

Teaching 110

Teaching Multidisciplinary Multiple Choice Questions Exams 110

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.

Multiple Choice Questions 107

Multiple Choice Questions Assignments Exams Questions 107

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.

Blended Learning 100

Blended Learning Textbooks Multiple Choice Questions Learning 100

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?”. “Why As a reward, he gets a candy. Why did the main character hesitate on calling the police?”.

Languages 104

Languages Language Teaching Multiple Choice Questions 104

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.

Testing 93

Testing Multiple Choice Questions Essay History 93

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.

Teaching 96

Teaching Multidisciplinary Multiple Choice Questions Exams 96

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

Testing 107

Testing Exams Multiple Choice Questions STEM 107

Faculty Focus

JULY 27, 2023

When the brain is retrieving studied text, names, formulas, skills, or anything else, it’s doing something different and harder than when it sees the information again or restudies. Students are asked to write what they already know and what they want to know about a topic. Figure 2 shows a Know-Wonder-Learn activity using Jamboard.

Student Engagement 98

Student Engagement Syllabus Students Lecturing 98

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.

Testing 106

Testing Multiple Choice Questions Language Languages 106

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. Heres how you can support students: 1.

Testing 52

Testing Multiple Choice Questions Math Writing 52

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. Have students practice graphing skills with these activity cards.

Multiple Choice Questions 83

Multiple Choice Questions Writing Activities Testing 83

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.

Plagiarism 130

Plagiarism Education Intelligence Textbooks 130

Elementary Nest

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

A winter-themed classroom escape room is the perfect way to get students thinking critically, solving puzzles, and having funall while reinforcing important skills. Each activity practices a reading skill. Then, they will match the icon of the question to the puzzle piece and line the mystery puzzle up in order.

Multiple Choice Questions 52

Multiple Choice Questions Activities Reading Critical Thinking 52

eSchool News

JANUARY 5, 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.

Gamification 130

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. Relationship-rich education: How human connections drive success in college. 2022, October 17).

Quizzes 52

Quizzes Education Multiple Choice Questions Feedback 52

Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

The Nudge tool is a system for scheduling text messages that pose short questions to students that prompt them to recall things they’ve learned in class after a certain amount of time. The system sends students a text or e-mail 24 to 48 hours after a class, with one multiple-choice question about the material.

Education 218

Education Learning Textbooks Instructors 218