eSchool News

JULY 11, 2018

ISTE18 for all students: The mindset & top 5 tools for inclusive best practice. The keynotes, presenters, vendors, and attendees of #ISTE18 dialed in hard with a connected line of perspective, practical strategies, and game-changing edtech tools to push all students full STEAM ahead into the new school year. Flexibility.

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Multiple Choice Questions Education Quizzes Game-Based Learning 189

Edsurge

MARCH 6, 2024

Each year, some students do not meet these expectations, and as a result, they are told they have not earned a high school diploma and aren’t able to walk across the stage with their peers. If a diploma means we have prepared them, shouldn’t we be asking students what they want to be prepared for?

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Multidisciplinary Counselling Multiple Choice Questions Exams 206

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

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

The bot has raised many questions, to name just a few: how ChatGPT will affect exams, how to help students use it critically and within the boundaries of academic integrity, how to talk about it in class, and whether it can help faculty plan activities or even generate content like examples or cases. So far, so good.

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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?

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Multiple Choice Questions Teaching Participation Writing 119

Edsurge

DECEMBER 16, 2021

So the folks behind the Common App have been testing a tool that might help more students successfully apply to college, both by giving them accurate information about deadlines and resources and by encouraging them to keep at it when it feels overwhelming. Oli also checked in with students about how they were coping. 3] Stressed.

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Multiple Choice Questions Motivation Intelligence Writing 216

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

For many years, educators have envisioned personalized learning as a way to tailor education to each student's unique needs. At the same time, there is a growing emphasis on fostering creativity and authenticity in student work. The first phase really focused on getting the right content to the right student at the right time.

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Multiple Choice Questions Assignments Intelligence Skills 205

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

The bot has raised many questions, to name just a few: how ChatGPT will affect exams, how to help students use it critically and within the boundaries of academic integrity, how to talk about it in class, and whether it can help faculty plan activities or even generate content like examples or cases. So far, so good.

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Multiple Choice Questions Plagiarism Writing Questions 98

Faculty Focus

MAY 2, 2024

Do you teach one of those courses that promotes lots of student anxiety? Student are convinced they can’t learn what we’re teaching, worry they won’t do well on the tests, and become filled with anxiety over anything in a course that looks like it might be hard. What causes students to dread the social science statistics course?

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Teaching Multidisciplinary Multiple Choice Questions Exams 111

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Since the Advanced Placement (AP) program began in the 1950s, tens of millions of students have taken their exams in school, with paper and pencil, over the course of several hours. The result was an open book, open note, abbreviated at-home exam , using whatever device a student had available. It was not without its hiccups.

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Exams Testing Multiple Choice Questions Internet 218

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

But for remote learning this fall, the district planned to introduce the video-based instructional program to another 11,000 K-8 students as a component of its online instruction. In total, about 1,000 students in the district were expected to use Acellus this fall. Together, those schools serve nearly 80,000 students.

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Learning Schools Multiple Choice Questions Distance Learning 213

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

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. What can it do? You can add and edit any of the slides.

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Multiple Choice Questions Teaching Assistants Education Learning Outcomes 124

Edsurge

AUGUST 17, 2018

The question of whether or not to allow students to use smartphones, laptops and other technology in the classroom has been long-debated , and at times, heated. Arnold Glass, a researcher and professor at Rutgers University’s psychology department, ran the study with graduate student Mengxue Kang.

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Multiple Choice Questions Exams Lecturing Attention 138

Faculty Focus

MAY 2, 2024

Do you teach one of those courses that promotes lots of student anxiety? Student are convinced they can’t learn what we’re teaching, worry they won’t do well on the tests, and become filled with anxiety over anything in a course that looks like it might be hard. What causes students to dread the social science statistics course?

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Teaching Multidisciplinary Multiple Choice Questions Exams 104

Edsurge

DECEMBER 16, 2020

From increased anxiety and depression related to unhealthy usage of social media , to our students’ decreased attention spans , it’s time to take a “less is more” approach. But doing so is imperative if we want to re-humanize learning experiences for our students. That may seem counterintuitive. What are we going to use for curriculum?

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Distance Learning Multiple Choice Questions Learning Critical Thinking 218

Edsurge

JULY 11, 2023

When you think about that in an educational context, it … really opens up the opportunity to give more students the kinds of things that are better supporting their learning.” If we're going to average out everything, we're going to have student populations for whom the intervention that's good for everybody isn't good for them individually.

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Testing Multiple Choice Questions Teaching Education 124

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. What can it do? You can add and edit any of the slides.

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Multiple Choice Questions Teaching Assistants Education Learning Outcomes 111

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

One fear expressed was about how the mostly Black and Latino students at 28 schools would fare under a plan created by new Superintendent Mike Miles that would require school libraries to cease, in essence, functioning as libraries. Instead, they would become “team centers,” where teachers would send disruptive students to work independently.

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Schools Multiple Choice Questions Testing Reading 218

Edsurge

AUGUST 30, 2016

Formative assessments give us an idea of what our students are understanding during instruction, and can be embedded in the lesson activities. Expose your students to questions requiring higher order thinking skills and manipulation of TEI using a few of these tried and true techy apps. These are painless assessment tools.

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Multiple Choice Questions Assignments Exams Questions 110

Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2018

To some, standardized testing overwhelms our schools and helps eradicate differences between students. For others, they remain the best way to compare students objectively and hold schools accountable. Whatever your thoughts, there’s no denying that students are taking lots of tests. Two years ago, U.S. asks Mark Moulton.

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Testing Fairness Multiple Choice Questions Exams 167

Edsurge

MARCH 11, 2020

I'd rather that you do that for your students, for yourself than to cancel all the classes,” she argues. Think Shorter If it’s hard to hold students’ attention in person, it’s even harder online, says Stachowiak: “You'll want to think about shortening that experience. How are your students handling the uncertainty?

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Instructors Teaching Multiple Choice Questions Ethics 207

Faculty Focus

JULY 27, 2023

QR codes can be used to share materials with students and to engage students in active learning activities. Not all students will come to class with a laptop but many will have a phone with a camera. And most students will know what to do when they see a QR code! The entry ticket asks students to answer a question.

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Student Engagement Syllabus Students Lecturing 98

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

A) Choose questions that most students will be able to answer correctly. B) Vary the types of poll questions beyond multiple choice. C) Ask students “Please discuss your answer with a neighbor.” D) Stress that students answer questions independent of their peers. Select all that apply.

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Instructors Multiple Choice Questions Course Design Discussions 145

Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 9, 2018

Dialogue: Asking questions about movies is an excellent way to get your students talking. Observation: Ask the students to look out for specific items or listen for specific vocabulary words. The first student who sees/hears it, stands up and mentions what he found. Even the shy ones will be more likely to open up.

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Language Languages 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. Talented Students Are Kept From Early Algebra.

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Essay Disabilities Multiple Choice Questions Math 113

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? No one is listening to the students. Test prep works.

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Testing Multiple Choice Questions Essay History 93

eSchool News

JUNE 27, 2016

Achieve3000 offers innovative new ways to empower blended learning and accelerate student literacy gains through differentiated instruction in the 2016-2017 school year. The program continuously evaluates each student’s exact skill level, learning temperament and learning pace. State-Customized Solutions. ELA Test Challenge Courses.

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Blended Learning Textbooks Multiple Choice Questions Learning 100

eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2024

In 2023, a new popular kid in town, better known as AI, dominated headlines and prompted debates around how students could abuse–and should use–the generative tool for learning. On the down side, as the technology evolves it will also enable hackers to be more adept at infiltrating systems that store sensitive student data.

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Gamification Intelligence Reading Ethics 360

Cult of Pedagogy

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Any time we teach our students something , we need to check to see how well they learned it. But if we only do this check at the very end, after all the teaching is done, and we find that our students haven’t learned the material quite well enough, it’s too late to do anything about it.

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Multiple Choice Questions Culture Questions Grades 125

Edsurge

JULY 16, 2018

At the end of next school year, thousands of high school students will sit down at individual workstations, laptops in hand, for an end-of-course exam. I think there’s more of a question about that. But those had traditionally focused on subject-specific skills, and were entirely multiple choice. Several U.S.

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Testing Exams Multiple Choice Questions STEM 112

Cult of Pedagogy

JANUARY 21, 2024

After all, framed that way, teachers give hundreds of standardized tests a year, even those who do learner-centered assessment, project-based learning, or otherwise collect evidence of student learning in ways that are considered alternative or non-traditional. And here we are…back at the end of the first paragraph.

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Testing Multiple Choice Questions Languages Language 106

Teaching with a Mountain View

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

State testing season is just around the corner, and we know the pressure it brings… not just for students but for you as their guide and biggest cheerleader. To help make test prep a little easier, were sharing the BEST test-taking strategies that set your students up for success! I’ll dig into this more in future emails!

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Testing Multiple Choice Questions Math Writing 52

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. and make it super easy for teachers to instantly gather student data on any given subject.

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Math Fairness Assignments Multiple Choice Questions 105

Organized Classroom

APRIL 2, 2025

But I have an old school idea that seems to work the best for me and my students. I needed something that was clear, reusable, would write and wipe off easily, and was light to transport an entire class set. Instead of students sliding a paper in, they would just place the clear board on top of their paper. All good ideas.

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Multiple Choice Questions Writing Activities Testing 78

eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

As technology evolves, industries must evolve alongside it, and education is no exception – especially in an era where students heavily and regularly engage in technology and its applications. ChatGPT in education can be the answer we’re looking for in our search for the ideal, personalized student experience–and ultimately student success.

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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. What’s the Student Objectives? Make sure you label each folder with the “detective task #” so that students can follow along easily.

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Multiple Choice Questions Activities Reading Critical Thinking 52