eSchool News

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Teachers see it. Teachers throughout the country have already begun celebrating the enforcement of these policies, citing levels of engagement they havent seen in years (if ever, for those newer to the profession). Teachers are ultimately the key to resurrecting student engagement levels. Gallup, 2023 ) Something is broken here.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Teachers see it. Teachers throughout the country have already begun celebrating the enforcement of these policies, citing levels of engagement they haven’t seen in years (if ever, for those newer to the profession). Teachers are ultimately the key to resurrecting student engagement levels. Superintendents see it.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

Jackson County implements LearnBop to help students master math skills, computer-based testing. With all of the digital programs, the curriculum training, and integrating tablets, teachers are jumping in head first,” said Missy Rogers, Jackson County School District’s math coordinator.

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Math Multiple Choice Questions Blended Learning Assignments 211

Edsurge

JULY 11, 2023

Bier and others involved in the project say that they are testing the approach in a variety of educational settings, including public and private K-12 schools, community colleges and four-year colleges. EdSurge: The app you developed helps teachers test out their learning materials to see if they’re effective.

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Testing Multiple Choice Questions Teaching Education 124

Edsurge

JULY 16, 2018

Testing for such skills relies heavily on technology and required a significant retooling. Yet questions remain about whether any individual test (especially one that has long relied on multiple choice) can truly measure collaboration and problem solving—skills that typically involve heavy doses of human interaction and teamwork.

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Testing Exams Multiple Choice Questions STEM 107

Cult of Pedagogy

JANUARY 21, 2024

Over the last decade or so , we’ve settled into a choreographed dance around large-scale, state-mandated standardized test scores. Next, people who have nothing to do with the design, administration, taking, or scoring of the tests will then use them to critique states, districts, schools, and/or individual teachers.

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Testing Multiple Choice Questions Language Languages 106

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Teachers, parents and politicians took turns at the microphone, united in their criticism of the controversial state takeover of Texas’ largest school district. Instead, they would become “team centers,” where teachers would send disruptive students to work independently. Photo by Nadia Tamez-Robledo for EdSurge. The problem?

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eSchool News

JUNE 28, 2016

Teachers say formative assessments help them instantly take stock of what students have and haven’t gleaned from a lesson or class activity–meaning teachers can adjust their instruction or review materials if short formative assessment results indicate a need to do so. . They can add videos, images and diagrams.

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Multiple Choice Questions Exams Coaching Motivation 189

Edsurge

MARCH 6, 2024

How the Value of a Diploma Has Changed Just as teachers are navigating all the changes happening in education, so are students. Louisiana, where I teach, is one of eight states in the country that requires a passing score on standardized tests to receive a diploma. How will it shape their self image and how their loved ones see them?

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eSchool News

JUNE 23, 2023

The AI-generated assessment items will be complemented by AI-powered Adaptive Testing in Performance Matters to better understand each student’s competency and personalized instruction needs. The Realities of AI in Higher Ed Going to ISTE? PowerSchool will be hosting a free happy hour event after the first full day of ISTELive ‘23.

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Multiple Choice Questions Fairness Language Languages 141

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. Firman is not the only educator who looks for data in areas other than test performance.

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eSchool News

APRIL 9, 2018

Teachers can create quick exit tickets that students can answer at the end of class or at night for homework. Teachers without Google Classroom can share links to tasks using their online course platform. Pros : AP and IB teachers will love the clearly targeted and complex questions to help their students improve.

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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. But to put those concepts into practice, you need deeper learning.

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Intelligence Lecturing Multiple Choice Questions Learning 167

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!

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eSchool News

MAY 1, 2024

TeachTap uses AI to bring historical figures to life as teachers, allowing students to learn, for example, about the Civil War with Abraham Lincoln, the civil rights movement through the lens of Martin Luther King Jr, or the laws of motion from Sir Isaac Newton. Generative AI with guardrails LearnWith.AI

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2024

From how to delve into the nuances of student learning and removing the heavy lift of teachers trying to figure out how to individualize instruction, to enabling someone like me to speak in seven languages so that I may express ideas or collaborate with others from around the world, AI holds endless potential.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 28, 2019

Historically, students have been evaluated primarily on the basis of test scores and subject matter mastery. And a school in which students’ behavior correlates highly with students’ social awareness may require different programming than a school in which disciplinary incidents are linked to poor teacher-student relationships.

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Multiple Choice Questions Learning Grades Special Education 167

Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 24, 2024

Here’s the role memory retention plays in academia: Recall During Tests: Enhanced memory retention means an improved recall ability. Remember that fluctuating moods can cloud your judgment and impair your decision-making – a critical aspect when facing multiple-choice questions or mapping the outline of an essay.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 22, 2016

The newly added Assessments tool gives educators full control to create, distribute, and assess custom quizzes, tests, and homework assignments directly within the platform. The Assessments feature includes more than 5,000 pre-built questions covering more than 1,200 science and social studies topics.

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Multiple Choice Questions Quizzes Social Studies 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.

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Multiple Choice Questions Assignments Exams Questions 107

Faculty Focus

MAY 2, 2024

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. The anxiety some students feel about a course grows out of fears associated with test-taking. Nowadays that seems to apply to all sorts of courses.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 13, 2017

After all, one can use the phrase “adaptive” to describe the California DMV computer-based exam because an algorithm dynamically selects the next multiple choice question based on the user’s performance thus far. Like great teachers, thoughtful instructional design teams see patterns in how people learn. Is that adaptive?

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Multiple Choice Questions Instructors Textbooks Feedback 131

Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 9, 2018

Today, we have a guest post from Philip Perry, founder of Learnclick.com , an online quiz tool lots of teachers use to create and share quizzes. It is also ideal for teaching language as it has many options for asking questions in context. Listening comprehension: Use a clip from the movie for a listening exercise.

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Language Languages Teaching Multiple Choice Questions 104

Edsurge

JANUARY 9, 2025

Teacher coach Jessica Kato walks educators through how to engage and lean into Gen Alphas strengths. She lays out the need for graduation requirements to evolve, considering how little the multiple choice questions or essay prompts on standardized tests have to do with students lives after high school and their ability to thrive.

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Essay Disabilities Multiple Choice Questions Math 115

Edsurge

JANUARY 19, 2017

At the end of the session, a personalized five-question assessment (known as an “Exit Slip”) is given to test concepts they individually worked on that day. I want my 5th grader to be well-educated… Tapping away at multiple choice questions is not high level math,” another parent said. 12 letter.

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Learning Multiple Choice Questions Math Evaluation 147

Faculty Focus

MAY 2, 2024

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. The anxiety some students feel about a course grows out of fears associated with test-taking. Nowadays that seems to apply to all sorts of courses.

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Teaching Multidisciplinary Multiple Choice Questions Exams 98

Edsurge

MAY 22, 2017

It’s not acceptable, for instance, to let a student take two years to master multiplication. The core promise of CBE, she says, is to create a system where teachers can provide the instructional support meet all students’ needs, regardless of where they are at. Is it fair to only cover the standards that are going to be on the test?”

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Education Multiple Choice Questions Fairness Questions 138

Cult of Pedagogy

OCTOBER 14, 2024

The most common way to do this is with some kind of a test, which traditionally happens at the end of a unit — a final exam of some kind. We call these two kinds of testing summative assessment , the kind that happens at the end, and formative assessment , the kind that happens during the learning cycle. ” David-Lang says.

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Multiple Choice Questions Culture Questions Grades 125

eSchool News

JUNE 27, 2016

plus several international editions – Achieve3000 is ensuring both teachers and students have the standards-aligned, grade-appropriate content they need to meet grade-level state standards, perform on high-stakes state assessments, and achieve college and career readiness literacy goals. ELA Test Challenge Courses.

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Blended Learning Textbooks Multiple Choice Questions Learning 100

Edsurge

AUGUST 21, 2018

“I think the other factor is, things like productivity tools for teachers, there’s been a lot of offerings in the last eight years,” he says. askMyClass This Menlo Park-based startup seeks to offer teachers classroom management strategies, lesson support and social-emotional support for students via voice technology.

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Multiple Choice Questions Testing Questions Essay 105

Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 5, 2016

There are lots of free survey and polling sites (two popular options are PollDaddy and Survey Monkey ), but often they limit the number of surveys you can create or how many questions you can include without ‘leveling up’ to a premium version. This can be a rubric, multiple choice, short answer, or other options.

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Multiple Choice Questions Questions Testing Grades 83

Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 21, 2019

A lot has changed since then, most importantly, teachers now recognize that students learn in a variety of ways, only one of which is via text. Teachers provide the essential question and big idea, and then share a collection of videos students can select from as they design their own learning. Why use videos. How to use videos.

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Multiple Choice Questions Textbooks Knowledge Discussions 79

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Some activities involve multiple-choice questions; others ask children to read words and passages in order to assess their oral fluency. fourth graders tested proficient in reading—down from 37 percent in 2017. schools, and that more than 5,000 teachers and 60,000 students use it every month.

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English Multiple Choice Questions Teaching Assistants Special Education 65

Organized Classroom

APRIL 2, 2025

You could have students do their math facts timed tests in them by placing students down at a center with a timer, and they can sit and fill in their test until the timer goes off. Grab this 15-pack of eBooks created specifically for classroom teachers! Then I also left this side open so that way I can get papers in and out.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Some offered multiple-choice questions, for instance, that simply asked kids to pick the correct pronunciation—hardly a useful exercise. The plan is to test another 1,000 students in 2020, and another 600 the following year.

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Laboratory Multiple Choice Questions English Testing 73

eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

How can I use AI as a teacher? When ChatGPT was first released, questions swirled around higher ed about it stoking an increase in plagiarism, promoting a lack of critical thinking, and what the future would hold for classic functions like the college admission essay. What are the best AI tools for teachers?

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Plagiarism Education Intelligence Textbooks 130

eSchool News

JANUARY 5, 2024

From how to delve into the nuances of student learning and removing the heavy lift of teachers trying to figure out how to individualize instruction, to enabling someone like me to speak in seven languages so that I may express ideas or collaborate with others from around the world, AI holds endless potential.

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