eSchool News

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Gradient Learning, 2023 ) On average, students give their school a C+ rating in making them feel excited about learningPerhaps relatedly, students give their school a C+ in teaching them in ways that adapt to their unique learning needs. EAB, 2023 ) Eighty percent of educators are worried about student engagement. Superintendents see it.

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Technology Gamification Multiple Choice Questions Intelligence 312

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

You know the formula–students watch an instructional video or read an overview of a concept, complete a cookie-cutter practice set that may or may not include a game or two, and demonstrate their “mastery” by completing a few multiple choice questions. Superintendents see it. Teachers see it. Students see it.

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Technology Gamification Multiple Choice Questions Intelligence 300

Cult of Pedagogy

APRIL 27, 2025

In the 10 years since I chose a book called Make it Stick for a book study in the summer of 2015, I’ve been encouraging teachers to add more retrieval practice to their teaching. I have encouraged giving frequent quizzes , think-pair-shares , and teaching students to use flashcards , but there are a lot of other ways to do it.

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Multiple Choice Questions Teachers Writing Questions 77

Edsurge

MARCH 11, 2020

Every day, a new batch of colleges announces that in-person classes are closed and teaching will shift online to try to halt the spread of the coronavirus COVID-19. So EdSurge asked our teaching advice columnist, Bonni Stachowiak, to offer a quick primer. And his response was to remind all of us that yes, online teaching is hard.

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Instructors Teaching Multiple Choice Questions Ethics 202

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

The teaching profession is in crisis. Indeed, the time spent on teaching class is less than the time spent on preparation, evaluation, and feedback (grading). This is widely known as the worst part of teaching. When answering basic questions, AI can read a student’s answers. AI can eliminate much of this.

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Teachers Textbooks Multiple Choice Questions Essay 278

Faculty Focus

MARCH 26, 2023

Not long ago, I had a conversation with ChatGPT to find out how well it would do in a course I teach for professors at my institution. 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.

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Multiple Choice Questions Teaching Participation Writing 98

Edsurge

MAY 10, 2018

Multiple-choice questions don’t belong in college. They’re often ineffective as a teaching tool, they’re easy for students to cheat, and they can exacerbate test anxiety. Defending Multiple-Choice To be fair, not everyone is so down on multiple choice.

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Testing Multiple Choice Questions Quizzes Assignments 155

Edsurge

AUGUST 29, 2024

One example of that work is the group’s new focus is its Skills for the Future initiative, a joint effort with the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching to reimagine assessments. We don't really care what the answer is, but how did you get there?”

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Testing Multiple Choice Questions Exams Questions 206

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Perhaps education has been missing a key ingredient when it comes to teaching students to detect faulty reasoning: practice. That’s the hypothesis that Motz and other psychology researchers from Indiana University tested in a study whose findings they believe point to a promising method for strengthening critical-thinking muscles.

Critical Thinking 217

Critical Thinking Multiple Choice Questions Peer Review Testing 217

Edsurge

JULY 11, 2023

What if educators could use the same strategy of “adaptive experimentation” to regularly improve their teaching materials? That’s the question posed by a group of researchers who developed a free tool they call the Adaptive Experimentation Accelerator. But you might be thinking, how's the quality of those?

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Testing Multiple Choice Questions Teaching Education 120

Faculty Focus

MAY 2, 2024

This article first appeared in The Teaching Professor on April 22, 2019© Magna Publications. For more articles like this, check out The Teaching Professor subscription! Do you teach one of those courses that promotes lots of student anxiety? Teaching Sociology, 46 (4), 346-355. All rights reserved. Bailey, M.

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Teaching Multidisciplinary Multiple Choice Questions Exams 111

eSchool News

JULY 11, 2018

As teachers, our number-one mission and passion is to reach all the students we teach in a way that is equitable, meaningful, and impactful. 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.

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Multiple Choice Questions Education Quizzes Game-Based Learning 189

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.

Multiple Choice Questions 111

Multiple Choice Questions Plagiarism Writing Questions 111

Faculty Focus

MAY 2, 2024

This article first appeared in The Teaching Professor on April 22, 2019© Magna Publications. For more articles like this, check out The Teaching Professor subscription! Do you teach one of those courses that promotes lots of student anxiety? Teaching Sociology, 46 (4), 346-355. All rights reserved. Bailey, M.

Teaching 103

Teaching Multidisciplinary Multiple Choice Questions Exams 103

Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 9, 2018

It is also ideal for teaching language as it has many options for asking questions in context. Here, Philip addresses the use of movies in teaching: Movies are a great way for learning a language as it helps getting used to the real-life usage. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 25 years.

Languages 104

Languages Language Teaching Multiple Choice Questions 104

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.

Multiple Choice Questions 98

Multiple Choice Questions Plagiarism Writing Questions 98

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Truly rare are those careers where employees advance based on their ability to regularly answer multiple-choice questions correctly! An ornithologist or an engineer, for instance, might use a videoconference to help teach a math lesson. Where and how do young people learn these skills?

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Multiple Choice Questions Multidisciplinary Social Studies English 150

eSchool News

MARCH 14, 2016

Imposing on teachers that you now have to teach STEAM, without giving them the tools to do it, is adding pressure and intimidating many teachers.”. Electric Girls is a new community of girls and women teaching each other to be leaders in STEAM fields. Teachers are extremely busy, and they have the hardest job in the world,” Bdeir said.

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Multiple Choice Questions Game-Based Learning Science Critical Thinking 190

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 17, 2021

After making a major shift to remote learning at the beginning of the pandemic, some teachers had to adjust to another unfamiliar environment when their school buildings reopened: teaching students online and in-person at the same time. Whatever the case, teaching this way takes a major mind shift and a lot of work, teachers say.

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Hybrid Learning Teachers Multiple Choice Questions Learning 218

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Many of you have probably tinkered with Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications and programs, or perhaps you are advanced in your journey of AI tools and could teach us a few things about how you are using AI in the classroom. The image below shows both the essential questions and multiple-choice questions that were generated.

Multiple Choice Questions 124

Multiple Choice Questions Teaching Assistants Education Learning Outcomes 124

Edsurge

DECEMBER 16, 2020

How might we take a minimalist approach to integrating education technology, so that it is serving our teaching and learning needs, as opposed to adding undue burden and further dehumanizing learning? As it turns out, creating opportunities for dialogue and discourse also makes for a more sustainable way to teach and learn through a pandemic.

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Distance Learning Multiple Choice Questions Learning Critical Thinking 218

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

These are the moments where creative activities can replace traditional methods like note-taking or multiple-choice questions and garner a much wider and deeper set of learning outcomes. Start by identifying areas in your curriculum where students need to dive deep into a concept or fully demonstrate their understanding.

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Multiple Choice Questions Assignments Intelligence Skills 200

Edsurge

MAY 25, 2017

Millions of students in colleges and schools around the world take classes that require clickers, small remote controls that let students buzz in answers to multiple choice questions during class. Getting that factual question got them to hyperfocus on factual knowledge,” she says. “It

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Study Multiple Choice Questions Peer Review Quizzes 150

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

I teach them to love to read,” Hensley said. “If For short-answer questions, they wrote on an index card. Over and over, until it was time for a five-question quiz. “It Yarborough quit her teaching job in January. Because if a kid loves to read, they will read more.

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Schools Multiple Choice Questions Testing Reading 218

eSchool News

JUNE 23, 2023

Just in early May, we announced that we were partnering with the Teach AI Advisory Committee to ensure that whatever work we’re doing as a company is truly aligning to being responsible and making sure that we’re making the right decisions. We want to be responsible.

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Multiple Choice Questions Fairness Language Languages 141

Edsurge

MARCH 6, 2024

Louisiana, where I teach, is one of eight states in the country that requires a passing score on standardized tests to receive a diploma. Graduation requirements, including the number of credits, types of assessments and graduation pathways, vary widely across America’s 50 states.

Multidisciplinary 201

Multidisciplinary Counselling Multiple Choice Questions Exams 201

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Many of you have probably tinkered with Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications and programs, or perhaps you are advanced in your journey of AI tools and could teach us a few things about how you are using AI in the classroom. The image below shows both the essential questions and multiple-choice questions that were generated.

Multiple Choice Questions 111

Multiple Choice Questions Teaching Assistants Education Learning Outcomes 111

Edsurge

OCTOBER 28, 2022

They want to teach. They want to teach.” Robust, accurate measurements cannot be done in the silo of summative assessments that capture only one moment in time based on whether a student gets the answers to multiple choice questions right or wrong. We need to remember that teachers don’t want to be data analysts.

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Multiple Choice Questions Math Reading Achievement 164

Edsurge

AUGUST 30, 2016

After all, no one wants to spend days or even weeks teaching an objective only to find out at the end of the unit, half the class was totally lost! Expose your students to questions requiring higher order thinking skills and manipulation of TEI using a few of these tried and true techy apps. Nearpod First, there’s Nearpod.

Multiple Choice Questions 110

Multiple Choice Questions Assignments Exams Questions 110

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

Students who correctly answer 60 percent of the 10 multiple-choice questions on a pre-test can skip that unit. Online courses have an advantage over traditional classroom teaching: Students can work at their own pace. But it notes that students can pass them without completing assignments.

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Multiple Choice Questions Assignments Testing Evaluation 135

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

The content in question includes a first-grade language arts video lesson that shows an Acellus instructor teaching about the letter “G.” A multiple-choice question asks students to name the terrorist group Osama bin Laden led, and one answer option is “Towelban.” Ooh, it’s a gun,” and removes a silver toy gun.

Learning 211

Learning Schools Multiple Choice Questions Distance Learning 211

Dangerously Irrelevant

APRIL 27, 2015

More videos with multiple choice questions! and/or because. This is inexcusable and should never occur as (a) it tacitly condones these debilitating conditions; and (b) will be unproductive if the same conditions persist during the extended hours. via [link]. Image credit: timlewisnm. . Related Posts.

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Multiple Choice Questions Schools Skills Curriculum 98

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Arthur Graesser We have an intelligent tutoring system on the web that tries to teach learners difficult topics. That’s different than the standard delivery of text and multiple choice questions. Wendy Kopp , President and Founder, Teach for America. Can you elaborate on that? Op eration ARIES!,

Intelligence 167

Intelligence Lecturing Multiple Choice Questions Learning 167

Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 24, 2024

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. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years.

Achievement 167

Achievement Multiple Choice Questions Students Study 167

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.

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Multiple Choice Questions Learning Grades Special Education 167

Edsurge

OCTOBER 25, 2016

If you’re an educator, chances are you’ve heard the phrase “data-driven instruction,” where you’re asked to constantly assess, analyze, and adjust how you teach students. But one word in that phrase often raises a host of questions: What counts as “data”? How do you collect it?

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Multiple Choice Questions Beliefs Education Culture 166