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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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 17, 2015

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. I don’t rely on essay formulas to craft my briefs, and of course I have never encountered an MBE-style multiple choice question. Test prep works. via [link].

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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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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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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

The Texas Education Agency awards letter grades to schools and districts based on test scores and other student performance metrics. In addition to districts, schools in Texas are individually given A through F grades based partially on standardized test scores. I teach them to love to read,” Hensley said. “If

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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 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.

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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. Standardized testing has long been protested by educators, parents and students due to its racist origins.

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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

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

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 Languages Language 141

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.

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Testing Multiple Choice Questions Reading Questions 52

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

Students who correctly answer 60 percent of the 10 multiple-choice questions on a pre-test can skip that unit. It’s that a student who earns 60 percent on a test—whether online or in a physical classroom—has not demonstrated that he or she has mastered the course material.

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Multiple Choice Questions Assignments Testing Evaluation 135

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. Arthur Graesser We have an intelligent tutoring system on the web that tries to teach learners difficult topics. Wendy Kopp , President and Founder, Teach for America.

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Intelligence Lecturing Multiple Choice Questions Learning 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? Dan Ryder, an English teacher at Mt.

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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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Testing Multiple Choice Questions Math Writing 52

eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2024

When students can bring models to life and test them in real world situations, they are expanding beyond paper and screen into the world around them. AI can also help teachers create and teach in new and exciting virtual spaces which will save time and remove barriers for entry into high quality content and instruction.

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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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Achievement Multiple Choice Questions Students Study 167

Edsurge

JANUARY 28, 2019

Historically, students have been evaluated primarily on the basis of test scores and subject matter mastery. A student with high grades who feels disconnected from school requires different support—and perhaps even different teaching—than a student with high grades and a strong sense of belonging.

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Multiple Choice Questions Learning Grades Special Education 167

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.

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Multiple Choice Questions Assignments Exams Questions 110

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

CRS technology is a key tool in our inclusive teaching tool kit because it supports multiple opportunities for practice for all students (structured course design) and allows for anonymous participation that doesn’t require “ speaking up ” (structured facilitation). In our own teaching, we call these “typical test questions” or TTQs.

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Instructors Multiple Choice Questions Course Design Discussions 144

Edsurge

JANUARY 13, 2017

It turns out that what makes a course smart isn’t necessarily the use of impressive technology or data; it’s about the way technology enhances the practices of good teaching and learning. They’re A/B testing which activities have the biggest impact on individual students, and then making adjustments to the course accordingly.

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Multiple Choice Questions Instructors Textbooks Feedback 127

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. Effective immediately, the district will discontinue using Teach to One,” Rudolph wrote in a letter to parents on Jan.

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Learning Multiple Choice Questions Math Evaluation 146

Cult of Pedagogy

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Any time we teach our students something , we need to check to see how well they learned it. 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. But in fact, it actually helps to have a closed question if you really want to check for understanding.”

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Multiple Choice Questions Culture Questions Grades 125

Edsurge

JANUARY 9, 2025

When Teaching Students Math, Concepts Matter More Than Process By Nicola Hodkowski Researcher Nicola Hodkowski makes a case for moving beyond students memorizing the process of doing math and instead fostering a deep understanding of mathematical concepts. Here are the most popular K-12 stories of 2024.

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Essay Disabilities Multiple Choice Questions Math 105

Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Students answer a series of questions to prepare for an upcoming test. These can be multiple choice, short answer, long answer, or another. When these are collected automatically to the Google spreadsheet, they are then shared with all students as a study guide prior to a summative test. Exit tickets.

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Multiple Choice Questions Questions Testing Grades 83

Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 21, 2019

When I started teaching, videos were used only for a few reasons: to teach historical events, as a prize for something students did well, or for the sub to fill the time while I was out. provide background knowledge on topics being discussed — not for testing but to round out learning or for pure enjoyment. Why use videos.

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Multiple Choice Questions Textbooks Knowledge Discussions 79

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Like many other education entrepreneurs with technology backgrounds, the co-founders of Lalilo say they were surprised at the gap between the teaching tools currently available in classrooms, and the technology they knew was available. During that time, they also did short teaching gigs.

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English Multiple Choice Questions Teaching Assistants Special Education 66

eSchool News

JANUARY 5, 2024

When students can bring models to life and test them in real world situations, they are expanding beyond paper and screen into the world around them. AI can also help teachers create and teach in new and exciting virtual spaces which will save time and remove barriers for entry into high quality content and instruction.

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Gamification Intelligence Reading Ethics 130

eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

In a structured classroom setting, an educator can only be expected to teach a certain amount of curriculum, and learners can only retain so much information at one time. ChatGPT use in education provides that adaptive capability to teach content, but at the learners’ interest to supplement the instructional direction.

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Plagiarism Education Intelligence Textbooks 130

Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

In the late 1960s, Nobel Prize-winning economist Herbert Simon posed the following thought exercise: Imagine you are an alien from Mars visiting a college on Earth, and you spend a day observing how professors teach their students. Teaching at colleges is often done without any formal training.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

She means inviting students to teach their families what they’re learning in school. For instance, Remind makes it possible for teachers to let families know what assignments or tests students have coming up. And by “deeply involved,” Stock means more than just asking about the day or becoming a super-power nagger.

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Multiple Choice Questions Assignments Schools Mobile Devices 166

Edsurge

APRIL 16, 2017

Spring means one thing to many elementary and middle schools across the country: test prep. Parents, in an effort to find the best school for their children, may latch on to state test results as a comparative measure they can easily understand. At best, test prep can yield modest, short-term gains in scores.

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