eSchool News

OCTOBER 31, 2016

note : Today’s students have too many tests to take—but today’s teachers still need insight into their classes’ knowledge and skills. Adding new tests every time students need to prove mastery rarely seems like the right answer. It became obvious that several of the students really didn’t understand a specific word in the question.

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Teachers Quizzes Testing Discussions 279

eSchool News

MARCH 25, 2020

Remark Test Grading Cloud available to all teachers for free, including electronic bubble sheets for distributing and grading assessments. is offering instructors a free 60-day subscription to its popular Remark Test Grading Cloud application.

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Testing Grades Multiple Choice Questions Teachers 118

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

You can create quizzes for the books your students are reading and assign collections to your students. For the older grades, there are videos where teachers can add comprehension questions to check for understanding. Then it provides questions to check comprehension. I have been able to use it at every level I have taught.

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Elementary School Elementary School Schools Quizzes 339

eSchool News

JUNE 15, 2017

Kahoot allows the teacher to build fun quizzes, flashcards and games. Socrative allows you to create quizzes or exit slips on the fly, as a formative or summative assessment, and you can push out the questions to the students’ devices, which are all logged into a teachers’ virtual classroom.

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Quizzes Mobile Devices Essay Assignments 220

Edsurge

MAY 6, 2019

As students cram, her team of four has been scrambling to meet the demand on Fiveable , where she and other teachers broadcast live test-prep sessions. In its first year, she claims, more than 90 percent of the 400-plus students on the platform passed their AP World History and US History tests. More than 2.8

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Testing Exams Teachers History 153

Edsurge

JUNE 27, 2016

Back in September of 2015, Google launched its beta Expeditions Pioneer Program in order to test the use of virtual reality (VR) in classrooms. Quizzes in Google Forms. Last but not least, Google Education has announced a quiz feature in Google Forms, where educators can generate quizzes that Forms will auto-grade.

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Quizzes Education Attention History 113

eSchool News

MAY 27, 2024

Two key tools educators have been using for decades are Bloom’s Taxonomy and Costa’s Levels of Questioning. The gathering level of Costa’s questioning taxonomy is similar in that rewrite, restate, recall, locate, and describe are all tasks that generative AI can master.

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Evaluation Quizzes Ethics Knowledge 296

eSchool News

AUGUST 1, 2017

Import Quizzes in Google Forms scores into Classroom: Using Quizzes in Google Forms allows educators to take real-time assessments of students’ understanding of a topic. Soon, teachers will be able to import grades from Quizzes directly into Google Classroom. Sneak Peak!

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Quizzes Teachers Mobile Devices Assignments 199

eSchool News

APRIL 19, 2023

This is done through interactive online videos, quizzes, games, and mini-lessons or quests that help them develop life skills while enabling them to explore careers, build their networks, and actually experiment with jobs.

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Mobile Devices Quizzes Feedback Middle School 306

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Then, they find or create digital content, objective tests, and performance tasks aligned to those learning objectives, which they post to an LMS. Objective tests are usually multiple-choice quizzes or other tests with single correct answers. 4, 2020, [link].

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Quizzes Textbooks Testing Essay 266

eSchool News

APRIL 17, 2020

Essay topics, discussion questions, full texts of literary classics, editorially curated Topic Centers, interactive games and quizzes, and self-assessment questions allow students to easily delve deep into their subject matter and test themselves along the way.

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Distance Learning Quizzes Essay Schools 216

Edsurge

JANUARY 11, 2021

Yet as instructors in the new world of online education, we have access to ever-increasing amounts of data—from recorded lecture videos, electronically submitted homework, discussion forums, and online quizzes and assessments—that may give us insights into individual student learning. So how does one identify a student’s knowledge state?

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Teaching Instructors Quizzes Intelligence 214

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

It can handle a variety of language tasks, including answering questions, writing essays, generating creative content, offering explanations, giving advice, and engaging in natural-sounding conversations” (as explained by ChatGPT itself).

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Ethics Essay Syllabus Feedback 339

eSchool News

AUGUST 14, 2024

Most tools that teachers have for this purpose are lagging indicators such as tests, quizzes, and homework. Worries about using AI for academic help and answering questions led to many discussions on its role in the classroom. The more important question is, when will these tools become ubiquitous in schools?

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Teaching Gamification Feedback Intelligence 325

eSchool News

APRIL 5, 2024

First, students individually reflect on a question or prompt, then they discuss their thoughts with a partner, and finally, they share their ideas with the class. Here are some examples: Practice Retrieval : Self-testing or using flashcards to actively recall information from memory strengthens memory recall and retention.

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Activities Critical Thinking Active Learning Lecturing 255

Edsurge

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Now, he and Baselice collaborate to create and test games and are actively trying to gather evidence that these activities aren’t just good for engagement, but for long-term learning. When I’m testing a game, I have no way of knowing if it's going to be blocked by the school’s servers,” Angie says. So we made it more open-ended.

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Teachers Quizzes Testing Learning Outcomes 213

Edsurge

JUNE 26, 2019

The nonprofit ACT, which is best-known for its standardized college entrance test, privately demonstrated its new skill on an Amazon Echo Dot. The ACT skill, which provides general information about the exam and can help students prepare for the test, will be available to the public this fall. Alexa, when is the next ACT test date?

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Skills Quizzes Teachers Testing 167

Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Here are some you can look into–and all online: Easy CBM Educreations –video a whiteboard explanation of how students are completing a task (app) Edulastic –formative assessments; work on any devices (app) Flip — record a video question from your desktop; add attachments; students respond from the app with their answer Flubaroo (app) (..)

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Quizzes Peer Review Failure Essay 159

Edsurge

JULY 9, 2021

Did you simply practice the same type of A/B testing that’s common throughout the tech sphere? That’s the ethics debate playing out in one online educator space , a lively back-and-forth carried over from a recent workshop on educational A/B testing. But if researchers are A/B testing two innocuous options, what’s the harm?

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Ethics Knowledge Testing Learning 202

eSchool News

MAY 6, 2020

Teachers can also take advantage of time-saving features such as automatic grading and the computerized compilation of points awarded for correct answers so that test administration takes less time and there is more time teaching. Creating quick quizzes linked to personalized practice.

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Quizzes Evaluation Testing Curriculum 165

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

The pandemic is changing the way tests and quizzes are conducted at colleges across the country, with the rapid adoption of new tools that proponents say catch cheating, but in ways that many students say amount to an unacceptable invasion of their privacy. In that model, colleges are typically charged on a per-test basis.

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Plagiarism Exams Confidentiality Testing 218

eSchool News

MAY 28, 2024

The district was among the first in the country to test the chatbot called Khanmigo, an AI program developed by online learning giant Khan Academy that is designed for classrooms and acts as a tutor for students and an assistant for teachers.

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Schools Math Testing Intelligence 273

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

The pandemic has dramatically altered teaching and learning, and one side effect seems to be a rise in cheating on quizzes and tests, aided by websites designed to help students study. The tough question now is whether issues of cheating and homework-help sites will continue to flare up after the pandemic. “I

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Academic Integrity Exams Quizzes Students 179

Edsurge

OCTOBER 6, 2020

While many students say they’re looking for the assistance they’re not getting from their colleges, professors argue that students are using these sites to cheat on quizzes and tests. is a student will post a graded question in its entirety to Chegg.com,” she adds. It's the way quizzes and exams are proctored.

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Study Exams Quizzes Lecturing 191

Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 14, 2023

QuizGecko: Versatility and Innovation Among the leading AI-powered quiz generators, QuizGecko is a versatile tool that can transform text, documents, or URLs into captivating interactive quizzes. The tool tracks students’ progress and adapts the difficulty of questions based on their performance.

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Quizzes Gamification Teaching Methods Feedback 148

Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 10, 2023

Keyboarding Quizzes Students understand the concept of ‘quiz’ It’s a test of knowledge, a line in the sand where students show their grasp of the subject or suffer a bad grade. A few quizzes you might try: speed quiz –Grades 3-8–provide a set page to type and evaluate student speed and accuracy.

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Quizzes Grades Art Knowledge 167

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

When Ray was my student, I decided to test out gamifying my Greek Mythology Unit by creating a new Edmodo class, chunking the content into small groups, and providing my students with a paper game board to support the blended learning within the unit. with low-stakes opinion questions such as, “Hot dogs or Hamburgers?”

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Distance Learning Culture Gamification Learning 218

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

I use a daily quiz that has a two-fold purpose: first, it tests the students’ knowledge of the day’s reading material; and second, it provides a focus for the lecture and activities scheduled that day in class. I vary both the number and type of questions I use on the quizzes. I administer two daily quizzes in that course.

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Quizzes Lecturing Course Evaluations Exams 107

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

At its most basic, grading of multiple choice quizzes and tests is now essentially instantaneous. Children who have only known a world in which AI-based systems are widespread often turn to search engines to find answers to questions before going to their own parents and teachers.

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Intelligence Schools Quizzes Ethics 218

Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 17, 2022

Based on my experience, this builds engagement overall because students know that they need to pay attention as there are quizzes at regular intervals. . Additionally, you can provide supplemental resources, such as links to online study guides or practice tests. Record lectures so students can review them at their convenience.

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Exams Technology Quizzes Lecturing 160

Edsurge

MAY 13, 2020

Today, it boasts a feature that creates customized study plans for students, based on what subjects they need to learn, and by when (usually in time for a big test). It claims its quizzes can deliver feedback specific to students’ responses on open-ended questions.

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History Quizzes Study Testing 211

eSchool News

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Poptential Bell Ringers each feature a short video clip, a unique tidbit of knowledge, and thought-provoking questions to spike curiosity and engagement. Poptential course packages include everything instructors need to teach a subject, including lessons, e-books, bell ringers, quizzes, and tests.

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Social Studies Study Curriculum Quizzes 177

Edsurge

DECEMBER 17, 2020

The pandemic has led to a spike in the use of automated proctoring software, which is designed to curb cheating on online quizzes and exams by recording students via their webcams and flagging suspicious activity. It is very nerve-wracking. I don’t want to be accused of cheating when that was not even the case,” says Chong.

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Textbooks Quizzes Exams Testing 168

Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

We are taking two weeks–two articles–to answer the questions that should help you as a teacher or administrator decide what type of keyboarding program is best for your school. Questions you may have. Questions you may have. Quarterly speed/accuracy quizzes (grades 3-8). 4 Questions you may have.

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Quizzes Grades Knowledge Questions 174

Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2018

This raises two questions for me: How can we turn eleven-year-olds who have internalized failure into students like Abby who retain information for years? Learning How to Learn I’ve often heard students tell me they studied for hours on a test only to fail. If not, that particular question required more study.

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Teaching Failure Quizzes Learning 168

Cult of Pedagogy

APRIL 27, 2025

But if you’re new here, I’ll give you a very quick overview: Retrieval practice is the act of trying to recall something you learned from memory by doing things like taking a test on it or using flashcards instead of just looking at, rereading, or reviewing the information. or what was the most challenging part of the lesson?

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Multiple Choice Questions Teachers Writing Questions 77

Edsurge

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Note: A total of 355 respondents answered this question, selecting all options that apply in response to the following question: “Which skills or concepts do you teach through this product?” But when it comes to measuring students’ ability to use instructional technology effectively, many teachers rely more on their gut.

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Education History Students Quizzes 216