eSchool News

APRIL 24, 2025

Almost a quarter (24 percent) of teachers recommended that students create AI-powered flashcards and personalized study plans to help them understand class materials and prepare for tests in the way they learn best. How could or should the math teachers role change as a result of student AI use?

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Math Participation Feedback High School 261

Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 3, 2019

” The answer to this second question puts the onus on students to do the work. When teachers ask students to generate review questions for a Quizizz game, it requires that they review the content you’ve covered to identify important information, promotes critical thinking, and encourages conversation and collaboration.

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Edsurge

MAY 12, 2025

Its a question that high school and middle school math teachers have heard many times. Students more immediately see the relevance of courses that relate to careers of interest, particularly data science, which allows students to interrogate data with real-world questions, Henderson says. When would I ever use this?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 23, 2024

No one denies it can make student testing more efficient, faster, possibly leading to better educational outcomes for all learners. While experts acknowledge risks such as bias and access disparities, they foresee AI-driven assessments reshaping education by tailoring tests to individual needs and promoting deeper learning.

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Edsurge

MAY 3, 2024

Texas is turning over some of the scoring process of its high-stakes standardized tests to robots. News outlets have detailed the rollout by the Texas Education Agency of a natural language processing program, a form of artificial intelligence, to score the written portion of standardized tests administered to students in third grade and up.

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Fairness Testing Grades Essay 191

Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

The teacher has to do the lion’s share of the work compiling a list of items to include on the study guide or creating questions for a game. questions that the teacher can use to create a variety of review activities. Then the teacher can review the questions and answers, selecting the best ones to include in future Kahoot!

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Unfortunately, as many as 40 percent of students who take AP exams will earn a 1 or a 2 on those tests, which will not help them test out and earn those coveted college credits. Start talking about the test on Day 1. Let students know that they can expect the test to be rigorous and that, as a result, they need to be prepared.

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eSchool News

MAY 7, 2025

When students own the device in question, the situation gets a little trickier. This means establishing alerts and working towards regular device audits, patch testing, and rollback strategies. With personal devices, finding the right balance between protecting a students privacy and securing data is crucial.

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eSchool News

MAY 27, 2025

This might mean clearly outlining what is expected in an assignment, breaking down large tasks into smaller steps, or organizing test questions in a logical, grouped format. When the rules of the road are clearly defined, students can focus on the work at hand rather than managing anxiety around whats coming next.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 17, 2021

For example, in North Carolina, where I serve as a Superintendent, a recent report revealed that just 45 percent of public school students could pass state standardized tests, down from 59 percent two years earlier. Testing was waived for the 2019-2020 school year). The question then for many is how do we help these students catch up?

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eSchool News

MAY 1, 2025

Americans are questioning the value of the return on their investment: Is it worth my money? Students who opt for the workforce diploma will not have their ACT test scores included in their schools public reports. Department of Education. Is it worth my time?

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High School High School Schools Math 264

Catlin Tucker

APRIL 10, 2023

Spend less time preparing for tests! It is also a cognitively challenging task since it requires thinking about the key concepts in a unit or learning cycle and producing a collection of questions to guide students in recalling information and developing a deeper understanding of the material.

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eSchool News

JUNE 7, 2024

Before I adopted phenomena-based instruction, most of the questions students asked were some variation on, “Is this going to be on the test?” They were focused on whether they would have to memorize this fact or that process to pass a test. and, “Tell your partner what you can explain about your driving question so far.”

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Science STEM Testing Questions 328

Catlin Tucker

MARCH 3, 2020

Spring is testing season. Students sit through lengthy state-mandated tests, and many high school students are preparing to take the SAT. The newest version of the SAT does not have the same emphasis on vocabulary as previous versions of the test. It can be an exhausting and stressful time for them.

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Testing Activities High School High School 370

Catlin Tucker

MAY 9, 2019

It also saves teachers time because they do not have to grade every question they develop for every child.

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Exams Essay Fairness Coaching 419

eSchool News

DECEMBER 4, 2024

For the summer program, I created an experiment in which students got to test out different types of road salts. In my experience, even reluctant students become interested in setting up a science experiment when they have some level of agency over what they will be testing. Invite questions to drive the next steps in learning.

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STEM Learning Science Students 309

eSchool News

JANUARY 29, 2025

Key points: Technology works in service of teaching, not the other way around Teaching ethical edtech for future innovators Leveraging edtech to help students, teachers stay connected through illness For more news on AI, visit eSN’s Digital Learning hub Artificial intelligence brings opportunities and questions to classrooms worldwide.

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Teaching Ethics Education Teaching Methods 328

Catlin Tucker

MARCH 11, 2024

At a recent workshop, a teacher posed a compelling question about the effectiveness of small-group versus whole-group instruction. Alternatively, teachers can ask students to post a 30 to 60-second video on Flip , responding verbally to a question.

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eSchool News

MAY 24, 2023

The ChatGPT Dilemma In schools across the nation, educators have, once again, had to call into question how technology meshes with teaching and learning with the advent of ChatGPT. A few years later, the discussion changed to an argument about the pros and cons of using a Desmos calculator on their classroom iPads.

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Teacher Toms Blog

MAY 2, 2025

They say there are no stupid questions, but I beg to differ. We hear stupid questions almost every time adults and young children are together. This is a stupid question. This is one of the greatest offenses we commit against children in our current educational climate of testing, testing, and more testing.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Have them create their inventions and test them out. Using this approach, kids get to learn about developing hypotheses (if I do this, I will get that), testing their hypotheses via building prototypes, and observing whether the prototypes work as expected. This question introduces friction and material properties into the discussion.

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eSchool News

APRIL 26, 2023

The rise of ChatGPT promises to bring simplicity to the more mundane tasks of human existence and has also revived with new fervor an enduring question of our education system: how do we adequately prepare students to thrive in the real world?

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eSchool News

AUGUST 12, 2024

Here is one way teachers can use AI tools to curate an entire class’s flow, its study materials, and practice tests without the aid of an army of teaching assistants. Fortunately, AI has the capability to absorb vast bodies of text and come up with meaningful questions as long as it is steered correctly.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 5, 2022

NWEA has released new research findings that examine to what degree students’ reading and math test scores have become more variable during the pandemic, and how achievement gains across the pandemic compare to pre-pandemic trends for students who were low- or high-achieving before the pandemic started.

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Testing Achievement Math Reading 269

k12 Digest

MAY 19, 2025

In fact, one such study demonstrated that students who were taught in classroom environments which employed strategies aligned to research such as productive struggle, discourse, movement and problem solving scored significantly higher on post-tests recalling and applying previous learning than the control group.

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eSchool News

MARCH 14, 2025

This is a question every educator has faced before. To be fair, its a valid question. In my experience, teachers have two standard replies to this question: Theyll try to explain the subject in detail, which results in a long-winded answer that confuses their students and doesnt satisfy them.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Key points: Innovators are questioning certain mainstays about U.S. TED-Ed Lessons explore some of these very questions. GPA and the highest test scores, but research shows that this quest for perfection actually discourages creativity and reduces academic risk-taking. Should we get rid of standardized testing?

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eSchool News

JANUARY 10, 2025

It allows you to create or search pre-made question sets and host a variety of games that students can join. Students answer multiple-choice questions on their devices while seeing fun memes, leaderboards, and progress bars. Other question types include fill-in-the-blank, true or false, drag-and-drop, and matching.

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Gamification Multiple Choice Questions Motivation Social Studies 306

eSchool News

JUNE 26, 2024

While those aren’t tested on standardized tests, it’s a necessary and important piece of what students and learners need when they get out into the workforce. When educators are comfortable with engineering, The engineering design process is a cycle that begins with a question: 1. Ask a question 2.

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STEM Interdisciplinary Critical Thinking Lecturing 311

Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Competence: Students may not feel confident in their writing skills generally or their ability to answer a particular question specifically. If there is only one pathway provided, students may question their ability to complete a writing task successfully.

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Assignments Writing Feedback Motivation 456

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

It’s a complicated question in the age of COVID-19. As I meet with team leaders in my suburban Chicago school district, I ask: What is your department doing to create equitable and inclusive learning conditions for all of our students?

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eSchool News

APRIL 10, 2025

Unlike traditional tests, Wakelet empowers students to demonstrate understanding in a personalized and reflective way. Reviewing their collections provides a richer, more comprehensive view of their understanding than a standard test would. It also facilitates peer and teacher feedback, making assessment a more collaborative process.

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Evaluation Quizzes Critical Thinking Feedback 288

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Ask them questions along the lines of the following: Do you have incident response plans? Do you have security testing happening on a regular basis? How are you handling your security testing before you push a fix out? Is there an actual expert in security who performs updates on a regular basis?

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eSchool News

JANUARY 8, 2024

In January 2023, about one month after the release of ChatGPT, there were already stories about colleges switching to “pen-and-paper” tests to battle the AI bots. This has been a common question I have heard when doing AI workshops with teachers across the country. This is a question only a human can truly answer.

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Quizzes Learning Testing Intelligence 311

Catlin Tucker

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

If you are part of a professional learning community, the questions below are designed to facilitate a conversation–in person or online–about the issues discussed in this episode of The Balance. 1: How does the “testing culture” in education impact the quality of learning in classrooms?

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

The auditor will provide a list of questions and related sub-questions, and will likely include these inquiries: Is your school running anti-virus on your computers, and does it provide advanced vulnerability protection and detection? How often do you test your backups? For example, what kind of Wi-Fi authentication is used?

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 28, 2024

As educational AI research tries to keep up with AI development, questions remain surrounding the impact of AI use on student motivation and overall learning. These questions are particularly significant for students of color, who consistently encounter more systemic barriers than their white peers ( Frausto et al.,

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