eSchool News

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Building quizzes, tests, and lesson plans from curriculum materials: Fran Bellas, a professor at Universidade da Coruña in Spain, recommends teachers use ChatGPT as an assistant in crafting quizzes, exams and lesson plans for classes.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

You can create quizzes for the books your students are reading and assign collections to your students. WIthin the lessons there is a wide variety of ideas presented from SEL lessons, to art lessons, to science lessons and so much more. When I taught the upper grades I used this a lot to help prepare students for standardized tests.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

All tests are registered trademarks of their respective owners. This product has been developed independently from and is not endorsed by the International Baccalaureate Organization. International Baccalaureate is a registered trademark owned by the International Baccalaureate Organization.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 11, 2021

The original version of this article appeared in Toward Data Science. The most common method is through assessment—either via homework or quizzes and tests. In addition we have weekly homework, which tests a variety of topics covered to date. So how does one identify a student’s knowledge state?

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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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eSchool News

JANUARY 25, 2024

Dover, DE Quizard is an academic app designed to help students study for tests and quizzes. Designed by a team of former educators for practical classroom impact, Sown To Grow is funded by the US Department of Education, the National Science Foundation, Digital Promise, and New Schools Venture Fund. Quizard AI, Inc.

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Textbooks Education Quizzes Intelligence 300

Edsurge

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Nardolilli’s experience in designing educational games goes back to when he would create science-themed birthday parties at an after-school science center. 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.

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Teachers Quizzes Testing Learning Outcomes 215

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Renaissance Learning , a provider of K-12 software and assessments, including the widely used STAR tests, has agreed to acquire Nearpod for $650 million. Nearpod has since expanded the toolbox with features that let teachers create quizzes, offer virtual reality content for digital field trips, and embed mini-games into lessons.

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Mobile Devices Learning Quizzes Science 207

eSchool News

APRIL 5, 2024

Here are some examples: Practice Retrieval : Self-testing or using flashcards to actively recall information from memory strengthens memory recall and retention. Interactive Lectures : Incorporating interactive activities like polls, quizzes, or discussions into lectures keeps students engaged and reinforces key concepts.

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Activities Critical Thinking Active Learning Lecturing 245

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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Edsurge

JANUARY 8, 2024

Not long after, Spoon started changing up how she handled quizzes in a calculus class she taught. Traditionally, Spoon says, grading practices for this course tend to emphasize student performance on a limited number of tests. Perhaps there’s a midterm, a final and a few other chances for students to prove what they’ve learned.

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Math Quizzes Instructors Students 178

Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2018

Results showed that using researched principles of learning science—specifically feedback-driven metacognition and another process known as retrieval—increased individual scores one to two grades higher, often turning Cs into As. Learning How to Learn I’ve often heard students tell me they studied for hours on a test only to fail.

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Teaching Failure Quizzes Learning 168

Edsurge

APRIL 17, 2024

Using speech recognition technology to listen to a child read and using AI to offer feedback can be helpful as long as the technology is based on science-backed design. But AI-generated narratives often misalign with what science recommends for children’s literary experiences. Who suffers most from low quality technologies?

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Edsurge

MAY 13, 2020

This latest round is “primarily a people investment,” focused on shoring up talent to support “data science and machine-learning capabilities to build out our vision of an AI-powered tutor to help everyone learn,” he explains. It claims its quizzes can deliver feedback specific to students’ responses on open-ended questions.

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History Quizzes Study Testing 213

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

So programs intended to make that process easier and faster are tapping into the science of motivation to improve their methods. We’ve really learned that the most important thing is to keep people motivated,” says Bozena Pajak, director of the learning science team at Duolingo, a language learning app developer. “We

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Motivation Language Languages Learning 214

Edsurge

APRIL 28, 2020

Researchers at California Polytechnic State University conducted a study in 1994, which showed conclusively that the group that was given a random assortment of pitches did much better in the post test than the group that received blocked pitches—several of one kind followed by several of another—and the control group.

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Math Coaching Testing Assignments 216

Edsurge

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Today, she is the Senior Vice President of Learning Sciences, Measurement and Data Analytics at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. She leads four separate teams that focus on the sciences of learning, assessment design and creation, psychometric (measurement) research and accessibility of program content and assessments.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 26, 2021

For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) and LEGO? When you’re in the classroom, there are reminders about homework, quizzes, test reviews, etc. But that changed one day when her son told her he wanted to participate in FIRST ? League, a robotics program created through an alliance between FIRST ?

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Student Engagement STEM Students Quizzes 211

Dangerously Irrelevant

OCTOBER 15, 2021

A number of educators across the country are finding great value in ‘learning science’ books such as Powerful Teaching: Unleash the Science of Learning. quizzes and flashcards), rather than cramming information into students’ heads (e.g., lectures)” (p.

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Edsurge

JUNE 25, 2018

Soon, users will see a new tab labeled “Classwork” that will take them to a page where assignments and quizzes can be organized by topics. Chromebooks are very much used for testing,” Yeskel notes, “and what I think is powerful is that this [new feature] puts the teachers in control.”

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

pre-test quizzes. We can activate students’ prior knowledge with: quizzes and exercises to reach back to concepts and learning covered earlier in the course, as well as covered in previously required courses. Retrieval practice really means testing yourself which primes the mind for learning and retention (Brown et al.,

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Knowledge Quizzes Students Learning 126

Edsurge

MARCH 2, 2020

Issues With Feedback and Testing It’s much easier to hide in a digital world. But that’s not always the case in subjects such as math and science that require secure environments for test taking. and Khan Academy, which allows for timed tests. It’s a struggle for us,” Boyle says.

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Schools Students Assignments Testing 218

Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

With just one click, teachers may produce 7th Grade Math worksheets like Combining Like Terms , Grade 7 Math quizzes like Distributive Property , Seventh Grade Math unit tests , and 7 Grade Math Practice Questions on Distributive Property etc. This makes Khan Academy perfect for students who need extra help in math or science.

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Math Mobile Devices Quizzes Teaching Assistants 157

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 5, 2023

AI can also generate short content, such as answers to take-home quizzes or un-proctored multiple-choice exams. This was often for written assignments or take-home quizzes and tests. Students may display remarkable test and quiz score variation. Academic integrity has presented a larger challenge, however.

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Intelligence Plagiarism Quizzes Academic Integrity 144

eSchool News

AUGUST 22, 2016

Kids Discover , a provider of engaging science and social studies curriculum, announced that its interactive digital library, Kids Discover Online, now includes custom assessment capabilities. 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 108

eSchool News

MAY 1, 2024

I was able to review an entire year’s worth of material in about 10 hours, and I feel more confident than ever going into my tests.” TeachTap’s AI-driven tutoring and test prep features set it apart from traditional study methods and expensive tutoring services. History, World History, European History, U.S.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Lecturing and quizzing on content is more efficient than coaching and mentoring groups of students through real-world problems. Unfortunately, there are various issues that plague any efforts toward broad implementation of service-learning. As a result, teachers do not devote enough time to be able to integrate service-learning on their own.

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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. Two recent articles (see the references) explore the anxiety associated with social science statistics courses.

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Teaching Multidisciplinary Multiple Choice Questions Exams 110

Edsurge

MAY 9, 2023

CoCo is still in its beta phase, being tested out by educators from 65 different countries. No one wants to be at the bottom of a leaderboard,” says Deepak Cheenath, co-founder of Quizizz, a classroom tool that lets teachers create pop quizzes and games. Competing [in a game] doesn’t work as motivation for every student.

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Gamification Motivation Game-Based Learning Math 205

Scholarly Teacher

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Gabriele Pinto , Baylor University Key Statement: Implementing elements of active learning into a large course may seem daunting task, but think-pair-share aided by quizzing and clickers can be done in any size classroom. Image courtesy of This Is Engineering, Unsplash. 2023; Park et al.,

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Lecturing Active Learning Activities STEM 98

eSchool News

AUGUST 24, 2016

Kids Discover Online enables educators to mix and match material from science and social studies to facilitate students’ exploration of big ideas through cross-curricular learning. Read more.

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Quizzes History Social Studies Assignments 111

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. “So basically, why did you pick that response?

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Multiple Choice Questions Teachers Writing Questions 77

Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

pre-test quizzes. We can activate students’ prior knowledge with: quizzes and exercises to reach back to concepts and learning covered earlier in the course, as well as covered in previously required courses. Retrieval practice really means testing yourself which primes the mind for learning and retention (Brown et al.,

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Knowledge Quizzes Students Learning 98

Edsurge

MAY 24, 2018

But Barba believes it is still uncharted territory for many science, technology, engineering and mathematics disciplines and instructors. A group of biology researchers from the University of Washington have tested Barba’s theory that active learning improves outcomes for STEM students in particular.

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Lecturing Learning STEM Instructors 160

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. Two recent articles (see the references) explore the anxiety associated with social science statistics courses.

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Teaching Multidisciplinary Multiple Choice Questions Exams 98

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

It was 2007, and Larsen was teaching a physical chemistry for life sciences course at the University of California at Davis. I can write a physical chemistry for life sciences textbook,” says Larsen. The textbook, written by a well-known author, had cost each of his students $200. “I Vitamin C does what vitamin C does.”)

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Textbooks Writing Accessibility Peer Review 165

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 5, 2023

AI can also generate short content, such as answers to take-home quizzes or un-proctored multiple-choice exams. This was often for written assignments or take-home quizzes and tests. Students may display remarkable test and quiz score variation. Academic integrity has presented a larger challenge, however.

Intelligence 111

Intelligence Plagiarism Quizzes Academic Integrity 111