eSchool News

APRIL 19, 2023

Research shows that more than 65 percent of students feel they would have benefited from more career exploration in middle and high school. Through the mobile experience, students are rewarded for completing these tasks and earn points to redeem for gift cards to their favorite retail, restaurant, and/or entertainment brands.

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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. That acceptance led to some empowerment for educators and students. Now that every student carries the potential of AI at their fingertips, what does this mean for learning?

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Quizzes Learning Testing Intelligence 309

Edsurge

MAY 10, 2018

They’re often ineffective as a teaching tool, they’re easy for students to cheat, and they can exacerbate test anxiety. Yet more professors seem to be turning to the format these days, as teaching loads and class sizes grow, since multiple-choice quizzes and tests can be easily graded by machines.

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Testing Multiple Choice Questions Quizzes Assignments 157

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 156

eSchool News

MARCH 7, 2023

Poptential , an award-winning family of free social studies course packages, offers instructors a variety of content to help students learn about the national debt using pop culture media to engage students. Poptential is available via a digital platform that allows students to access lessons even in poor bandwidth environments.

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Curriculum Social Studies Teaching History 265

eSchool News

MAY 6, 2015

Creating, sharing, delivering and grading of tests, along with analysis of results, happens in real-time in one platform. Being able to easily create and deliver quizzes and tests to students in the classroom, and then put the results of those tests to work immediately to help improve student learning was the motivation behind Apperson, Inc.

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Quizzes Essay Education Testing 237

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

NEW YORK — Tutor.com , one of the world’s largest and most innovative online tutoring organizations, announced today that it has been selected by the South Orange & Maplewood School District to provide round-the-clock online tutoring for students in grades 3 through 12 at no cost to them.

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Quizzes Achievement Students Social Studies 235

eSchool News

OCTOBER 19, 2023

She says exploring information in a conversational setting helps students understand their material with added nuance and new perspective. She says exploring information in a conversational setting helps students understand their material with added nuance and new perspective. You can take these ideas and make them your own.”

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Teaching Quizzes Exams English 278

Edsurge

JUNE 27, 2016

Google Classroom currently has more than 10 million active student users, according to Jonathan Rochelle of the Google EDU team—which means that one in six classrooms in the United States use it, he says. Museum of National History) for students and teachers to choose from. A student sends a Cast request to present.

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Quizzes Education Attention History 113

eSchool News

APRIL 11, 2023

Poptential course packages boost student engagement by using a variety of pop culture media to illustrate concepts, including those taken from sitcoms, movies, animations, cartoons, late-night shows, and other sources. Poptential is available via a digital platform that allows students to access lessons even in poor bandwidth environments.

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High School High School Social Studies Teachers 294

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 1, 2015

ExitTicket is a rapid-response tool that lets teachers instantly poll, survey, or test student knowledge via custom quizzes called tickets. Teachers can launch Projector Mode from their own devices to display students’ responses in real time. Click here to read the full app review. ExitTicket. What’s It Like?

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Quizzes Feedback Knowledge Testing 236

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. Dawn Nelson, school library media specialist.

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Teachers Quizzes Testing Discussions 279

Edsurge

APRIL 25, 2017

Instructors might send students to the Khan Academy website for additional practice, or have computer stations in class where students complete online quizzes. The point, says Khan, is to help teachers personalize learning for their students. “If Altogether, the offices reach nearly 3 million students.

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Testing Quizzes Teachers Assignments 164

Edsurge

JULY 9, 2021

Imagine you’re an edtech company with thousands of students on your platform. You see an opportunity to make a small change that might improve their learning outcomes, so you roll it out to a group of students who don’t know they are part of the sample. But if researchers are A/B testing two innocuous options, what’s the harm?

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Ethics Knowledge Testing Learning 207

Edsurge

OCTOBER 6, 2020

With so many classes online during the pandemic—many of them taught by professors still struggling to figure out how to teach in the format—students are increasingly turning to homework-help websites. This problem with students turning more to the web to just copy down answers isn’t only at Purdue.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

They include everything instructors need to teach a subject, including lessons, e-books, bell ringers, quizzes, and tests. All content is available via a digital platform that allows students to access lessons even in poor bandwidth environments. Poptential course packages are standards-based and developed by teachers.

History 281

History Culture Social Studies Quizzes 281

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Merge, the leader in mixed reality for K-12 education, announced today their new hand-held digital teaching aids are now available for teachers and students worldwide. Setting a new standard, the digital teaching aids will alter the way millions of students learn in 150,000 U.S. schools as well as over a billion students worldwide.

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Teaching Mobile Devices Science Quizzes 301

Edsurge

JANUARY 8, 2024

A number of instructors in the math department at San Diego Mesa College, where she's a professor, had started exploring how to weave standards-based grading — an approach that evaluates students on how effectively they have mastered content — into the way they teach calculus.

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Math Quizzes Instructors Students 178

eSchool News

JUNE 15, 2017

Edtech has opened up new ways to assess both students and teachers, in a way that organically integrates into the existing classroom structure. An example of this is found with the Voki edtech software, which allows students to create unique presentations with a wide variety of personalized characters.

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Quizzes Mobile Devices Essay Assignments 209

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 106

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. Many students use the term “Chegging” when they describe turning to homework-help sites to copy down answers instead of doing work themselves.

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Academic Integrity Exams Quizzes Students 187

Edsurge

MARCH 2, 2020

More recently, governments in Japan and South Korea have kept students home. They mainly serve expat or foreign students and typically follow American or Western curriculum and standards, offering AP classes and International Baccalaureate degrees. And from Singapore to Vietnam, classes are canceled. Well, sort of.

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Schools Students Assignments Testing 218

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Key points: Literacy is critical for students–and elementary years are a pivotal time These online tools help students develop essential literacy skills See related article: How efficacy studies improve literacy instruction For more news on literacy, see eSN’s Innovative Teaching page Fall is the best time of year in Montana.

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Elementary School Elementary School Schools Quizzes 339

eSchool News

AUGUST 14, 2024

teachers are outnumbered on average 16 students to 1 teacher in the classroom (though this number can be as high as 23 to 1 in states such as California ). However, when combined with high student to teacher ratios, it is difficult, if not impossible, for teachers to provide individualized support for their students.

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Teaching Gamification Feedback Intelligence 324

Edsurge

AUGUST 1, 2017

Teachers, with the beginning of the school year rapidly approaching, it’s time to give the students what they really want: Good edtech products. So often teachers force students to use tools that don't do what they claim, or that they just don't like. Notability allows students to take notes and annotate pdfs in their own handwriting.

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Quizzes Textbooks Syllabus Students 145

eSchool News

AUGUST 1, 2017

We’ve seen educators do incredible things with G Suite for Education tools: creatively teach classroom material, collaborate with students, and design innovative assignments to achieve meaningful outcomes. Classroom is a useful tool for teachers, and since it launched three years ago, students have submitted more than 1 billion assignments.

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Quizzes Teachers Mobile Devices Assignments 199

Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2018

Sometimes the details former students recall from class is nothing short of amazing. A few years ago I had a student named Abby in my history class, who had always been in self-contained special education classrooms. One day I had been planning to discuss metacognition—a learning strategy I teach to my middle-school students.

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Teaching Failure Quizzes Learning 168

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

In recent years, educators who want to provide digital content to their students choose among three instructional models: the teacher-directed instructional model, the software-directed instructional model, or a hybrid of the two. Support students as they drive their own learning.

Quizzes 239

Quizzes Textbooks Testing Essay 239

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Key points : Today’s students will undoubtedly encounter generative AI in their careers Two higher-ed instructors have designed a guide for using generative AI in life design and career education See related article: A scholar’s embrace of ChatGPT-4 Innovations that have transformed education have often been met with skepticism.

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Ethics Essay Syllabus Feedback 337

Edsurge

JANUARY 26, 2021

For the students, it’s a challenge to feel comfortable and, as Brené Brown says, to be vulnerable and brave to step out into that arena. Connection is challenging for students and educators, but also for parents. How stressful is that for a student if they are virtually learning and their internet goes out? STEM Anywhere.

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Student Engagement STEM Students Quizzes 211

Catlin Tucker

APRIL 15, 2024

A teacher recently asked me whether students always need to attend every station in a rotation. ” Our classrooms are composed of diverse groups of students with different skills, abilities, preferences, language proficiencies, and academic needs. The short answer is “no.” When Should Teachers Use This Strategy?

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Metacognitive Skills Math Blended Learning Quizzes 344

eSchool News

MAY 27, 2024

One faculty member spoke up and asked why we are not teaching student teachers to use a strong prompt for lesson plan development and encouraging them to use a generative AI tool to create lesson plans. The key is how the lesson plan is implemented to address student needs within the classroom, and not the creation of the lesson plan itself.

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Evaluation Quizzes Ethics Knowledge 287

eSchool News

JANUARY 19, 2023

They include everything instructors need to teach a subject, including lessons, e-books, bell ringers, quizzes, and tests. All content is available via a digital platform that allows students to access lessons even in poor bandwidth environments. Poptential course packages are standards-based and developed by teachers.

History 244

History Curriculum Social Studies Quizzes 244

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

AUGUST 23, 2022

“It’s been more than 125 years since the first Labor Day was observed, and the labor movement can seem a little dry to today’s high school students,” said Julie Smitherman, a former social studies teacher and director of content at Certell, Inc., the nonprofit behind Poptential.

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History Curriculum Social Studies Teachers 246

eSchool News

AUGUST 18, 2022

With inflation reaching a 40-year high and talk of a looming recession, high school students are coming of age during one of the most challenging economies in recent history. Poptential curriculum includes everything instructors need to teach a subject, including lessons, e-books, bell ringers, quizzes, and tests.

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Curriculum History Quizzes Social Studies 245

Edsurge

JANUARY 7, 2022

Reader Question: Dear Bonni, What ideas do you have for student accountability? How do we get students to do pre-class work without giving a grade to everything? It actually requires some unlearning, and some changes in approach, to create an environment that better encourages students to complete assigned activities.

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