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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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 said, our students do need to learn some fundamental skills that AI cannot teach them. Widespread fear gave way to some hesitant acceptance.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 31, 2017

It is painful when all of the effort that teachers and students put into teaching and learning becomes summarized by standardized test results—especially when hard-working students that have demonstrated massive growth over the course of the year receive poor scores. I wondered how the test would affect him after it was over.

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Testing Students Motivation Assignments 167

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. “Formative assessment is an essential part of teaching because it helps guide instruction.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2018

One day I had been planning to discuss metacognition—a learning strategy I teach to my middle-school students. I often teach students who react with surprise when they do well in my class. And how can we teach that poor grades don't indicate failure, but rather that we haven’t found the correct learning strategy? Enter research.

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Teaching Failure Quizzes Learning 168

Edsurge

MARCH 1, 2021

Yet, Samsung—long the leader in digital displays—believes that education needs smart and sensible solutions that truly transform teaching and learning. Distance learning became the tipping point to see how we can teach differently. We’re beginning to ask what’s possible, how to approach teaching and learning differently.

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eSchool News

APRIL 11, 2023

As Tax Day approaches, Poptential , a family of free social studies course packages, offers instructors media-rich content to teach key concepts about taxation in the United States. Poptential course packages include everything instructors need to teach a subject, including lessons, e-books, bell ringers , quizzes, and tests.

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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. Isn’t it perpetuating the ‘sage on the stage’ approach to teaching? Quizzes in Google Forms. Ben Schrom, Google Expeditions Product Manager. The Expeditions App—For Everyone.

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Quizzes Education Attention History 113

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

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 10, 2023

If you are teaching courses online, have you considered that the planning and preparation to teach online is markedly different than teaching in-person? Online teaching preparation is quite different than the traditional in-person course. There were no intermittent due dates throughout the semester.

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Quizzes Teaching Learning Feedback 126

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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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

They include everything instructors need to teach a subject, including lessons, e-books, bell ringers, quizzes, and tests. Poptential uses a variety of pop culture media to illustrate concepts, including those taken from sitcoms, movies, animations, cartoons, late-night shows, and other sources.

History 281

History Culture Social Studies Quizzes 281

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 209

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. This year, we’re sending teachers back to school with updates designed to help them do what they do best—teach. Sneak Peak!

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Quizzes Teachers Mobile Devices Assignments 199

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 10, 2023

If you are teaching courses online, have you considered that the planning and preparation to teach online is markedly different than teaching in-person? Online teaching preparation is quite different than the traditional in-person course. There were no intermittent due dates throughout the semester.

Quizzes 111

Quizzes Teaching Learning Feedback 111

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

They begin by identifying learning objectives based on the standards they want to teach. 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.

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Quizzes Textbooks Testing Essay 239

eSchool News

AUGUST 23, 2022

I NDIANAPOLIS, (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — When teaching about the labor movement in the United States, instructors often focus on Cesar Chavez and Peter McGuire to illustrate the rise of unions and workers’ rights. They include everything instructors need to teach a subject, including lessons, e-books, bell ringers, quizzes, and tests.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 25, 2024

Announced in October 2023, the AWS Education Accelerator supports edtech startups who are innovating to enhance the teaching and learning experience and improve educational outcomes. Dover, DE Quizard is an academic app designed to help students study for tests and quizzes. Quizard AI, Inc.

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eSchool News

APRIL 5, 2024

What are some examples of teaching techniques? In K-12 education, employing effective teaching methods and strategies is paramount for engaging students and facilitating meaningful learning experiences across diverse subjects and grade levels. What are the traditional tools of teaching?

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eSchool News

JANUARY 19, 2023

They include everything instructors need to teach a subject, including lessons, e-books, bell ringers, quizzes, and tests. Poptential uses a variety of pop culture media to illustrate concepts, including those taken from sitcoms, movies, animations, cartoons, late-night shows, news programs, and other sources.

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 18, 2022

Poptential curriculum includes everything instructors need to teach a subject, including lessons, e-books, bell ringers, quizzes, and tests. All content is available via our digital platform, which allows students to access lessons even in poor bandwidth environments.

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Curriculum History Quizzes Social Studies 245

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. However, assessments, particularly quizzes, tests, and papers, need to be developed to focus on the higher levels of Bloom.

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Evaluation Quizzes Ethics Knowledge 287

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Some believe it will cripple the education system and replace human workers ; others denounce ChatGPT as a free essay-writing and test-taking tool that makes it laughably easy to cheat on assignments, while the validity of responses generated by ChatGPT has also been called into question. What is ChatGPT?

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Ethics Essay Syllabus Feedback 337

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

All tests are registered trademarks of their respective owners. AP® and SAT® are registered trademarks of the College Board, which is not affiliated with, and does not endorse this product. This product has been developed independently from and is not endorsed by the International Baccalaureate Organization.

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Quizzes Achievement Students Social Studies 235

Edsurge

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Every week at the Nysmith School in Herndon, Virginia, Philip Baselice breaks out a game to teach his class about key world events. Baselice teaches history to middle schoolers, and game-based simulations have been part of his teaching arsenal for the last nine years, ever since he first tried it. “I

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Teachers Quizzes Testing Learning Outcomes 215

Edsurge

JANUARY 28, 2019

Playing Digital Citizenship Games that explicitly try to teach something—say, digital citizenship—may never be as popular as their mainstream, commercial counterparts. Chocolate-covered broccoli” is a popular metaphor for educational games that try to teach lessons on the nose.) There’s also Admongo , a game created by the U.S.

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Teaching Quizzes Communication Ethics 159

Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 3, 2024

can help transform traditional quizzes or tests into more engaging, game-like experiences. It can provide instant feedback through quizzes, polls, and exit tabs. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years.

Activities 158

Activities Quizzes Education Feedback 158

Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Using a linear teaching approach, the subject matter is presented in a way that enhances the understanding of content across standard taxonomies (Meadows, 2015). Will it be on the test? A nonlinear approach to testing incorporates student-generated quizzes. Teaching: A variation on item #2 involves course instruction.

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Teaching Quizzes Instructors Exams 119

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? All rights reserved. Nowadays that seems to apply to all sorts of courses.

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Teaching Multidisciplinary Multiple Choice Questions Exams 110

Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

There’s a secret to teaching kids how to use technology. It’s called ‘delegate’ I don’t mean sluff off the teaching to aides or parents. Teach students how to do the twenty tech problems they’ll face half the time. Do pop quizzes on them (if that’s your teaching style).

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Teaching Plagiarism Classroom Management Quizzes 141

Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Here’s the sign-up link if the image above doesn’t work: [link] Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. She is the editor/author of over a hundred tech ed resources including a K-12 technology curriculum , K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 Digital Citizenship curriculum.

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Quizzes Peer Review Failure Essay 158

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. She says she went to the tutoring center for help, “and none of them say that they feel confident teaching me that economics class,” she says.

Study 196

Study Exams Quizzes Lecturing 196

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.

Quizzes 156

Quizzes Evaluation Testing Curriculum 156

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.

Math 178

Math Quizzes Instructors Students 178

Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 10, 2023

When you teach typing, the goal isn’t speed and accuracy. The myth is that students will teach themselves when they need it. They will teach themselves, but it won’t necessarily be in time for their needs. Give these quizzes every grading period so students can track their progress. for example.

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Quizzes Grades Art Knowledge 167

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. . This can be especially helpful if you have a large class size or if you teach remotely, as it allows students to watch the material again and take notes on key points whenever they need to.

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Exams Technology Quizzes Lecturing 160