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. They get to practice their reading skills, but writing skills as well. There are questions about each passage and then students have to make connections between the passages and write about it.

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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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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

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

I can write a physical chemistry for life sciences textbook,” says Larsen. Sometimes students will be assigned to write on a specific question in class, or to mimic a chapter of an existing textbook. It was 2007, and Larsen was teaching a physical chemistry for life sciences course at the University of California at Davis.

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Edsurge

MARCH 28, 2017

That is truer today than ever as new technology has increased the instructional possibilities, and evidence-based, on-demand testing has forced me to get creative. Fortunately, I found everything I was looking for (and more) in the online reading and writing program ThinkCERCA.

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eSchool News

MAY 27, 2024

Several of the faculty pushed back, saying it is essential for student teachers to write those lesson plans. However, assessments, particularly quizzes, tests, and papers, need to be developed to focus on the higher levels of Bloom. However, the majority may be wrong.

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Catlin Tucker

APRIL 15, 2024

Preparation for an Assessment: To prepare for upcoming tests or assessments, must-do stations provide practice and support in areas where data shows students struggle. These formative assessments can take the form of quizzes, short written responses, exit tickets, online discussions, and graphic organizers.

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Metacognitive Skills Math Blended Learning Quizzes 344

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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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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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.

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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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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 10, 2023

which specifically mentions ‘use technology to produce and publish writing (using keyboarding skills)’ keyboarding is required to take Common Core Standards assessments in the Spring. A few quizzes you might try: speed quiz –Grades 3-8–provide a set page to type and evaluate student speed and accuracy. for example.

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Quizzes Grades Art Knowledge 167

eSchool News

MARCH 26, 2020

With virtual learning a reality for many families for the rest of the school year, the Learning at Home Center is an educational and fun supplement that features daily activities, printable worksheets, test prep quizzes, videos, and book vocabulary lists.

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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. These sorts of stalkerware and spyware technology do not have a place in higher education.” “We It is very nerve-wracking.

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Textbooks Quizzes Exams Testing 176

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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Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 5, 2023

This utilization is often compared to utilizing Grammarly, or meeting with a writing tutor. Like Grammarly or writing tutors, students can take time to learn from AI’s corrections and suggestions. AI can also generate short content, such as answers to take-home quizzes or un-proctored multiple-choice exams.

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Intelligence Plagiarism Quizzes Academic Integrity 144

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 105

Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Add up test scores and see what the student earned. writing conventions) in tech projects? It used to be simple to post grades. Very defensible. Everyone understood. It’s not that way anymore. Does s/he show evidence of learning by using tech class knowledge in classroom or home? Does s/he save to their network folder?

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Quizzes Critical Thinking Knowledge Testing 148

Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Quarterly speed/accuracy quizzes (grades 3-8). Quarterly blank keyboarding quizzes (grades 3-8). Here are quick answers to these common questions: Will keyboarding replace cursive writing? Will keyboarding replace cursive writing? Typing tests. Online keyboarding websites. Monthly homework (grades 3-8).

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Quizzes Grades Knowledge Questions 173

Edsurge

MAY 9, 2023

The student knew the material, but she just wasn’t a good test-taker. Her score on that exam was so low, in fact, that she realized she had no chance to get an A in the course, no matter how well she might do on future tests and assignments. After that, this professor vowed never to use traditional grades on tests again.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2018

Learning How to Learn I’ve often heard students tell me they studied for hours on a test only to fail. For too many students, that aha-moment happens while they’re taking the big test. As the research became clear to me, I realized students weren’t getting much out of copying homework and taking tests. And by then it’s too late.

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Teaching Failure Quizzes Learning 168

Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 2018

From IBM’s test scoring machines in the 1930s to the Speak & Spells of the 70s, innovators and educators have been trying to improve education with technology for decades. Propel’s thoughtful application of technology gives teachers insight into student growth and engagement while bringing rigor to writing instruction.

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eSchool News

APRIL 29, 2024

AI-powered diagnostic tools that identify areas for improvement and guide test takers through targeted study sessions. Interactive quizzes with instant feedback to reinforce learning and save educators’ valuable time. For more information about Study.com’s free Praxis Core Prep resources, visit: [link]

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Intelligence Exams Ethics Learning Styles 254

Edsurge

JANUARY 7, 2022

In Susan Blum’s “ Ungrading: Why Rating Students Undermines Learning (And What to Do, Instead) ,” we discover that when it comes to concerns about grade inflation: “The trouble isn’t that too many students are getting As but that too many students have been led to believe the primary purpose of schooling is to get As,” she writes.

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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. Edmodo Assignments can also provide an opportunity to include parents in the classroom.

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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 96

Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 9, 2022

This is an exercise as much for presenters as audience, and is graded on reading, writing, speaking and listening skills. demonstrate good command of writing and speaking conventions. Reading, writing, research, speaking/listening. Write an Ebook. write the book. write the book. analytical thinking.

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Activities Schools Writing Knowledge 202

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

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.” It may have captured pole position in the U.S.,

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Education Quizzes Assignments Testing 161

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. It’s just turning families upside down.”

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Schools Students Assignments Testing 218

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Really what mattered where things that were graded, like quizzes and tests and assignments. Aren’t things like performance on tests and quizzes something that professors already know? You're probably one of the only people we’ve talked to on the podcast who also writes murder mysteries. I don't know.

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Education Quizzes Writing Online Learning 167

EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 16, 2018

A skilled teacher can re-direct instruction based on feedback that they are receiving from their students throughout the flow of a lesson,” writes Alexis Roesser, an English teacher and department chair at Salamanca High School in New York. Formative assessments, meanwhile, provide for more fluid interaction between teachers and students.

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Quizzes Students Elementary School Elementary School 158

Edsurge

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Formative: more informal check-ins—quizzes, questions from the front of the room, or even chats with students—that assess how students are absorbing material and allow teachers to adjust lessons on the fly. It is no longer just writing multiple choice test questions. It's super sophisticated. It is definitely not that!”.

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Education Quizzes Exams Textbooks 213

Edsurge

AUGUST 17, 2018

They also took periodic tests and a final exam. Exam performance,” the researchers write, was “poorer for material taught in classes that permitted electronic device use both for students who did and did not direct attention to an electronic device for a non-academic purpose during those classes.”

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Multiple Choice Questions Exams Lecturing Attention 138

Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

Consider the academic need to: write reports. take online quizzes (like PARCC, SB). which specifically mentions ‘use technology to produce and publish writing (using keyboarding skills)’. Keyboarding Quizzes. Give these quizzes every grading period so students can track their progress. Team Challenge.

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Quizzes Grades Art Discussions 128

Edsurge

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Lewis supports her district’s decision to keep Teams “very open,” giving students the ability to write comments that are viewable to the whole class or to groups within a class, which other districts often restrict to prevent inappropriate conversations.

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