20 Ways To Improve A Test, Quiz, Or Other Assessment
From making it adaptive to changing the form, timing, language, or structure of the assessment, here are 20 ways to improve a test.
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What Is Project-Based Learning?
Project-based learning is the student-centered process of learning through the design, development, and completion of projects.
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12 Strategies To Build Relationships With Students
Student engagement is one of the most fundamental requirements of learning. Without an engaged mind, everything else is futile.
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10 Tips For Creating More Effective Multiple-Choice Questions
Does the multiple choice question require a passage or graphic? Does it provide students with the best opportunity to ‘show what they know’?
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22 Strategies For Learning Through Conversation
In addition to talking to each other in these strategies for learning through conversation, students talk to ideas–and the ideas talk back.
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Audience And Purpose: Who Are You Teaching And Why?
Audience and purpose are elemental. They have to come first or none of it makes any sense. Who are you teaching, and why? Who exactly, and why exactly?
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15 Common Mistakes Teachers Make Teaching With Technology
While technology is an incredibly potent learning tool, poorly-implemented, it can act as a barrier to understanding more than something that improves it.
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10 Dos & Don’ts For Teaching Vocabulary In Any Content Area
Teach students morphological strategies to figure out words they do not know, in addition to context-clue strategies.
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8 Ways To Help Students Improve Their Academic Reading
What is ‘academic reading’? And do my students know exactly what to do when they struggle with it both in and outside of the classroom?
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10 Benefits Of Inquiry-Based Learning
Among the benefits of inquiry-based learning, requiring the student to take an active role in the process may be the most significant.
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The Benefits Of Technology In Teaching And Learning
Teachers can access assessment data instantly, through live results, and can provide feedback to students when they need it the most.
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The Difference Between Technology Use And Technology Integration
Is technology peripheral to the learning activity or essential to its success? Does it deliver information or help students create meaning?
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The Challenges Of Data Collection In The Classroom?
How do we display data so that it is accessible? If teachers are given this data, what do they with it to improve outcomes for students?
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5 Brain-Based Teaching Strategies For Student Engagement
Brain-based teaching strategies include simply predicting and responding, which require the brain to actually engage.
