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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Fundamentals
These articles relate to what we refer to as the fundamentals of education — basic perspectives, practices, and professional behaviors we view our essential to good teaching.
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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The Best Source Of Education Research Is Your Classroom
Education research is great, but it has nothing on what you are able to see every day within your classroom.
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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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The Difference Between Assessment Of And Assessment For Learning
Assessment for learning is commonly referred to as formative assessment–that is, assessment designed to inform instruction.
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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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