Teachers Lost In Seas Of Numbers

Teachers Lost In Seas Of Numbers
"Is good "teaching" being replaced by our preoccupation with evaluation?"

It is midterm week. There are no classes to attend, just exams to monitor. Nothing portrays the futility of our "education" process more vividly than our obsession with tests and evaluation.

It takes the better part of a week, and sometimes a month, to devise a testing instrument for the midterm. With over 300 tests to check, I take care to design a test that is easy to grade. I try to do this without compromising the validity of the test, although true validity checks are never done where I teach. After submitting the test with accompanying forms to the faculty, all that

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How do quizzes bring better teaching?

How do quizzes bring high-efficiency teaching?
Author: Catherin
How do quizzes bring high-efficiency teaching?
We, teachers, with our own infinite wisdom, teach and cultivate students. As one of our teachers' teaching methods, quizzing always plays an important role on teaching. For example, we make quizzes to measure students' learning performance, improve our teaching strategies and get better teaching effects. There are some quizzes that teachers can make to bring high efficiency on our teaching:
1. Personality quiz — Know more about our studentsAs we all are aware that knowing the students' psychology is the premise to perform an excellent teaching scheme. Well, a personality

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