Exams
27 August 20262 min read
Your exam is probably harder than it is difficult
Ask a teacher to make an exam harder and the paper usually gets longer: more questions, more parts, more writing. Students find it more punishing and the…
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Exams
27 August 20262 min read
Building a question bank you will actually reuse
Every experienced tutor has hundreds of good questions. Almost none of them can be found. They are in last year's papers, in a folder on a laptop, in a…
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27 August 20262 min read
Writing multiple-choice questions that do not leak the answer
A multiple-choice question is supposed to measure whether a student knows something. A surprising share of them measure whether a student is good at…
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27 August 20262 min read
Asking questions that reveal what students actually think
Most classroom questions are checks that something was said, not checks that something was understood. "What is the formula for the area of a circle?" is…
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27 August 20262 min read
Plan the lesson backwards from the question you will ask
The usual lesson plan starts with a topic: "today, quadratic equations." It ends when the period does. Whether anyone can now solve one is discovered later, in…
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27 August 20261 min read
Why formative assessments improve learning
There are two reasons to test a student. One is to record what they know at the end. The other is to find out what they do not know while there is still time…
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27 August 20261 min read
Classroom accommodations that help students with ADHD
Most accommodations for ADHD are not special equipment. They are ordinary teaching decisions made slightly differently, and the majority of them help the rest…
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