The increase in the use of informal measures to assess student progress is beneficial to students from diverse populations because

A) they are part of NCLB, so teachers can use ready-made assessment tests.
B) informal measures are easy to develop and are more reliable than formal measures.
C) progress monitoring assessments may be less biased than traditional standardized tests.
D) such assessments cost more, so schools get more federal money for each bilingual student.


C

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a. ?“Gender” refers to psychological attributes, whereas “sex” refers to biological attributes. b. ?“Sex” refers to psychological attributes, whereas “gender” refers to biological attributes. c. ?None of these; the terms “sex” and “gender” refer to the same thing. d. ?“Gender” refers to chromosomes; “sex” refers to biological attributes.

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Sensorineural hearing losses:

a. can seldom be remediated b. cause a conductive deficit c. cause a problem with audibility and sound distortion d. can be corrected with surgery

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At recess the girls are trying to decide on the rules of a game involving a ball. In the middle of discussion the boys get mad and Terrance grabs the ball out of Judy's hand and throws it to Mike who runs with it. He shouts, "You girls are too slow." In the middle of play the boys yell out rules and chase each other. Judy runs to the teacher and complains loudly that the boys don't play fair

What would be the best response for the teacher to make while trying to educate Judy on communication styles? a. "Boys just like to scare girls and be the boss." b. "You girls took too long to make a decision so the boys had every right to take the ball." c. "Boys and girls are different when they play games. Boys like to get the game started and make up rules then. It doesn't matter to them if everyone agrees like girls do." d. "I will make Mike and Terrance stay in during recess tomorrow."

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Catharine Beecher's educational and social vision could be considered "liberal" because

A. it did not challenge the established social order. B. it conceptualizes education for women as important and necessary. C. it was a middle-class ideal. D. All these answers are correct.

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