Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR) is a program that helps students:
a. make connections with adults from their cultural community for mentoring.
b. assimilate more quickly into mainstream “hybrid” culture.
c. identify issues related to their cultural identities to research and problem-solve.
d. acquire job skills for successful placement in mainstream businesses.
ANS: C
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a. teaching social skills directly. b. creating specific pairings to work on special projects. c. teaching children negotiation skills. d. arranging desks in rows.
Teachers should use scoring rubrics when assessing performance tasks for all but which of the following reasons?
a. They help produce a distribution of scores that approximates a normal curve. b. They help make scoring more objective. c. They help teachers match instructional activities with the demands of the performance assessment. d. They help students determine whether they are learning what the teacher intended.
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a. Agricultural, healthcare, and genetics technologies b. Geography and land distribution c. Nature and the human body d. The solar system and gravitational forces
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