What are the strengths and weaknesses surrounding the use of portfolio assessment?
What will be an ideal response?
Portfolios are comprehensive, encourage student responsibility for learning, engage diverse levels of cognitive processing, and allow teachers to assess improvement as well as progress. However, they can be time-consuming and difficult to evaluate, and their reliability as an assessment method has been called into question.
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The term least restrictive environment refers to
a. serving all students with disabilities in the regular classroom. b. assessing children within their home environment. c. focusing special education services on community-based goals. d. providing services in a setting that is as close to normal as possible.
Some individuals experiencing positive symptoms of schizophrenia experience auditory hallucinations. Their difficulty distinguishing the hallucinations and reality is consistent with the ____
a. dual-code theory b. auditory-equivalency hypothesis c. functional-equivalence hypothesis d. analogous-operations hypothesis
Ms. Villanueva has her students engage in a variety of activities in her middle school geography class. Three of the activities described below are authentic activities. Which one is not an authentic activity as educational psychologists define the term?
a. Finding the most direct route to Chicago on a road map b. Constructing a map of the neighborhood around the school c. Using library resources to identify a good place to take a vacation d. Describing the difference between latitude and longitude clearly and concretely
Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
A quasi-experimental research design includes a quasi-independent variable and/or lacks an appropriate or equivalent control group.