Which of the following is not a reason that should dissuade policymakers from evaluating educational quality on the basis of students' scores on certain educational achievement tests?
A. There are often substantial mismatches between the content covered on some of these tests and local curricular emphases.
B. Substantial gaps between minority and majority students' performance on most accountability tests will rarely be found.
C. There is a technical tendency to remove from such tests items covering important, teacher-stressed knowledge and skills.
D. It is difficult to tell from such tests how much of a student's test performance is due to what was taught in school rather than to students' socioeconomic status or inherited academic aptitudes.
B
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As we build our knowledge base on a particular topic, we find that
A. it becomes increasingly difficult for us to add new information to that knowledge base. B. the new information that we encounter creates contradictions that we must resolve. C. it requires more and more processing capacity to maintain the base. D. it becomes easier to remember new information related to that topic.
The statement "The child will remain in touch with a wide range of feelings within herself and will acknowledge their presence by expressing them in appropriate ways" is an example of:
a. a behavioral objective b. a cognitive goal. c. a broad general goal. d. behavior that could be observed precisely and recorded accurately. e. a statement that is not an example of any of the items listed above.
Research has shown that:
a. it is more difficult for students to learn rote procedures once they have acquired conceptual understanding. b. it makes no difference for students in the long run whether conceptual practice or rote practice comes first. c. it is more difficult for students to acquire conceptual understanding once they have learned rote procedures. d. it is more difficult for students to acquire conceptual understanding if they simultaneously learn the comparable rote procedures.
Choose the method of estimating score reliability that would be most useful for each of the types of tests listed below. A physical fitness test administered in junior high school
a. equivalent forms c. test-retest b. split-half