Which of the following is the most troublesome problem facing those educators who wish to rely heavily on the use of performance tests?

A. Generating tasks for performance tests
B. Scoring students' responses to a performance test's task(s)
C. Making valid inferences about students' generalized skill-mastery
D. Persuading students to respond seriously to a performance test's task(s)


C

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As a high school music teacher plays a recording of Ferde Grofé's symphony Grand Canyon Suite for his class, he asks his students to visualize scenes that Grofé tried to capture with music:

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a. acrostic b. method of loci c. acronym d. pegwords

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What is a paradigm?

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