Describe the differences between informal and formal assessment measures
What will be an ideal response?
Possible answers: informal measures are more flexible, allowing teachers to make modifications to serve specific needs; informal measures are not based on comparison with a norm group; informal measures are more authentic and similar to actual reading tasks
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a. True b. False
Due-process provisions give the students' parents or guardians the right to
A) ?decide how special education services will be provided. B) ?insist that their child be placed in the most expensive program available. C) ?have an initial mediation or a subsequent impartial hearing to resolve conflicts with school personnel. D) ?participate in the assessment of the student.
According to the text, how should a fifty-page reading assignment be handled? a. Read the entire fifty-page chapter at one time. b. Read the first thirty pages in one study session and the remaining twenty pagesin a second session
c. Split the chapter into two twenty-five-page readings. d. Plan to read about ten or fifteen pages at any one time.
All of the following are reasons science is assuming a more important role in kindergarten EXCEPT which one?
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