Describe how you would accomplish the goals of accurately assessing what students have learned and expanding their learning style repertoire
What will be an ideal response?
The best way to accomplish both goals is to create tests that have different types of items. A single test can have, for example, multiple-choice items, short-answer items, and essay items that are written to reflect several levels of Bloom's Taxonomy.
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The first special education law, PL 94142 (All Handicapped Children’s Act), was passed in
a. 1963. b. 1975. c. 1990. d. 1997. e. 2004.
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: a sunrise over the Grand Canyon, a burro ride down a winding trail, a thunderstorm, and so on. This lesson could best be described as:
A) Use of vicarious reinforcement. B) A mediated learning experience. C) A community of learners. D) Use of a worldview.
The advantage of using a listening test to judge cognitive capacity is that
A. listening tests are better measures of capacity. B. listening tests are less likely to be biased. C. listening tests are not affected by prior experiences. D. listening tests do not pigeonhole students into a certain aptitude category.
Answer the following questions true (T) or false (F)
1. Readiness tests should be used as only one of the criteria for determining whether a child has the skills and knowledge to begin kindergarten or first grade. 2. Reliability indices only reflect error within a test, not other sources of error that may have influenced a student’s score. 3. Multiple-choice items do not provide an efficient method for direct assessment of many types of learning targets.