Ms. Dickson observes that after reading a research report, her students can use principles of good experimental design to point out flaws in the researchers' procedures and conclusions. What is the highest-level objective from Bloom's taxonomy that Ms
Dickson's students have met?
a) Knowledge
b) Comprehension
c) Application
d) Evaluation
d Ms. Dickson is asking her students to evaluate.
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Which of the following would best meet the criteria of a testable hypothesis?
a. High school teachers don't spend enough time in one-to-one work experiences. b. Computers should be part of the mathematics curriculum in grades 1-6. c. Competing with boys in a sport not sex-specific will lessen a girl's expectation for success. d. Social learning and development are enhanced by democratic education. e. Pupils' failure to read is due to a lack of compassion in some teachers.
Which of the following levels of privacy are researchers allowed to identify or track participant information?
A. immunity B. confidentiality C. anonymity D. partiality
Which of the following is an example of formative assessment?
(a) A teacher gives back a unit test, goes over it with the class, and then gives students an opportunity to write about the answers they got wrong (for credit, if the essay is good). (b) A teacher gives back a unit test, and some students figure out how they could study better for the next unit test. (c) Both of these are examples of formative assessment.
Which one of the following is most likely to be what educators refer to as a standardized test?
a. Ms. Argon's students are taking a test asking them to find the diameter, circumference, and area of a circle with a radius of 5 centimeters; Ms. Argon wants to find out if her students know this material well enough to proceed on to spheres. b. Mr. Basili's students are taking a multiple-choice test, developed by a testing company, that assesses students' knowledge of language, mathematics, and logic; scores on the test have been shown to predict college success with some degree of accuracy. c. Mr. Conway's fifth graders are taking a test of mathematical word problems requiring addition and subtraction. Mr. Conway has instructed his students to work as quickly as they can so he can get an idea of whether they have developed automaticity in their ability to solve such problems. d. Mr. Delano's eighth graders are taking an objective test over what they have learned in their geography unit on Asia. Students are marking their answers on a bubble sheet with a number two pencil so that Mr. Delano can have the school district's computer center score the tests for him.