When would a teacher choose to use holistic or analytic methods to assess student writing?
What will be an ideal response?
In assessing writing, holistic scoring involves assigning a single overall score to represent the piece. In analytic methods, scores are assigned to specific aspects of a paper so that strengths and weaknesses can be identified. A teacher may choose one or the other depending on whether the assessment is summative or formative.
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Describe low-road transfer and provide an example of it
What will be an ideal response?
It is recommended that women who are HIV-positive do not breastfeed their infants because ______.
a. the HIV virus is present in the mother’s breast milk and can be passed to the infant this way b. most HIV-positive women cannot produce enough milk to successfully breastfeed their infants c. infants born to mothers with HIV are too weak to nurse and must be fed intravenously d. women with HIV need to devote so much time to their own health needs that they do not have time necessary to breastfeed
A rule that prescribes a specific set of steps for solving a problem is best described as a(n):
a. strategy. b. mnemonic. c. heuristic. d. algorithm.