As teachers plan classroom assessments, one of the decisions they will have to make is whether to use a paper-pencil or performance assessment. Keeping both practicality and validity in mind, teachers should probably use performance assessment:
a. Whenever they want to assess meaningful learning rather than rote memorization
b. Whenever they want to assess achievement of complex cognitive processes
c. Only when a paper-pencil assessment will have low content validity
d. As often as possible
C
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a. Cooperative group assignments b. Highly structured assignments c. Collaborative group assignments d. Reciprocal learning assignments
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What will be an ideal response?