What are the relative advantages and disadvantages of selected-response and constructed-response items on a classroom assessment?
What will be an ideal response?
Answers may include a discussion of objective versus subjective scoring, the utility of selected-response items for assessing breadth of knowledge, using extended essays to assess higher-level learning objectives, and the difficulty of constructing good essay questions.
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Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
Homogeneous ability grouping of students in and of itself
a. Produces better school wide achievement than to not group children in any special way. b. Appears to help below average ability groups the most. c. Produces unfavorable effects on the learning of average and below average children. d. Improves discipline in most schools.
A financial aid "package" consists of money obtained from three basic sources of financial aid to pay for a college education. The three sources of aid are:
a) grants, loans, and work-study programs. b) government programs, business contributions, and college fund drives. c) academic, athletic, and private scholarship programs. d) sugar daddies, rich uncles, and wealthy old maids.
Three of the following statements are characteristics of working memory. Which one is not a characteristic of working memory?
a. Limited capacity b. Holds information in unorganized form c. The conscious component of the memory stores d. Contains a visual and verbal processor that work independently