In addition to using high-stakes assessments, teachers in the Madeline School District routinely gather and share their students' work in portfolios. List three benefits of including portfolios in an assessment plan
What will be an ideal response?
Portfolios document students' literacy progress over a period of time. When compiling portfolios, students learn to establish criteria for their selections. Additional benefits of using portfolios are that:
• Students feel ownership of their work.
• Students become more responsible about their work.
• Students set goals and are motivated to accomplish them.
• Students make connections between learning and assessment.
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Explain how the absence of metacognitive skills negatively affects students with learning disabilities.
What will be an ideal response?
Marva is given two equal balls of clay. She rolls out one of the balls of clay into a long snake. Marva recognizes the long snake of clay still contains the same amount of clay as the ball of clay because she has acquired the skill of
a. conservation of mass. b. conservation of number. c. conservation of liquid. d. conservation of length.
An instructional strategy that integrates meaningful community service with instruction and reflection is called
a. job shadowing b. job sampling c. service learning d. entrepreneurship
If the absolute value of your correlation coefficient is 1, your error in prediction will be _______.
a. very high b. 1 c. 0 d. Unknown