Explain the purpose of performance assessments.
What will be an ideal response?
Performance assessments are designed to evaluate what students know and can do. In many cases, there is no correct, objective answer. For example, there is no one "correct answer" when a student gives a talk in class, creates a painting, performs a gymnastic routine, or designs a science project. Many performance assessments give students considerable freedom to construct their own responses rather than narrowing their range of answers. Although this makes scoring more difficult, it provides a context for evaluating students' higher-level thinking skills, such as the ability to think deeply about an issue or a topic. Performance assessments use direct methods of evaluation, such as evaluating writing samples to assess writing skills and judging oral presentations to assess speaking skills.
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When people are free of ____, they may recognize that a coat hanger can be reshaped and used to get into a locked car or that spring door locks can be opened using a credit card
a. functional inhibition b. divergent thinking c. introceptive thinking d. functional fixedness
What is the difference between the research problem and the research hypothesis?
What will be an ideal response?
Researchers should begin Results section by stating whether the hypotheses were supported or not.
a. True b. False
Feminization of poverty, one of the two trends observed in recent years, refers to:
A. the increasing number of men who are poor. B. the decreasing poverty line. C. the increasing number of women and children who are poor. D. the many government agencies designed to keep families out of poverty.