Describe what is meant by the phrase "assessment as learning."
What will be an ideal response?
The phrase assessment as learning means that both student and teacher seek to acquire important information from assessments in order to improve as learners and teachers. That is, both are using assessment data as a way to learn more about themselves as learners and teachers, respectively. Students use assessment information to learn what they have and have not learned and why. Teachers use assessment information to learn whether instructional tactics were successful or need to be revised.
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The approach to studying the brain in order to understand what specific part of the brain controls what specific skills or behaviors is called ____
a. synthesis b. localization of function c. ecological validity d. lobotomy
Good resources for selecting appropriate reading materials are
a. school media specialists and public librarians. b. annotated lists of children's books. c. the students who will be reading the material. d. all of the above
Ms. Gibson has 12 boys and 13 girls in her sixth-grade class. In a lesson on vertebrates and invertebrates she asks, "What is an invertebrate?" and then she asks, "How do you suppose being a vertebrate or being an invertebrate relates to an animal's ability to adapt to the environment?" If Ms. Gibson's questioning is typical of the number of questions addressed to boys and girls, which of the following is most likely?
a. She will direct more questions to boys.
b. She will direct more questions to girls.
c. She will direct about the same number of questions to boys as to girl
Tests including short-answer and fill-in questions can be very difficult for some students because
A. they require the student to compare and contrast the information. B. unlike multiple choice and matching tests, the answers are not right on the page. C. they require recognition of information rather than recall. D. there can be multiple correct answers.