Research on school achievement suggests that
A) high-stakes testing improves educational quality in most public schools.
B) most achievement tests were designed to measure the specific skills covered in the classroom.
C) many students who get passing grades fail high-stakes exams because a time-limited test taps only certain skills.
D) achievement test scores are a better measure of a child's true abilities than teacher-assigned grades.
C
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A) naturalistic observation B) ethnographic C) self-report D) structured observation
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A) Episodic and procedural B) Procedural and semantic C) Semantic and episodic D) Episodic, procedural, and semantic
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Indicate whether the statement is true or false.