Why should effective assessment identify student strengths?

a. Grade assignment should always be based on strengths.
b. A student's literacy develops by doing what he/she already knows while getting support in learning new strategies and techniques.
c. If we know a student's strengths, we can ignore them and focus on weaknesses. d. Students should never be asked to do anything they don't already know how to do.


ANSWER: b

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