Describe standardized achievement tests and their purposes

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Complete answers will include information about norm-referenced tests and criterion-referenced tests. Norm-references may be described as comparing a child's level of performance to the performance of a large group of similar children or a cross section of children in a school system, state, or a nation. Criterions measuring children's achievement compared the achievement to a set of state or national standards. Widely used standardized tests include the Stanford Achievement Test and the Iowa Test of Basic Skills.

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a. True b. False

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__________ refers to the degree to which scores or values cluster above or below the mean.

a. Kurtosis b. Variance c. Range d. Skew

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An instructional objective has three basic parts. What are they? Create two instructional objectives for lessons you could teach, incorporating the three basic parts. For each objective, identify the three parts and explain how they will help in

designing assessments. What will be an ideal response?

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Describe the two groups into which addition and subtraction problems with decimals and/or mixed decimals can be divided for instructional purposes

What will be an ideal response?

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