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Social Science Clinic => Psychology => Topic started by: charchew on Jun 20, 2018
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Three of the teachers below are using strategies consistent with the textbook's recommendations for using performance assessments. Which teacher is using a strategy that is inconsistent with the textbook's recommendations?
a. Mr. Mervin lists several components that students' science fair projects should include.
b. Ms. Pujo uses a checklist to evaluate how well each of her students perform on the parallel bars.
c. Ms. Jensen asks students to wait quietly and patiently while they wait for their turn to perform.
d. Mr. Ramos tells his students that he will be assessing their ability to project their voices as they try out for the school choir.
Question 2
As we plan our classroom assessments, one of the decisions we will have to make is whether to use a paperpencil or performance assessment. Keeping both practicality and validity in mind, we should probably use a performance assessment:
a. whenever we want to assess recall rather than recognition.
b. whenever we want to assess students' achievement of higher-level objectives.
c. only when a paperpencil assessment cannot give us sufficient content validity.
d. as often as possible.
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Answer to Question 1
c
Answer to Question 2
c
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Thank you.