Three of the statements below describe problems inherent in ...

[roselinechinyere27m]

Three of the statements below describe problems inherent in assigning final grades as summaries of students' achievement in the classroom. Which statement is not accurate about grading?
 
  a. The importance placed on final course grades discourages students from taking risks that may lower their GPA.
  b. Students learn less when they know they are being graded.
  c. The practice of assigning final course grades tends to focus students' attention on performance goals rather than mastery goals.
  d. Final grades from different teachers do not always reflect the same level of achievement.

Question 2

Psychologists distinguish between the content validity and predictive validity of assessments.
 
  a. Describe the nature of these two types of validity.
  b. Describe a situation in which the content validity of an assessment would be more important than predictive validity, and why.
  c. Describe a situation in which the predictive validity of an assessment would be more important than content validity, and why.

[jennafosdick]

Answer to Question 1

b

Answer to Question 2

Answers to the separate parts of the question are as follows:
a. Content validity is the extent to which an assessment is a representative sample of the content being assessed. Predictive validity is the extent to which an assessment predicts some future behavior.
b. The response should describe a situation in which an assessment is used to measure what has been learned in the classroom (e.g., as would be true for a teacher-developed assignment or standardized achievement test).
c. The response should describe a situation in which an assessment is used to predict a future behavior