The four teachers below are using a mastery-learning approach in their classrooms. With the textbook's discussion of classroom assessment practices in mind, choose the teacher who has the best policy regarding retakes of assessments.
a. Mr. Ingersol allows his students to retake the same quiz as many times as they need to in order to pass a unit.
b. Ms. Saldano knows that students will study more thoroughly if they know they have one chance to be assessed, so she does not allow retakes under any circumstances.
c. Ms. Huang has all students take the same assessment at least twice so that testing procedures will be fair for everyone.
d. When students don't demonstrate mastery the first time, Mr. Firenze gives them a similar, but not identical, assessment instrument the second time.
Question 2
Three of the following are advantages of giving classroom assessments frequently rather than infrequently. Which statement is not accurate?
a. Frequent assessment makes cheating less likely.
b. Frequent assessment is less likely to tax students' long-term memory capabilities.
c. Frequent assessment makes students less anxious because each assessment score is less important.
d. Frequent assessment enables students to get ongoing feedback about their performance.
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