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 assessment 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
In Ms. Chapman's math class, students who take a classroom assessment receive scores of either Mastered or Not mastered in four different areas: addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. What type of scores is Ms. Chapman using?
A) Criterion-referenced scores
B) Raw scores
C) Norm-referenced scores
D) Stanine scores
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