Which one of the following teachers provides the best example of the halo effect?
a. Mr. Urquhart overrates Cathy's gymnastic skills because she is head cheerleader.
b. Ms. Rabinowitz believes that all students can learn calculus if they study hard enough.
c. Mr. Gregg likes Frank better than Mark because Frank is more polite than Mark.
d. Ms. Noonan always gives her students the benefit of the doubt when they earn test scores close to her cutoffs for various grades.
Question 2
Ms. Edgerton wants to construct an assessment instrument that is a good reflection of what her students have learned from a recent unit on the history of their city. To do so, she might best begin by constructing a table of specifications that includes both:
a. the kinds of questions she wants to ask and the scoring criteria she wants to apply.
b. the kinds of questions she wants to ask and the types of instructions she intends to give students about how to respond.
c. the topics students have studied and the order in which they have studied them.
d. the topics students have studied and the things they should be able to do with each topic.
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