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Charlie

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The state of New York is designing a test for use in all public middle schools. The test will be given when a student first enters middle school and then right before the student is about to leave middle school to attend high school. The purpose of the test is to track students' achievement over time. What would disqualify this as a standardized achievement test?
 
  a. Specific directions for administration and scoring
  b. Specific comparisons to the performance of other students.
  c. Specific comparisons to performance in relation to the standard curriculum
  d. Specific normative data based on large representative samples.

Question 2

Constructed-response items are different from selected-response items because they
 
  a. require qualitative responses.
  b. use correct and incorrect alternative responses.
  c. are constructed specifically for a test and not selected from a test bank.
  d. require students to construct the items instead of being selected by the teachers.



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Answer to Question 1

c

Answer to Question 2

a



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