Standardized achievement tests are most helpful to teachers as:
A) A good overall assessment of what students have learned in a particular class or at a particular grade level.
B) A way of monitoring students' general progress in various subject areas over time.
C) A means of determining whether learning problems are due to learning disabilities or, instead, to serious social-emotional problems.
D) A general indication of which students are likely to do well in college and which are not.
Question 2
In each of the situations below, a student's behavior is affected by one of the following phenomena: positive reinforcement, negative reinforcement, punishment, vicarious reinforcement, or vicarious punishment. For each situation: (1 ) identify which one of the phenomena just listed is affecting the student's behavior, and (2 ) explain why you made the choice you did. a. Because John was caught cheating on an exam, he was removed from the basketball team. John has stopped cheating on exams. b. Mary sees her friend Judy get special privileges when she talks very sweetly to the teacher. As a result, Mary begins to sweet-talk the teacher as well. c. Ralph brings his science project in a week late. The only reason he did his project at all is because he wanted his mother to stop nagging him about it.
What will be an ideal response?