Several years after NCLB was enacted, researchers found that states had different definitions of what it meant for students to be considered proficient in a particular subject. Which of the following statements best reflects what that finding meant to researchers?
a. It was considered a beneficial development because NCLB was intended to foster diversity in how states define proficiency.
b. It was considered a beneficial development because states with lower standards would raise them to the level of those states that reported the highest test scores.
c. It was considered a detrimental development because it revealed that states were able to manipulate one of the major features of NCLB in order to increase its chances of meeting the law's demands.
d. It was considered to be neither a beneficial nor a detrimental development as accountability is more important than uniformity across states.
Question 2
The process of recognition is best described as one that involves
a. storing information for a few seconds for possible processing.
b. perception and attention.
c. relating stimulus information to information stored in long-term memory.
d. focusing on that part of a stimulus array that is of most interest.
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