Mr. Davis is struggling with the grades of two students in his ...

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Mr. Davis is struggling with the grades of two students in his class. Diane, who performed poorly at the beginning of the term but rose to doing the same level of above-average work by the end of the term, and Melody, who began by doing above-average work and ended by doing the same level of above-average work. Mr. Davis isn't sure if both students deserve the same grade or not. With which of the following is Mr. Davis struggling?
 
  a. the intelligence levels of Diane and Melody
  b. relative improvement versus absolute performancec .formative versus summative assessment
 d. formal versus information assessment types

Question 2

Knowledge about group differences enables us to:
 
  a. determine when particular students should begin formal education.
  b. make fairly accurate predictions about individual students' academic performance but not about their social skills.
  c. make fairly accurate predictions about individual students' social skills but not about their academic performance.
  d. form tentative hypotheses about instructional strategies that might be effective for different students.

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Answer to Question 1

B

Answer to Question 2

d