With the help of three teacher aides, a kindergarten teacher gives her students a standardized school readiness test on the first day of class. Given what we know about such tests, what is the best thing to do with the test results?
a. Meet with the parents of low-scoring children to ask them to consider placing their children in preschool or Head Start for the year.
b. Suggest to the principal that low-scoring children be placed in a more intensive pre-kindergarten class; these children would then attend kindergarten the following year.
c. Suggest to the principal that high-scoring children be placed in a first-grade class instead.
d. Use the results to form tentative hypotheses about where it would be best to begin instruction.
Question 2
Which one of the following questions is more likely to be found on a scholastic aptitude test than on an achievement test?
a. What's missing in this picture of a chair?
b. Of what two elements does water consist?
c. How is the circumference of a circle calculated?
d. What significant historical event happened at Waterloo, Belgium, in 1815?
