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Is the distribution normal? Why or why not?
 
  What will be an ideal response?

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Thelma Wilson is working with her kindergarteners on basic sounds and letter recognition. In the process she calls on several students, and each one answers successfully. It looks like they get it, she smiles to herself, so she decides to move on to another skill. Of the following, Thelma's actions best illustrate:
 
  a. informal evaluation.
  b. formal evaluation.
  c. informal assessment.
  d. summative assessment.



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The mean, median, and mode are not all the same number, so the distribution is not normal. Also, in a normal distribution, close to 68 of all the scores fall within 1 standard deviation from the mean. In this distribution, between 70 and 80 of the scores fall within 1 standard deviation from the mean.

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