Which one of the following is something a teacher should consider when deciding whether to use criterion-referenced scores or norm-referenced scores to reflect what students have learned on a classroom assessment?
a. Criterion-referenced scores are more useful when you need to compare students to one another.
b. Criterion-referenced scores are more useful when you need to compare students' performance to the performance of typical students nationwide.
c. Norm-referenced scores are more useful when you want to assess students' mastery of instructional objectives.
d. Norm-referenced scores may be helpful when you need to assess a complex skill that is difficult to define in terms of mastery.
Question 2
Occasionally students may be tempted to cheat during a formal classroom assessment. With the textbook's recommendations in mind, choose the best strategy for addressing cheating.
a. Watch students like a hawk and immediately remove the test paper of anyone who appears to be looking at someone else's paper.
b. Keep a watchful eye on the class during the assessment, and impose a reasonable consequence when cheating does occur.
c. Punish a cheating student in front of classmates so that others learn the importance of honesty vicariously.
d. Ignore cheating the first or second time it occurs because students are not likely to repeat this type of behavior.