Which of the following is not true of advance organizers?
a. They can promote priming or relevant information.
b. They are susceptible to proactive interference.
c. They can encourage schema activation.
d. They are a way to tell them what you're going to tell them.
Ques. 2What is (are) the flaw(s) in the following item? ___________ is an example of a mammal.
a. Irrelevant clue to the answer
b. Misplacement of blank
c. Use of textbook statement
d. All of the above
Ques. 3You will improve the reliability of your students' fill-in-the-blank test scores if you use an answer key to score their responses.
a. True
b. False
Ques. 4The masterlist set of items is especially useful in assessing students' ability to
a. classify instances of concepts.
b. make predictions.
c. state their points of view.
Ques. 5The longer the list of premises and responses, the more homogeneous the matching exercise is likely to be.
a. True
b. False
Ques. 6In assessing students' comprehension of words and their meanings using a matching exercise, what should serve as the premise?
a. The words
b. The meanings
c. Either the words or meanings (i.e., it doesn't matter)
Ques. 7When writing a matching exercise, it is important to ensure that the number of responses is equal to the number of premises.
a. True
b. False
Ques. 8It is acceptable if a student can answer a test item correctly by using his or her partial knowledge of the learning objective.
a. True
b. False