A serious limitation of reporting progress with a single letter grade only is that letter grades
A. are disliked by administrators.
B. are difficult to average.
C. include too many different elements.
D. tend to be limited to achievement.
Ques. 2The main purpose of a marking and reporting system should be to accomplish which of the following?
A. improve student learning
B. inform parents about students' school progress
C. maintain effective school records
D. provide evidence of achievement for colleges and employers
Ques. 3It is good practice to have a colleague check test items for bias.
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Ques. 4In his studies of how children's thinking and reasoning change with age, Piaget conducted a variety of studies involving conservation of a substance or of a particular set of objects.
a. What did he mean by the term conservation?
b. Describe an example of a conservation task and the kinds of responses that children in Piaget's preoperational and concrete operations stages are likely to give.
c. Describe a specific way in which a child's ability to conserve is essential for learning in either mathematics or science.
What will be an ideal response?
Ques. 5Describe at least three ways in which youngsters in Piaget's formal operations stage are likely to think differently from those in the concrete operations stage. Illustrate each characteristic with a concrete example of how youngsters in each of the two stages might think or act.
What will be an ideal response?
Ques. 6Mr. Davis asks his third graders to conduct experiments to examine the effects of water, sunlight, and type of soil on growing sunflowers. He tells them, I want you to find out which of these three thingswater, sunlight, and soilaffect how well sunflowers grow. Here are lots of sunflower seeds, lots of paper cups to grow them in, and two different types of soil. You can give your growing plants plenty of sunlight by putting them on the shelf by the window, or you can grow them in a shadier place on the bookshelf behind my desk. And here's a measuring cup you can use to measure the amount of water you give them each day.
Mr. Davis is assuming his third graders can do at least two things that, from Piaget's perspective, they probably cannot do. What two crucial abilities necessary for conducting appropriate experiments do his students probably not yet have? Justify your answer in a short paragraph.
What will be an ideal response?
Ques. 7It is difficult for children to think about too many things all at the same timea fact that reflects:
a. The existence of a sensory register
b. The limited capacity of working memory
c. The integrative nature of long-term memory
d. The constructive nature of long-term memory
Ques. 8Which one of the following best reflects the use of the sensory register component of the human information processing system?
a. Abe can remember a melody for several hours, even though he doesn't remember the words.
b. Bill can remember something he heard for a second or two even though he wasn't paying attention.
c. Carrie can remember the name of another girl just long enough to introduce her to someone else.
d. Danika understands the concept of gravity because she can relate it to her own experiences.
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