Ten desirable outcomes of teacher education have been set forth by:
A. the Praxis tests.
B. the National Education Association.
C. INTASC.
D. President Bush's No Child Left Behind.
Ques. 2Mental tests are based largely on ____________________ values and knowledge.
a. Lower-class
b. Middle-class
c. Upper-class
d. All of the above
Ques. 3Research has shown that females typically score higher on __________ whereas males perform better on ____________ .
a. Visual spatial and mathematical skills, verbal abilities.
b. Verbal and visual spatial skills, mathematical abilities.
c. Verbal and mathematical abilities, visual spatial skills.
d. Verbal abilities, visual spatial and mathematical skills.
Ques. 4All of the following belong on William Glasser's list of connecting habits EXCEPT:
A. rewarding.
B. contributing.
C. trusting.
D. befriending.
Ques. 5Helping a student who gets stuck during seatwork is most closely related to which kind of discipline:
A. supportive.
B. preventive.
C. corrective.
D. affirmative.
Ques. 6As the ___________ of a test evaluation procedure goes __________, the likelihood of bias goes ______________.
a. Reliability, down, up
b. Validity, down, up
c. Validity, up, down
d. Reliability, up down
Ques. 7Fred Jones's work primarily addresses the classroom teacher's use of:
A. relaxation techniques.
B. tangible rewards.
C. body language.
D. rigorous consequences.
Ques. 8An questions on an intelligence test refers to when planting season begins on a cotton farm. A child from an urban setting would not be aware of this because s/he has never been to a farm and would not have learned about planting seasons in school or at home. This is an example of
a. Cultural bias
b. Test bias
c. Prediction bias
d. Selectivity bias
Ques. 9If the same regression slope is found for different ethnic groups in a prediction bias study, what does it imply with respect to test bias?
a. Bias still exists in different means for the groups.
b. Bias still exists in the predicted performance for the groups.
c. No bias exists in the predicted performance for the groups.
d. No determination of bias can be made.
Ques. 10The cumulation of results of research on achievement and aptitude tests used to predict future performance has tended to produce results that are summarized by:
a. consistent support for differential bias for minority ethnic groups
b. little support for differential bias for minority ethnic groups
c. inability to predict future performance for some ethnic groups
d. underprediction of performance for minority ethnic groups
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