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31) What strategy recommended instead of assigning a failing grade : 1184135
31) What strategy is recommended instead of assigning a failing grade to students’ poor work?
A) Consider the work to be incomplete.
B) Give students support in revising the work.
C) Maintain high standards for students’ work.
D) Take responsibility for the students’ poor work.
32) Grades should be tied to meaningful course objectives so that
A) high-ability students will be motivated to pursue worthwhile goals.
B) low-ability students will be motivated to pursue worthwhile goals.
C) students do not have to choose between learning and making a grade.
D) the course objectives can be tested fairly and reliably.
33) Julie looked over her paper. She had a C- in spite of the fact that she tried as hard as she could to write an innovative paper. There did not seem to be any marks for mechanical errors on the paper. When she questioned her teacher about the grade, he told her, “You did not write your review of the story in the same way as the other students.” The LEAST likely result of the teacher’s actions will be to
A) decrease Julie’s attempts to be more creative.
B) develop a poor self-concept in Julie.
C) increase Julie’s efforts to be creative.
D) make Julie give up studying for this class.
34) Which one of the following procedures is recommended for reducing the detrimental effects of grading on students?
A) Favor norm-referenced over criterion-referenced grading.
B) Give ungraded assignments in order to increase exploration.
C) Stop giving partial credit for “almost” correct answers.
D) Use only one type of item (multiple-choice or essay) on a given test.
35) A typical criterion-referenced report card that reports student learning tends to be
A) complex and time-consuming for teachers.
B) constructive for group comparisons.
C) convenient but not helpful for many students.
D) practical for elementary grades but not for high school.
36) On five tests that involve different numbers of items, Bill’s total raw score was 430, and Diane’s total raw score was 440. Under what type of grading system is the possibility greatest that Bill could earn an A and Diane only a B?
A) Criterion-referenced grading
B) Norm-referenced using average T-scores
C) Percentage grading
D) Point system
37) When teachers want to give different weights to tests and assignments, it is most appropriate to use a what type of grading system?
A) Criterion-referenced
B) Normal curve
C) Percentage
D) Point or norm-referenced
38) A popular grading system to use for combining grades from many assignments is to use
A) an average of the grades from all sources.
B) an average of all of the norm-referenced scores.
C) a point system.
D) percentage grading.
39) The type of skills that would be most effective for teachers to have in conducting conferences with students and their families is skill in
A) academic knowledge.
B) communication.
C) creativity.
D) problem solving.
40) The fundamental purpose of educational assessment is to
A) determine the quality of the outcomes being judged.
B) identify which programs or people are superior to others.
C) obtain objective data that express performances in quantitative terms.
D) provide information to support decision-making.
