Sentences with phrase «administering multiple choice tests»

In the community of Reggio Emilia in Italy, for example, schools document student learning in a variety of ways, none of which involves administering multiple choice tests.

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It's so much easier to administer and grade a useless multiple choice test and to inflate every kids» grades for their college applications than it is to create challenging course work that excites, engages, and challenges them.

The study includes results from 359 multiple - choice test items administered to over 20,000 students in grades 4 through 12 from across the U.S..

At each check, the researchers administered a multiple - choice test to check for signs of depression and used MRI to image the brain.

Teachers will have the option to administer the multiple - choice tests in either online or print formats.

One result is that the new California Standards Tests (known as the CST), which were first administered in the spring of 2001 but won't enter the accountability system until 2002, rely only on closed - end multiple - choice questions, unlike the CLAS test.

Students in this introductory class all take the same multiple - choice and short - answer tests, which are administered online and graded automatically.

Standardized, multiple - choice reading and math tests are reliable, familiar, affordable, and easy to administer.

The policies that were criticized were those that increased attention to academic outcomes at the expense of children's exploration, discovery, and play; methods that focused on large group activities and completion of one - dimensional worksheets and workbooks in place of actual engagement with concrete objects and naturally occurring experiences of the world; and directives that emphasized the use of group - administered, computer - scored, multiple - choice achievement tests in order to determine a child's starting place in school rather than assessments that rely on active child engagement, teacher judgment, and clinical opinion.

But as states began to administer tests tied to the Common Core standards in the 2014 - 15 school year — including the two funded by the Obama administration, Smarter Balanced and the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers, or PARCC — some IB educators said that on close inspection they are just glorified multiple - choice tests.

We administered a multiple - choice test of 40 of the 120 Word Generation words as both a pre-test and a post-test to students in grades 6, 7, and 8.

It's also unclear how memorizing often - archaic rules to prepare for standardized, high - stakes multiple - choice tests that are administered under stressful conditions will in any way improve one's ability to competently practice law.