Sentences with phrase «eliminating wrong answers»

The key is moving beyond simple recall or comprehension checks to meaningful questions that encourage thinking about the solution instead of eliminating wrong answers.

Multiple choice standardized tests are good at demonstrating students» ability to spot what are called «distractor questions,» and students with the resources purchase test prep classes that are able to train students to eliminate wrong answer choices better than their peers.

In the name of closing the achievement gap, entire communities of color in cities around the country have seen classrooms converted to test prep centers, where the time spent on studying strategies for eliminating wrong answer choices has pushed out inquiry, collaboration, creativity, critical thinking, the arts, and culturally relevant pedagogy.

When she taught PSAT prep classes while on the faculty at the Bronx High School of Science, she realized that she was «teaching how to eliminate the wrong answer, not how to get to the right answer.»

Worse, these tests primarily assess students» ability to eliminate wrong answer choices and are too puny an instrument to measure collaboration, passion, imagination and a myriad of other qualities that are vital to the development of the whole child.

Not exact matches

I usually can eliminate all or most wrong answers if I don't already know the answer.

Wrong answers are eliminated (if they are chosen) until only the correct one remains.

Major changes to the test include incorporating more relevant words such as «empirical» — which the Common Core State standards call «academic vocabulary» — instead of the traditional «SAT words» such as «sagacious;» including an evidence - based reading section; narrowing the focus on math topics to allow for deeper knowledge testing; and eliminating the previous penalty for wrong answers.

To prepare for the old multiple choice tests, teachers could coach their students in strategies like eliminating answers that were clearly wrong.

There is no penalty for guessing, so if you don't know the answer to a question, eliminate the obviously wrong choices and go from there.