Sentences with phrase «engaging test items»

The goal is to create highly engaging test items adjacent to the newly introduced content.

Not exact matches

Each test item will be designed to reveal misconceptions students might have about energy while also requiring them to engage in important scientific practices such as making predictions, explaining energy phenomena, and interpreting tables, charts, and diagrams.

High school students engaged in PBL in biology, chemistry, and earth science classes outscored their peers on 44 percent of the items on the National Assessment of Educational Progress science test during their twelfth - grade year (Schneider, Krajcik, Marx, & Soloway, 2002).

Classroom instruction in these charters frequently appeared to honor the acquisition of basic, fundamental skills exactly the topics and items commonly found on standardized tests — over more cognitively engaging tasks such as arguing, defending, supporting, valuing, or evaluating.

This spring we are pilot testing the first 5,000 items and tasks we have developed with about a million students, engaging more than 5,200 schools drawn from all 21 of our governing states.

Our rigorous assessment solutions for students in grades 3 through 12 are built to the requirements of individual state summative test blueprints and include a diverse selection of technology enhanced items to provide a highly engaging and interactive online assessment experience.

Item types such as drag and drop (that include media - rich graphics, animations, and audio) could not only engage the student in ways that paper - and - pencil - tests never could, but such items will ask students to demonstrate more critical thinking analyses and a deeper understanding of their skills and knowledge.

Players can engage in Player vs. Player, join clans and sell items from stores when they reach the appropriate level, and those who pass a literacy test can take part in chat with other players.

The mothers» involvement in their children's care was assessed with the Index of Parent Participation, 22 a 36 - item instrument describing parenting behaviors in which mothers could engage during their children's hospitalizations (eg, bathing the child or explaining a test or procedure).