Sentences with phrase «said multiple choice tests»

Peiffer said multiple choice tests might best fulfill the requirements of the No Child Left Behind Act, which requires testing every year, individual scores, and fairly quick scoring of tests.

Not exact matches

The system was design to require trainees to think about what they should say as they went through the conversation as opposed to effectively being a multiple choice test, each time selecting the best one of five choices.

I would say I emphasize them almost equally for my AP students, as the national test is 60 % essay and 40 % multiple choice.

Instead of multiple - choice exams, Wheeler says she wishes the state tests could be modeled on the portfolios of class work and projects her high school - age daughter turns in twice a year.

«These positive results are based on a new college and career readiness assessment that is online, and expects students to demonstrate critical thinking and problem solving skills unlike the old, multiple choice tests they replace,» said State Board of Education President Mike Kirst.

Many educators in Massachusetts and elsewhere, however, have said that while the content of the new Common Core tests may demand more of their students, the technology enhancements are often just window dressing on items that could as easily follow a simpler multiple - choice format.

The second page of the report elaborates on the purpose of the Smarter Balanced test, which, it says, includes a «wider variety of questions than traditional multiple - choice tests and include tasks and test items that require students to explain how they solve problems.»

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.

Experts say the multiple - choice questions on the PARCC and Smarter Balanced tests are better than their counterparts on the old tests.

Though she couldn't use a real example from the test, she said she saw a multiple choice question in which all four answers were reasonable.

They say these multiple - choice questions are designed to test critical thinking and problem - solving skills.

Parents frustrated by the system say they're not against all standardized tests but resent the many hours their kids spend filling in multiple - choice bubbles and the wide - ranging consequence that poor scores carry.

State school officials say standardized tests as we know them — the multiple choice kind that require Scantron forms and No. 2 pencils — are not working for teachers or students.

The U.S. public views teachers as providers of content — facts and figures — to improve student achievement on multiple - choice bubble tests, while high - performing countries say teaching — like social work — is about relationships and call on teachers to collaborate with each other and their students to solve problems.

The future tests will inevitably rely heavily on multiple - choice questions that cover the breadth of material, said Bill Evers, a research fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution.

These profiles form the heart of the book, showing students who find community and success (even if not measurable by a multiple - choice test), teachers who provide encouragement, personalized instruction and more meaningful assessments, and a principal who refuses to «teach to the test» and gives teachers a say in developing curriculum.

«Recognizing vehicles at the head of the class for safety helps consumers distinguish the best overall choices without having to sort through multiple test results,» says IIHS president Adrian Lund.