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Teachers who conduct action research might: - Videotape their lessons to reflect on instructional strategies. A student-centered classroom uses reciprocal teaching to analyze a selection of text. The 4 basic steps that are used in reciprocal teaching are: - Predicting, questioning, clarifying, summarizing. What type of test could a school district use to determine if state standards were being effectively taught? - Criterion-referenced test Which of the following is the best example of ...

A teacher is assessing her students at the beginning of a lesson, throughout the lesson, and at the end of the lesson. Which of the following is the most effective way to use the data she collects from these assignments? - To make instructional decisions in the classroom An example of a formative assessment is: - Working on a unit for two weeks, observing student engagement and understanding and assessing students along the way to drive instructional decisions A new teacher is trying to de...

assessment - the process of collecting, quantifying, and qualifying student performance norm-Reference test (NRT) - used to classify student learners for homogenous groupings based on ability levels or basic skills into a ranking category criterion-referenced assessments - examine specific student learning goals and performance compared to a norm group of students performance-based assessments - used in a number of state testing programs to measure the learning outcomes of individual st...