State Achievement Testing to Measure Success Toward the Benchmarks of the No

question 20

True/False

State achievement testing to measure success toward the benchmarks of the No Child Left Behind Act has placed pressure on school systems to show that all of their students can excel on cognitive ability tests.

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Definitions:

Content Effects

The impact that the subject matter or content has on the processing, understanding, and memory of information, which can vary depending on the relevance or familiarity of the content.

Confirmation Bias

A tendency to seek only information consistent with one’s hypothesis.

Information

Data or knowledge communicated or received concerning a particular fact, subject, or event.

Formal Reasoning

A cognitive process involving the use of logical operations or established principles to arrive at conclusions, often associated with higher-order thinking and problem-solving.