By Encouraging Students to Evaluate Their Own Performance During Assessment

question 58

Multiple Choice

By encouraging students to evaluate their own performance during assessment activities, we are most likely to:

• A)Promote self-regulation
• B)Facilitate meaningful learning
• C)Increase the validity of our assessment instruments
• D)Increase the reliability of our assessment instruments

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Definitions:

Proactive Interference

The phenomenon where older memories hinder the recall of newer memories.

H.M.'s Brain

Refers to the study of a patient, Henry Molaison, whose case provided extensive insights into human memory and the functioning of the hippocampus after undergoing brain surgery.

Retroactive Interference

The phenomenon where newly learned information interferes with the retrieval of previously learned information.

Memory Trace Decay

The theory that memory fades and disappears over time if not accessed and utilized, due to the biological processes of the brain.