If You Wanted to Efficiently Assess What Students Know About

question 10

Multiple Choice

If you wanted to efficiently assess what students know about various aspects of the civil rights movement in the United States from 1950 to 2000, you would give them a

• A) standardized aptitude test.
• B) standardized achievement test.
• C) comprehensive achievement test constructed by the classroom teacher.
• D) comprehensive achievement test constructed by a commercial test company.

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Definitions:

Perceptual Set

A mental predisposition to perceive one thing and not another, influenced by expectations, emotions, and culture.

Bottom-Up Processing

A type of information processing that begins with sensory input and builds up to the formation of perception in the brain.

Perceptual Adaptation

The ability of the body to adjust to an environment by filtering out distractions.

Ponzo Illusion

A visual illusion where parallel lines seem to converge, affecting the perceived size of objects within those lines.