Three of the Following Testing Practices Are Consistent with the Textbook's

question 22

Multiple Choice

Three of the following testing practices are consistent with the textbook's discussion regarding motivation and classroom assessment practices. Which one is not?

• A) Make sure students have enough time to answer all questions or complete all assigned tasks.
• B) Make sure assessment results provide substantive information about what students do well and how they can improve.
• C) Give students increasingly difficult questions or tasks when they get high scores.
• D) Base grades on many small assessments rather than one or two big ones. Essay Questions

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Definitions:

Level of Significance

A threshold used in statistical testing to determine whether to reject the null hypothesis, commonly denoted as alpha (α).

Confidence Coefficient

The probability level or percentage that measures the degree of certainty in a confidence interval.

α

Often represents the level of significance in statistical tests, marking the probability threshold below which the null hypothesis is rejected.

Degrees of Freedom

The quantity of independent variables or measures that can change during the computation of a statistic.