QUESTIONS
Question 1
Heck all the points below made by Oklahoma State University Provost Bob Sternberg in the TEDxOStateU
- Students increasingly need creative, adaptive, flexible, analytical, practical, and wisdom- and ethically-based skills
- The skills students need to survive in today’s world are not tested on the traditional standardized tests
- Standardized tests correlate largely to students’ socio-economic status, so are less about merit than has been hoped by the authors
- Standardized tests made for college admissions were largely designed for white, middle-to upper-class males from “good” schools
Question 2
Check all of the reasons Oklahoma State University Provost Bob Sternberg gives for why we keep using standardized tests to determine student’s college acceptance;
- Superstitions
- Interpersonal attraction
- Saving otherwise failing publications
- No better options
- Pseudo quantification
- Revenue-seeking
Question 3
According to the video The Classroom Experiment – formative assessment techniques, allowing students to participate or not actually exacerbates the achievement gap
- True
- False
Question 4
In “what standardized tests don’t measure,” Nikki Adeli, a high school junior, says the following regarding expectations that young people become citizens that improve society and the global economy at large;
“What makes you think if we are not making our own policies and giving our own ___________ now to create these policies that affect us personally, that it will happen in the long run?”
ANSWERS
Question 1
Heck all the points below made by Oklahoma State University Provost Bob Sternberg in the TEDxOStateU
- Students increasingly need creative, adaptive, flexible, analytical, practical, and wisdom- and ethically-based skills
- The skills students need to survive in today’s world are not tested on the traditional standardized tests
- Standardized tests correlate largely to students’ socio-economic status, so are less about merit than has been hoped by the authors
- Standardized tests made for college admissions were largely designed for white, middle-to upper-class males from “good” schools
Correct Answers:
- Students increasingly need creative, adaptive, flexible, analytical, practical, and wisdom- and ethically-based skills
- The skills students need to survive in today’s world are not tested on the traditional standardized tests
- Standardized tests correlate largely to students’ socio-economic status, so are less about merit than has been hoped by the authors
- Standardized tests made for college admissions were largely designed for white, middle-to upper-class males from “good” schools
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