Exam 15: Standardized Tests and Teaching

Evaluate the current criticisms of the No Child Left Behind legislation. Given the costs of implementing the program and current concerns about its outcomes, what do you think is the best way to make students and teachers accountable?

Ms. Parez gave an exam to her students during the first week of class. Since students performed poorly, she added 20 points to everyone's score so that nobody would feel too discouraged. In changing the scores this way, Ms. Parez influenced the standard deviation and range in which of the following ways?

A group of students received the following scores on a quiz: 24, 20, 20, 16, 15, 13, 13, 13, and 10. What is the mode?

Validity is the extent to which a test produces similar results when administered on multiple occasions, but not the accuracy with which a test measures what it is intended to measure.