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Norm-referenced assessment

Education; Teaching

An assessment designed to discover how an individual student's performance or test result compares to that of an appropriate peer group.

The process of considering and regulating one's own learning. Activities include assessing or reviewing one's current and previous knowledge, identifying gaps in that knowledge, planning gap-filling ...

Matrix sampling

Education; Teaching

An assessment method in which no student completes the entire assessment but each completes a portion of the assessment. Portions are allotted to different, representative samples of students. Group ...

Open-response task

Education; Teaching

A performance task in which students are required to generate an answer rather than select an answer from among several possible answers, but there is a single correct response.

Open-ended question

Education; Teaching

A question that has many avenues of access and allows students to respond in a variety of ways. Such questions have more than one correct answer.

Modelling

Education; Teaching

Demonstrating to the learner how to do a task, with the expectation that the learner can copy the model. modelling often involves thinking aloud or talking about how to work through a task.