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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.

Metacognition

Education; Teaching

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.

New math

Education; Teaching

The teaching of highly abstract and conceptual math, which was popular during the early 1960s.

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