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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6, Keeping Track.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Ayers in Chapter 4, "Building Bridges," what was the "work of life"?
(a) Teaching.
(b) Choosing.
(c) Learning.
(d) Sleeping.

2. What was the center of the approach used at Prospect School?
(a) Assessment.
(b) Administrative review.
(c) Student review.
(d) Staff review.

3. According to Ayers, what are standardized tests?
(a) Good.
(b) A great measurement tool.
(c) Excellent.
(d) Bad.

4. In Chapter 6, "Keeping Track," what is the process of narrowing, punishing, and controlling from the outside that too often passed for assessment?
(a) Standardized.
(b) Assessed.
(c) Universalized.
(d) Factory-produced.

5. What is an important window into a child and an essential part of any bridge's blueprint suggested by Ayers?
(a) Family.
(b) Values.
(c) Culture.
(d) Customs.

Short Answer Questions

1. As suggested in Chapter 6, "Keeping Track," who requires standardized tests to comply with state law?

2. According to Ayers, what consumes millions and millions of education dollars?

3. According to Chapter 2, "Seeing the Student," how did a staff review session end?

4. How old was Chesa when Ayers began caring for him?

5. Which score from a sample group was the norm as suggested by Ayers?

(see the answer key)

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