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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What allows teachers to see what students are up to while asking them to do the work themselves?
(a) Standardized testing.
(b) Project-based learning.
(c) Homework.
(d) Classroom practice work.

2. What is the root word for evaluation discussed in Chapter 6, "Keeping Track"?
(a) Value.
(b) Eval.
(c) Test.
(d) Assessment.

3. Who spent most of the summer designing a "core study" for students?
(a) Joan Cenedella.
(b) Alice Jefferson.
(c) Mara Sapon-Shevin.
(d) John Holt.

4. Ayers suggests that what is built on a base of knowledge about students?
(a) Outstanding schools.
(b) Outstanding parents.
(c) Outstanding teaching.
(d) Outstanding learning.

5. What grade levels were standardized testing banned around the nation?
(a) Kindergarten and 1st grade.
(b) 2-5 grades.
(c) 11th and 12th grade.
(d) Kindergarten- 2nd grade.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what publication did Bernardina and Zayd read coverage of the Central Park rape?

2. What did Ayers consider people were when people, no matter how professional, were given the power to set a standard?

3. In Alex Haley's writing, whose coming of age ceremony did he record?

4. Who argued that standardized achievement tests are problematic due to their "exaggerated importance"?

5. What is a set of techniques and directions to be mastered discussed in Chapter 7, "The Mystery of Teaching"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Ayers believe the fundamental curriculum question is?

2. What were Ayers's feelings during the Illinois Teachers Basic Skills Test?

3. What are Ayers's feelings on standardized tests?

4. According to Ayers, where do standardized tests push well-intentioned teachers and school leaders?

5. In Chapter 4, "Building Bridges," what did the second grade newsletter contain?

6. According to Ayers, what are good schools?

7. What did Ayers mean when he linked "consciousness to conduct"?

8. In Chapter 7, "The Mystery of Teaching," what problems occurred when teachers tried to implement a new idea every day?

9. In Chapter 7, "The Mystery of Teaching," describe the students at Imani School.

10. What are the alternatives to standardized tests discussed by Ayers?

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