How to Prepare for the Colorado Place Exams - Softcover

Reeves, Douglas B.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0964495511 ISBN 13: 9780964495517

Verlag: UNKNO, 1955

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If you want to become a teacher in Colorado you simply must have this book. It provides complete preparation for the "Basic Skills," "Liberal Arts and Sciences," and "Professional Knowledge" portions of the Colorado Teacher's Exams. The book includes diagnostic exams and sample problems with easy to understand review of topics you need to pass the exam. Learn how to prepare for the exam, test strategy and timesaving techniques, how to prepare for the essay questions, the best way to tackle multiple choice questions, how to alleviate test anxiety, and what to expect on test day. Covers math; English; communications; reading; essay questions; science; social studies; art and music; and professional knowledge for elementary, middle, and secondary school.

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As the national area test preparation expert for America On Line, Dr. Douglas Reeves responds to inquiries about educational assessment and test preparation from students, teachers, and researchers throughout the United States and abroad. Dr. Reeves is the Director of the Center for Performance Assessment, which consults with school systems and universities throughout the world on issues relating to standards-based performance assessments. An innovator in the field of assessment and accountability systems, he is the author of four books and numerous articles. He is a renowned speaker in the fields of education, leadership, and technology.

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This is the most important multiple choice question in this book: What do the PLACE(tm) Exams really measure: A) Your readiness for teaching B) Your effectiveness as a teacher C) Your patience with school children D) Your patience with administrators E) None of the above - it measures your ability to take a test and NOTHING ELSE. As with many multiple choice questions, this question might have more than one "correct" answer. Many students might answer "D" rather than "E." Nevertheless, you are required to choose the "best" answer - not necessarily an answer which is merely correct. Your choice of the best answer in this case - answer E - demonstrates that not only can you make the subtle distinctions between an answer which is merely correct and one which is best, but also give you the appropriate blend of cynicism and seriousness which preparation for the PLACE(tm) Examinations will require. A degree of cynicism is appropriate because no one should believe that his or her performance on the PLACE(tm) or any other examination truly measures his or her teaching ability. In fact, the field of education has been on the forefront of alternative assessment systems which acknowledge the inability of a single test to adequately assess the work which a student has performed over the course of many months of schooling. The same logic would tell us that a single test cannot measure all of the years of schooling and experience which an educator has acquired. This cynicism will allow you to prepare for the test knowing that you are not really acquiring more education, but merely learning an additional skill - the skill acquired to successfully take the test. Those who have certain skills - whether they are in basketball, algebra, sewing, or punctuation - are not necessarily more intelligent than other people nor are they better teachers. They simply have different skills. Your decision to prepare for the PLACE(tm) Examination is one which will lead you to acquire the skill of test taking. Your cynicism, however, must be tempered with seriousness. The examination is important - it literally determines your ability to earn a living, just as an attorney must pass the bar exam in order to practice law. The investment you have already made in preparing to become a teacher, years of effort, and tears of pain and joy in the process of your education and experience all come to naught if you do not successfully pass the examination. Therefore, it is essential to prepare for this exam and to take this test seriously. Our philosophy is pretty simple: We believe that human performance can be improved. If you perform poorly on a task, say that you fail of a bicycle, fail to hit your first serve in tennis, or fail an algebra test, then you can choose one of two reactions. The first reaction would be to say, "I'm as capable mentally and physically as people who ride bicycles, play tennis, and pass algebra tests - I just need to practice enough so that I can learn what they do, and then I'll be able to have the same skills that they have." The second reaction would be to say, "It's hopeless - I was born with certain limited set of abilities, and riding a bike, playing tennis, and understanding Algebra are just not among them." Although the second reaction sounds pretty silly, it is precisely this absurd statement which lies at the heart of the argument that standardized test scores cannot be improved. When you think about it, if someone really believed that their mental score level could not be improved, you might want to wonder whey they even wanted to go to college in the first place. You would certainly wonder why they chose to enter education as a career field. Standardized tests measure one thing: The ability of a student to take a test on a particular day. Although some tests claim to measure such nebulous constructs as "aptitude" or "achievement," there is an extraordinary leap of faith and logic from performance on a test for several hours to those concepts. Educational researchers have argued intensely about the value of these tests, but the plain fact is that the tests exist and are used - many would say misused - to make decisions about everything from College admissions to placement in honors programs to scholarships, to professional licensing. At the Center for Performance Assessment we believe that it is the right of students to prepare for these tests in such a way that each student can optimize his or her individual performance.

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• Verlag: UNKNO
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1955
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0964495511
• ISBN 13: 9780964495517
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 2
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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