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All the scattered facts and bits of information required by short-answer educational testing are useless unless they can be understood as part of a coherent whole.
Important Beyond the Words « L.E. Modesitt, Jr. – The Official Website 2010
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In the second experiment, they either took a short-answer test of the material or were asked to create concept maps of that material from memory.
Do tests really help students learn -- or was a new study misreported? -- Kohn Valerie Strauss 2011
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Teachers grade bigger projects, such as essays and lab reports, along with some short-answer quizzes.
The ABCs of Online Schools Stephanie Simon 2011
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Can't you get a student on financial aid to use their work-study allotment to grade short-answer/essay exams?
Rank-order Multiple Choice, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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In the second experiment, they either took a short-answer test of the material or were asked to create concept maps of that material from memory.
Alfie Kohn: Do Tests Really Help Students Learn or Was a New Study Misreported? Alfie Kohn 2011
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All the scattered facts and bits of information required by short-answer educational testing are useless unless they can be understood as part of a coherent whole.
April « 2010 « L.E. Modesitt, Jr. – The Official Website 2010
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Fortunately for Winerip's sanity, he did not analyze the short-answer part of the test, probably because it has not yet been posted on the state website.
Alan Singer: Cheating Students Who "Pass" the Test Alan Singer 2012
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In the second experiment, they either took a short-answer test of the material or were asked to create concept maps of that material from memory.
Alfie Kohn: Do Tests Really Help Students Learn or Was a New Study Misreported? Alfie Kohn 2011
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While preparing for an insanely detailed college-level Art History final of which 75 questions were to be photos of works we'd never seen before -- made anywhere from the Dawn of Time to 1950 -- that we had to give a short-answer response identifying artistic style or movement, some classmates and I pulled an all-night study session that got really silly.
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• An exasperated Chris Dodd eventually got fed up with the short-answer, game-show like format, and delivered the best line of the night: "I was gonna say, Tavis, I'll take global warming for $600."
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