CASA provides expertise and training to:
- increase understanding of assessment issues;
- improve assessment practices; and,
- enhance teaching and learning.
2008 Summer Institutes
An Exemplary Question
A boat with a rock on top of it is floating in an enclosed pool of water. Under that condition one marks the level of the water on the side of the pool. The rock is thrown overboard and sinks. What happens to the level of the water on the side of the pool? Is it now?
- below the mark
- above the mark
- did not change
- not enough information to know
What are the reasons for your answer? Ask Yourself:
- What must students know and be able to do to answer this correctly?
- Where on the Taxonomy might the skills and knowledge needed to answer this question fall?
- Is the knowledge needed to answer correctly a part of the curriculum that each student is exposed to? If not, should it be?
- What makes this a good (or not good) question?
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