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Advantages to combining behavioral and academic assessments

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Compare and Contrast informal assessment techniques and behavioral assessments. For which situations is each technique/assessment appropriate? What are the advantages and disadvantages of each?

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Advantages to combining behavioral and academic techniques in contrast to limiting assessment to one or the other.

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A combination of both techniques is an effective way to assess a student's growth or lack thereof. When relying soley on informal assessment, a student's lack of growth may be misunderstood if a behavorial assessment is not noted. If, for example, the student ...

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