Home | How It Works | Stats Login | Register         Case: Extrinsic factors impacting student performance A Social Studies teacher in a suburban middle school notices a student who participates in class room discussions frequently, answers verbal high- and low-level questions regarding the content accurately, and performs well on classroom activities consistently performs poorly on major tests, especially the quarterly district benchmark exams. When observing the student during actual testing, she notes that the student spends a large amount of time staring off into space, and scrambles to answer most of the questions in the last few minutes of the testing time frame. The student has no identified attention disorder, but the teacher feels that the student's benchmark scores are not an accurate depiction of the student's actual abilities. How should the teacher address the discrepancy between scores and classroom performance? Solution: (Rates are posted for this solution!) The teacher needs to meet with the student's parents to discuss how the student performs on tests. The teacher also needs to make it aware that the student is fully capable of doing well on the tests, but has issues not staying focused. The parents may provide helpful solutions to this issue.                 Rating The suggested solution is respectful of the individual (student) Yes The suggested solution is relevant to the case Yes The suggested solution is reasonable (easy) for the teacher to implement Yes The suggested solution is likely to solve the problem/issue Yes The suggested solution is original Yes Comments: Contacting the parents is a great idea. Maybe they know something you don't. Rated On: October 19, 2014 9:14 pm Rated By: SuGaNe