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PREFACE
For those of you unfamiliar with past editions of Kail and Cavanaugh’s Human Development: A Life-Span View Test Bank, welcome to the sixth edition! For those of you who have familiarity with past test banks, welcome back! Such veterans will notice that this version continues many of the effective themes of past editions while adding a few new features.
The test bank items continue to be well integrated with the text and other ancillary material. As a result, all questions for each chapter are organized by chapter sections. The test bank includes a significant number of application and conceptual questions to assess a student’s understanding of important concepts and research, rather than their ability to memorize factual definitions. In this version there are approximately 150 multiple-choice questions, 25 true-false questions, 15 fill-in-the-blank questions, and 12 essay questions.
To develop a fair and valid assessment device,multiple-choice distractors contain ideas or terms that are either actual items contained in the same text chapter or logical counterparts to such items. This was done to be sure that the student is able to differentiate the ideas that appear together in the same chapter and to make sure that students had been exposed to all the ideas or terms contained in a given potential answer. In addition,I removed obviously wrong distractors, the use of answer stems that make them susceptible to savvy test-taking strategies (e.g., the use of “always” or “never”), and offer no alternatives that are “all of the above” or “none of the above.”
Finally, because a lifespan psychology course is about people, an effort was made to incorporate international names, names of popular culture figures, and current events into some items. I hope that students will find these questions more meaningful and more closely related to understanding human beings as a result.
Ashley Lewis Presser
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