To be an eligible dependent as a qualifying child, an individual must meet four specific criteria: 1  Relationship: A qualifying child must have a specified relationship to the employee. 2  Residency: A qualifying child must have the same principal place of abode as the employee for more than one-half of the taxable year.
Instead, they preferred the term assessment for learning, which they defined as âthe process of seeking and interpreting evidence for use by learners and their teachers to decide where the learners are in their learning, where they need to go and how best to get thereâ ( Broadfoot et al., 2002, pp. 2â3).
Alternative assessments are designed so that the content of the assessment matches the content of the instruction. Effective assessments give students feedback on how well they understand the information and on what they need to improve, while helping teachers better design instruction.