A fourth study of the impact of classroom assessment practices on students and their learning in the context of the classroom was undertaken by Bangert-Drowns, Kulik, and Kulik (1991), who investigated the effects of frequent classroom testing.
A hyphen (-) is a punctuation mark used to join the separate parts of a compound word. A hyphen is a joiner. A hyphen is used to join the words of a compound adjective (e.g., five-page document), to join the words of compound noun (e.g., cooking-oil), and to join a prefix to a word (e.g., re-examine).
Dashes and hyphens. The common âhyphenâ. The character commonly known as hyphen originated in early typewriters. The character repertoire had to be kept small, so several characters such as hyphen, en dash, em dash, and minus sign were lumped together. In modern character code standards, the character is called âhyphen-minusâ to reflect its ambiguity, but itâs really more ambiguous than the name suggests.