What does the book claim is the most common type of metaphor used to characterize careers?

A. Path
B. Journey
C. Boundary crossing
D. Ladder
E. Road


A. Path

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All of the following can help children transition smoothly from activity to activity except:

A) ?Teacher begins singing a cleanup song. B) ?Teacher gives a single verbal announcement such as, "Okay, it's time to clean up." C) ?Teacher sounds a chime before announcing, "It's time to go outside." D) ?Teacher moves to the area where she wants children to gather and talk quietly.

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The reason some four-year-olds have not developed physically as well as they should may be:

A) Lack of opportunity to run, jump, and climb B) They watch television in the classroom C) They eat too much fast food D) There is no loft in the room

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Mrs. Hayden conducted a nonexperimental study at her school examining the relationship between teachers' assessment practices and their students' achievement. She designed an observational instrument based on operational definitions of assessment practices that were well-documented in the literature to measure teachers' assessment practices. She used a well-validated and reliable achievement test

as an indicator of student academic success. Her analysis found a significant positive relationship between teachers' use of alternative assessments and students' scores on the achievement test. She concluded that teachers should use alternative assessments on a consistent basis. On the basis of which limitation would you question her conclusions? a) Her use of a nonexperimental design to draw causal conclusions b) Her insider role of teacher as researcher c) The fact that she used an achievement test to measure students' academic success d) Her use of operational definitions rather than conceptual definitions to develop her observational instrument

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Which of the following statistical techniques is used to examine correlations but allows a bit of a suggestion as to the direction, or causality, in the relationship between factors?

a. factor analysis b. path analysis c. multivariate analysis d. analysis of covariance

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