Hart and Risley (1995) examined the similarities and differences in the everyday language that children hear as toddlers. They found that overall
A. most toddlers hear about the same number of words.
B. there were no differences by the gender, socioeconomic status, or educational level of parents.
C. children from families with more educated parents hear a great deal more language.
D. children from less educated families hear more words, but they are shorter words than children from more educated families hear.
Answer: C
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A. Although important to assess, a student's stage of spelling development is not correlated with reading progress because these are opposite processes. B. Some reading delayed and learning disabled students exhibit spellings indicating they have a neurological anomaly affecting their auditory and visual perception. C. At upper-grades, there are strong consistencies between those students who are good readers and those who are good spellers, although this is less true in the early, formative stages of literacy. D. The naturally-occurring stages in children's spelling behaviors that have been identified by research occur regardless of whether students are average achievers, reading delayed, or learning disabled.
What kinds of factors will influence your decision on what kind of transcript to use for your qualitative data? Give an example of when you might want to use a verbatim transcript, a Jeffersonian transcript, a gisted transcript, or a visual transcript.
What will be an ideal response?
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The shaded areas in this distribution most closely represents ______.
a. 60% of all z-scores
b. the % of z-scores between .75 and 2.00
c. the % of z-scores greater than 2.00
d. the % of z-scores between the mean and 2.00