How do college admissions officers use correlations?

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They find the correlation between scholastic aptitudes tests and high school academic data and performance in college. They develop a prediction equation and use this to predict how students will perform at the college.

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Why is collaboration an important element in intervention or corrective instruction? What are the elements that make for a successful collaboration?

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Literacy is best promoted through

a. a language-rich environment. b. formalized reading classes. c. individualized time spent by a teacher with each child, during which the teacher works on reading lessons with that child at his level of ability. d. None of these answers.

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Advertising, for all its benefits, can be demeaning and damaging to

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Outliers can change the ______ of a correlation.

A. direction B. strength C. sign (+, –) D. all of these

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