In which instance would a researcher be most likely to use a quasi-experimental design?
a. Mr. Shijo wants to do an in-depth case study to describe which factors are present for a student with reading problems.
b. Ms. Morris wants to infer whether being from an abusive home causes students to have poorer reading scores.
c. Mr. Cox wants to know what percentage of students in the senior honors program belongs to minority groups.
d. Ms. Ramirez decides to adopt a new math curriculum for half his students selected at random, wanting to know whether it causes those students to have better applied problem-solving skills.
b. Ms. Morris wants to infer whether being from an abusive home causes students to have poorer reading scores.
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a. Usually is a full professor b. Has increased research productivity c. Oversees faculty meetings d. Responds to requests from the college e. Oversees scheduling of courses each term
It is not appropriate to expose children to clocks, watches, and calendars until they have the ability to understand them in conventional terms
A. True B. False. If so, why?
Both the evaluator and the employee are typically required to sign the written record of the summative evaluation conference
Indicate whether this statement is true or false.
Which one of the following teachers is definitely scoring students' performance in a norm-referenced manner?
A) Mr. Wyman grades students' essays on the causes of the American Revolution, giving the five best essays an A, the next five best a B, and so on.
B) Mr. Burghs asks his physical education students to do as many chin-ups and push-ups as they can, and he records the number that each student can do.
C) Mr. Carr has his second graders take a quiz on addition number facts over and over again until they can answer all 100 facts correctly within three minutes' time.
D) Mr. Morehead asks his fifth graders to spell the 20 words in this week's spelling assignment, and he counts the number of words each student spells correctly.