What is the difference between the common-sense and research-based approach to teaching?
What will be an ideal response?
The answers should indicate that the common-sense approach is based on the teacher’s intuition, past experience, and possible hearsay, as opposed to the research-based approach that uses the scientific method to produce evidence that supports particular teaching practices that will lead to desired outcomes.
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Choose the type of evidence for validity that is referred to in the following questions. The test analysis shows that the test is measuring a single trait
a. evidence based on content b. evidence based on internal structure c. evidence based on relationship to other variables
Describe the three major bilingual education models used to address the need for non-English speakers to learn both English and required academic subject matter
What will be an ideal response?
The human ear can detect frequencies from 20 Hz to 20,000 Hz, but most human speech occurs in the ________ range.
A. 20-200 Hz B. 200-600 Hz C. 300-6000 Hz D. 1200-20,000 Hz
A researcher gave a test of reaction speed to a sample of participants. Which of the following cannot be an accurate description of the distribution of scores?
a. The majority of participants had scores above the mean. b. The majority of participants had scores above the median. c. The majority of participants had scores above the mode. d. The majority of participants had scores equal to at least one measure of central tendency.