In newborns, the absence of which of the following is cause for concern?
a. reaching for objects
b. blink reflex
c. watching objects move across the room
d. color vision
b
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Theresa, the assistant principal of a middle school, often finds herself dealing with accusations of wrongdoing made by one student against another. When she does so, she will not accept circumstantial evidence. Instead, Theresa allows only evidence that she can see, or "hard," observational evidence, to be used in deciding whether a student has violated rules. Theresa could be referred to as
a(n) ____. a. monist b. empiricist c. rationalist d. nativist
When a teacher desires to assess and evaluate a student's reading, he or she will consider the validity, reliability, and standard error of measurement of the assessment tool used. Reliability of an assessment tool can be established by each of these parameters except:
a. giving the same test to a group of students more than once within a short time frame to look for similarity in scores. b. looking for a high correlation coefficient of 0.90 or more which indicates that the test scores obtained from the test are indeed reliable. c. objectivity in scoring, such as is common practice with multiple-choice testing. d. making sure that the students taking the test are already functioning at the same level. e. increasing the number of items on the test.
When a student misses class, he or she is responsible for knowing what went on in that class
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
A researcher wants to create an intervention to improve the well-being of graduate students in a counseling program, so she gives one group of students specific doses of rocky road ice cream, the second group of students specific doses of licorice, and the third group of students specific doses of chewy fruit-flavored candies for their treatments. As a second factor, she includes students in their first semester of their first year of graduate school as one cohort and students in the first semester of their second year of graduate school as the other cohort. To analyze the differences in well-being between the students in the three different “treatments” and two cohorts, she would use a(n) _______.
a. analysis of covariance b. analysis of variance c. factorial analysis of variance d. repeated-measures analysis of variance