A researcher is interested in examining students' understanding and recall of texts. She gives students a series of texts to read (either essays or stories matched on critical variables such as length and grade level and presented randomly) and trains assistants to score and count up the exact number of correct "idea units" (or unique phrases) students recall from each text. The researcher also
interviews students after they have read each text to examine their thoughts on why each was easy or difficult to understand. The researcher records students' responses and trains assistants to examine students' answers for different themes. The researcher's study would fit best into the category of:
a. a mixed-methods study.
b. a quasi-experimental study.
c. a qualitative study.
d. a quantitative study.
a
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a) one-fourth c) one-half b) one-third d) three quarters
Though many new Americans are from Central America, South America, and Mexico, a sizable number of immigrants are migrating to the United States from Asian, European, and Middle Eastern countries
a. True b. False
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a. hemispatial neglect b. distributed neglect c. component process disorder d. attention-deficit hyperactive disorder
The outcomes promised by a particular intervention ______.
A. should be supported by at least three studies B. cannot be trusted if the intervention has not been studied by the NAC or the NPDC C. should be evaluated immediately after the intervention has been implemented D. should match the student's IEP goals