Discuss three ways that schools can increase adolescent engagement in school. Include what research has found to be the most successful school climate
What will be an ideal response?
Answers will vary but should include the following: Keep high schools small
(between 200-400 students) so that teachers and staff have the opportunity to know
every student. Encourage extracurricular activities, which elicit positive emotions and
school bonding; the more varied the activities and the more students in them, the
fewer dropouts and the higher achievement result. Reduce harassment with clear
rules for student behavior, rewards for attendance, and more sporting events.
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The disadvantage of using an interquartile range is that
a. it discards too much of the data. b. it removes outliers only extremely high in value. c. the positive and negative deviations balance out. d. it is disproportionately influenced by outliers.
Imagine that the following sentence is from a Results section. Identify what is wrong with it
What will be an ideal response?
Adolescents are more likely than children to measure their world against abstract concepts such as fairness and justice and to propose ways to improve it, reflecting their greater ability to
A) understand metaphor. B) use inductive reasoning. C) think hypothetically. D) infer conclusions.
According to research by D. Spiegel and colleagues, what effect does participation in group psychotherapy have on women with breast cancer?
a) lengthens life b) reduces T cell counts c) increases depression d) stigmatizes the patients