What is the term for the statistic that can be used to see how well each item differentiates between students who understand the material and students who do not?

a. Item difficulty
b. Item discrimination
c. Distractor analysis
d. Standard deviation


b. Item discrimination

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At each data collection point in a trend survey, a researcher

a. studies a different sample from the same general population. b. studies a different sample from the same specific population. c. studies the same sample of individuals. d. studies a subset of a population at a specific point in time.

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Sonya, a student in an educational psychology course, is studying for an exam, and it is very late at night. She suddenly realizes that she has not comprehended the paragraph that she has just read. Which concept refers to the ability that allowed Sonya to recognize her failure to comprehend?

a. perceptual intervention b. metacognitive processing c. metaphysical inference d. cognitive flexibility

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Development of creativity is important because creative people regularly solve problems, develop new products, and develop new questions in domains

a) T b) F

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Which of the following incentives was ranked by teachers as most likely to influence their decision to teach in a hard-to-staff school?

a. state income tax credits. b. bonus pay for high-demand subjects. c. additional planning time. d. student loan forgiveness.

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