Briefly describe the five features of the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act that are mentioned in the textbook
What will be an ideal response?
NCLB requires that states do the following:
(a) establish challenging content and performance standards for mathematics, reading/language arts, and science; (b) test all students in grades three through eight in math and reading/language arts, test students in grades nine through twelve in either math or reading/language arts, and test students in grades three through twelve in science; (c) certify that a certain percentage of students each year have achieved adequate yearly progress on an approved test, and that all students achieve proficiency by 2014; (d) issue a report to parents and the general public that describes how all groups of students performed on the state test; (e) create an accountability system that rewards schools that meet its adequate yearly progress (AYP) goals and punishes schools that do not.
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Super identifies various roles that we play over our life span. Which one are we most concerned about in a program of career planning?
a) Citizen b) Parent c) Worker d) Spouse
How do employer-supported child care programs help the employer?
a. They encourage investors to give donations to businesses. b. They provide businesses with significant tax breaks. c. They tend to improve the work performances of employees whose children are being cared for. d. They increase the turnover of employees whose children are being cared for.
What Piagetian term refers to young children's inability to consider another's perspective?
What will be an ideal response?
A researcher observes the same participants across the levels of one factor and different participants across the levels of a second factor. What type of factorial design is most appropriate for this study?
A. a 1-between, 1-within factorial design B. a between-subjects factorial design C. a within-subjects factorial design D. none; this is not a factorial design