Which of the following represents a topic most suitable for study using case study methodologies?
a. Do students in Germany experience different motivational orientations than students in the United States?
b. How is the NCLB legislation changing teacher education at Adaptive University?
c. Are there differences in teacher preparation between Japan and the United States?
d. Is there a relationship between NCLB legislation and teacher stress?
b
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The purpose of canonical correlation is to determine the magnitude of the relationship between
a. a set of predictor variables and a set of criterion variables. b. a set of predictor variables and an individual's group membership. c. two or more factor scores. d. a set of predictor variables and a single criterion variable.
Generally, a total score of 7 or more on the APGAR indicates that the newborn:
a. has 7 or more medical problems. b. is doing well. c. may need some type of additional care. d. requires immediate medical attention.
When Lorenzo was reading he missed the words shop and ship, pronouncing them as sop and sip. Which of the following descriptions best represent Lorenzo's particular error pattern?
a. overdependence on context b. lacking specific skills c. high accuracy, low prosody d. fluency benchmark but no prosody
Ms. Rushing, a middle school science teacher, wants her students to develop a good understanding of principles related to the concepts of force and velocity. Three of the following strategies should help her students construct such an understanding. Which strategy would educational psychologists be least likely to advocate for promoting effective knowledge construction related to force and
velocity? A) Have students experiment with objects to observe the effects that force has on velocity. B) Perform classroom demonstrations that illustrate the concepts of force and velocity, and have students discuss alternative interpretations of the phenomena they observe. C) Have students apply principles of force and velocity to a task in which they must move a heavy object across the room. D) Make sure that students can recite definitions of both force and velocity and can repeat basic principles regarding how the two are interrelated.