Nala wants to determine if providing awards for science fair winners increases or decreases participation by average students. She thinks that by promoting science as a competition some children may decide not to participate. To address this question, Nala identifies two types of schools in her district, schools that provide awards or schools that do not. She compares the participation rate of
students in her two groups. Given Nala's study, what is the independent variable?
a. School location
b. Student achievement
c. School type
d. Participation rate
c
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a. selecting literature that is relevant to student interests and representative of accepted literary tradition. b. writing across the curriculum with increased focus on grammar. c. isolated instruction in reading and writing. d. specialists teaching the skills while subject area teachers teach content.
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What will be an ideal response?
A third grade teacher told his principal that he would like to include the performing arts in his social studies program, but noted that he could remember being embarrassed as a child when he couldn't remember his lines in a school play. "Plays are just too stressful for young kids, "the teacher concluded, "so I guess there is no alternative. The principal should respond:
a. You are correct. Dramatic activities for children are too stressful – they should be saved for the middle school. b. There are other forms of drama for children; let's have a chat about readers' theater c. You underestimate today's kids; with four to six weeks of rehearsal, they can learn their parts d. You can still integrate the curriculum by focusing on the visual arts; how about having the children work on a mural?
It is estimated that the average young reader is able to use __________ successfully only 5–20 percent of the time, because even when the text's clues are fairly obvious, students fail to notice them
A) contextual analysis B) syllabic analysis C) morphemic analysis D) dictionary referencing