When parents/caregivers are involved in their children's education, students
a. become less responsible for their own learning because they rely on adults to chart the course for them.
b. tend to be more academically successful and less disruptive at school because of the encouragement and support they receive.
c. earn slightly lower grades than peers whose parents are not involved, but typically are not behavior problems because their parents monitor their behavior.
d. earn higher grades than their peers, but are less likely to engage in positive peer relationships because of the stigma of their parents' involvement in their lives.
b
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a. having a parent who is a dancer b. watching dance programs on television c. listening to dance music on the radio d. having an ancestor who was a famous dancer
A good size paper for easel painting is __________________
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
Asking high-school students to solve authentic math problems, such as how many gallons of water are needed to fill a fishtank with a small leak, is a useful strategy to help them overcome the common misconception that:
a. students who aren't born with a genetic gift for math will always struggle. b. mathematics is useful only for people who want careers that require "number-crunching." c. understanding proportions and abstract concepts is too difficult for most adolescents. d. there's only one way to solve any particular math problem.
Correlational studies are used primarily to
a. examine relationships among quantifiable variables. b. examine if differences between groups exist. c. determine causal relationships. d. determine if experimental treatments work.