What type of tests allows us to say things like “John scored better than or equal to 40% of college-bound seniors?”
a. Population-referenced
b. Norm-referenced
c. Criterion-referenced
d. Sample-referenced
b. Norm-referenced
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In his history class, Mr. Guierra uses a direct instruction teaching style in which he presents the historical information through lecture and through films. He questions his students frequently both orally and through quizzes. Research on Mr. Guierra's teaching style indicates that his students will do slightly better than other students on
a. achievement tests. b. tests of abstract thinking. c. problem-solving tests. d. all of these tests.
Six-month-old infants habituated to seeing several random arrays of 8 dots displayed greater interest when shown an array with at least 16 dots. This ability to distinguish sets of items with a 1:2 ratio indicates that infants may have a(n) __________ system.
A. habituation B. spatial navigation C. numerical estimation D. object tracking
Direct tuition speeds up the child's mastery of
a. traditional stereotyped gender roles. b. the Oedipus/Electra complexes. c. motivation to seek gender-reassignment surgery. d. the timing-of-puberty effect.
What is the Social Readjustment Rating Scale (SRRS)? In particular, how are life change units (LCUs) used in this scale?
What will be an ideal response?