Because teachers reward passive behavior, elementary-school boys often
a. develop critical-thinking skills.
b. express leadership abilities.
c. excel in language arts.
d. exhibit high rates of alienation.
ANSWER: d
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Asian families have all of the following characteristics except:
A. they are better educated and have higher median incomes than all other groups. B. they have strong family loyalty and strong family orientation. C. they are child orientated and place little value on elders or intergenerational support. D. they have high expectations for themselves and very high academic expectations for their children, with a strong emphasis on self-control.
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Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
Which of the following is NOT a component of assessment for purposes of instruction in special education?
a. Learning where to begin instruction b. Monitoring a student’s performance c. Evaluating the effectiveness of instruction d. Large-scale assessment of school achievement
Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
1. The attribution problem in performance measurement has to do with not being able to find valid measures of program results. 2. Proposition 13 in California in 1978 marked the beginning of a period in the United States when local and state governments were forced to either cap or lower tax rates. 3. Performance measurement for government organizations in the United States began in the 1960s with the implementation of Programmed Planned Budgeting Systems (PPBS). 4. In the open systems/biological metaphor, organisms interact with their environments in a reciprocal fashion with a goal of achieving homeostasis. 5. A counterfactual condition is sometimes used in program evaluations to represent what would have happened without the program.