In the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) program, schools required to demonstrate improvement will do so most efficiently by:
A. focusing on resources on those children who test just below the minimum passrates
B. increasing school choice options for parents.
C. insisting stronger accountability from schools to meet pass rates forstandardized test.
D. encouraging students to have a higher attendance rate.
A
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A recent meta-analysis of 24 studies involving the newer, evidence-based family therapies in the treatment of adolescent substance abuse and delinquency (Baldwin et al., 2012) documented that they:
a. are better than no treatment but equivalent to treatment as usual. b. modestly outperformed treatment as usual. c. are much better than treatment as usual. d. produced highly variable outcomes, making average estimates of effects difficult to interpret.
Archie is trying to train his son Gregor to fall asleep. He puts Gregor in the crib at 10:00 p.m., 30 minutes later than his usual bedtime. Gregor is still not asleep after 10 minutes. So, Archie takes him out. He tries again at 10:30 p.m. He puts Gregor in the crib. By 10:45 p.m., Gregor is still not asleep, so Archie takes him out. He tries again at 11:00 p.m.. He puts Gregor in the crib. Within 5 minutes, Gregor is asleep. The next night, Archie first tries putting Gregor in the crib at 10:30 p.m. Sure enough, Gregor is asleep at 10:40 p.m. This technique is called which of the following?
a. planned ignoring b. graduated ignoring c. bedtime fading d. chronotherapy
What the Milan systemicists call neutrality can best be thought of as
a. not caring b. interest c. double-blind d. normality e. paradox
In what year did all U.S. states, including the District of Columbia, have a credentialing process (generally called licensure) for social workers?
A. 1953 B. 1983 C. 1993 D. 2003