Assume that you are a preschool or kindergarten teacher and would like to help your students more accurately assess their capability for performing particular tasks. You consult Chapter 3 of Psychology Applied to Teaching and decide on the basis of the research findings summarized there that you should
a. create a relatively unstructured classroom that emphasizes free play.
b. allow your students to perform the task several times so they can compare their prior performance to the most recent one.
c. ignore the issue until the children are older and in Piaget's concrete operational stage of cognitive development.
d. have your students compare their performance to that of a peer who has done the task correctly.
D
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How does a follow-up phase strengthen a study?
A. Demonstrates the effectiveness of an intervention over time B. Gives the researcher ideas to implement in their next design C. Provides social and ecological validities for the study D. Both A and C
A blind helps to prevent
a. interaction of selection and maturation. b. interaction effect of testing. c. experimenter bias. d. none of the above.
The three functions of language are conceptual, interpersonal, and
a. personal. b. social. c. factual. d. procedural.
What does qualitative methodology aim to explore?
A. The quality of the data collected B. The validity of the research collected C. How people make sense of their worlds; it explores feelings, experiences and the nature of issues D. The reliability of the research collected