When a researcher concludes that there are no differences between the treatment and control groups in a study, and in fact, there were no differences between the conditions. The researcher is illustrating
a. Type I error.
b. Type II error.
c. both Type I and Type II error.
d. a correct decision.
d
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Which of the following is not appropriate in a structured interview?
a. being friendly and putting the respondent at ease before beginning. b. recording responses verbatim. c. skipping questions already answered by the respondent. d. following the question order precisely regardless of respondent's answers to previous questions. e. using the same wording for all respondents.
What effect did the Tenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution have upon public education?
a. The state department of education was established. b. Legal responsibility for school governance was delegated to the states. c. Responsibility for the majority of funding for public education was assumed by the federal government. d. Equal educational opportunity was guaranteed for all.
Estella, a native Spanish speaker who is in the first grade, is learning to read in both Spanish and English. Her teacher also teaches science in Spanish part of the time and in English at other times. The EL program she is in is best described as:
a. an immersion program. b. a functional EL program. c. a sheltered English program. d. a maintenance EL program.
In a qualitative research report, what is the key criterion that is evaluated?
A. the validity of the findings B. the reliability of the finding C. the significance of the findings D. the trustworthiness of the findings