Laura has developed a new treatment to increase spatial ability. She randomly assigns students to either her intervention or a control condition. In the treatment condition students engage in working puzzles for twenty minutes a day for 10 days. Unfortunately, students do not like her intervention and refuse to do puzzles for all of the days. When she examines post-test means on the spatial
ability measure, there are no differences between her treatment and the control condition. Which of the following demonstrates a threat to validity demonstrated in this study?
a. Maturation
b. Testing
c. Instrumentation
d. Mortality
d
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a. acceleration b. mainstreaming c. enrichment d. inclusion e. differentiation
All of the following are useful generalizations from the emerging literature on functional assessment analysis
EXCEPT: a. for many students, inappropriate behavior leads to escape from aversive tasks or situations b. all inappropriate behavior can be decreased or eliminated by teaching a functionally equivalent, appropriate behavior c. much inappropriate behavior serves a communicative function d. much inappropriate behavior is occasioned by high demand situations
What are the three major types of juvenile rheumatoid arthritis?
a) neuropathy, myopathy, amyoplasia b) pauciarticular, polyarticluar, systemic c) scoliosis, kyphosis, kyphoscoliosis d) polyarticular, miniarticular, systemic
Preparation of the budget includes the following three dimensions as indicated in the following sequence: determination of the educational plan, the conversion of the education plan into cost terms, and finally, the determination of the sources of required revenue
a. True b. False