Dominic, a Caucasian male, is in the first grade and his reading skills are being assessed for placement next year. His teacher is out sick on the day of his assessment test. You can expect his test score to be
a. substantially higher than if the test were administered by the regular teacher.
b. unaffected by the change in examiner.
c. significantly lower as a result of an unfamiliar examiner.
d. nothing more than a reflection of his reading ability.
c
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A. "Thou shalt not kill." B. "I wish I'd never come to this game." C. "What, me angry? I never get angry." D. "I'm so angry I could kill that player."
As a result of the court ruling in Larry P. v. Wilson Riles,
a. schools were forced to provide special classes for non-white children. b. IQ testing was no longer used to place African American children in EMR classes. c. standardized tests could no longer be used with bilingual children. d. all handicapped children were guaranteed services.
If behavior problem scores are normally distributed, and we want to say something meaningful about what values are likely and what are unlikely, we would have to know
a. the mean. b. the standard deviation. c. the sample size. d. both a and b
Social facilitation refers to the phenomenon that
a. a group of people will often work together to complete a task. b. the larger the group, the more the group cooperates. c. the smaller the group, the more the group cooperates. d. the presence of others can facilitate an individual's performance on a task.