Why is iron-enriched cereal recommended as the first semisolid food to be given to the infant?
What will be an ideal response?
By six months of age, infants are able to digest the carbohydrates in cereal. It is important that cereals be fortified with iron to replace the reserve (of iron) which was present at birth and now depleted.
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Which of the following statements about the definition and assessment of intellectual disabilities is NOT accurate?
a. Despite supports and special training, the life skills of a person with intellectual disabilities will generally deteriorate over time. b. Legislation requires culture and language diversity to be accounted for in the assessment process that identifies a person with intellectual disabilities. c. Adaptive behaviors are evaluated within the context of the community and in comparison to peers. d. Adaptive weaknesses often coexist with relative adaptive strengths and personal capabilities.
Forty high school seniors were selected to participate in a study. All had been rated by their art teachers as having exceptional artistic ability and all had won Art Awards. Of the total, 25 were girls and 15 were boys. Which sampling procedure was used in this study?
a) Convenience sampling b) Extreme case sampling c) Stratified sampling d) Snowball sampling
Writing essays and creating portfolios are what type of assessment?
A. Authentic B. Criterion-based C. Dynamic D. Domain-specific
What is your effect size?
The owner of a chain of five retail stores wishes to compare the number of shoplifter apprehensions in her stores for a 1-month period prior to the installation of a new security system to the number of apprehensions in the same stores for a 1-month period after the security system was in place. The new system is much more expensive than the old system, and she doesn’t want to spend the extra money unless the new security system is better than the old system. The apprehension data are as follows:
