Which measure of variability is a measure of the average distance from the mean?
a. standard deviation
b. range
c. median
d. mode
Ans: a
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(a) direct assessment (b) quality assessment (c) aligned assessment (d) alternative assessment
A community job analysis includes investigation of:
A) What businesses have a good record of hiring people with disabilities B) Jobs that have a high turnover rate C) What new businesses are projected to open D) All of the above
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a. It allows for continued use of interventions grounded in teacher familiarity, tradition, and anecdote. b. It is mandated in ESEA, but not IDEA. c. All interventions, strategies, techniques, policies, and programs should be grounded in research with demonstrated effectiveness. d. It is not possible to close the gap between research and practice, so teachers need to be able to call on tradition and anecdotal evidence.
A researcher does a study of a curriculum on mass transit. She assigns a group of students from a rural school to receive the curriculum. She assigns a school in a major urban area to the comparison condition. She measures the results of a posttest on the curriculum. She finds that the groups score the same on the posttest. What can you conclude from this study?
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