Most staff development issues involve refining and enhancing current knowledge, skills, and behaviors about specific topics rather than introducing new topics to participants for the first time
Indicate whether this statement is true or false.
ANS: True
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Which one of the following reasons is not an acceptable reason for replicating a research study?
a. One's view of the relationship between the variables of the study is different from the findings of the study. b. One suspects that the subjects of the study do not represent the population under investigation. c. One wants to see if the use of different instruments for measuring the variables of the study would produce the same results. d. One wants to investigate the applicability of the results of a study to a larger population.
Reading comprehension is
a. a thinking process. b. the process of constructing meaning in interaction with the text. c. a process of extracting meaning from the text. d. all of the above.
A young student who is an ELL uses both her native language and English when speaking to the teacher and other students. The teacher should:
a. Correct the child immediately and ask him/her to use only English. b. Allow the child to use both languages until he/she is comfortable using English and discuss it with the ELL teacher. c. Schedule a conference with the family to share his/her concerns. d. Recommend the child for special education services.
Only one of the following teachers is behaving in accordance with the textbook's guidelines as he or she explains a student's standardized test results to parents at a parent-teacher conference. Which one?
a. Ms. Sculley suggests that parents take a basic statistics course at the local community college so that they can better understand their child's standard scores. b. Mr. Muldar smiles and confesses, "I'm not sure what these scores mean myself. Let's look at the booklet I have about the test and see if we can figure them out." c. Mr. Spock gives parents a detailed description of the test items and shows how a table of specifications for the test closely matches his classroom curriculum. d. Mr. Kirk helps parents make sense of the percentile scores and stanines that their child has earned.