When we represent students' test performance in terms of standard scores, we must first know the standard deviation of those scores. This statistic tells us:
a. What the average student's performance was
b. How close together or far apart the scores are
c. Whether the test has high predictive validity
d. Whether the test has high reliability
B
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incompleteness, and exclusion of persons described as a. having autism. b. having attention deficit disorders. c. being socially maladjusted. d. being conduct disordered.
The rapid formation of new synapses first happens ______.
a. at around the time that children typically enter kindergarten b. in the first year of life c. in late adolescence, as the young person becomes an adult d. during the period between ages 5 and 9 years of age
Which of the following is a paradox of Koch's Snowflake?
a. The successive stages can be imagined but never seen. b. A computer can generate images, but they cannot be drawn by hand. c. The perimeter is infinite, but the area is bounded. d. The seed is complex, but the fractal is simple. e. The volume is bounded, but the area is infinite.
Whenever a teacher modifies an assessment to accommodate a student's disability, the teacher must remember that he or she is inevitably reducing:
A) Reliability. B) Standardization. C) Validity. D) Practicality.