If you are conducting a descriptive study on a community where a charter school has proposed to open, which of these variables would most likely be of interest to you?
a. Student test scores
b. Student height
c. Teachers’ highest degrees earned
d. Percentage of families living below the poverty line
d. Percentage of families living below the poverty line
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Sherwood School follows an educational philosophy that requires its teachers to teach a pre-approved interpretation of great works. Sherwood does not provide contemporary courses, such as engineering drawing, as it believes that the knowledge from classic literature is timeless and is sufficient to produce cultured students. Sherwood's educational philosophy is most accurately termed as _____
A) perennialism B) essentialism C) progressivism D) existentialism
A group of teachers reviewed each of three (3) series of textbooks and expressed different levels of satisfaction with them. In this situation, what type of approach should the leader use to reach a decision?
a. The committee has done the hard work, now the principal should simply select a series. b. An autocratic approach c. A participative approach d. Brainstorming the approach to use.
What is the typical display of AAC devices?
a. Unaided b. Aided c. Visual scene display d. Grid
A researcher conducts a study, but has low power to detect an effect. Which of the following is one way in which the research can increase power?
A. make the alpha level smaller B. increase the sample size C. study a population with a larger standard deviation D. conduct the study again with the same sample size