What are two drawbacks associated with both personal and professional letters of recommendation?
What will be an ideal response?
ANS:
One downside associated with both types of letters of recommendation (personal and professional) involves the various response styles of authors providing reference information about job candidates. Another downside associated with letters of recommendation concerns the lack of consistency of information revealed through this predictor when used to delimit an initial applicant pool at the pre-employment stage of the selection process.
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Suppose that a teacher wanted to determine how objective she had been in scoring her students' essays. Which of the following procedures would be appropriate for her purpose?
a. Retest her students with a similar test and correlate the two set of scores. b. Request a colleague to score the essays and correlate her scores with her colleagues' scores. c. Separate by score the even and odd-numbered essays, creating two scores for each student. Then correlate the two sets of scores.
The eighth decile is the point at which _______ of the scores fall below
a. 8% b. 15% c. 50% d. 80%
Students with intellectual disabilities experience considerable failure in school, frequently resulting in all of the following EXCEPT:
A. Expectancy of failure B. Reliance on external sources of control C. Lessened sense of personal responsibility and competence D. Learned competence
What would be a strong indication that students are ready to begin place-value grouping activities?
A) Students understand counting by ones. B) Students have had time to experiment with showing amounts in groups of twos, fives and agree that ten is a useful-sized group to use. C) Students have only worked with small items that can easily be bundled together. D) Students are able to verbalize the amounts they are grouping.