Which of the following sentences best describes a covariate?
A. A variable that is not able to be measured directly.
B. A variable that shares some of the variance of another variable in which the researcher is interested.
C. A variable that correlates highly with the dependent variable.
D. A pair of variables that share exactly the same amount of variance of another variable in which the researcher is interested.
Answer: B
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Injuries from environmental hazards found in early childhood education environments include a. scalds
b. electrical burns. c. contact burns. d. chemical burns. e. all of these.
In operant conditioning
A. involuntary responses are either reinforced or punished by the environment. B. an unconditioned stimulus will always lead to an unconditioned response. C. a reinforcement that follows a behavior causes that behavior to occur again. D. a fixed response produces behaviors that are the most resistant to extinction.
Which of the following is LEAST likely to achieve gender equity in a mathematics classroom?
a. Provide collaborative experiences for females. b. Use writing in the classroom. c. Build a classroom community that supports one another. d. Build confidence in the classroom. e. Treat males and females the same in the classroom.
Foreseeability is:
a. Not as relevant as it has been in tort cases b. Teachers and administrators are not required to foresee potential harm to students c. The ability of teachers or administrators to predict or anticipate that a certain activity or situation may prove harmful to students, and once determined prudent steps must be taken to prevent harm. d. Closely associated with intentional acts