A researcher is interested in developing a model of school achievement that includes home and school factors. She hypothesizes that some factors will have direct effects on achievement, whereas others will have indirect effects through other intervening variables. The main purpose of this research is:
a. Descriptive
b. Predictive
c. Explanatory
d. Exploratory
Ans: c
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The acronym LGBT is sometimes used to refer to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people as a group. Regarding LGBT students, which of the following statements is TRUE?
a. LGBT students are at greater risk than others for being verbally harassed, with 64.1 percent reporting having been verbally harassed in the past year at school. b. LGBT students are at greater risk than others for being physically harassed, with 37.8 percent reporting having been physically harassed in the past year at school. c. LGBT students are at greater risk than others for experiencing depression and attempting suicide. d. More than 17 percent of LGBT students have been physically assaulted at school in the past year. e. All of these answers.
The United States is mostly ______.
a. bilingual b. multilingual c. monolingual d. trilingual
Qi's analysis indicated that for those students who took calculus in high school and then introductory calculus in the first year of University, grades were correlated r = .45 . This indicates that high school grades and university grades are
a. strongly related. b. independent. c. moderately related. d. mutually exclusive.
Teachers are careful when assessing young children due to
A. possible detrimental effects of labelling a child at a young age. B. young child's physical characteristics. C. lack of adequate assessment tools for the young. D. only A and C.