A high negative correlation was found between days absent from school and grade achievement for middle school students. This finding means that
a. absence from school causes low achievement.
b. students who miss school more often tend to make lower grades than students who attend regularly.
c. low achievement causes high absence from school.
d. measures on the two variables do not tend to covary.
B
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1. States' acceptance of federal grants 2. Congressional standards and regulations 3. Constitutional constraints that enforce individual rights and freedoms 4. All of the above
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EXCEPT a. event dropout rates. c. status dropout rates b. statistical dropout rates. d. cohort dropout rates
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a. A fever b. B fever c. C fever d. D fever
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A) After reading about the need for a balance between work, play, rest, and exercise, a group of students create schedules for themselves and explain how the schedules promote good health. B) Students take a multiple choice quiz on a chapter on health and exercise. After being informed of the results of the test, they correct their errors. C) Students write an essay on the importance of exercise for today's young people. D) Students complete constructed responses on a test on health topics and are graded according to a rubric that they helped create.