What is standard deviation?

What will be an ideal response?


ANSWER: A number or statistic that represents or describes the spread in a set of scores.

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Receptive language refers to language spoken by the child

a. True b. False

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Which of the following statements about comprehension strategies is not true?

a. When strategies fail, it is often because they have been taught and practiced as isolated elements. b. Strategy modeling is made authentic by doing it when students are most likely to use it. c. Strategy learning and use are most effective when students are active participants and work alongside their peers. d. Strategy use should be mastered by the end of third grade or it will be too late.

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Piaget postulated that adolescents reach the stage of _______________ during adolescence

a. abstractionism b. universal thinking c. formal operations d. sociocultural reasoning

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Given the following teachers, which has considered the characteristics of effective homework?

a. John assigns a new type of problem and will use the homework as a pre-assessment of student knowledge. b. Paul only periodically assigns homework, so that when he does the students really try hard to do an exceptional job. c. Dave assigns homework daily. Students are "on their honor" to complete it. He does not grade the homework, because he believes the students know that it is important. d. Ron assigns homework almost daily that includes problems related to the learning activity. He scores the homework and discusses the homework with the students.

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