Donna, a reading specialist, compared reading motivation between two fifth
grade classes. For one class she provided a free selection of books of their
choice. For the other class she pre-selected the books for the students. Her
hypothesis was that students given more choice in the library would have higher
motivation to read. Her hypothesis was supported. Lisa, when reading her report, wondered if there were pre-existing differences between the classes that were not
considered or if there were extraneous variables not addressed. These oversights
in Donna's work are primarily a problem with her
a. participants.
b. hypothesis.
c. design and procedure.
d. Instruments.
c
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Content standards are best described as
a. what students should know and be able to do at specific grade levels. b. levels of knowledge that teachers must have in order to teach content. c. the measure by which effective textbooks are evaluated. d. a measure for testing student knowledge.
Fred and Jean were interested in what effect highly preferred activities with a very rich schedule of social reinforcement would have upon the completion rate of math (Fred's class) and English (Jean's class) work sheets of their students at Lawrence High school. (The teachers have the same students in English and math class.) Which of the following designs works best in the above situation?
A.Multiple-baseline across participants B.Multiple-baseline across situations C.Reversal D.Multiple probes
What do researchers usually do with the null hypothesis?
A) assess it and try to debug it B) “adopt” it and try to modify it C) inspect it and try to prove it D) watch it and try to change it E) assume it is true but try to reject it