Organizing material to be learned (as in the text illustration involving minerals) is an effective information-processing technique because it
a. eliminates the need to use mnemonic devices.
b. increases the capacity of short-term memory.
c. makes use of both maintenance and elaborative rehearsal.
d. provides cues and reduces the number of individual items to be learned.
D
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The school guidance counselor comes into your room to observe a student, Susan. The counselor notices that Susan spent 15 minutes of the 43-minute class time walking around the room. The counselor obtained these data by performing what type of method?
A. Latency recording B. Duration recording C. Anecdotal observation D. Interval recording
What was the U.S. Supreme Court addressing in the Mt. Healthy decision?
a. Whether teachers have First Amendment rights in the public schools. b. Whether teachers have a constitutional right to join a union. c. Whether teachers have any control over controversial teaching methods. d. Whether there are legitimate grounds, other than First Amendment rights, that school districts can consider when deciding not to extend tenure to a teacher. e. Whether the Equal Access Act applies to teachers in private schools.
In a progressivist classroom, you would find teachers ________.
A. focusing their students' attention on scheduled standardized tests B. talking to rows of seated students who are listening to them attentively C. focusing their students' attention on one discrete discipline at a time D. walking around the room, asking questions and making suggestions
Calculate your test statistic.
The owner of a chain of five retail stores wishes to compare the number of shoplifter apprehensions in her stores for a 1-month period prior to the installation of a new security system to the number of apprehensions in the same stores for a 1-month period after the security system was in place. The new system is much more expensive than the old system, and she doesn’t want to spend the extra money unless the new security system is better than the old system. The apprehension data are as follows:
