The proportion of all students from grades K-12 who drop out in a single yearwithout completing high school refers to
a. event dropout rates. c. status dropout rates
b. statistical dropout rates. d. cohort dropout rates
Answer: a.
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A. Error analysis B. Single-case design C. Progress monitoring D. Randomized controlled trials
A ______ is designed to measure current learned skills and knowledge associated with a particular age or grade level.
A. scalable learning test B. general achievement test C. diagnostic test D. standardized achievement test
John Locke is known for his view of children as:
a. Constructors of their own knowledge. b. Not capable of education, innately evil. c. Blank slates. d. Born with innate abilities to problem solve.
Which one of the following is an example of vicarious reinforcement?
a. Alice notices that her friend Ellen gets extra attention from the teacher when she acts helpless. Alice begins to act helpless as well. b. Bill knows that he will get a higher grade if he turns in a research paper that is typed rather than handwritten, but he turns in a handwritten paper anyway. c. Connie sees her friend Maria scolded for chewing gum in class. She quickly takes her own gum out of her mouth. d. David sees how Justin gets good grades when he works hard on his mathematics homework, but David doesn't want to work that hard.