Magdalene conducts a study examining the number of books in the family home and children's verbal skills in third grade. She finds a positive correlation; she can thus conclude that books in the house cause children to be smarter.
a. true
b. false
b. false
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What type of reliability is used when you correlate the score from one form of a test to a second form of the same test?
a. test–retest b. parallel forms c. internal consistency d. interrater
A key element in most definitions of learning is that it:
a) can be temporarily induced by fatigue or drugs b) involves change or the capacity to change c) must be experienced directly by the learner d) is only influenced by hereditary factors
The main purpose of the review of published literature is to
a. show that the investigator is knowledgeable. b. find the answer to the research question that one has formulated. c. establish the significance of the study by showing that other researchers have been interested in the same topic. d. link the question with the body of knowledge and take the next logical step.
The Common Core State Standards provide lists of text exemplars that
a. represent appropriate text complexity for instruction at each grade level. b. represent appropriate text quality for instruction at each grade level. c. represent an appropriate range of works for instruction at each grade level. d. all of the above.