MsPatel Is a Third-Grade Teacher

question 17

Multiple Choice

Ms.Patel is a third-grade teacher.Several children in her class have been having trouble concentrating and sitting still,so she finds several articles from peer-reviewed scientific journals on hyperactivity and attention in young children.Although she is not a scientist,Ms.Patel is able to understand and use the information from the articles to redesign her classroom schedule to help improve attention.This example demonstrates Ms.Patel's

• A)intuition for children's behaviour.
• B)biopsychosocial perspective for understanding behaviour.
• C)scientific literacy.
• D)biases towards behaviour in children.

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Definitions:

Percentile

A statistical value indicating the percentage of scores in a distribution that a specific score is equal to or higher than.

No Child Left Behind

A U.S. Act passed in 2001 aimed at improving the performance of America's primary and secondary schools by increasing standards of accountability.

Norm-Referenced Testing

Testing in which a student's performance is compared to a norm group or a representative sample of peers to determine the relative standing.

Scale of Measurement

The method used to categorize and quantify variables in research, which determines the type of analytical technique that can be used on the data.