The Four Teachers Below Are Assigning Homework to Their Students

question 20

Multiple Choice

The four teachers below are assigning homework to their students. Which teacher is giving an assignment that's inconsistent with general recommendations regarding the appropriate use of homework?

• A)Mr. Rhodes asks his eighth graders to write the answers to a series of questions based on material they've been studying over the past week.
• B)Ms. Wong asks her sixth graders to make up sentences using each of their new spelling words.
• C)Mr. Needham asks his first graders to bring something from home that begins with the letter B.
• D)Ms. Powell asks her high school algebra students to read the next two chapters in their textbook,do the end-of-chapter problems,and submit their work to be graded.

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Definitions:

Main Effect

In statistics, the term refers to the primary effect of an independent variable on a dependent variable in experimental design.

Material

The substance or substances from which a thing is or can be made.

Interaction

In statistics and research, the occurrence when the effect of one variable on an outcome is influenced by the level of another variable.

Marginal Means

The means of each variable in a multivariate analysis, holding the values of other variables constant, used to interpret complex interactions.