Which One of the Following Teachers Is Using a Strategy

question 52

Multiple Choice

Which one of the following teachers is using a strategy that reflects the concept of distributed intelligence?

• A)Mr. Arvis asks students to exchange and grade one another's homework assignments.
• B)Mr. Baker encourages his students to use their calculators when solving algebraic word problems.
• C)Mr. Chinn gives easy writing assignments at the beginning of the year and raises his expectations as the school year progresses.
• D)Mr. Devlin encourages his students to relate what they are learning in social studies to their own personal experiences.

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Definitions:

Interquartile Range

The difference between the 75th (third quartile) and 25th (first quartile) percentiles, measuring the spread of the middle 50% of data.

Coefficient of Variation

A standardized measure of dispersion of a probability distribution or frequency distribution, expressed as a ratio of the standard deviation to the mean.

Extreme Values

Data points that significantly differ from other observations. They can be unusually high or low and may be considered outliers.

Median

The middle value in a sorted, ascending or descending, list of numbers.