Use the Following Description of a Controlled Experiment

question 4

Essay

Use the following description of a controlled experiment:
Two similar kindergarten classrooms, each containing 20- 25 students, have agreed to participate in a study to see if incorporating math manipulatives into the teacher's lesson improves understanding of new concepts in geometry, like recognizing shapes and similarities in shapes. The teacher in one classroom gives a standard lesson without the use of manipulatives then gives a three- question quiz about the new geometry concepts that were taught. The teacher in the second classroom gives a geometry lesson that incorporates the use of math manipulatives. The same three- question quiz is given and the scores of the two classrooms are compared to see whether the use of math manipulatives improved quiz scores.
-Which features of a well- designed control experiment does this study have? Which features are missing?

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Definitions:

Retina

The light-sensitive inner surface of the eye, containing the receptor rods and cones plus layers of neurons that begin the processing of visual information.

Retinal Disparity

A binocular cue for perceiving depth. By comparing retinal images from the two eyes, the brain computes distance— the greater the disparity (difference) between the two images, the closer the object.

Blind Spot

The point at which the optic nerve leaves the eye, creating a “blind” spot because no receptor cells are located there.

Accommodation of the lens

The method in which the lens of the eye adjusts its shape to concentrate on objects at various distances onto the retina.