Use the Following to Answer Question

question 93

Multiple Choice

Use the following to answer question
Nietfeld and Ender (2003) performed a study investigating the relation between the intelligence of student teachers and their efficacy in the classroom.This relation is depicted in the scatterplot, which shows fictional data that replicate the pattern of performance observed by the researchers.
Figure: Teaching Efficacy
-(Figure: Teaching Efficacy) Based on the scatterplot, what kind of relation between intelligence and teaching efficacy did Nietfeld and Ender find?

• A) perfect positive
• B) positive
• C) negative
• D) no relation

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Demographic Transition

The transition from high birth and death rates to lower birth and death rates as a country or region develops from a pre-industrial to an industrialized economic system.

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Medical Care

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Growth Rate

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