Which One of the Following Is the Best Example of Action

question 23

Multiple Choice

Which one of the following is the best example of action research?

• A) A teacher gives her students a questionnaire that asks them to describe how often they study and what kinds of strategies they use when they study. She will use the results to develop several lessons on effective study skills.
• B) A graduate student quietly observes adolescents' behaviors in the school cafeteria. He plans to describe his observations in his master's thesis.
• C) A college professor recruits sixth graders to come to his lab, where she assesses their responses and reaction times in a variety of challenging problem-solving tasks. Her results will help her refine her theory about the development of children's problem-solving skills.
• D) All of the school districts in a particular state are instructed to give the same mathematics achievement test to all eleventh graders. The average test scores for each district will be presented in a report that will be released to the general public.

Identify ethnocentric biases and their effects on historical interpretation and academic research.

Understand the definitions and differentiators of key types of data: nominal, ordinal, and interval.

Identify examples of nominal, ordinal, and interval variables in practical contexts.

Distinguish between variables that can be ordered and those that cannot.

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Definitions:

Elevator Speech

A brief and persuasive speech used to spark interest in what a person, organization, or project does, often delivered in the time span of an elevator ride.

Philippic

A fiery, damning speech, or tirade, often directed against someone or something.

Lengthy Monologues

Long, uninterrupted speeches by a single speaker that can be informative but might also disengage the audience.

Active Listening

Feeding back the literal meaning or the emotional content or both so that the speaker knows that the listener has heard and understood.