The Effects of School on Children's Cognitive Abilities Can Be

question 44

Multiple Choice

The effects of school on children's cognitive abilities can be best studied:

• A) in cultures where schooling is available to only parts of the population.
• B) by removing children from school and comparing them with children who stay in school.
• C) by comparing traditional instructional strategies with strategies based on Vygotsky's theory.
• D) by comparing adolescents who have remained in school with peers who have dropped out.

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Definitions:

Pooled Variance

A method used to estimate the variance of two or more populations when the mean of each population may differ but the true variance is assumed to be the same.

Standard Error

The typical deviation found within the distribution of samples for a statistic, usually referring to the mean.

Independent Samples

Independent samples refer to two or more groups of data that are collected from separate, non-overlapping populations, ensuring they are not influenced by each other.

Normal Populations

The term "normal populations" relates to groups or sets of entities that exhibit characteristics distributed according to a normal (Gaussian) distribution.