Dr Schmidt Is Studying the Effectiveness of a New Reading

question 9

Multiple Choice

Dr. Schmidt is studying the effectiveness of a new reading program on minority children who have experienced an impoverished family background and low maternal involvement. She will separate children into two groups; one that gets the new reading program and one that uses the current reading program. She will also use random assignment to create her two groups. The groups created in this manner would NOT be comparable with regard to which characteristic?

• A) minority status
• B) maternal involvement
• C) family income level
• D) paternal education level

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Definitions:

Receptive Language

The capability to grasp or make sense of language that is listened to or read.

One-word Stage

The developmental period in early childhood when children begin to use single words to communicate meaning.

Babbling

Babbling is a stage in child language acquisition during which infants spontaneously produce sounds and syllables unrelated to the language spoken around them, indicating early speech development.

Spoken Sounds

The audible units of communication used in verbal language.