- Astin (1993)reported That the SECOND Best Predictor of Self-Reported

question 12

Multiple Choice

- Astin (1993) reported that the SECOND best predictor of self-reported writing skill was:

• A)Number of languages spoken fluently
• B)Number of writing skills classes taken
• C)Number of books in their apartment
• D)Age in years
• E)Amount of feedback provided by the instructor

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Definitions:

Standard Deviations

A measure of the dispersion or spread of a set of values in a dataset, indicating how much the values deviate from the mean.

Deviation

In statistics, it refers to how far a particular data point is from the mean of the data set.

Negatively Skewed

A distribution with a tail that extends to the left, indicating that the majority of the data points are located towards the right of the mode.

Distribution

In statistics, the way in which data or values are spread or distributed across possible values or intervals.