A Potential Disadvantage of Giving Grades in the Classroom Is

question 49

Multiple Choice

A potential disadvantage of giving grades in the classroom is that:

• A)they are usually unrelated to a teacher's instructional objectives.
• B)they are typically not correlated with students' success in college or a professional career.
• C)they may focus students' attention on performance goals rather than mastery goals.
• D)most students believe that their grades are poor reflections of what they have learned.

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Definitions:

Sampling Distribution

A sampling distribution is a probability distribution of a statistic obtained through a large number of samples drawn from a specific population, used to infer properties of the population.

Standard Deviation

A measure of the amount of variation or dispersion of a set of values, showing how much each value in the set varies from the mean.

Sampling Distribution

The probability distribution of a given random-sample-based statistic.

Sampling Distribution

A statistical distribution of all possible samples of a given size taken from a population.