Suppose That Ms Zikalala Gives 100 Students a Reading Exam

question 6

Multiple Choice

Suppose that Ms Zikalala gives 100 students a reading exam.She then selects the five students with the highest scores for a special reading programme.At the end of the reading programme, he administers the same reading exam again.To Ms Zikalala's astonishment, though, the students actually perform worse this time.While it might well be the case that the reading programme actually negatively impacted the students' reading ability, Ms Zikalala would be wise to consider that the decrease could be due to ____.

• A)false consensus
• B)false uniqueness
• C)statistical regression
• D)illusion of control

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