An Elementary School Teacher Practically Ends Classroom Discipline Problems by Giving

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Essay

An elementary school teacher practically ends classroom discipline problems by giving students "chances" in a lottery to be held at the end of the week for some small toy. The students have chances taken away if they break various rules. The students are participating in an operant conditioning system known as a(n)__________.

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Definitions:

Equal Chance

This term means having the same probability or likelihood of occurring as another event, situation, or outcome.

Statistically Significant

A term indicating that the likelihood of an observed difference or relationship happening by chance is low, typically below a pre-set threshold of probability.

P-value

A statistical measure indicating the probability that the observed data would occur by chance if the null hypothesis were true.

Inferential Statistics

Statistical methods that allow conclusions to be drawn about populations based on sample data.