The Authors of This Text Believe That Standardized Testing Has

question 23

True/False

The authors of this text believe that standardized testing has a legitimate role within the larger social studies picture and that the full social studies curriculum should be planned around testing.

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Definitions:

Population Proportion

The ratio of individuals in a subgroup of a population to the total population, often expressed as a percentage.

Variance

A measure of the dispersion or spread of a set of data points around their mean (average) value, indicating how far the data points are from the mean.

Unbiased Estimator

A statistical estimator whose expected value is equal to the parameter it estimates, indicating it does not overestimate or underestimate the true value.

Population Parameter

A Population Parameter is a value that represents a characteristic of an entire population, such as its mean or standard deviation.