If You Want Your Students to Work on an Assignment

question 44

Multiple Choice

If you want your students to work on an assignment at a steady rate, the best thing for you to do is to

• A) circulate around the room and praise students at frequent but unpredictable intervals.
• B) tell them that they have thirty minutes to complete the assignment.
• C) let them reward themselves with a break after completing each set of five problems.
• D) every ten minutes, check on how many problems have been completed.

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Definitions:

Cash Dividend

A payment made by a company out of its earnings to shareholders, usually in the form of cash.

Liquidating Dividend

A type of dividend paid by a company to its shareholders out of its capital base, essentially returning a portion of the capital initially invested back to the shareholders.

Earnings Per Share

A metric for assessing a company's earnings, determined by dividing its net income by the total outstanding common stock shares.

Preferred Stock

A class of ownership in a corporation with a higher claim on assets and earnings than common stock, usually with fixed dividends.