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:

Proportion

A fraction or percentage that indicates the part of a whole represented by a certain count or quantity.

Student T Distribution

A probability distribution used in statistical inference for datasets with small sample sizes and unknown population standard deviations.

Variance

A measure of the dispersion of a set of data points around their mean; the average of the squared differences from the Mean.

Degrees of Freedom

The number of independent values or quantities that can freely vary in the analysis of statistical calculations without violating any constraints.