During Class Discussion, Your Professor Tends to Fall Back on a Common

question 102

Multiple Choice

During class discussion, your professor tends to fall back on a common refrain, "So, what you're saying is . . ." and then repeat portions of your classmates' responses. She does this reliably-no matter how unclear, off the wall, or insightful your classmates' responses might be. MOST likely she does this to help__________ . 

• A) convey interest in students via nonverbal cues
• B) demonstrate active listening practices
• C) pay attention to students' nonverbal signals
• D) convey her communication apprehension

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Definitions:

Population Mean

The average value of a property in a population.

Confidence Interval

A range of values, derived from the sample data, that is likely to contain the value of an unknown population parameter, with a certain degree of confidence.

Sample Size

The number of observations or data points collected from a subset of a larger population for the purposes of statistical analysis.

Population Standard Deviation

The square root of the variance of a set of values in a population, measuring how spread out the values are.