The Following Sentences Form a Paragraph

question 26

Multiple Choice

The following sentences form a paragraph. For each one, select the type of error in the sentence. If the sentence is free of mechanics errors, select "Correct."
Children of the Kindertransport
The Kindertransport a valiant rescue mission was planned to evacuate thousands of children to England during the ten months before the outbreak of the war in 1938.

• A) Capitalization error
• B) Title error
• C) Quotation error
• D) Punctuation error
• E) Correct

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Definitions:

Operationalization

The process of defining a fuzzy concept so as to make the concept measurable and to understand it in terms of empirical observations.

Hawthorne Effect

The effect that researchers themselves may have on an experimental group. The effect is named after an organizational study in which employees were found to be responding to the perceived interest of management rather than to the experimental condition itself.

External Validity

The extent to which the results of a study can be generalized to other situations, populations, or time periods beyond the study itself.

Diffusion

In experimental design, the problem of a treatment effect spreading from group to group as people communicate.