Most Colleges Encourage a Type of Learning in Which Instructors

question 32

Multiple Choice

Most colleges encourage a type of learning in which instructors create a learning environment, but students are expected to think critically about course material and engage in classroom discussion and debate. What is this type of learning called?

• A) remedial
• B) rote
• C) active
• D) passive

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Definitions:

Significance Level

The probability of rejecting the null hypothesis in a statistical test when it is actually true, used as a benchmark to decide whether an observed result is statistically significant.

Hypotheses Testing

In statistics, a method that utilizes information from a sample group to evaluate a presumption about a population's parameter.

Kruskal-Wallis Test

A nonparametric test used to compare three or more independent samples to determine if there is a significant difference between their medians.

Ordinal Data

Data that can be ranked or ordered along some dimension but does not have a fixed distance between rankings.