Westside Elementary School Received a Number of Applications for a Teaching

question 31

Multiple Choice

Westside Elementary School received a number of applications for a teaching position. The school wants to increase the diversity of its staff, who are mostly white females. The top two applicants were both white females, but a Hispanic female and an African-American male were almost ranked as highly, with all four showing very close scores. The school decided to hire the Hispanic female. They were making their selection decision based on

• A) banding.
• B) alternate-form reliability.
• C) construct validity.
• D) screening.
• E) discriminatory testing.

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Definitions:

Preoperational

A stage in Piaget's theory of cognitive development where children from about 2 to 7 years old are able to engage in symbolic play but not yet capable of logical thought.

Sensorimotor Stage

The first stage in Piaget's theory of cognitive development, during which infants learn about the world primarily through their senses and motor activities.

Piaget

Jean Piaget was a Swiss psychologist known for his theory of cognitive development that describes how children construct a mental model of the world.

Sight

The sense that allows for the perception of visual stimuli, mediated by the eyes and processed by the brain.