In a Natural Experiment Conducted in India That Compared Children

question 20

Multiple Choice

In a natural experiment conducted in India that compared children of the same age who had different number of years of schooling, the researchers concluded that

• A) schooling made a smaller impact on the children's competence than did the children's everyday experiences.
• B) competence increased in direct relationship to the number of years of school the child had attended.
• C) there was no difference for children in elementary school, but schooling became more important for older children.
• D) the structure of the children's families had a bigger impact than did the number of years they had attended school.

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