Based on Recent Research, Which Strategy Should a School District

question 16

Multiple Choice

Based on recent research, which strategy should a school district employ if it wants to have the best chance of raising student's standardized test scores?

• A) Pay students $100 dollars for every A they get in their academic classes.
• B) Pay students $50 for not missing any school.
• C) Pay student $5 for every book they read and on which they subsequently then pass a quiz.
• D) Pay students nothing; show them statistics on how much more money graduates make than nongraduates.

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Definitions:

Marginal Revenue

The additional income generated from selling one more unit of a good or service.

Total Revenue

Total Revenue is the full amount of income generated by the sale of goods or services before any costs are deducted.

Perfectly Elastic Demand

Demand in which quantity drops to zero at the slightest increase in price.

Ceteris Paribus

A Latin phrase meaning "all other things being equal," used in economics to analyze the effect of one variable change while holding others constant.