Suppose You Wish to Measure Progress in Increasing the Amount

question 16

Multiple Choice

Suppose you wish to measure progress in increasing the amount of time a child in institutional care spends studying as an indicator of the effectiveness of your group work intervention. Which of the following approaches most likely would be least vulnerable to reactivity problems?​

• A) ​Have the child record the amount of time and report back to you.
• B) Have cottage parents run spot checks in the cottage at different intervals.​
• C) Interview the child each day about the time spent studying the previous day.​
• D) Show up at the cottage and observe the child yourself for one hour during the same period each day.​

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Definitions:

Labour-Intensive

Describes industries or processes that require a large amount of manual labor input compared to capital investment.

Learning Rate

The speed at which a person or an organization improves performance or acquires knowledge over time, often resulting in reduced costs or increased proficiency.

Learning Curves

A graphical representation that shows the improvement in an individual's or organization's performance or efficiency over time due to learning and experience.

Learning Rate

The speed at which learning is acquired, often used in the context of the decreasing cost of production as experience increases.