An Educational Application Designed to Reduce the Impact of the Serial-Position

question 11

Multiple Choice

An educational application designed to reduce the impact of the serial-position effect is to

• A)begin teaching important materials at the beginning of class and deal with administrative tasks later.
• B)break down the lesson into small parts that can be handled quite easily.
• C)provide a preview of the next period at the end of class rather than a review of what was covered today.
• D)start a class with seatwork,teach new information,and end the class with seatwork whenever possible.

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Definitions:

Expected Value

The average of all possible outcomes of a random variable, weighted by their respective probabilities.

Sample Proportions

Statistics used to estimate the fraction or percentage of a population that exhibits a particular characteristic, based on a sample.

Population Proportions

The fraction or percentage of members in a population that exhibit a particular characteristic.

P-value

A measure in statistical hypothesis testing representing the probability of observing test results at least as extreme as the results actually observed, under the assumption that the null hypothesis is correct.