Applying the Analysis from the California Test Scores to Another

question 14

Multiple Choice

Applying the analysis from the California test scores to another U.S. state is an example of looking for

• A)simultaneous causality bias.
• B)external validity.
• C)sample selection bias.
• D)internal validity.

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Definitions:

Political Party Machines

Political entities in the 19th and early 20th centuries that controlled party nominations and patronage, often through corruption and favoritism, to maintain power.

Spoils System

The term meaning the filling of federal government jobs with persons loyal to the party of the president; originated in Andrew Jackson’s first term.

Whigs

A political faction and then a formal party in the parliaments of England, Great Britain, Ireland, and the United Kingdom, that was influential from the 1680s to the 1850s, advocating for parliamentary supremacy and opposed to the royal prerogative.

Spoils System

A practice where political party leaders give government jobs to their supporters as a reward for their assistance in achieving victory.