Which of the Following Trends in Current Educational Achievement Is

question 80

Multiple Choice

Which of the following trends in current educational achievement is NOT supported by research evidence?

• A) Only girls whose parents are college-educated achieve as much as boys.
• B) Girls from all backgrounds have started to perform well since the 1960s.
• C) The boy-girl educational gap has a limited effect on middle- and upper-class children.
• D) Boys from single-parent homes perform less well in school.

---

Definitions:

Notes Receivable

Financial assets representing the right to receive payments from a debtor for a specified amount by a certain date.

Receivables Turnover

A financial ratio indicating how quickly a company collects outstanding accounts receivable.

Current Ratio

A liquidity ratio that measures a company’s ability to cover its short-term liabilities with its short-term assets.

Inventory Turnover

A ratio that measures how many times inventory is sold and replaced over a certain period, used to evaluate the efficiency of a company's inventory management.