-Which of the Following Statements About Public Education Is TRUE

question 9

Multiple Choice

-Which of the following statements about public education is TRUE?

• A) Over the last 40 years, there has been an increase in spending for public education, while there has not been a significant increase in performance.
• B) Over the last 40 years, there has been a decrease in public spending for public education, while there has not been a significant increase in performance.
• C) Most of the increases in public spending on public education have gone into programs that have increased student learning.
• D) Over the last 40 years there has been no decline in any of the measures of student performance in public education.

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Definitions:

Cocktail Party Effect

This describes the human ability to focus one's auditory attention on a particular stimulus while filtering out a range of other stimuli, as when listening to a single conversation in a crowded room.

Change Blindness

A perceptual phenomenon where a change in a visual stimulus goes unnoticed by the observer.

Sequential Processing

A method of processing information in a linear, ordered manner, where one step follows another in a sequence.

Parallel Processing

Parallel processing is the ability of the brain to simultaneously process incoming stimuli of differing quality. It's a part of the human information processing system that allows for complex multitasking.