The Association Between Parental Involvement in School and Academic Achievement

question 2

Multiple Choice

The association between parental involvement in school and academic achievement is

• A) consistent across socioeconomic and ethnic groups.
• B) stronger for low-income families than for affluent families.
• C) stronger for European American families than for African American families.
• D) stronger for families of girls than for families of boys.

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Definitions:

Standard Deviation

A measure of the amount of variation or dispersion of a set of values.

Sample Mode

The value that appears most frequently in a given set of data from a sample.

Hypotheses

Proposed explanations made on the basis of limited evidence as a starting point for further investigation.

Chi-Square Distribution

A statistical distribution that is used to describe the distribution of the sum of squared random variables.