How Did the Spread of Public Schools in the 1820s

question 29

Multiple Choice

How did the spread of public schools in the 1820s and 1830s change teaching?

• A) More school districts hired women as cheap instructors.
• B) Teachers acquired an elevated status as professionals.
• C) Most teachers received an increase in pay.
• D) Districts required that all teachers possess college degrees.

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Definitions:

P < .05

A statistical notation indicating that the probability of the observed results occurring by chance is less than 5%.

Effect Size

A quantitative measure of the strength of a phenomenon, often used to determine the practical significance of research findings.

Cohen

Refers to statistical measures developed by Jacob Cohen to quantify the effect size or the strength of an observed phenomenon, such as Cohen's d.

Cohen's D

A gauge for quantifying the size of impact by showing the normalized discrepancy between two mean values.