King Article   This section has 9 questions based on Alison…

King Article   This section has 9 questions based on Alison King’s article “Comparison of Self-Questioning, Summarizing, and Notetaking-Review as Strategies for Learning From Lectures”.  You do not need the article to answer the questions. “Asking and answering high-level questions during learning presumably facilitates students’ comprehension by inducing such cognitive abilities as focusing attention, organizing the new material, and integrating the new information with existing knowledge” In this statement what type of variable is “focusing attention”?      

A researcher investigated the impact of a parent losing a jo…

A researcher investigated the impact of a parent losing a job on 7th grade children’s math achievement.  The researcher compared the math achievement of 7th grade children who had 1 parent losing a job with the math achievement of 7th grade children who did not have a parent losing a job.  The researcher hypothesized that when a parent lost a job  children would become more stressed and this stress would hurt the children’s math achievement. In this study, what type of variable is children’s stress levels?

Extra Credit. (No penalty for trying.)  Suppose the followin…

Extra Credit. (No penalty for trying.)  Suppose the following 5 students had these scores on a test: Student             Score Eric                              7 Erin                              11 Nick                              0 Amy                             0 Liz                                2   What is the median of these scores?