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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”?      

   What is the weakest item in the set of 5 items?  

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 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?

  What percentage of variance in the outcome is explained by the independent variables?

A researcher was interested in comparing the academic motivation of identified gifted 4th grade students and 4th grade students who were not identified as gifted.   100 gifted 4th grade students and 100, 4th grade students who were not identified as gifted were randomly selected and were administered a 10 item academic motivation questionnaire (Cronbach alpha = .96).  The responses to the questionnaire were combined to form an overall academic motivation score. What does Cronbach’s alpha evaluate?  

King presents in Table 1 an effect size of 1.33 for the summarizing group’s posttest scores compared to the notetaking group’s posttest score..  Interpret this value

Calculate  the “effect size” for the following study:  EXPERIMENTAL GROUP                             CONTROL GROUP    Mean=100                                                          Mean=90     SD=50                                                                 SD=50  

For  the following statement that might be found in a test manual, indicate what type of evidence of MEASUREMENT VALIDITY is indicated by the statement. A panel of experts reviewed the 50 items on the math test and judged the items to be clearly written and covered the instructional objectives.

Which of the following was NOT a type of manufacturing that existed BEFORE the Industrial Revolution?