In order to improve learning outcomes for adolescents, middle school teachers should provide which of the following?
a. a supportive, caring environment in which to meet social, emotional, and cognitive needs
b. a teacher-determined set of classroom rules to discourage students from distracting one another
c. teacher-student relationships that are more professional and less personal, compared with those in elementary classrooms
d. lower level activities in order to minimize opportunities for student failure
Ques. 2Content analysis as a research technique can be used in
a. qualitative research studies only.
b. quantitative research studies only.
c. both qualitative and quantitative research studies.
d. neither qualitative nor quantitative research studies.
Ques. 3A fourteen-year-old boy who appears to be going through puberty is
a. probably maturing later than the average fourteen-year-old boy.
b. average in terms of male adolescent development.
c. ahead of girls in terms of average age of puberty.
d. probably not curious about sex in spite of his developing body.
Ques. 4To understand the prevalence of the use of the GRE as a pre-admission requirement for graduate school at universities, which of the following research methods should be employed?
a. content analysis c. case study
b. experiments d. historiography
Ques. 5An eleven-year-old girl who appears to be going through puberty is
a. probably maturing earlier than the average eleven-year-old girl.
b. probably not yet curious about sex, in spite of her developing body.
c. behind boys in terms of the average age of puberty.
d. average in terms of female adolescent development.
Ques. 6Which of the following are sources of information for content analysis research?
a. physical and electronic written materials
b. visual or audio materials
c. focused interviews
d. survey data
e. a and b
f. c and d
Ques. 7The middle school student most likely to have low self-esteem and suffer from depression, yet be popular with members of the opposite sex is the
a. early-maturing boy.
b. early-maturing girl.
c. late-maturing boy.
d. late-maturing girl.
Ques. 8Case studies can include
a. narratives, vignettes, and written texts.
b. emic perspectives.
c. etic perspectives.
d. All of these.
e. None of these.
Ques. 9A middle school boy who is physically less mature than the other boys in his class is most likely to
a. have lower self-esteem and stronger feelings of inadequacy.
b. excel academically.
c. be more popular with girls than boys.
d. All of these answers.
Ques. 10The difference between holistic and embedded analysis used in the case study method is
a. the former focuses on the entire case. c. Neither of these.
b. the latter focuses on the entire case.
Ques. 11The early-maturing male middle school student is likely to draw favorable responses from adults because he
a. is no longer concerned about the impact of puberty.
b. tends to be more sophisticated socially than his age-mates.
c. is more capable of formal operations than his age-mates.
d. looks more like an adult.
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