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How reliable is a self report measure of children’s social
skills?
The data in this study of 276 fourth-, fifth-, and sixth-grade
students examined the testretest reliability of this measure of social skills.
The authors state that the study demonstrated good reliability for this
measure. How high do you think the correlation was for them to make this claim?
Use the PDF version of this report in the Education database of ContentSelect
(item # 9209789) and read the article to see if you are right.

1. More than half the families in a community can have an
annual income that is lower than the mean income for that community. Do you
agree or disagree? Why?
2. The median is the midpoint between the highest and the lowest
scores in a distribution. Do you agree or disagree? Why?

If five points were added to each score in a distribution,
how would this change each of the following:
a. the range
b. the mean
c. the median
d. the mode
e. the variance
f. the standard deviation

1. Why is it stronger logic to be able to reject a negative
hypothesis than to try an confirm a positive one?
2. A statistical test of significance would have no useful
purpose in a purely desc iptive study in which sampling was not involved. Do
you agree? Why?

Angela has an annual contract with Stenbach Service Centre to provide property maintenance services; this includes lawn care, snow removal and parking lot maintenance. Angela spends, on average, 20 hours per week working at the company’s premises and is paid a flat amount monthly. She hires part-time workers, when necessary, to assist her. Angela does not have any other clients.
Angela uses her own small tools; however the company supplies and maintains a riding lawn mower and a snow plow for her use. Her contact at the company is Chris Moore, the Facilities Manager, who meets with her every Monday to discuss the work to be done that week. Chris approves Angela’s monthly invoices and submits them to Accounts Payable.
Does Angela have a contract of service or a contract for service with Stenbach Service Centre As the company’s Payroll Supervisor, explain to Chris the process and factors you used to make your decision.

Write about your response to the film. What advice is the film giving you as a filmmaker? What techniques speak to you, or get you thinking.
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Students will have a writing assignment to complete for class. Students will read, briefly summarize and review a short book selected from the list below. The review will be 6-8 pages in length and should briefly summarize as well as link the content of the book to concepts described in class. A short review and discussion of if the student would recommend the book to others and if so, for what purpose. If you are unfamiliar with a book review format, search the book reviews often published in the Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis and Journal of Experimental Analysis of Behavior. You will be graded based on the below rubric. Options include:
Attachments:
5595189_1_Book-Review-Rubric.docx

Describe the importance of generalization of behavior.
Describe the difference between response maintenance and setting/situation generalization. Provide a real-life example of the differences.
What is the difference between the instructional setting and the generalization setting? Are there any tactics we should use to make these settings more similar?
Why do Baer, Wolf, and Risely mean when they say that generalization needs to be programmed, rather than expected?
What do the authors say about target behaviors that will meet naturally existing contingencies? What does this mean? Provide some examples.
What about variations of the target behavior? What do the authors say about this?
List the five strategies for promoting
Attachments:
5595193_1_ABA525-Study-Question-8.docx