Author Question: Valerie's state passed a law mandating a free public pre-kindergarten education for three- and ... (Read 243 times)

Yolanda · **on:** Jun 19, 2018

Valerie's state passed a law mandating a free public pre-kindergarten education for three- and four-year-old children, although school enrollment is not mandatory until age five, with kindergarten. She is tracking the school-readiness and reading-readiness scores of all children starting kindergarten to see how the children who are enrolled in the pre-K program do in comparison to those of similar background who do not attend. Valerie is conducting ____.

a. applied research
b. implementation research
c. basic research
d. policy research

Question 2

Given that on one section of the SAT the mean is 500 and the standard deviation is 100, what is the approximate probability of a student scoring 700 or higher on the test?

a. 0.98
b. 0.02
c. 0.12
d. 0.75