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Mr.Thesaxman

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On average, students who attend schools for gifted children have a lower academic self-concept than students of equal intelligence who attend regular schools with students of widely varying abilities. If we consider research about factors affecting students' sense of self, we can explain this finding in the following way:
 
  a. children who attend gifted programs typically have more assertive parents, and such parents tend to undermine their children's self-esteem.
  b. having a label of any kindeven the label giftedtends to lower self-esteem.
  c. identifying a child as gifted requires an intensive evaluation, and evaluations inevitably lower self-esteem.
  d. children form their self-concepts in part by comparing their own performance to the performance of those around them.

Question 2

These scores show the most typical value or score for the population.
 
  a. deviation scores
  b. confidence interval
  c. frequency
  d. measures of central tendency


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Answer to Question 1

d

Answer to Question 2

D



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