1. Which of one of the following is an disadvantage of multiple choice questions?
a) can be used to assess almost anyone
b) limits the skind of content assessed
c) are relatively easy to score
d) poor writers are not penalized
2. How can descriptive statistics be defined
a) describing eleements of distribution
b) relating the data to a larger population
c) developing a research question
d) identical to inferential statistics
3. When computing the standard deviation what does it mean when the sum of the deviation about the mean is NOT 0
a) the data set has a great amount of variability
b) the sata set has at least one extreme score
c) the data is too small
d) the mean of the data set was computed incorrectly
4. Which measure of varibility describes the average deviation of each score from the mean
a) range
b) standard deviation
c) mode
d) mean
5. Which measure would be used to describe the average class ranking of algebra students?
a) mean
b) mode
c) median
d) standard deviation