Question

1. It advisable to report the median of a variable along with its mean Under what circumstances?

2. Governor Pat Quinn in 2011, signed legislation raising the Illinois individual income tax rate from 3 percent to 5 percent. Democrats, who were largely in favor of the tax increase, described the change simply as an increase of two percentage points. Wheelan discusses how Republicans described the tax rate change. Summarize how they described the change.

3. Why or why not are standardized test scores a reliable measure of school quality?

4. Other than legitimate, positive changes in practices, what strategies might school administrators and teachers use to inflate their average test score?

Answer 1