Thompson (200) administrated a survey regarding teacher effectiveness and instructional practices from EL students in a Hispanic school in South California. The students there demonstrated a great interest and level of anxiety decreases when the instructor emphasized the importance of "individual help from teacher, tutor and instructors aids", "peer interaction", "acquiring fun materials such as games to learn English", "creating a welcoming environment", "knowing and understanding students", "remembering the students learn in different ra...
In the statistics section, we discussed terms involved with sorting data such as mean (average), median (distribution above and below 50 percent of the other scores), mode (most frequent), range (highest number-lowest number), and standard deviation (difference of a set of scores from their mean), which also are very useful when discussing data for collecting info and data in surveys. This is very useful to me personally, since I have to do surveys in my volunteering, and now I can apply these to create a great data and a better sense of what's going on. ... This information was very fu...