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And hear her shmoop du jour brought to you by disruptive behavior

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which is er, hey! Stop that seriously hey all right I Nina's parents want to have her [Boy scribbling a line through a chalkboard]

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tested for an attention disorder because she's exhibiting disruptive behavior

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in her first grade classroom. Anita is an adopted child from Russia and she has

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not used to traditional American classrooms..Which factor below needs to be

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considered in the administration and evaluation of the attention test and

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here the potential answers... Right no

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excuse for doctors to give drugs here for no reason all right seeing as how the

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test would be looking for attention disorders we can easily eliminate [attention disorder book using a magnifying glass]

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aptitude as an aptitude test is a completely different sort of test one

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that's designed to assess a person's capability or potential capability in a [Man looking confident of passing an aptitude test]

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specific type of task examples of an aptitude test include like a swimming

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test, a cello exam or math test..totally different things of course age would be [Man drawing the number 1 on a chalkboard]

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an obvious factor in any test addressing one's behavior certain behaviors are

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definitely more appropriate for a first grader than say a 12th grader seriously [A young boy holding an ice cream next to a girl and throws it away]

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that being said there's nothing stated in the question that specifically

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suggests age would be any more of a consideration than normal so it doesn't

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quite fit and answers D and E are both big red herrings standard just refers to the [Two large goldfish with name labels]

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standards of any given test while efficiency simply describes whether or

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not a means of testing something is the well, efficient so the answer is A

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culture..Culture is of specific importance in this instance because

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Anita is from Russia and therefore not used to traditional American classroom [An image of the country Russia]

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cultural differences then could play a part in skewing and misrepresenting her

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results on a given test why because specific questions and procedures in the

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test might just be biased towards the culture from which it originates

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specifically perhaps behaviors or patterns that would be seen as

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indicative of a potential attention disorder here may in fact be completely [atypical behaviour from USA moves to Russia]

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normal when observed from a different cultural perspective that being said we

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can think of any particular culture or geographic region where

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post elementary school cooties phobia is considered the norm [Boy wearing a gas mask beside a girl]

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