ILTS History Practice Content Exam LATEST
a researcher studying early modern europe would be most likely to use parish baptismal and burial records in investigating which of the following research topics? - ANSWER-patterns of change in birthrates and mortality rates
because analysis of these reco...
a researcher studying early modern europe would be most likely to use parish
baptismal and burial records in investigating which of the following research
topics? - ✔✔✔ANSWER-patterns of change in birthrates and mortality rates
because analysis of these records would be particularly useful for determining
demographic changes
students in a social science class plan to research the attitudes of their peers toward
current events. the student researchers believe that their fellow students may be
more willing to express their opinions anonymously than publicly. the student
researchers could best protect the anonymity of their subjects by: -
✔✔✔ANSWER-conducting written surveys using questionnaires that assign
numbers to subjects
because surveys are widely use in social science research as a means of granting
anonymity to subjects and encouraging more candid responses.
,a SS researcher is analyzing the results of a survey, in which over 500 respondents
rater their level of agreement with 25 statements on a scale of 1 to 5. the researcher
discovers that on a small number of questionnaires, respondents gave multiple
ratings to statements or gave contradictory ratings to statements that were very
similar, suggesting they may have misread statements. which of the following
actions would be most appropriate for the research to take to address this issue? -
✔✔✔ANSWER-removing self-contradictory questionnaires from the analysis
because the number of surveys collected in this study is relatively high and the
number of apparently careless responses is low.
a SS researcher is planning a study that will include human subjects. in order to
maintain ethical practices, it is most important for the research to ensure that
potential participants understand: - ✔✔✔ANSWER-that they may decline to
participate and can opt out at any time
because ethical standards of social science research require that participants in
studies give their informed consent.
the methodology of ethnography would most likely be critical in exploring which
of the following social science topics? - ✔✔✔ANSWER-the effect of power
dynamics in determining values within a group
because ethnography is the means of studying and describing a culture/cultural
group through participant observation, as well as, compiling documents,
interviews, and relevant cultural symbols.
A HS SS teacher plans to take an interdisciplinary approach to instruction during a
unit on the US civil war. the teacher could best use which of the following
activities to introduce this approach? - ✔✔✔ANSWER-comparing the
development of northern and southern states during the first half of the 19thc
, because industry, mining, transportation, and other economic activities grew
rapidly in the norther states, while the southern states retained a largely agrarian
economy based on enslaved labor.
Read the passage below:
"... Sadly, policies protecting the rainforests have been undermined by powerful
ranching and logging interests. In 2016 alone, deforestation rates increased 29%"
Based on the evidence in the passage, the author's statement that efforts to protect
the amazon rainforest were undermined by ranching and logging interests is best
characterized by: - ✔✔✔ANSWER-an assertion
because no evidence about what cause the rates to climb after 2012 is provided,
however, the author's claim that ranching and logging interests are to blame is best
described as an assertion.
Read the excerpt below from an 1892 speech by Elizabeth Cady Stanton:
...
In the excerpt, Stanton primarily addresses which of the following questions? -
✔✔✔ANSWER-What do women need in order to be fully sovereign individuals?
because in this excerpt from her speech "The Solitude of Self," Stanton addresses
the needs of women as sovereign individuals. she argues that women should have
opportunities for education and growth, as well as their full freedom, so that each
can take "personal responsibility of her own individual life."
in addition to the sectional conflict over slavery, a marxist interpretation of the
causes of the US Civil War would most likely emphasize which of the following
factors? - ✔✔✔ANSWER-the conflicting economic goals of industrial and
agrarian capitalists
because a marxist interpretation of the cause of the civil war would likely also
examine the north and south's particular forms of economic exploitation (free vs.
slave labor) as an intractable difference that contributed to the outbreak of the war
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