Suppose a researcher wants to evaluate a self-esteem program by measuring students' self-esteem before and after a self-esteem program is administered.If all of the students score very high in self-esteem before the program begins,then the measurement procedure has a sensitivity problem known as
A)a floor effect.
B)a ceiling effect.
C)a hypersensitive effect.
D)a hyposensitive effect.

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A ceiling effect occurs when students' scores are already very high before the program begins, making it difficult to measure any improvement or changes in self-esteem after the program is administered. This is a sensitivity problem because the instrument used to measure self-esteem is not sensitive enough to detect changes in students who are already at a high level of self-esteem.

Suppose a Researcher Wants to Evaluate a Self-Esteem Program by Measuring