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Elementary Teaching
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1. Person defines her own values in terms of the ethical principles she has elected to follow.
Development
Variable-ratio schedule (VR)
aversive stimulus
Post-Conventional Level
2. Degree of uncorrectable inability to see 1 out of every 1 -000 children are blind (vision = 20/200 or worse in the better eye) or visually imapired between 20/70 and 20/200 in the better eye).
Vision Impairments
Speech and Language Disorder
Why testing accommodations for students with disabilities are important
Industry v. Inferiority Stage
3. Instruction felt to be adapted to the current developmental status of children (rather than their age alone).
Sign systems
Developmentally appropriate education
Bodily-Kinesthetic Intelligence
Early intervention
4. Goal is to accept one's accomplishments and life as having been worthwhile & come to terms with one's impending death. Failure to do so results in an overwhelming feeling of despair.
Mental set
Integrity v. Despair Stage Late Adulthood
Educational Implications of Social Learning Theory
Formal operational thought
5. Activities and techniques that orient students to the material before reading or class presentations.
Advance organizers
Southern Colonies
Copying an article
Learning
6. Tests or assessments administered during units of instruction that measure progress and guide the content and pace of lessons.
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Bilingual Education Act of 1968 (Title VII of ESEA) provided schools with federal funds to establish educational programs for students w/ limited English
Formative evaluation
giftedness
7. Good behavior is what pleases/helps others and is approved of by them = can earn approval by being nice.
Stage 3: Good-Boy/Good-Girl Orientation
Volition
Achievement tests
internalization
8. The period of life from 2 to 7 years old when - Piaget believed - children demonstrate an increased ability to use symbols (gestures - words - numbers) to represent real objects in their environment.
egocentric speech
Pull-out programs
Interpersonal Intelligence
preoperational stage
9. Educational Goals Help students acquire basic skills and knowledge needed to function in today's world.
Perennialism
Chautauqua (NY) Institute
Essentialism
Dual code theory of memory
10. Grading on the basis of how well other students performed on the same test rather than in terms of preestablished absolute standards.
Working with students with speech disorders
Scaffolding
Relative grading standard
Student Teams-Achievement Divisions(STAD
11. What is right is whatever satisfies one's own needs (occasionally the needs of others). Fairness/Reciprocity seen in terms of 'you scratch my back - I'll scratch yours'.
Stage 2: Instrumental Relativist Orientation
Essentialism
Cognitive development
Normal distribution
12. During the period of life between 11 and 12 years of age and onward during which - Piaget believed - children begin to apply formal rules of logic and to gain the ability to think abstractly and reflectively; thinking shifts from the real to the poss
Vision Impairments
Long-term memory
formal operational stage
equilibration
13. A condition that follows a behavior and affects the frequency of future behavior.
Control Group
Self-regulation
Inferred reality
Consequence
14. An activity acting out situations encountered in the classroom or in everyday life - using the language that might be used in such situations
Misuses of state-mandated standardized achievement test scores
Extinction burst
Copying an article
role play
15. A discussion among four to six students in a group working independently of a teacher.
Small-group discussion
Extrinsic incentive
Postconventional level of morality
Intellectual Disability
16. Did not require bilingual ed.
New England Colonies
Mediated learning
Parenting styles
Bilingual Education Act of 1968 (Title VII of ESEA) provided schools with federal funds to establish educational programs for students w/ limited English
17. The practice of grouping students by ability level in separate classes within-class ability
Between-class ability grouping
Postmodernism
Outlining
social knowledge
18. Stage at which a person understands that people make rules and that punishments are not automatic.
Peers
Exceptional learners
Autonomous morality
Special education
19. Help individuals self-correct behaviors and ideas - empower learners to take ownership of ideas
Reflectivity
Marcia's Theory of Four Adolescent Identity Statuses
learning to learn
Other Health Impairments
20. (those a child exhibits depends on form/severity of autism) extremely withdrawn; engage in self-stimulating activities (rocking - etc.); might have normal/outstanding abilitities in some areas; resistant to changes in the environment/routine; more pr
Discontinuous theory of development
Characteristics of Autism
Howard Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences
Berard Bailyn
21. Criterion-referenced tests focusing on important skills students are expected to have mastered to qualify for promotion or graduation.
Minimum competency tests
Stage 3: Good-Boy/Good-Girl Orientation
Semantic memory
Identity diffusion
22. The tendency for items that appear at the beginning of a list to be more easily recalled than other items.
Primacy effect
Primary reinforcer
Speech and Language Disorder
Events of instruction
23. Relationship in which high scores on one variable correspond to low scores on another.
Formative Assessment
Musical Intelligence
Relative grading standard
Negative Correlation
24. Educational Goals Train students' intellect and moral development.
Perennialism
Robert J. Breckenridge
Why testing accommodations for students with disabilities are important
Stage 4: Law and Order Orientation
25. Values computed from raw scores that relate students1 performances to those of a norming group; examples are percentiles and grade equivalents.
Reflectivity
Distributed practice
Large muscle development
Derived scores
26. Capacity to accurately perceive the visual-spatial world; ability to perform transformations on one's initial perceptions.
Instrumental Enrichment
Learning probe
Accountability
Visual-Spatial Intelligence
27. A theory that emphasizes the active integration of new material with existing schemata.
Generative learning
Scaffolding
Legally Blind
Variable
28. The application of knowledge acquired in one situation to new situations.
circular reactions
adaptation
Transfer of learning
Perennialism
29. Something that can have more than one value.
manpower Development and Training Act
Process-product studies
Variable
Bahai Faith
30. Decreasing the chances that a behavior will occur again by removing a pleasant stimulus following the behavior.
Procedural memory
Self-regulation
Removal punishment
Reliability
31. Educational Implications (1) Learner-centered curricula. (2) hands-on learning activities where students collaborate. (3) Teacher guides students through learning process. (4) Constructivist in nature.
hierarchial classification
Legally Blind
Test bias
Progressivism
32. Accommodation changes the nature of the measurement
physical knowledge
Identity Achievement
Most critical problem that can result from standardized achievement test accommodation
Identity Achievement Status
33. Methods of questioning that encourage students to pay attention during lectures and discussions.
Egocentric
multimodal approach
Mental retardation
Group alerting
34. Child often tilts head/rubs eyes; has eyes that are red - inflamed - crusty - or water excessively; has trouble reading small print/can't discriminate letters; complains of dizziness/headaches after reading.
Possible signs of vision loss
guided participation
Perennialism
Edward C. Cubberley
35. Consequence given to strengthen behavior.
Grade-equivalent scores
Positive reinforcer
Stage 1: Punishment and Obedience Orientation
egocentric speech
36. The goals students must reach to be considered proficient in a skill.
Mastery goals
Intelligence
unconditioned stimulus
Misuses of state-mandated standardized achievement test scores
37. Sub-average intellectual functioning existing concurrently with related limitations in 2 or more of the following: communication; self-care; home living; social skills; community use; self-direction; health/safety; functional academics; leisure; work
Bahai Faith
Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)
Characteristics of Mental Retardation
Defines special education as specially designed instruction.
38. Theory that emphasizes learning through observation of others.
preoperational stage
Experimental Group
error correction
Social learning theory
39. A measure of the degree to which a test is appropriate for its intended use.
Validity
Accountability
Aptitude test
Principle
40. The degree to which the teacher is aware of and responsive to student performance.
Conservation
Withitness
hierarchial classification
Cognitive dissonance theory
41. Connecting new material to information or ideas already in the learner's mind.
Inferred reality
Semantic memory
Elaboration
bottom-up processing
42. A form of formal logic achieved during the formal operational stage that Piaget identified as the ability to draw a logical inference between two statements or premises in an 'if-then' relationship.
Learning Disability
Description of the way a child goes up & down steps at the end of early childhood
Whole-class discussion
propositional logic
43. Presence of sub-average general intellectual functioning associated with or resulting in impairments in adaptive behavior; occurs before age of 18
Postmodernism
Achievement batteries
Essentialism
Intellectual Disability
44. The many small skills needed in a larger course of action.
manpower Development and Training Act
Behavior modification
microskills
Partially Sighted
45. Methods - such as questions - that help teachers find out if students understand a lesson.
Learning probe
Classical conditioning
Random Assignment
Assimilation
46. Educational activities that are given to students who initially fail to master an objective; designed to increase the number of students who master educational objectives.
Applied behavior analysis
Erik Erickson moratorium
Overlapping
Corrective instruction
47. Goal is to create and maintain long-term friendships & sexual relationships. Failure may cause person to shy away from future relationships.
Intimacy v. Isolation Stage Young Adulthood
Fetal Alcohol Effect (FAE)
Where the school accountability movement comes from
Preconventional level of morality
48. Disorder in ability to control movements caused by damage to the motor area of the brain
Cerebral palsy
Exceptional learners
assimilation
Applied behavior analysis
49. Pattern of teaching concepts by presenting a rule or definition - giving examples - and then showing how examples illustrate the rule.
Rule-example-rule
Ethology
Classical conditioning
Imagery
50. Orientation for approaching learning tasks and processing information in certain ways.
Learning styles
scheme
Theory
Independent practice
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