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Elementary Teaching
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1. In Piaget's theory - a concept achieved during the concrete operational stage that involves ordering items by two or more attributes - such as by both size and color.
matrix classification
Positive reinforcer
Defines special education as specially designed instruction.
Students at risk
2. The act of analyzing oneself and one's own thoughts.
Growth needs
Reflectivity
Mental set
Permissive parents
3. Also referred to as schema (pl. schemata) in some research areas; in Piaget's theory - the physical actions - mental operations - concepts - or theories people use to organize and acquire information about their world.
scheme
Identity v. Role Confusion Stage
Summative Assessment
Generalization
4. Capacity to discern and respond appropriately to the moods - temperaments - motivations - and desires of others.
Prosocial behaviors
Interpersonal Intelligence
output
BICS/CALP
5. Deficiency in the structure of the X chromosome; affects one in 750 males and one in 1 -250 females; appears to be associated with autism/disorders of attention
Enactment
Intimacy v. Isolation Stage Young Adulthood
Modeling
Fragile X Syndrome Chromosomal
6. Wanted public funding in 1840s for Catholic schools. Helped the secularization of American public schools.
Completion items
Progressivism
John Joseph Hughes
Z-score
7. A skill learned during the concrete operational stage of cognitive development in which individuals can think simultaneously about a whole class of objects as well as relationships among its subordinate classes.
Down Syndrome Chromosomal
Paired-associate learning
Constructed response
Class inclusion
8. Strategy for remembering lists by picturing items in familiar locations.
scaffolding
Mastery goals
Seatwork
Loci method
9. Orderly and lasting growth - adaptation - and change over the course of a lifetime.
Perennialism
change agents
intrinsic motivation
Development
10. Release from an unpleasant situation to strengthen behavior.
Gestalt psychology
autism
Assessment
Negative reinforcer
11. Decreasing the chances that a behavior will occur again by removing a pleasant stimulus following the behavior.
Aptitude-Treatment interaction
giftedness
Backward planning
Removal punishment
12. A stimulus that naturally evokes a particular response.
Allocated time
Postmodernism
Unconditioned stimulus (US)
Multiple intelligences
13. Help ensure that the results will be an accurate indication of student ability - enable most students to be tested - enable testing practices to be deemed fair to all students
Postmodernism
Cognitive apprenticeship
Initial-letter strategy
Why testing accommodations for students with disabilities are important
14. Selection by chance into different treatment groups to try to ensure equality of the groups.
seriation
Legally Blind
Random Assignment
Birth - Age 2
15. An individual's premature establishment of an identity based on parental choices rather than their own.
Discontinuous theory of development
Perennialism
Foreclosure
Control Group
16. The meaning of stimuli in the context of relevant information.
metacognition
Inferred reality
Identity diffusion
Perennialism
17. Piaget's term for an infant's understanding during the sensorimotor stage that objects continue to exist even when they can no longer be seen or acted on.
Under IDEA - a student is eligible for special education services if he/she has a disability and because of the disability - the student has
John Joseph Hughes
object permanence
Vision Loss
18. 1958 Passed in response to the Russian launch of Sputnik satellite; appropriated federal funds to improve education in areas considered crucial to national defense/security: math - foreign language - and science.
Bernard Bailyn
National Defense Act (NDEA)
Intrapersonal Intelligence
Copying an article
19. Students who are subject to school failure because of characteristics of the student or inadequate responses to their needs by school - family - or community.
Jean Marc Gaspard Itard
Multiple intelligences
Students at risk
Discovery learning
20. Assessments that follow instruction and evaluate knowledge or skills.
Inert knowledge
Short-term memory
Summative evaluation
Sikhism
21. Values computed from raw scores that relate students1 performances to those of a norming group; examples are percentiles and grade equivalents.
Derived scores
Conventional Level
Enrichment programs
cognitive behavior modification
22. Exceptional learning needs.
Under IDEA - a student is eligible for special education services if he/she has a disability and because of the disability - the student has
Videodisc
Seatwork
communicative competence
23. Father of American Scholarship in Education
Noah Webster
Educational Implications of Social Learning Theory
Distributed practice
Constructed response
24. 1964 A no-cost educational/vocational training program administered by the U.S. Dept. of labor that helps people ages 16 - 24 get a better job - make more money - and take control of their lives. Part of the Economic Opportunity Act.
Job Corps Established
Project Head Start
Educational Implications of Social Learning Theory
Individual Learning Expectation (ILE)
25. A form of formal logic achieved during the formal operational stage Piaget identified as the ability to generate and test hypotheses in a logical and systematic matter.
Reciprocal teaching
hypothetico-deductive thinking
top-down processing
Public Law 94142
26. Using unpleasant consequences to weaken a behavior.
Mediated learning
Proactive inhibition
Punishment
Howard Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences
27. Evaluations designed to determine whether additional instruction is needed
Giftedness
Formative Assessment
Summative quiz
Time out
28. 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
Extrinsic incentive
Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA)
Characteristics of Mental Retardation
Time out
29. The study of learning and teaching.
Stanine scores
Individual Learning Expectation (ILE)
Test bias
Educational Psychology
30. The degree to which the teacher is aware of and responsive to student performance.
object permanence
constructivist approach
Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
Withitness
31. Evaluation designed to determine whether additional instruction is needed.
Working with students with speech disorders
Post-Conventional Level
Reflectivity
Formative quiz
32. The process of comparing one's self to others to gather information and to evaluate and judge one's abilities.
Criterion-referenced evaluations
Social comparison
Autonomy v. Doubt and Shame Stage
Antecedent stimulus
33. The meaning of stimuli in the context of relevant information.
Relative grading standard
Home-based reinforcement strategies
Ages 2 - 6
Inferred reality
34. Category of exceptionality characterized by problems with learning - interpersonal relationships - and control of feelings and behavior.
Foreclosure
Cooperative scripts
Gestalt psychology
Emotional and behavioral disorders
35. Assessment of a student's ability to perform tasks - not just knowledge.
Antecedent stimulus
Least restrictive environment
Performance assessment
equilibration
36. Condition - usually present at birth - that results in below-average intellectual skills and poor adaptive behavior.
exceptionality
Mental retardation
Working with students with speech disorders
Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)
37. Hypothetical situations that require a person to consider values of right and wrong.
General Principles of Social Learning Theory
Moral dilemmas
Corrective instruction
Parallel distributed processing
38. A person is considered legally blind when the best corrected visual acuity is 20/200 - or the person's visual field is 20 degrees or less; not all blind persons have absolutely no sight; most blind persons have some remaining vision; considered blind
Generative learning
National Defense Act (NDEA)
Deafness and Hard of Hearing
Legally Blind
39. A condition that a person tries to avoid or escape.
Early intervention
Jigsaw
Piaget's Theory of Moral Development Cognitive stuctures/abilities develop first
Aversive stimulus
40. A motivational orientation of students who place primary emphasis on gaining recognition from others and earning good grades.
New England Colonies
Common benefit of standardized achievement tests
Applied behavior analysis
Performance goals
41. Developmental stage at which a person becomes capable of reproduction.
Puberty
New England Colonies
Least restrictive environment
Speech disorders
42. Technique in which items to be learned are repeated at intervals over a period of time.
Kalamazoo Case
Distributed practice
Extrinsic reinforcer
Attention
43. The many small skills needed in a larger course of action.
Single-Case Experiment
Gestalt psychology
microskills
Compensatory preschool programs
44. The kinds of problems some children with emotional and behavioral disorders experience - including depression - withdrawal - anxiety - and obsession; contrast with externalizing problems.
Essentialism
Neutral stimuli
Unconditioned response (UR)
internalizing problems
45. Professionals working cooperatively to provide educational services.
Mapping
Collaboration
Mnemonics
Maintenance
46. Demographics Culturally/Religiously homogenous - Puritan
New England Colonies
Cognitive learning theory
Time on-task
Information-processing theory
47. Characterized by a lower than normal level of intelligence and developmental delays in specific adaptive behavior.
Part learning
mental retardation
Essentialism
Progressivism
48. Visible - genetic characteristics of individuals that cause them to be seen as members of the same broad group (e.g. - African - Asian - Caucasian).
Corpal Punishment
Identity Achievement Status
Race
Language Disorders
49. Made an identity commitment - but not explored identity.
Procedural memory
Description of the way a child goes up & down steps at the end of early childhood
Extinction burst
Erik Erickson Foreclosure
50. Arranging objects in sequential order according to one aspect - such as size - weight - or volume.
Assertive Discipline
Seriation
Mediated learning
Educational Psychology