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Elementary Teaching
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1. An act that is followed by a favorable effect is more likely to be repeated in similar situations; an act that is followed by an unfavorable effect is less likely to be repeated.
Nonverbal cues
formative assessment
Partially Sighted
Law of Effect
2. Stage at which children think that rules are unchangeable and that breaking them leads automatically to punishment.
Heteronomous morality
Emotional or Behavioral Disorders
Locus of control
Allocated time
3. Connecting new material to information or ideas already in the learner's mind.
Norms
Elaboration
Perennialism
Attention deficit disorder (ADD)
4. Movements of the fine muscles of the hand.
Schemata
Small muscle development
Inattention
Logico-mathematical knowledge
5. Using unpleasant consequences to weaken a behavior
Traumatic brain injury (TBI)
Ages 2 - 6
punishment
Robert J. Breckenridge
6. A term used by Piaget to describe how children mold new information to fit their existing schemes in order to better adapt to their environment; contrast with accommodation.
Matching items
Mainstreaming
assimilation
Impulsivity
7. Indicates that a person has less than 20/200 vision in the better eye or a very limited field of vision (20 degrees at its widest point)
Language Disorders
specific learning disabilities .
Gifted and Talented Act
Legally Blind
8. Level of development immediately above a person's present level.
Logical-Mathematical Intelligence
Zone of proximal development
Direct instruction
Withitness
9. Tests to assess the student1s level of skills and knowledge necessary for a given activity.
Normal curve
Reflectivity
Visually Impaired
Readiness tests
10. Instruction felt to be adapted to the current developmental status of children (rather than their age alone).
Developmentally appropriate education
Bernard Bailyn
Reliability
Self-regulated learners
11. A task involving the linkage of two items in a pair so that when one is presented the other can be recalled.serial learning--A task requiring recall of a list of items.
Intelligence
Behavioral learning theory
Formative Assessment
Paired-associate learning
12. Tests that are usually commercially prepared for nationwide use to provide accurate and meaningful information on student's level of performance relative to others at their age or grade levels.
Derived scores
Closure
Predictive validity
Standardized tests
13. Student has limited strength - vitality - or alertness that results in limited alertness due to chronic/acute health problems (e.g. - heart condition - diabetes - etc.) that can adversely affect student's academic performance
Discovery learning
Hearing loss
Other Health Impairments
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
14. 1965 part of Pres. Johnson's "War on Poverty.' Provides funding for special programs for children of low-income families in grades k through 12. has been reauthorized by Congress every 5 years since its inception.
Completion items
externalizing problems
Contingent praise
Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA)
15. Designation for programs and classes to teach English to students who are not native speakers of English.
Intelligence
conservation
Generativity v. Self-Absorption Stage Middle Adulthood
English as a second language
16. A chart that classifies lesson objectives according to cognitive level.
Learning together
The first special classes were established in 1869 in Boston for
internalization
Behavior content matrix
17. Hearing ability is of little use - even with the use of a hearing aid = cannot use hearing as primary source for accessing information.
Puberty in girls
Deafness and Hard of Hearing
Derived scores
Bilingual Education Act of 1968 (Title VII of ESEA) provided schools with federal funds to establish educational programs for students w/ limited English
18. Can be a congenital anomaly (e.g. - club foot - etc.); an impairment caused by disease (e.g. - polio - etc.); or impairments from other causes (e.g. - cerebral palsy - amputation - etc.) that adversely affects a student's educational performance.
Orthopedic Impairments
Presentation punishment
Learned helplessness
Speech Disorders
19. A cooperative learning model that involves small groups in which students work using cooperative inquiry - planning - project - and group discussion - then make a presentation on their findings to the class.
Mock participation
Postmodernism
Group Investigating
Essentialism
20. Arranging objects in sequential order according to one aspect - such as size - weight - or volume.
Progressivism
Equilibration
Seriation
Large muscle development
21. Hypothetical situations that require a person to consider values of right and wrong.
Group contingency program
Moral dilemmas
Pedro Ponce de Leon
Validity
22. Stages 3 and 4 in Kohlberg's model of moral development - in which individuals make moral judgments in consideration of others.
Conventional level of morality
Cognitive learning theory
conservation
Mnemonics
23. Dispensing reinforcement for behavior emitted following an unpredictable amount of time.
Variable-interval schedule
Punishment
Stage 2: Instrumental Relativist Orientation
Nonverbal cues
24. Takes coordinated - even steps - steps once on each step - alternating feet
Description of the way a child goes up & down steps at the end of early childhood
exceptionality
John Joseph Hughes
reflection
25. 12
Mnemonics
Intelligence
There are this many categories of exceptionality in which students aged 6-21 are served under IDEA?
Intellectual Disability
26. Free Exercise Clause "Freedom of speech" - has been extend to freedom in religious practice
Learning objectives
First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
Extinction burst
Long-term memory
27. The ability to use language to communicate orally or in writing.
Marcia's Theory of Four Adolescent Identity Statuses
Allocated time
communicative competence
When most girls begin their growth spurt
28. Not explored identity - not made a commitment.
Corrective instruction
Nongraded programs (cross-age grouping programs)
Postmodernism
Erik Erickson Identity diffusion
29. Orientation for approaching learning tasks and processing information in certain ways.
Identity diffusion
Cue
Learning styles
Drill and practice
30. Education Many students educated in parochial schools = taught in their native language & family's religious beliefs were an integral part of the curriculum
Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity (ADHD)
Reliability
Middle Colonies
Levels-of-processing theory
31. 1990 A wide-ranging civil rights law that prohibits discrimination based on disability; covers employment - transportation - building accessibility - transportation - etc.
Essentialism
formative assessment
Americans with Disabilities Act
Ethology
32. A pattern of attributing events to factors outside one's control; a characteristic of children with learning disabilities; see locus of causality.
external locus of control
Attachment Theory
Learning
Lloyd P. Jorgenson
33. Long - narrow face; large ears' prominent forehead; large head circumference; testicles enlarged at puberty in males
Autism
Individualized instruction
Musical Intelligence
Physical Characteristics of Fragile X Syndrome
34. Support for learning and problem solving. The support could be clues - reminders - encouragement - breaking the problem down into steps - providing an example - or anything else that allows the student to grow in independence as a learner.
negative reinforcer
Edward C. Cubberley
Scaffolding
Learning Disability (LD)
35. Different views of males and females - often favoring one gender over the other.
Self-regulation
Progressivism
Gender bias
Partially Sighted
36. Forms of education Private tutors - parochial (Church of England) schools - and boarding schools
Pedro Ponce de Leon
Impulsivity
Southern Colonies
Negative reinforcer
37. Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA).
In 1990 - P.L. 94-142 was renamed to the
Task analysis
Modeling
Between-class ability grouping
38. Relationship in which high scores on one variable correspond to low scores on another.
Negative Correlation
Intimacy v. Isolation Stage Young Adulthood
Stem
collective monologue
39. 1954 U.S. Supreme Court rules that separate facilities for Black and White students are inherently unequal = called for integration of schools.
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
egocentric speech
Experimental Group
40. Block to solving problems caused by an inability to see new uses for familiar objects or ideas.
Emotional or Behavioral Disorder
Functional fixedness
Speech disorders
Perennialism
41. Learned information that can be applied to only a restricted - often artificial set of circumstances.
Inert knowledge
True-false item
In 1975 - Congress enacted a federal law known as Public Law (P.L.) 94-142 or the
Meaningful learning
42. 1978 Schools required to provide services and activities to meet the needs of students identified as being gifted/talented.
Gifted and Talented Act
unconditioned responce
Other Health Impairments
Bodily-Kinesthetic Intelligence
43. Learning Environment High structure - high levels of time on task.
The normalization principle was a major factor in the development of community-based services for individuals with
Inert knowledge
Perennialism
Special education
44. Estimated one in 500-700 babies born each year with some degree of alcohol-related damage/defect- alcohol can damage the central nervous system of fetus and brain damage is not uncommon.
Permissive parents
Essentialism
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS)
intraindividual variation
45. 1990 Governs how states/public agencies provide early early intervention - special education - and related services to children with disabilities from birth to 21 years of age.
self-instruction
propositional logic
Individuals with Disabilities Act
Readiness tests
46. Concomitant hearing and visual impairments which cause severe communication & other developmental/learning needs that student can't be educated in special education programs for students with hearing impairmenets/severe disabilities effectively.
Deaf-Blindness
Self-concept
Test bias
unconditioned responce
47. An individual's premature establishment of an identity based on parental choices rather than their own.
Deficiency needs
Foreclosure
Emergent literacy
academic competence
48. A change in an individual that results from experience.
Learning
Stage 3: Good-Boy/Good-Girl Orientation
seriation
Moratorium
49. Perceiving selected parts of a stimulus to stand out (figure) from other parts (background).
Class inclusion
Essentialism
Accommodation
Figure-ground relationship
50. Federal law P.L. 101-476 enacted in 1990 changing the name of P.L. 94-142 and broadening services to adolescents with disabilities.
Emotional or Behavioral Disorder
Taxonomy of educational objectives
The first special classes were established in 1869 in Boston for
Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)