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Elementary Teaching
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1. A study method in which students work in pairs and take turns orally summarizing sections of material to be learned.
Reflectivity
Cooperative scripts
Authentic assessment
Phillipe Pinel
2. In Piaget's theory - the type of knowledge as the mental construction of relationships involved in the concrete operations of seriation - classification - and conservation - as well as various formal operations that emerge in adolescence.
Essentialism
Logico-mathematical knowledge
Recency effect
Retroactive facilitation
3. A consequence that people learn to value through its association with a primary reinforcer.
Starting in 1983 - this was amended several times and expanded its range of programs to include early intervention programs for infants/toddlers with disabilities and transition programs.
Secondary reinforcer
Instrumental Enrichment
guided participation
4. Fill-in-the-blank items on tests.
Standardized tests
Assimilation
Completion items
error correction
5. Degree to which results of an experiment can be applied to real-life situations.
Laboratory Experiment
Direct instruction
External Validity
Extinction burst
6. Planning instruction by first setting long-range goals - then setting unit objectives - and finally planning daily lessons.
Extrinsic reinforcer
Backward planning
Speech disorders
National Defense Act (NDEA)
7. An ethnic or racial group that is a minority within a broader society.
First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
Principle
Minority group
Physical Characteristics of Down Syndrome
8. 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.
Gestalt psychology
Gifted and Talented Act
Proactive inhibition
National Defense Act (NDEA)
9. Play in which children engage in the same activity side by side but with very little interaction or mutual influence.
Variable
Cognitive learning theory
Handicap
Parallel play
10. A measure of prestige within a social group most often based on income and education.
circular reactions
Student Teams-Achievement Divisions(STAD
Socioeconomic status (SES)
Conventional level of morality
11. A behavior that is prompted automatically by stimuli
Relative grading standard
unconditioned responce
Retroactive inhibition
Ethology
12. Stage at which children learn mentally to represent things.
Moratorium
Preoperational stage
Growth needs
Success for All
13. The process of restoring balance between present understanding and new experiences.
General Principles of Social Learning Theory
Hyperactivity
The Servicemen's Readjustment Act (G.I. Bill)
Equilibration
14. Methods of questioning that encourage students to pay attention during lectures and discussions.
Group alerting
Z-score
Choral response
Lloyd P. Jorgensen
15. Using unpleasant consequences to weaken a behavior.
Punishment
Juan Bonet
Backward planning
Proactive facilitation
16. A method of ability grouping in which students in mixed-ability classes are assigned to reading or math classes on the basis of their performance levels.
Emotional or Behavioral Disorders
Scaffolding
Normal distribution
Regrouping
17. Explanation of learning that focuses on mental processes.
Cognitive learning theory
Collaboration
Intellectual Disability
Reliability
18. A characteristic conversational pattern of preschoolers who are unable to take the perspective of others and thus make little effort to modify their speech for their listener so that remarks to each other seem unrelated.
collective monologue
Characteristics of LD (may not have all)
Formative Assessment
Preoperational stage
19. Standardized tests that include several subtests designed to measure knowledge of particular subjects.
egocentrism
Achievement batteries
Self-regulation
Untracking
20. Indicates some type of visual problem has resulted in a need for special education
Jigsaw
learning to learn
Limited English proficiency (LEP)
Partially Sighted
21. Parents who strictly enforce their authority over their children.
Reliability
buy-in
Authoritarian parents
cognitive behavior modification
22. Beginning with processing the higher symbolic and semantic level of meaning of a text and working one's way back to processing the physical characteristics of language (e.g. - letter-sounds).
Expectancy theory
Success for All
top-down processing
Remediation
23. A measure of the ability of a test to predict future behavior.
Summarization
Students at risk
Predictive validity
Aptitude-Treatment interaction
24. Rules are set down by others.
Preconventional level of moral development
Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity (ADHD)
Flashbulb memory
Speech Disorders
25. 12 to 18 yrs.; Goal is for teen to experiment with different roles - personality traits - etc. so as to develop a sense of who she is & What is personally important to her. failure to reach goal leads to a state of confusion which can interfere with
Characteristics of Down Syndrome
Identity v. Role Confusion Stage
Simulation software
Summative Assessment
26. An umbrella term to describe all who receive special education-children with disabilities as well as children who are gifted.
Mental age
Videodisc
Summative Assessment
exceptionality
27. A Piagetian concept that develops during the preoperational stage in which children gain the ability to use words to stand for real objects.
Locus of control
New England Colonies
representational thinking
Fetal Alcohol Effect (FAE)
28. A teacher1s ability to respond to behavior problems without interrupting a classroom lesson.
Overlapping
Small muscle development
Jean Marc Gaspard Itard
Positive reinforcer
29. Capacity to accurately perceive the visual-spatial world; ability to perform transformations on one's initial perceptions.
Accountability
Stanine scores
Critical Thinking
Visual-Spatial Intelligence
30. Component of the memory system where information is received and held for very short periods of time.
Lesson planning
Autism
Sensory register
Enrichment activities
31. The expectation - based on experience - that one1s actions will ultimately lead to failure.
Normal distribution
Learned helplessness
New England Colonies
Z-score
32. Procedure used to test the effects of a treatment.
Physical Characteristics of Fragile X Syndrome
Public Law 94142
Experiment
Robert J. Breckenridge
33. Systematic application of antecedents and consequences to change behavior.
Logical-Mathematical Intelligence
Distributed practice
Behavior modification
Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
34. Test items in which respondents can select from one or more possible answers - without requiring the scorer to interpret their response
Selected Response
Summative evaluation
Generalization
Identity v. Role Confusion Stage
35. Piaget's concept that refers to our innate tendency of self-regulation to keep our mental representations in balance by adjusting them to maintain organization and stability in our environment through the processes of accommodation and*assimilation.
equilibration
Essentialism
Distributed practice
Sex-role behavior
36. Stage at which children develop skills of logical reasoning and conservation but can use theses kills only when dealing with familiar situations.
Ethnicity
seriation
Concrete operational stage
Constructivism
37. Learning of words or facts under various conditions.
Validity
Identity Achievement
Intellectual Disability
Verbal learning
38. According to Piaget - children's inclination during the preoperational stage to confuse physical and psychological events in their attempts to develop theories of the internal world of the mind.
Cognitive dissonance theory
Formative quiz
realism
Withitness
39. Teaching Methods Discussion; role-play; simulations; personal research
Postmodernism
Mastery goals
Imagery
negative reinforcer
40. 1954 U.S. Supreme Court rules that separate facilities for Black and White students are inherently unequal = called for integration of schools.
Time on-task
Public Law 94142
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
Summative Assessment
41. Using small steps combined with feedback to help learners reach goals.
Shaping
Postmodernism
Bilingual Education Act of 1968 (Title VII of ESEA) provided schools with federal funds to establish educational programs for students w/ limited English
Inattention
42. The application of knowledge and skills to achieve certain goals.
reflection
Dual code theory of memory
Modeling
Problem solving
43. Individual that are often unaware of many of the factors that determine their emotions and behaviors; these unconscious factors may create unhappiness - sometimes in the form of recognizable symptoms and at other times as troubling personality traits
Compensatory preschool programs
Psychoanalytic Theory
Private speech
Retroactive inhibition
44. Demographics Majority English - w/large populations of Dutch in New York - Swedes in Delaware - and Germans in Pennsylvania
Sikhism
Rote learning
Corrective instruction
Middle Colonies (NY - NJ - Del. - Penn.)
45. Individuals identified with a minimal IQ score of about 130 and above-average academic achievement - usually 2 years above grade level.
Essentialism
Identity Diffusion
Low Vision
giftedness
46. Information on the results of one1s efforts.
Logical-Mathematical Intelligence
Feedback
propositional logic
Working with students with speech disorders
47. Teen's premature establishment of an identity based on parental choice instead of her own. A pseudo-identity that is too fixed/rigid to serve as a foundation for meeting life's challenges.
Foreclosure Status
Piaget's Theory of Moral Development Cognitive stuctures/abilities develop first
Legally Blind
Perennialism
48. An impairment in the ability to understand and/or use words in context - both verbally and nonverbally; improper use of words and their meanings - inability to express ideas - inappropriate grammatical patterns - reduced vocabulary and inability to f
adaptation
Language Disorders
Variable
Mental retardation
49. Differences in developmental needs from one child to the next; see intraindividual variation.
Assimilation
Foreclosure Status
interindividual variation
Autism
50. Teaching Methods Problem-based learning - cooperative learning - guided discovery.
Postmodernism
Progressivism
object permanence
Moral dilemmas