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Elementary Teaching

Subject : teaching
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. The desire to experience success and to participate in activities in which success is dependent on personal effort and abilities.






2. Upper-slant eyes; short stature; flat nose; somewhat smaller ears/nose; enlarged - sometimes protruding tongue; short fingers; reduced muscle tones; single (Simean) crease across palm of the hand






3. 3 to 6 yrs.; Goal is for child to explore her world so she can understand who she is within this context. Failure to reach this leads child to experience a sense of guilt about her desires to explore - which could limit her willingness to take chance






4. The idea of 'public education' was created by historians who were 'educational missionaries.'






5. Movement is particularly concerned with spiritual exploration - holistic medicine - and mysticism - yet no rigid boundaries actually exist






6. An undesirable characteristic of tests in which item content discriminates against certain students on the basis of socioeconomic status - race - ethnicity - or gender.






7. Education Reserved for the sons of wealthy - White families






8. Modifying existing schemes to fit new situations.






9. About 1/3 of affected girls have mild retardation/learning disability; may exhibit attention disorders - self-stimulatory behaviors - and speech/language problems






10. Teacher's Role Deliver clear lectures; increase students' understanding with critical questions.






11. According to Piaget - children's inclination during the preoperational stage to attribute intentional states and human characteristics to inanimate objects.






12. A teacher1s ability to respond to behavior problems without interrupting a classroom lesson.






13. Learning process in which individuals physically carry out tasks.






14. Decreasing the chances that a behavior will occur again by presenting an aversive stimulus following the behavior.






15. The process of adjusting schemes in response to the environment by means of assimilation.






16. A disorder characterized by difficulties maintaining attention because of a limited ability to concentrate; includes impulsive actions and hyperactive behavior.






17. Incorrect responses offered as alternative answers to a multiple-choice question.






18. A Piagetian concept that develops during the preoperational stage in which children gain the ability to use words to stand for real objects.






19. Component of memory where limited amounts of information can be stored for a few seconds.






20. Education of All Handicapped Children Act.






21. The fundamental assumption of the common school movement is 'the public school would be an agent of moral/social redemption that resulted from nonsectarian religious instruction'; exposed evils associated with this movement.






22. 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.






23. Dispensing reinforcement for behavior emitted following an unpredictable amount of time.






24. An approach to instruction and school organization that clearly specifies what students should know and be able to do at the end of a course of study.






25. Designation for programs and classes to teach English to students who are not native speakers of English.






26. A history - culture - and sense of identity shared by a group of people.






27. Memorization of facts or associations.






28. Evaluation designed to determine whether additional instruction is needed.






29. A part of long-term memory that stores images of our personal experiences.






30. Evaluations designed to determine whether additional instruction is needed






31. For blind students.






32. A motivational orientation of students who place primary emphasis on gaining recognition from others and earning good grades.






33. Most girls begin their growth spurt by the start of 5th grade






34. 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.






35. Given two lists - each item in one list will match with one item in the other list.






36. A teacher or school can make one backup copy of






37. A study strategy that requires decisions about what to write.






38. A motivational orientation of students who place primary emphasis on knowledge acquisition and self-improvement.






39. A comprehensive - multipurpose set of instructional software developed by one company.






40. A pleasurable consequence that maintains or increases a behavior.






41. Degree to which results of an experiment can be applied to real-life situations.






42. One-to-one tutoring for reading; early elementary = phonetic reading strategies; teach learning-to-learn skills (study skills - test-taking skills - etc.); give frequent feedback; break down large projects into smaller chunks; effective classroom man






43. Eye contact - gestures - physical proximity - or touching used to communicate without interrupting verbal discourse.






44. Computer programs that model real-life phenomena to promote problem solving and motivate interest in the areas concerned.






45. A psychological movement - started in Germany - that advanced the understanding of perception.






46. One of three stages of children's use of language identified by Vygotsky during which children begin to use speech to regulate their behavior and thinking through spoken aloud self-verbalizations; contrast with social speech and inner speech.






47. A stimulus that naturally evokes a particular response.






48. One form of multiple-choice test item - most useful when a comparison of two alternatives is called for.






49. The public loss of confidence in education






50. Eliminating or decreasing a behavior by removing reinforcement for it.