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Elementary Teaching
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1. Component of memory where limited amounts of information can be stored for a few seconds.
Essentialism
hypothetico-deductive thinking
Massed practice
Short-term memory
2. Component of the memory system where information is received and held for very short periods of time.
Stage 1: Punishment and Obedience Orientation
Sensory register
Principle
Public Law 94142
3. Differences in developmental needs from one child to the next; see intraindividual variation.
Variable-interval schedule
interindividual variation
The Servicemen's Readjustment Act (G.I. Bill)
Group contingency program
4. Eye contact - gestures - physical proximity - or touching used to communicate without interrupting verbal discourse.
giftedness
Fair & ethical testing procedures
Multiple intelligences
Nonverbal cues
5. The study of teaching and learning with applications to the instructional process.
negative reinforcer
Equilibration
Pedagogy
Retroactive facilitation
6. Approach to teaching in which lessons are goal-oriented and structured by the teacher.
Land Law of 1785
Self-actualization
Programmed instruction
Direct instruction
7. A cooperative learning method for mixed-ability groupings involving team recognition and group responsibility for individual learning.
Student Teams-Achievement Divisions(STAD
Foreclosure
Conservation
Asperger's Syndrome
8. Livelihood Industry/Commerce = most lived in towns
Matching items
New England Colonies
Peer tutoring
Joplin Plan
9. An apparatus developed by B. F. Skinner for observing animal behavior in experiments in operant conditioning.
Performance assessment
Peer tutoring
Validity
Skinner box
10. Stages 5 and 6 in Kohlberg's model of moral development - in which individuals make moral judgements in relation to abstract principles.
Linguistic Intelligence
Postconventional level of morality
Southern Colonies
Validity
11. 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.
intrinsic motivation
Group Investigating
Perennialism
Discovery learning
12. 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.
Limited English proficiency (LEP)
self-evaluation
matrix classification
Visual-Spatial Intelligence
13. Components of memory where large amounts of information can be stored for long periods of time.
Moral Dilemmas
Long-term memory
Cue
Defines special education as specially designed instruction.
14. Time spent actively engaged in learning the task at hand.
Time on-task
Transfer-appropriate processing
Refers to a condition that a person has.
Achievement tests
15. Stage during which infants learn about their surroundings by using their sensesand motor skills.
Generativity v. Self-Absorption Stage Middle Adulthood
hierarchial classification
Sensorimotor stage
Intrapersonal Intelligence
16. Demographics Majority English - w/large populations of Dutch in New York - Swedes in Delaware - and Germans in Pennsylvania
Middle Colonies (NY - NJ - Del. - Penn.)
Essentialism
Under IDEA - a student is eligible for special education services if he/she has a disability and because of the disability - the student has
Zone of proximal development
17. 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
Least restrictive environment
Progressivism
Programmed instruction
Why testing accommodations for students with disabilities are important
18. Evaluations designed to determine whether additional instruction is needed
Mediated learning
Formative Assessment
Inert knowledge
sensorimotor stage
19. Theory that information is stored in long-term memory in networks of connected facts and concepts that provide a structure for making sense of new information.
Working with students with learning disabilities
Schema theory
Hyperactivity
Stage 3: Good-Boy/Good-Girl Orientation
20. Assessments that compare the performance of one student against the performance of others.
Formative Assessment
Psychosocial Crisis
Attention
Norm-referenced evaluations
21. Standardized tests measuring how much students have learned in a given context.
Most critical problem that can result from standardized achievement test accommodation
Achievement tests
Erik Erickson moratorium
internalization
22. Using unpleasant consequences to weaken a behavior.
Presentation punishment
Punishment
Americans with Disabilities Act
Student Teams-Achievement Divisions(STAD
23. 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.
Intimacy v. Isolation Stage Young Adulthood
Individuals with Disabilities Act
Social learning theory
Characteristics of Emotional and Behavioral Disorders
24. Rapid promotion through advanced studies for students who are gifted or talented.
natural order hypothesis
Educational Implications of Social Learning Theory
Educational Implications of Social Learning Theory
Acceleration programs
25. One form of multiple-choice test item - most useful when a comparison of two alternatives is called for.
Cue
Cognitive apprenticeship
True-false item
Positive Correlation
26. Impairment in student's ability to understand language (receptive language disorder) or to express ideas (expressive language disorder) in one's native language. If not result of physical problem/lack of experience - indicates a LD or mental retardat
Giftedness
Language Disorders
Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
Hearing loss
27. Presence of sub-average general intellectual functioning associated with or resulting in impairments in adaptive behavior; occurs before age of 18
Intellectual Disability
Taxonomy of educational objectives
Group contingency program
Logical-Mathematical Intelligence
28. Teen is not able to develop a clear direction or sense of self. May have experienced an identity crises but was unable to resolve it.
Essentialism
Identity Diffusion Status
Validity
meaningful learning
29. A comprehensive - multipurpose set of instructional software developed by one company.
Integrated learning system
Language disorders
Impulsivity
Self-regulation
30. A history - culture - and sense of identity shared by a group of people.
Ages 2 - 6
Keller Plan
Ethnicity
Automaticity
31. Hypothetical situations that require a person to consider values of right and wrong.
Discovery learning
Moral dilemmas
Perennialism
Land Law of 1785
32. A teaching method based on the principles of question generation - in which metacognitive skills are taught through instruction and teacher modeling to improve the reading performance of students who have poor comprehension.
Ethnic group
Language Disorders
Reciprocal teaching
Concrete operational stage
33. Category of exceptionality characterized by problems with learning - interpersonal relationships - and control of feelings and behavior.
Emotional and behavioral disorders
Sikhism
Americans with Disabilities Act
Integrated learning system
34. Rules are set down by others.
Common benefit of standardized achievement tests
Achievement batteries
Preconventional level of moral development
Matching items
35. Inform decision makers about student behaviors - monitor student progress toward a goal - screen students for specific purposes
Valid reasons for assessing students
Nonverbal cues
operant conditioning
Feedback
36. Cognitive style in which patterns are perceived as whole.
self-instruction
Field dependence
Whole-class discussion
comprehensible input hypothesis
37. Program tailored to the needs of an exceptional child.
Peers
Conduct disorders
Integrated learning system
Individualized Education Program (IEP)
38. 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
Small muscle development
Proactive facilitation
Culture
Identity v. Role Confusion Stage
39. The placement - for all or part of the school day - of disabled children in regular classes.
Perennialism
BICS/CALP
Mainstreaming
Reliability
40. Cognitive style of responding quickly but often without regard for accuracy.
Impulsivity
Constructivism
Reliability
Mastery criterion
41. 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
Physical Characteristics of Down Syndrome
Students at risk
Public Law 94142
Task analysis
42. Teachers' role in advocating for the interests of the students they teach. ELL students and their families often do not have the skills or knowledge of the schooling system to make their voices heard in the school and community.
Expectancy theory
Intellectual Disability
change agents
Formal operational thought
43. Almost all girls begin menstruation by age 13 - most girls reach their adult stature by age 16
Schedule of reinforcement
Orthopedic Impairments
Puberty in girls
Allocated time
44. Systematic application of antecedents and consequences to change behavior.
Performance assessment
Note-taking
Progressivism
Behavior modification
45. Interactive programs that include videos. films. still pictures - and music.
Videodisc
Transfer-appropriate processing
guided participation
hypothetico-deductive thinking
46. The tendency for items that appear at the beginning of a list to be more easily recalled than other items.
Imagery
Primacy effect
Dual code theory of memory
Perennialism
47. Belief that nature and human nature is constant. Most closely related to the Idealism and Realism schools of traditional philosophy.
Perennialism
Identity Diffusion Status
Stage 1: Punishment and Obedience Orientation
Chautauqua (NY) Institute
48. (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
Primary purpose of the Woodcock Reading Mastery Exam(WRM)
Characteristics of Autism
Discontinuous theory of development
Robert J. Breckenridge
49. Wrote anti-papism literature influencing exclusion of Catholic schools from public funding
Robert J. Breckenridge
Initiative v. Guilt Stage
Multicultural education
Assertive Discipline
50. Movements - such as running or throwing - that involve the limbs and large muscles.
Large muscle development
Mental Retardation
Acceleration programs
Fair & ethical testing procedures