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Elementary Teaching
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1. Conequence given to strengthen behavior
positive reinforcer
Common School Movement
Parallel distributed processing
Distributed practice
2. Grading on the basis of how well other students performed on the same test rather than in terms of preestablished absolute standards.
Compensatory education
Retroactive inhibition
General Principles of Social Learning Theory
Relative grading standard
3. Standardized tests that include several subtests designed to measure knowledge of particular subjects.
Possible signs of vision loss
Dual code theory of memory
Achievement batteries
Applied behavior analysis
4. Educational Implications (1) Emphasis on basic skills/certain academic subjects students must master. (2) the graduation of a literate/skilled workforce. (3) Curriculum must change to meet societal changes.
Essentialism
Mastery learning
Emotional or Behavioral Disorder
Common School Movement
5. A teaching partnership that often accompanies cooperative or team teaching and is characterized by a consultative relationship in which both special and general educators discuss academic and social behavior problems in the general classroom to meet
collaborative consultation
Multiple intelligences
Job Corps Established
Engaged time
6. Decreasing the chances that a behavior will occur again by presenting an aversive stimulus following the behavior.
Progressivism
Summative evaluation
Instrumental Enrichment
Presentation punishment
7. Hypothetical situations that require a person to consider values of right and wrong.
Moral Dilemmas
Negative reinforcer
Treatment
Mental Retardation
8. Deals abstractly with hypothetical situations and reason.
preoperational stage
Formal operational thought
Asperger's Syndrome
Predictive validity
9. Dispensing reinforcement following an unpredictable number of correct behaviors.
Variable-ratio schedule (VR)
Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)
Norm-Referenced Tests
exceptionality
10. Another term for short-term memory.
Conventional Level
Working memory
Rote learning
Postmodernism
11. Individualized instruction administered by a computer.
Computer-based instruction(CBA)
Critical Thinking
Hearing loss
Instrumental Enrichment
12. Disorders that impede academic progress of people who are not mentally retarded or emotionally disturbed.
learning assessment
animism
Learning disabilities (LD)
attention deficit hyperactive disorders
13. Situation in which students appear to be on task but are not engaged with learning.
Deafness and Hard of Hearing
Table of specifications
Mock participation
Visual-Spatial Intelligence
14. Theories that knowledge is stored in the brain in a network of connections - not in systems of rules or individual bits of information.
Preconventional level of morality
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Characteristics of Asperger's Syndrome
Connectionist models
15. 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.
cognitive behavior modification
Stage 6: Universal Ethical Principle Orientation
Individuals with Disabilities Act
Stage 3: Good-Boy/Good-Girl Orientation
16. 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
Naturalist Intelligence
Readiness tests
Perennialism
Identity v. Role Confusion Stage
17. Continuous feedback to the teacher - test smaller units - monitor progress - informal
Kalamazoo Case
Self-actualization
Cognitive apprenticeship
Formative Assessment
18. A pattern of attributing events to factors outside one's control; a characteristic of children with learning disabilities; see locus of causality.
Early intervention
Heteronomous morality
Mental age
external locus of control
19. 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
Language Disorders
New England Colonies
Formative evaluation
Southern Colonies
20. Knowledge and skills relating to reading that children usually develop from experience with books and other print media before the beginning of formal reading instruction in school.
zone of proximal development
Inattention
Emergent literacy
Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA)
21. Removing a student from a situation in which misbehavior was reinforced.
Copying computer programs
Preoperational stage
Time out
Expectancy-valence model
22. A task requiring recall of a list of items in any order.
Free-recall learning
Mental set
Educational Implications of Social Learning Theory
Identity foreclosure
23. Applications of microcomputers that provide students with practice of skills and knowledge.
Drill and practice
centration
Peers
Working with students with ADHD
24. Piaget's term for children's inconsistency in thinking within a developmental stage; explains why - for instance - children do not learn conservation tasks about numbers and volume at the same time.
horizontal decalage
Removal punishment
Emotional or Behavioral Disorder
Stimuli
25. 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.
Self-esteem
circular reactions
Grade-equivalent scores
Outcomes-based education
26. Involves organizing - selecting - and applying complex procedures that have at least several important steps or components.
Social comparison
Problem-solving assessment
Withitness
Test bias
27. Help individuals self-correct behaviors and ideas - empower learners to take ownership of ideas
Means-end analysis
Reflectivity
Attribution theory
output
28. Standardized tests measuring how much students have learned in a given context.
Learning objectives
scaffolding
social competence
Achievement tests
29. An approach to learning which purports that children must construct their own understandings of the world in which they live. Teachers guide this process through focusing attention - posing questions - and stretching children's thinking; information
constructivist approach
Large muscle development
Preoperational stage
Bilingual education
30. A category of disability that significantly affects social interaction - verbal and nonverbal communication - and educational performance.
conservation
The normalization principle was a major factor in the development of community-based services for individuals with
Intelligence
Autism
31. Educational Implications (1) Literature written by feminist/minority authors should be equal to that of others. (2) Historical events should be studied from the perspective of power - status - and marginalized people's struggle within these cont
Behavior modification
Aversive stimulus
Postmodernism
Perennialism
32. The tendency to think about - see - and understand the world from one's own perspective; an inability to see objects or situations from another's perspective.
egocentrism
scheme
Collaboration
Withitness
33. Emphasizes curriculum that focuses on real-world problem solving and individual development. Most closely related to the Pragmatism school of philosophy
Independent practice
Conditioned stimulus
Conventional Level
Progressivism
34. Education that teaches the value of cultural diversity.
Intelligence
Minority group
Multicultural education
language acquisition hypothesis
35. 1874 Began as a training for Methodist Sunday-School teachers; gradually broadened in scope to include general education and popular entertainment.
Interpersonal Intelligence
Chautauqua (NY) Institute
Individuals with Disabilities Act
Zone of proximal development
36. Increased in hormonal levels occur - resulting in a growth spurt - males generally become taller than females and develop deeper voices and characteristic patterns of facial and body hair; increased strength and heart and lung capacity give the child
Emotional or Behavioral Disorder
Ages 12 - 18
ransitvity
social competence
37. A mental operation learned during the concrete operational stage that allows children to organize concepts and objects according to how they relate to one another in a building-block fashion. For example - all matter is composed of molecules and mole
Inattention
Progressivism
When most girls begin their growth spurt
hierarchial classification
38. Process by which thoroughly learned tasks can be performed with little mental effort.
Where the school accountability movement comes from
Learning Disability
Automaticity
Performance goals
39. Incorrect responses offered as alternative answers to a multiple-choice question.
Distractors
seriation
Postmodernism
Orthopedic Impairments
40. Decreased ability to recall previously learned information causedby learning of new information.
Industry v. Inferiority Stage
guided participation
Retroactive inhibition
negative reinforcer
41. Make sure student understands classroom rules/procedures; seat ADHD students in close proximity to you; understand student may not be able to control her behavior (not defiant); allow student opportunities to be active; use daily report cards
Percentile score
Concept
Pedro Ponce de Leon
Working with students with ADHD
42. Research approach in which the teaching practices of effective teachers are recorded through classroom observation.
Fair & ethical testing procedures
Process-product studies
Works Progress Administration (WPA)
Physical characteristics of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
43. Decreasing the chances that a behavior will occur again by removing a pleasant stimulus following the behavior.
Keyword method
Removal punishment
Emotional and behavioral disorders
Primary purpose of the Woodcock Reading Mastery Exam(WRM)
44. A concept which allows children to use information they already have acquired to form new knowledge that begins to emerge during the concrete operational stage but more characteristic of adolescent thinking.
Moral dilemmas
Stage 4: Law and Order Orientation
reflective abstraction
Stage 2: Instrumental Relativist Orientation
45. Adolescent experiments with goals and values by abandoning some of those set by parents and society; no definite commitments have been made to occupations or ideologies; the adolescent is in the midst of an identity crisis
Logical-Mathematical Intelligence
Independent practice
Moratorium
Authentic assessment
46. A change in an individual that results from experience.
Learning disabilities (LD)
Learning
Sex-role behavior
Sensory impairments
47. A type of standardized score ranging from 1 to 9 - having a mean of 5 and a standard deviation of 2.
Stanine scores
active listening
Automaticity
Attention
48. An intelligence test score that for people of average intelligence should be near 100.
Intelligence quotient
bottom-up processing
Grade-equivalent scores
Low Vision
49. Inappropriate types of behavior or feelings under normal circumstances - a general pervasive mood of unhappiness or depression - a tendency to develop physical symptoms of fears associated with personal or school problems
knowledge of students
Emotional or Behavioral Disorder
Proactive inhibition
circular reactions
50. Rogoff's term used to describe transferring responsibility for a task from the skilled partner to the child in a mutual involvement between the child and the partner in a collective activity. Steps include choosing and structuring activities to fit t
Aptitude-Treatment interaction
BICS/CALP
Cross-age tutoring
guided participation