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Elementary Teaching

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1. An explanation of motivation that focuses on how people explain the causes of their own successes and failures.






2. Evaluating conclusions by logically and systematically examining the problem - the evidence - and the solution.






3. Differences in developmental needs from one child to the next; see intraindividual variation.






4. Learning Environment Community-oriented - self-regulated






5. Test items in which respondents can select from one or more possible answers - without requiring the scorer to interpret their response






6. (those a child exhibits depends on form/severity of autism) extremely withdrawn; engage in self-stimulating activities (rocking - etc.); might have normal/outstanding abilitities in some areas; resistant to changes in the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






7. 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






8. A stimulus that naturally evokes a particular response.






9. Body quadruples in weight and the brain triples in weight - neurons branch & grow into dense connective networks between the brain & the rest of the body






10. Moving from the physical characteristics of language (e.g. - letter-sounds) that are interpreted into successively more symbolic and meaningful levels (syntax and semantics). Often contrasted with top-down processing.






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






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






13. Educational activities that are given to students who initially fail to master an objective; designed to increase the number of students who master educational objectives.






14. Interaction of individual differences in learning with particular teaching methods.






15. A change in an individual that results from experience.






16. 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.






17. The practice of grouping students by ability level in separate classes within-class ability






18. 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






19. Programs that address the needs of students with mental - emotional - or physical disabilities.






20. Basic requirements for physical and psychological well-being as identified by Maslow.






21. Hypothetical situations that require a person to consider values of right and wrong.






22. The expectation - based on experience - that one1s actions will ultimately lead to failure.






23. Degree of uncorrectable inability to see 1 out of every 1 -000 children are blind (vision = 20/200 or worse in the better eye) or visually imapired between 20/70 and 20/200 in the better eye).






24. A cooperative learning model in which students are assigned to six-member teams to work on academic material that has been broken down into sections for each member.






25. Study aimed at identifying and gathering detailed information about something of interest.






26. 18 mo to 3 yrs.; Goal is to gain the ability to do things for oneself. failure to gain a sense of autonomy leads to a sense of powerlessness/incompetence. Child may begin to doubt her abilities & feel guilty when she tries to show some independence.






27. Students' readiness to begin a lesson.






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






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






30. Have a sense of pride in their accomplishments & enjoy demonstrating their achievements






31. Scores are comparable across populations






32. State that learners must individually discover and transform complex information - checking new information against old rules and revising them when they no longer work.






33. A personality trait that concerns whether people attribute responsibility for their own failure or success to internal factors or to external factors.






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






35. 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






36. The application of behavioral learning principles to understand and change behavior.






37. The degree to which an experiment's results can be attributed to the treatment in question - not to other factors.






38. Much like parallel play but with increased levels of interaction in the form of sharing - turn-taking - and general interest in what others are doing.






39. Belief that a critical core of information exists that all people should possess. Most closely related to the Idealism and Realism schools of philosophy.






40. Modeling provides an alternative to shaping for teaching new behaviors - teachers & parents must model appropriate behaviors and take care that they don't model inappropriate ones






41. A set of critical issues that individuals must address as they pass through eight life stages - according to Erikson.






42. Handicap






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






44. Assessment of a student's ability to perform tasks - not just knowledge.






45. Programs that combine children of different ages in the same class - generally at the primary level.






46. Disorder in one or more basic psychological processes involved in understanding/using spoken and/or written language = imperfect ability to listen - think - read - write - spell - or do math calculations.






47. A cognitive strategy that encourages children to record their performance and compare it to their target goals.






48. A pattern of attributing events to factors outside one's control; a characteristic of children with learning disabilities; see locus of causality.






49. The pleasure that is inherent in simply engaging in the behavior.






50. 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







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