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Elementary Teaching
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1. Decision making about student performance and about appropriate teaching strategies.
Minority group
Descriptive Research
culture
Evaluation
2. 1978 Schools required to provide services and activities to meet the needs of students identified as being gifted/talented.
error fossilization
Gifted and Talented Act
Assessment
social knowledge
3. Educational Implications (1) Learner-centered curricula. (2) hands-on learning activities where students collaborate. (3) Teacher guides students through learning process. (4) Constructivist in nature.
Instrumental Enrichment
culture
Advance organizers
Progressivism
4. 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.
Southern Colonies (MD - Virginia - NC - SC - GA)
Identity Diffusion Status
Content validity
emotional or behavior disorders
5. Sensitivity to and capacity to discern logical or number patterns; ability to handle long bits of reasoning.
Convulsive disorders
Logical-Mathematical Intelligence
Language minority
Shaping
6. Designation for programs and classes to teach English to students who are not native speakers of English.
Positive Correlation
English as a second language
QAIT model
Moral Dilemmas
7. Something that can have more than one value.
social knowledge
Variable
ransitvity
Under IDEA - a student is eligible for special education services if he/she has a disability and because of the disability - the student has
8. Continuation of behavior.
External Validity
Aptitude test
punishment
Maintenance
9. Refers to a severe visual impairment - not necessarily limited to distance vision; applies to all individuals with sight who are unable to read the newspaper at a normal viewing distance - even with the aid of eyeglasses or contact lens; they use a c
Low Vision
collective monologue
Physical Characteristics of Fragile X Syndrome
Stimuli
10. Explanation of the relationship between factors such as the effects of alternative grading systems on student motivation.
Characteristics of Mental Retardation
Principle
scaffolding
Characteristics of LD (may not have all)
11. Assessment of a collection of the students work in an area showing growth - self-reflection - and achievement.
Emotional and Behavior Disorders (EBD)
Learning
Exceptional learners
Portfolio assessment
12. Computer programs that teach lessons by varying their content and pace according to student responses.
internalizing problems
Overlapping
Parallel distributed processing
Tutorial programs
13. 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.
centration
Sensory impairments
Autonomy v. Doubt and Shame Stage
San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez
14. Theory based on the belief that human development progresses smoothly and gradually from infancy to adulthood.
Stage 6: Universal Ethical Principle Orientation
BICS/CALP
Continuous theory of development
The first special classes were established in 1869 in Boston for
15. A strategy that allows students to practice speaking and listening by sharing information with a variety of partners.
Mental Retardation
Bilingual education
inside-outside circle
reflective abstraction
16. A set of principles that relates social environment to psychological development.
matrix classification
Diagnostic tests
Fixed-interval schedule
Psychosocial theory
17. Physical consequences of an action is determine whether the action is 'good' or 'bad'.
Ages 12 - 18
Stage 1: Punishment and Obedience Orientation
autism
Copying an article
18. Concerned with the impact that SES and culture have on students' ability to learn; leader in the Progressive movement.
realism
eversibility
Copying an article
George Counts
19. 1819 Jurisdictional dispute between the college's president and board of trustees led to a Supreme Court ruling favoring the educational freedom of private institutions (which is what colleges are considered to be)
Intrinsic incentive
Dartmouth College Case
Naturalist Intelligence
Cognitive learning theory
20. Needs for knowing - appreciating - and understanding - which people try to satisfy after their basic needs are met.
Where the school accountability movement comes from
When most girls begin their growth spurt
Growth needs
Interference
21. A stimulus that naturally evokes a particular response.
Know Nothing Party
Analogies
Unconditioned stimulus (US)
Project Head Start
22. Tests that are usually commercially prepared for nationwide use to provide accurate and meaningful information on student's level of performance relative to others at their age or grade levels.
Sensorimotor stage
Attention deficit disorder (ADD)
Standardized tests
Fetal Alcohol Effect (FAE)
23. Grading on the basis of how well other students performed on the same test rather than in terms of preestablished absolute standards.
Relative grading standard
Characteristics of Emotional and Behavioral Disorders
Intelligence quotient (IQ)
Normal distribution
24. Curriculum Emphasis is on basic skills.
collective monologue
Essentialism
Ages 7 - 11
Southern Colonies
25. 1964 A no-cost educational/vocational training program administered by the U.S. Dept. of labor that helps people ages 16 - 24 get a better job - make more money - and take control of their lives. Part of the Economic Opportunity Act.
Job Corps Established
Pedagogy
meaningful learning
Psychosocial crisis
26. A discussion among all the students in a class with the teacher as moderator.
Whole-class discussion
Classroom management
Regrouping
Transfer of learning
27. A study stategy that has students preview - question - read - reflect - recite - and review material.
Foreclosure
Pedro Ponce de Leon
PQ4R method
Rote learning
28. Individuals identified with a minimal IQ score of about 130 and above-average academic achievement - usually 2 years above grade level.
giftedness
academic competence
Constructivism
Instrumental Enrichment
29. The desire to experience success and to participate in activities in which success is dependent on personal effort and abilities.
Achievement motivation
Copying computer programs
Moral dilemmas
Law of Effect
30. Bell-shaped symmetrical distribution of scores in which most scores fall near the mean - with progressively fewer occurring as distance from the mean increases.
interindividual variation
Normal distribution
Early intervention
Land Law of 1785
31. Obtained custody of wild boy and launched an involved program to civilize and educate him; important classic in the education of individuals with mental retardation
Jean Marc Gaspard Itard
Fixed-interval schedule
Sikhism
conservation
32. Religion Wide variety of religious beliefs practiced
Middle Colonies
Dartmouth College Case
Intrinsic incentive
In 1990 - P.L. 94-142 was renamed to the
33. Assessment Continuous feedback - informal monitoring of students' progress
Transfer-appropriate processing
Abbe de I'Epee
horizontal decalage
Progressivism
34. A theory that proposes that memory is stronger and lasts longer when the conditions of performance are similar to those under which learning occurred.
Stage 2: Instrumental Relativist Orientation
Compensatory preschool programs
Transfer-appropriate processing
Permissive parents
35. A behavior that is prompted automatically by stimuli
English as a second language
communicative competence
unconditioned responce
negative reinforcer
36. Eliminating or decreasing a behavior by removing reinforcement for it.
Extinction
Special education
Visually Impaired
Musical Intelligence
37. Programs that target at-risk infants and toddlers to prevent possible later need for remediation.
Early intervention
Object permanence
Inert knowledge
Classroom management
38. Study aimed at identifying and gathering detailed information about something of interest.
Descriptive Research
Individualized Education Program (IEP)
Reciprocal teaching
Criterion-Referenced Tests
39. Has difficulty organizing tasks & activities - avoids - dislikes - or is reluctant to engage in tasks that require sustained mental effort
The normalization principle was a major factor in the development of community-based services for individuals with
Reflectivity
Inattention
Concept
40. Difficulty scoring - requires students to support an argument with multiple lines of reasoning - depends on writing ability
Language minority
Constructed response
Inattention
Engaged time
41. A developmental limitation present during the preoperational stage that makes young children focus their attention on only one aspect - usually the most salient - of a stimulus.
centration
Moral Dilemmas
Normal curve equivalent
Heteronomous morality
42. Cognitive theory of learning that describes the processing - storage - and retrieval of knowledge from the mind.
Information-processing theory
Reflexes
Treatment
Success for All
43. Cognitive style in which separate parts of a pattern are perceived and analyzed.
Field independence
Recency effect
Metacognition
Single-Case Experiment
44. Cognitive style of responding quickly but often without regard for accuracy.
Achievement batteries
Bahai Faith
Impulsivity
Reliability
45. Assessment Collaborative between teacher and student; emphasis is on the exposure of hidden assumptions.
Schema theory
Deafness and Hard of Hearing
Postmodernism
Traumatic brain injury (TBI)
46. (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
Characteristics of Autism
Fragile X Syndrome Chromosomal
reflection
Reflectivity
47. 1990 A wide-ranging civil rights law that prohibits discrimination based on disability; covers employment - transportation - building accessibility - transportation - etc.
Home-based reinforcement strategies
Ethnic group
Public Law 94142
Americans with Disabilities Act
48. Tendency to analyze oneself & one's own thoughts
Reflectivity
General Principles of Social Learning Theory
Cue
Elaboration
49. Methods used to prevent behavior problems from occurring or to respond to behavior problems so as to reduce their occurrence in the future.
microskills
Normal curve
Withitness
Discipline
50. Educational Goals Students need to acquire the ability to function in the real world and to develop problem-solving skills.
Progressivism
Orthopedic Impairments
Field dependence
Handicap