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Elementary Teaching
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1. List of instructional objectives and expected levels of understanding that guide test development.
Table of specifications
PQ4R method
constructivist approach
Ethnicity
2. Differences in developmental needs from one child to the next; see intraindividual variation.
Choral response
Formative Assessment
Levels-of-processing theory
interindividual variation
3. Brief statements that represent the main idea of the information being read.
Postmodernism
Summarization
Moratorium Status
microskills
4. Professionals working cooperatively to provide educational services.
Egocentric
Stage 6: Universal Ethical Principle Orientation
Collaboration
Orthopedic Impairments
5. Impairments in the ability to understand language or to express ideas in one1s native language.
Proactive inhibition
Construct validity
meaningful learning
Language disorders
6. 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
Verbal learning
Selected Response
Locus of control
Low Vision
7. Time during which students have the opportunity to learn.
Theory
Ages 2 - 6
Berard Bailyn
Allocated time
8. Interaction of individual differences in learning with particular teaching methods.
Aptitude-Treatment interaction
Southern Colonies
True-false item
bottom-up processing
9. A systematic linguistic analysis of the structures of the learners' native and target languages. Contrastive analysis can be performed at different levels of language--sound - lexicon - grammar - meaning - and rhetoric.
academic competence
Deficiency needs
specific learning disabilities .
contrastive analysis
10. Inform decision makers about student behaviors - monitor student progress toward a goal - screen students for specific purposes
Juan Bonet
Videodisc
Valid reasons for assessing students
Jigsaw
11. A conscious process in which learners develop competence through formal studying of the language - including its rules - grammar and phonetic components
language learning hypothesis
Short-term memory
Language Disorders
Proactive facilitation
12. Conequence given to strengthen behavior
positive reinforcer
learning assessment
National Defense Act (NDEA)
Enactment
13. The act of analyzing oneself and one's own thoughts.
Reflectivity
Cerebral palsy
Juan Bonet
Permissive parents
14. Memorization of facts or associations.
Jigsaw
The normalization principle was a major factor in the development of community-based services for individuals with
Southern Colonies
Rote learning
15. The tendency for items that appear at the end of a list to be more easily recalled than other items.
Cognitive dissonance theory
Race
meaningful learning
Recency effect
16. Compensatory preschool programs that target very young children at the greatest risk of school failure.
Early intervention programs
Progressivism
Premack Principle
Cerebral palsy
17. Experimentation with occupational and idelogical choices without definite commitment.
Normal curve
Free-recall learning
Bahai Faith
Moratorium
18. Concerned with the impact that SES and culture have on students' ability to learn; leader in the Progressive movement.
representational thinking
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Psychosocial theory
George Counts
19. The ability to use language to communicate orally or in writing.
egocentrism
Home-based reinforcement strategies
Limited English proficiency (LEP)
communicative competence
20. When a learner makes the same error repeatedly - without explicit outside correction - they reach the point where they never 'hear' the error. The speaker assumes his or her way of speaking is correct.
language learning hypothesis
Class inclusion
Mental set
error fossilization
21. Assessment Frequent objective - essay - and performance tests.
Reflectivity
egocentric speech
Cognitive behavior modification
Essentialism
22. Event that comes before a behavior.
Disability
Self-actualization
Partially Sighted
Antecedent stimulus
23. In Piaget's theory - the understanding which develops during the concrete operational stage that involves the ability to order objects in a logical progression - such as from shortest to tallest; important for understanding the concepts of number - t
seriation
Critical Thinking
Chautauqua (NY) Institute
The normalization principle was a major factor in the development of community-based services for individuals with
24. A statistical measure of the degree of dispersion in a distribution of scores.
Standard deviation
Multicultural education
monitor hypothesis
intrinsic motivation
25. Representing the main points of material in heirarchical format.
Distributed practice
Outlining
George Counts
Concept
26. Perception of and response to differences in stimuli.
Discrimination
Initiative v. Guilt Stage
Tracks
Observational learning
27. Can be a congenital anomaly (e.g. - club foot - etc.); an impairment caused by disease (e.g. - polio - etc.); or impairments from other causes (e.g. - cerebral palsy - amputation - etc.) that adversely affects a student's educational performance.
Perennialism
Orthopedic Impairments
Peer tutoring
Foreclosure Status
28. Birth to 18 mo.; Goal is to develop a basic sense of trust in others and a sense of one's own trustworthiness. failure to reach this goal results in a sense of mistrust in others/the world.
Trust v. Mistrust Stage
Initiative v. Guilt Stage
Problem-solving assessment
Chronological age
29. Providing supports to help a student do a task. These supports are gradually withdrawn as the student masters the task - thus transferring more and more autonomy to the child. Strategies for scaffolding student work include modeling - questioning - g
scaffolding
Postmodernism
Extinction burst
Language Disorders
30. Knowledge about one's own thinking; involves an understanding of how memory works - what tasks require more cognitive effort - and what strategies facilitate learning; plays an important role in children's cognitive development during the middle chil
Physical Characteristics of Fragile X Syndrome
metacognition
Discipline
Typical of 5 year olds
31. Learning from observation the consequences of others1 behavior.
Enactment
Punishment
Vicarious learning
attention deficit hyperactive disorders
32. Evaluation designed to determine whether additional instruction is needed.
Formative quiz
Individuals with Disabilities Act
Gestalt psychology
emotional or behavior disorders
33. A response to a question made by an entire class in unison.
Egocentric
Expectancy theory
Choral response
Parallel distributed processing
34. A mental operation in the concrete operational stage that involves the understanding that an entity remains the same despite superficial changes in its form or physical appearance.
conservation
Fetal Alcohol Effect (FAE)
Elaboration
Low Vision
35. Learning strategies for learning.
Retroactive inhibition
learning to learn
Mainstreaming
Use for Standardized tests
36. Planning instruction by first setting long-range goals - then setting unit objectives - and finally planning daily lessons.
Primacy effect
Conventional Level
Distributed practice
Backward planning
37. Dispensing reinforcement following an unpredictable number of correct behaviors.
Variable
Educational Implications of Social Learning Theory
Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
Variable-ratio schedule (VR)
38. Category of exceptionality characterized by being very bright - creative - or talented.
Giftedness
self-instruction
Summative quiz
curriculum casualty
39. For blind students.
The first special classes were established in 1896 in Chicago for
Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity (ADHD)
Modeling
Adaptation
40. Support for learning and problem solving. The support could be clues - reminders - encouragement - breaking the problem down into steps - providing an example - or anything else that allows the student to grow in independence as a learner.
Descriptive Research
Formative quiz
Standard deviation
Scaffolding
41. Students often learn a great deal simply by observing other people - describing the consequences of behaviors can effectively increase appropriate behaviors & decrease inappropriate ones
Most critical problem that can result from standardized achievement test accommodation
Educational Implications of Social Learning Theory
Goal structure
Life Adjustment Movement
42. Incorrect responses offered as alternative answers to a multiple-choice question.
John Joseph Hughes
Title I
Stage 1: Punishment and Obedience Orientation
Distractors
43. Problems with the ability to receive information through the body1s senses.
Sensory impairments
concrete operational stage
Identity diffusion
Characteristics of LD (may not have all)
44. A reward that is external to the activity - such as recognition or a good grade.
Reading Recovery
Extrinsic incentive
Working with students with ADHD
Emotional or Behavioral Disorder
45. The period of life from 2 to 7 years old when - Piaget believed - children demonstrate an increased ability to use symbols (gestures - words - numbers) to represent real objects in their environment.
meaningful learning
Copying computer programs
preoperational stage
Misuses of state-mandated standardized achievement test scores
46. Using consequences to control the occurrence of behavior.
Schema theory
Attention
manpower Development and Training Act
Operant conditioning
47. About 1/3 of affected girls have mild retardation/learning disability; may exhibit attention disorders - self-stimulatory behaviors - and speech/language problems
Characteristics of Fragile X Syndrome
Ages 12 - 18
Erik Erickson moratorium
object permanence
48. Decreasing the chances that a behavior will occur again by removing a pleasant stimulus following the behavior.
Removal punishment
sensorimotor stage
Working with students with ADHD
Field dependence
49. Environmental conditions that activate the senses.
Stimuli
Rehearsal
hierarchial classification
Zone of proximal development
50. Motivation that stems from one's own needs or desires - not requiring extrinsic incentives.
hypothetico-deductive thinking
intrinsic motivation
Reliability
Closure