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Elementary Teaching

Subject : teaching
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Deals abstractly with hypothetical situations and reason.






2. Stage at which children think that rules are unchangeable and that breaking them leads automatically to punishment.






3. Degree to which test scores reflect what the test is intended to measure.






4. Condition - usually present at birth - that results in below-average intellectual skills and poor adaptive behavior.






5. Information on the results of one1s efforts.






6. The kinds of problems some children with emotional and behavioral disorders experience - including depression - withdrawal - anxiety - and obsession; contrast with externalizing problems.






7. Facial abnormalities; heart defects; low birth weight; motor dysfunctions






8. General patterns of behavior used by parents when dealing with their children.






9. A program that provides one-to-one tutoring from specially trained teachers to first-graders who are not reading adequately.






10. A measure of the degree to which instructional objectives have been attained.






11. 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






12. Exceptional learning needs.






13. Fidgets with hands or feet or squirms in seat - leaves seat in classroom or in other situations in which remaining seated is expected






14. Learning by observing others' behavior.






15. Has difficulty with oral language (e.g. - listening - speaking - and understanding); reading (e.g. - decoding - comprehension); written language (e.g. - spelling - written expression); mathematics (e.g. - computation - problem solving); also may have






16. Socioemotional and behavioral disorders indicated in individuals who - for example - are chronically disobedient or disruptive.






17. Visible - genetic characteristics of individuals that cause them to be seen as members of the same broad group (e.g. - African - Asian - Caucasian).






18. Continuous feedback to the teacher - test smaller units - monitor progress - informal






19. A condition that a person tries to avoid or escape.






20. Computer programs that model real-life phenomena to promote problem solving and motivate interest in the areas concerned.






21. The period of life from 7 to 11 years old when - Piaget believed - children's thinking becomes less rigid - and they begin to use mental operations - such as classification - conservation - and seriation to think about events and objects in their env






22. Educational Goals Critically examine today's institutions; elevate the status of marginalized people.






23. The frequency and predictability of reinforcement.






24. One of three stages of children's use of language identified by Vygotsky that is used primarily for communicative purposes in which thought and language have separate functions; contrast with egocentric speech and inner speech.






25. The study of animal behavior with emphasis on the behavioral patterns that occur in natural environments; animals are born with a set of fixed action patterns such as imprinting






26. A model of instruction developed by Gagne that matches instructional strategies with the cognitive processes involved in learning.






27. Students who have abilities or problems so significant that the students require special education or other services to reach their potential.






28. Actions that show respect and caring for others.






29. Indicates that a person has less than 20/200 vision in the better eye or a very limited field of vision (20 degrees at its widest point)






30. What is right is whatever satisfies one's own needs (occasionally the needs of others). Fairness/Reciprocity seen in terms of 'you scratch my back - I'll scratch yours'.






31. Perception of and response to differences in stimuli.






32. A set of principles that relates social environment to psychological development.






33. System of instruction that emphasizes the achievement of instructional objectives by all students by allowing learning time to vary.






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.






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






36. Renowned scientist who founded wild boy






37. Requires student to supply rather than to select the answer






38. A skill learned during the concrete operational stage of cognitive development in which individuals can think simultaneously about a whole class of objects as well as relationships among its subordinate classes.






39. Suggested forming an annex to the public schools to provide special classes for individuals with hearing impairment - visual impairment - and mental retardation






40. The period of life from birth to 2 years old when children acquire what Piaget believed are the building blocks of symbolic thinking and human intelligence-schemes for two basic competencies - goal-directed behavior and object permanence.






41. A type of standardized score ranging from 1 to 9 - having a mean of 5 and a standard deviation of 2.






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






43. Decreasing the chances that a behavior will occur again by presenting an aversive stimulus following the behavior.






44. Level of development immediately above a person's present level.






45. Disorders that impede academic progress of people who are not mentally retarded or emotionally disturbed.






46. Reinforcement schedule in which desired behavior is rewarded following a fixed number of behaviors.






47. A study strategy that requires decisions about what to write.






48. A response to a question made by an entire class in unison.






49. A disorder characterized by difficulties maintaining attention because of a limited ability to concentrate; includes impulsive actions and hyperactive behavior.






50. A measure of the match between the content of a test and the content of the instruction that preceded it.