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Elementary Teaching
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1. The pleasure that is inherent in simply engaging in the behavior.
Essentialism
external locus of control
Intrinsic reinforcer
Intimacy v. Isolation Stage Young Adulthood
2. Uling consequences to control the occurenc of behavior
Critical Thinking
Descriptive Research
operant conditioning
Cognitive development
3. 1958 Passed in response to the Russian launch of Sputnik satellite; appropriated federal funds to improve education in areas considered crucial to national defense/security: math - foreign language - and science.
Project Head Start
National Defense Act (NDEA)
Adaptation
interindividual variation
4. A measure of prestige within a social group most often based on income and education.
Socioeconomic status (SES)
Stage 1: Punishment and Obedience Orientation
Recency effect
Moral Dilemmas
5. The premature choice of a role - often done to reinforce self-concept.
Identity foreclosure
Learning probe
Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
Individual Learning Expectation (ILE)
6. An adolescent's premature establishment of an identity based on parental choices - not on his or her own
Massed practice
Foreclosure
Instructional objective
Tutorial programs
7. Selection by chance into different treatment groups to try to ensure equality of the groups.
Random Assignment
Standard deviation
Identity diffusion
Progressivism
8. Normal intelligence; discrepancy between intelligence & performance; delays in achievement; poor motor coordination/spatial ability; perceptual anomalties; difficulty w/self-motivation; etc.
Orthopedic Impairments
Correlational Study
Least restrictive environment
Characteristics of LD (may not have all)
9. Assessment Continuous feedback - informal monitoring of students' progress
Authoritative parents
Life Adjustment Movement
Observational learning
Progressivism
10. Play in which children engage in the same activity side by side but with very little interaction or mutual influence.
Identity foreclosure
Whole language
buy-in
Parallel play
11. Stages 5 and 6 in Kohlberg's model of moral development - in which individuals make moral judgements in relation to abstract principles.
Enrichment activities
Postconventional level of morality
Interference
Emotional or Behavioral Disorder
12. Forms of epilepsy.
Impulsivity
Lesson planning
Convulsive disorders
Why testing accommodations for students with disabilities are important
13. Educational Goals Help students acquire basic skills and knowledge needed to function in today's world.
Visual-Spatial Intelligence
Group contingency program
seriation
Essentialism
14. Explanation of learning that focuses on mental processes.
Cue
Cognitive learning theory
Noah Webster
giftedness
15. 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.
Conduct disorders
Learning
Proactive facilitation
Progressivism
16. Education that teaches the value of cultural diversity.
Authoritative parents
Postmodernism
top-down processing
Multicultural education
17. Professionals working cooperatively to provide educational services.
The first special classes were established in 1869 in Boston for
Collaboration
Egocentric
concrete operational stage
18. Theory of motivation based on the belief that people1s efforts to achieve depend on their expectations of reward.
Social learning theory
Concept
Expectancy theory
Postmodernism
19. Lack of relationship between two variables.
Percentile score
Verbal learning
Descriptive Research
Uncorrelated Variables
20. Actions that show respect and caring for others.
Prosocial behaviors
Long-term memory
Interference
Partially Sighted
21. 1964 A federal compensatory preschool education program created to help disadvantaged 3 and 4 year old students enter elementary school "ready to learn.'
Project Head Start
Intelligence quotient
Foreclosure Status
Drill and practice
22. An intelligence test score that for people of average intelligence should be near 100.
interlanguage
top-down processing
Positive reinforcer
Intelligence quotient
23. Test that predicts ability to learn a variety of specific skills and types of knowledge.
Mapping
hypothetico-deductive thinking
Multifactor aptitude battery
Identity Diffusion Status
24. Continuous feedback to the teacher - test smaller units - monitor progress - informal
Formative Assessment
Normal distribution
Derived scores
Authoritative parents
25. Computer programs that teach lessons by varying their content and pace according to student responses.
manpower Development and Training Act
Musical Intelligence
Tutorial programs
Cognitive apprenticeship
26. Stage at which a person understands that people make rules and that punishments are not automatic.
In 1990 - P.L. 94-142 was renamed to the
Autonomous morality
Mental set
Assertive Discipline
27. Explored identity - but not made a commitment.
Allocated time
Group contingencies
Erik Erickson moratorium
Speech Disorders
28. Sensitivity to the sounds - rhythms - and meanings of words; sensitivity to the different functions of language.
autism
Theory
culture
Linguistic Intelligence
29. Symbols that cultures create to help people think - communicate - and solve problems.
Control Group
comprehensible input hypothesis
Sign systems
Asperger's Syndrome
30. 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.
Object permanence
Matching items
Educational Implications of Social Learning Theory
Scaffolding
31. A program that is designed to prevent or remediate learning problems for students who are from lower socioeconomic status communities.
Compensatory education
Treatment
Inert knowledge
Americans with Disabilities Act
32. A set of principles that explain and relate certain phenomena.
Inattention
Theory
Progressivism
Corpal Punishment
33. 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.
Reflectivity
Conduct disorders
Time out
reflective abstraction
34. Research scores from individual minority populations to determine whether scores are comparable - provide non-English-speaking students the opportunity to take mathematics & science exams in their native language - grade essays without regard for who
Characteristics of Asperger's Syndrome
Means-end analysis
Achievement motivation
Fair & ethical testing procedures
35. Motivation that stems from one's own needs or desires - not requiring extrinsic incentives.
intrinsic motivation
Neutral stimuli
Inattention
social competence
36. Praise or rewards given to motivate people to engage in behavior that they might not engage in without it.
Instrumental Enrichment
Abbe de I'Epee
Foreclosure
Extrinsic reinforcer
37. Assign students to remedial or accelerated tracks based solely on their scores - compute glass grades using standardized test scores - compare scores on the exam to in-class quizzes
Reflectivity
Behavior content matrix
External Validity
Misuses of state-mandated standardized achievement test scores
38. Oral articulation problems; occur most frequently among children in early elementary grades.
Success for All
Speech Disorders
Solitary play
Normal curve equivalent
39. 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
Birth - Age 2
seriation
Interpersonal Intelligence
learning assessment
40. Methods - such as questions - that help teachers find out if students understand a lesson.
Postmodernism
Learning probe
Characteristics of Fragile X Syndrome
Asperger's Syndrome
41. Father of American Scholarship in Education
Formative evaluation
Noah Webster
Conservation
Deaf-Blindness
42. An individual's premature establishment of an identity based on parental choices rather than their own.
Foreclosure
Cognitive behavior modification
Education for All Handicapped Children Act (PL 94-142)
Language disorders
43. 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
Postmodernism
concrete operational stage
Mastery criterion
Attention deficit disorder (ADD)
44. Components of memory where large amounts of information can be stored for long periods of time.
Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
Problem-solving assessment
Long-term memory
Perennialism
45. Assessments that compare the performance of one student against the performance of others.
Norm-referenced evaluations
Imagery
Self-actualization
Locus of control
46. 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
Performance goals
guided participation
Physical Characteristics of Fragile X Syndrome
Stage 3: Good-Boy/Good-Girl Orientation
47. Arranging objects in sequential order according to one aspect - such as size - weight - or volume.
Seriation
attention deficit hyperactive disorders
Middle Colonies
Completion items
48. A measure of the consistency of test scores obtained from the same students at different times.
Fixed-interval schedule
Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development
Reliability
Essentialism
49. Direct injury to the brain - such as a tearing of nerve fibers - bruising of the brain tissues against the skull - brain stem trauma - or swelling.
Characteristics of Fragile X Syndrome
Traumatic brain injury (TBI)
Short-term memory
Identity foreclosure
50. A teaching method in which the teacher guides instruction so that students will master and internalize the skills that permit higher cognitive functioning.
Transfer of learning
Mediated learning
Allocated time
multimodal approach