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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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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. A standard students must meet to be considered proficient in a skill.






2. The tendency for items that appear at the beginning of a list to be more easily recalled than other items.






3. Right is defined in terms of individual rights/standards that have been agreed upon by society. Laws are not 'frozen' but can be changed for society's good.






4. About 1/3 of affected girls have mild retardation/learning disability; may exhibit attention disorders - self-stimulatory behaviors - and speech/language problems






5. A problem-solving technique that encourages identifying the goal (ends) of a problem - the current situation - and what needs to be done (means) to reduce the difference between the two conditions.






6. Teaching methods in which students are encouraged to discover principles for themselves.






7. These determine the child's ability to reason about social situations. Development occurs in predictable. before age 6 - child plays by her own idiosyncratic rules.






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






9. Relationship in which high scores on one variable correspond to low scores on another.






10. Individualized instruction administered by a computer.






11. An individual's premature establishment of an identity based on parental choices rather than their own.






12. A term used by Piaget to describe how children change existing schemes by altering old ways of thinking or acting to fit new information in their environment; contrast with assimilation.






13. A close emotional relationship between two persons characterized by mutual affection and a desire to maintain proximity; attachments serve the purpose of keeping the child & primary caregiver physically and emotionally close






14. A part of long-term memory that stores facts and general knowledge.






15. Help individuals self-correct behaviors and ideas - empower learners to take ownership of ideas






16. Standards derived from giving a test to a sample of people similar to those who will take the test and that can be used to interpret scores of future test takers.






17. Block to solving problems caused by an inability to see new uses for familiar objects or ideas.






18. Elemenating or decreasing a behaviour by removing reinforcement






19. Curriculum Emphasis is on problem-solving and the skills needed in today's world.






20. Derived score that designates what percent of the norming group earned raw scores lower than a particular score.






21. An abstract idea that is generalized from specific examples.






22. Using small steps combined with feedback to help learners reach goals.






23. The application of knowledge acquired in one situation to new situations.






24. A cooperative learning model that involves students with four- or five-member heterogenous groups on assignments.






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






26. Explanation of learning that focuses on mental processes.






27. Standardized tests measuring how much students have learned in a given context.






28. 1978 Schools required to provide services and activities to meet the needs of students identified as being gifted/talented.






29. Teacher's Role (Same as for Perennialism) Deliver clear lectures; increase students' understanding with critical questions






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






31. A method of ability grouping in which students in mixed-ability classes are assigned to reading or math classes on the basis of their performance levels.






32. A motivational orientation of students who place primary emphasis on gaining recognition from others and earning good grades.






33. Increased comprehension of previously learned information due to the acquisition of new information.






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






35. A theory that emphasizes the active integration of new material with existing schemata.






36. A category of disability that significantly affects social interaction - verbal and nonverbal communication - and educational performance.






37. Described educators of the early 20th century as educational missionaries






38. A chart that classifies lesson objectives according to cognitive level.






39. Estimated one in 500-700 babies born each year with some degree of alcohol-related damage/defect- alcohol can damage the central nervous system of fetus and brain damage is not uncommon.






40. A condition that follows a behavior and affects the frequency of future behavior.






41. Learning from observation the consequences of others1 behavior.






42. Goal is to accept one's accomplishments and life as having been worthwhile & come to terms with one's impending death. Failure to do so results in an overwhelming feeling of despair.






43. The ability to perform a mental operation and then reverse one's thinking to return to the starting point.






44. Needs for knowing - appreciating - and understanding - which people try to satisfy after their basic needs are met.






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






46. Orientation for approaching learning tasks and processing information in certain ways.






47. The act of analyzing oneself and one's own thoughts.






48. Set of standardized scores ranging from 1 to 99 - having a mean of 50 and a standard deviation of about 21.






49. A consequence that a person tries to avoid or escape






50. A form of formal logic achieved during the formal operational stage that Piaget identified as the ability to draw a logical inference between two statements or premises in an 'if-then' relationship.