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Elementary Teaching
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1. General aptitude for learning - often measured by ability to deal with abstractions and to solve problems.
Common School Movement
emotional or behavior disorders
Individualized Education Program (IEP)
Intelligence
2. Does not seem to listen when spoken to directly - does not follow through on instructions & fails to finish schoolwork - chores - or duties in the workplace (not due to oppositional behavior or failure to understand instructions)
Performance goals
Reliability
Inattention
preoperational stage
3. 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
Misuses of state-mandated standardized achievement test scores
Southern Colonies (MD - Virginia - NC - SC - GA)
Reflectivity
Whole language
4. Final evaluations of students' achievement of an objective
PQ4R method
Means-end analysis
Summative Assessment
Normal curve equivalent
5. A measure of the ability of a test to predict future behavior.
matrix classification
Identity Achievement Status
Predictive validity
Joplin Plan
6. Brief statements that represent the main idea of the information being read.
Proactive facilitation
Mastery criterion
Summarization
Identity v. Role Confusion Stage
7. An explanation of the discomfort people feel when new perceptions or behaviors clash with long-held beliefs.
Cognitive dissonance theory
Characteristics of Mental Retardation
Self-esteem
Drill and practice
8. Technique in which items to be learned are repeated at intervals over a period of time.
Distributed practice
self-evaluation
Contingent praise
Short-term memory
9. Entry or placemet in specific programs and to diagnose learning problems or strengths
Achievement tests
Naturalist Intelligence
Use for Standardized tests
Reading Recovery
10. Event that comes before a behavior.
Problem solving
Essentialism
Antecedent stimulus
Field dependence
11. Free Exercise Clause "Freedom of speech" - has been extend to freedom in religious practice
Moral Dilemmas
operant conditioning
First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
Emotional or Behavioral Disorder
12. Inform decision makers about student behaviors - monitor student progress toward a goal - screen students for specific purposes
Physical Characteristics of Fragile X Syndrome
Cognitive learning theory
Valid reasons for assessing students
Dual code theory of memory
13. (Cognitive) a developmental view of how moral reasoning evolves from a low to a high level. Argues that people with low moral level are unable to conceive acts of aggression as being immoral.
14. A statement of information or tasks that students should master after one or more lessons.
Internal Validity
Instructional objective
egocentric speech
Discrimination
15. 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.
Juan Bonet
Schemes
error fossilization
Expectancy theory
16. Tests or assessments administered during units of instruction that measure progress and guide the content and pace of lessons.
Emotional and behavioral disorders
Discontinuous theory of development
Gifted and Talented Act
Formative evaluation
17. Almost all girls begin menstruation by age 13 - most girls reach their adult stature by age 16
Puberty in girls
Works Progress Administration (WPA)
intraindividual variation
Logical-Mathematical Intelligence
18. Methods used to prevent behavior problems from occurring or to respond to behavior problems so as to reduce their occurrence in the future.
Refers to a condition that a person has.
reflection
Identity Achievement Status
Discipline
19. Learning from observation the consequences of others1 behavior.
Perennialism
Vicarious learning
Progressivism
Skinner box
20. Assessment Collaborative between teacher and student; emphasis is on the exposure of hidden assumptions.
Special education
Post-Conventional Level
operant conditioning
Postmodernism
21. Instructional program for students who speak little or no English in which some instruction is provided in the native language.
Bilingual education
Project Head Start
Linguistic Intelligence
mental retardation
22. Mental retardation.
Instructional objective
The normalization principle was a major factor in the development of community-based services for individuals with
Foreclosure
Rule-example-rule
23. Help individuals self-correct behaviors and ideas - empower learners to take ownership of ideas
Mastery learning
Essentialism
Other Health Impairments
Reflectivity
24. Removing a student from a situation in which misbehavior was reinforced.
Field independence
Intellectual Disability
Grade-equivalent scores
Time out
25. Curriculum Emphasis is on problem-solving and the skills needed in today's world.
Progressivism
Vision Impairments
Discrimination
Enrichment activities
26. The degree to which an experiment's results can be attributed to the treatment in question - not to other factors.
Working with students with speech disorders
Positive Correlation
Scaffolding
Internal Validity
27. In Piaget's theory - the type of knowledge as the mental construction of relationships involved in the concrete operations of seriation - classification - and conservation - as well as various formal operations that emerge in adolescence.
Know Nothing Party
assimilation
Logico-mathematical knowledge
Special education
28. Theories that knowledge is stored in the brain in a network of connections - not in systems of rules or individual bits of information.
Marcia's Theory of Four Adolescent Identity Statuses
Intellectual Disability
Extrinsic reinforcer
Connectionist models
29. A comprehensive approach to prevention and early intervention for preschool - kindergarten - and grades 1 through 5 - with one-to-one tutoring - family support services - and changes in instruction that might be needed to prevent students from fallin
Schema theory
Success for All
physical knowledge
Equilibration
30. A system of accommodating student differences by dividing a class of students into two or more ability groups for instruction in certain subjects.
Public Law 94142
collaborative consultation
Within-class ability grouping
Acceleration programs
31. List of instructional objectives and expected levels of understanding that guide test development.
Cooperative play
Recency effect
Conditioned stimulus
Table of specifications
32. An approach to instruction and school organization that clearly specifies what students should know and be able to do at the end of a course of study.
Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)
Deafness and Hard of Hearing
Outcomes-based education
Reflectivity
33. Stages 5 and 6 in Kohlberg's model of moral development - in which individuals make moral judgements in relation to abstract principles.
Postconventional level of morality
Performance assessment
Psychosocial Crisis
accommodation
34. 1874 Began as a training for Methodist Sunday-School teachers; gradually broadened in scope to include general education and popular entertainment.
Assertive Discipline
Compensatory preschool programs
Chautauqua (NY) Institute
Race
35. A pattern of attributing events to factors outside one's control; a characteristic of children with learning disabilities; see locus of causality.
external locus of control
specific learning disabilities .
Permissive parents
Evaluation
36. A study method in which students work in pairs and take turns orally summarizing sections of material to be learned.
Speech Disorders
Parallel play
Constructivism
Cooperative scripts
37. Provided for the rectangular land survey of the Old Northwest.
Programmed instruction
Land Law of 1785
Ages 2 - 6
Behavioral learning theory
38. Assessment used throughout teaching of a lesson and/or unit to gauge students' understanding and inform and guide teaching
Verbal learning
formative assessment
Feedback
giftedness
39. 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
guided participation
Direct instruction
Concept
Autonomy v. Doubt and Shame Stage
40. A personality trait that concerns whether people attribute responsibility for their own failure or success to internal factors or to external factors.
intraindividual variation
Tracks
Ethology
Locus of control
41. A person's interpretation of stimuli.
Perception
Progressivism
shaping
Emotional or Behavioral Disorder
42. Accommodation changes the nature of the measurement
Most critical problem that can result from standardized achievement test accommodation
output
Stage 6: Universal Ethical Principle Orientation
Intellectual Disability
43. A special program that is the subject of an experiment.
Identity Diffusion
Performance goals
Secondary reinforcer
Treatment
44. Educational activities that are given to students who initially fail to master an objective; designed to increase the number of students who master educational objectives.
Instrumental Enrichment
intraindividual variation
emotional or behavior disorders
Corrective instruction
45. Continuation of behavior.
Maintenance
mental retardation
Readiness training
Shaping
46. Curriculum Emphasis is on enduring ideas.
Perennialism
Logical-Mathematical Intelligence
Copying an article
Enactment
47. A teaching method effective with children having an attention deficit disorder that combines educational support - psychological counseling - behavioral management at school and home - and medical management using a psychostimulant.
Cutoff score
communicative competence
multimodal approach
unconditioned responce
48. A regrouping method in which students are assigned to groups for reading instruction across grade lines.
Identity Achievement Status
Joplin Plan
Essentialism
Description of the way a child goes up & down steps at the end of early childhood
49. The meaning of stimuli in the context of relevant information.
Drill and practice
Summative quiz
Inferred reality
Lloyd P. Jorgensen
50. Individualized instruction administered by a computer.
internalization
Computer-based instruction(CBA)
Extrinsic reinforcer
Benjamin Rush