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Foundations Of Teaching 1
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1. Changes in the way tests are designed or administered to respond to the special needs of students with disabilities and English learners (EL). (Ed Source)
Latin Grammar Schools
Ellwood Cubberley (1868-1941)
accommodations
accountability
2. The notion that people (students or teachers) or an organization (school district) should be held responsible for improving student achievement and should be rewarded or sanctioned for their success or lack of success in doing so.
accountability
Jose Angel Gutierrez
Academic Performance Index (API)
Adoption
3. A statewide ranking of schools based on student test scores from the CAT/6 - CST - and high school exit exam.
Adoption
Academic Performance Index (API)
Catherine Beecher (1800-1878)
ACT
4. Dewey's School and Society (1899) espoused the notion that ideas should be grounded in experience. In Experience and Education argued that education should be based on child's psychological -physical development -and world outside the schoolroom.
John Dewey (1859-1952)
Latin Grammar Schools
Second Great Awakening
Dame Schools
5. A series of voluntary exams based on college-level courses taken in high school. High school students who do well on one or more of these exams have the opportunity to earn credit - advanced placement - or both for college. (Ed Source)
Catherine Beecher (1800-1878)
Advanced Placement (AP)
E.D. Hirsch - Jr. (1928- )
Second Great Awakening
6. Mobilized the community to demand equal treatment for Chicano students.organized the Mexican American Youth Organization - a vehicle for social activism. Later he established a political organization - La Raza Unida.
Bernard Bailyn
Ellwood Cubberley (1868-1941)
Jose Angel Gutierrez
Dame Schools
7. A religious revival of evangelical protestantism that swept U.S. in the late 1820s and 1830s.
John Joseph Hughes (1797-1864)
Deborah Meier (1931- )
Reliability
Second Great Awakening
8. Instruction offered by individuals female teacher usually in homes.
accountability
Dame Schools
Reliability
Latin Grammar Schools
9. MA state legislator who led battle to create state board of education and resigned to become secretary of new board. Established first teacher training - institutes for teachers and extended school year to 6 months. Speared public education
Horace Mann (1796-1859)
Dame Schools
achievement test
Bernard Bailyn
10. Known as the 'Father of public education' in Kentucky because of work as state superintendent from 1847-1852. Also known as zealous anti-Catholic who published diatribes against 'papism' and inspired anti-Catholic riots.
accommodations
John Dewey (1859-1952)
achievement test
Robert J. Breckinridge
11. Relates to the accuracy with which skills and and knowledge are measured.
Albert Shanker (1928-1997)
E.D. Hirsch - Jr. (1928- )
Robert J. Breckinridge
Reliability
12. A test to measure a student's knowledge and skills. (Ed Source)
Linda Brown Thompson (1943- )
Robert J. Breckinridge
achievement test
accommodations
13. Founded the Hartford Female Seminary. She believed women's education should prepare them for roles of responsibility and that higher education for women should train them as teachers-a natural public extension of womens' role in the family.
Latin Grammar Schools
Catherine Beecher (1800-1878)
Robert J. Breckinridge
Advanced Placement (AP)
14. The first Archbishop of New York. helped to set in motion the secularization of American public schools
Jose Angel Gutierrez
Horace Mann (1796-1859)
John Joseph Hughes (1797-1864)
Dame Schools
15. Measurement of performance and knowledge require different testing procedures that both data and performance driven to get a better overall assessment
Dame Schools
Why are multiple measures important when assessing students?
Jose Angel Gutierrez
John Dewey (1859-1952)
16. Called early 20th century teachers 'educational missionaries'
Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP)
accountability
John Joseph Hughes (1797-1864)
Bernard Bailyn
17. Founder and Chairman of the Board of the Core Knowledge Foundation - E.D. Hirsch - Jr. - leading voice in 'back to basics' movement. Author What Your kindergartner- Sixth Grader Needs to Know -Best known What Every American Needs To Know
accommodations
E.D. Hirsch - Jr. (1928- )
accountability
Reliability
18. Gave rise to modern school administration. Created first superintendent of schools. He trained a generation of administrators in what was called the 'science' of school management.
Latin Grammar Schools
Second Great Awakening
Why are multiple measures important when assessing students?
Ellwood Cubberley (1868-1941)
19. He founder and first head of the Tuskegee Born the son of a slave. Wrote up from slavery' (the title of his widely read autobiography) to become founder & 1st head of Tuskegee Institute & leading advocate 4 edu. & econ.improv. of African Americans.
Academic Performance Index (API)
E.D. Hirsch - Jr. (1928- )
ooker T. Washington (1856-1915)
accountability
20. Refers to the chosen curriculum of a particular school.
ACT
accommodations
E.D. Hirsch - Jr. (1928- )
Adoption
21. CONTENT - PURPOSE - CANDIDATE CHARACTERISTICS (considerably in wording - complexity - and purpose - from that for an air pilot candidate) airline pilot candidate)
ooker T. Washington (1856-1915)
Albert Shanker (1928-1997)
Validity
accommodations
22. S often credited with single-handedly bringing down segregation in America. Brown was the Brown in 'Brown v. Board of Education. the doctrine of 'separate-but-equal' was inherently unconstitutional.
Linda Brown Thompson (1943- )
Robert J. Breckinridge
achievement test
accountability
23. A four-year elective college preparatory class designed to motivate students to attend college
Advancement Via Individual Determination (AVID)
John Joseph Hughes (1797-1864)
Dame Schools
Deborah Meier (1931- )
24. A set of college admissions tests. Most colleges now accept either the SAT or the ACT for admissions purposes. (Ed Source)
Horace Mann (1796-1859)
Albert Shanker (1928-1997)
ooker T. Washington (1856-1915)
ACT
25. An individual state's measure of yearly progress toward achieving state academic standards.
American Traditions in School
Linda Brown Thompson (1943- )
Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP)
Why are multiple measures important when assessing students?
26. Founded Central Park Elementary School (CPE) - alternative school emphasizing active learning. author of The Power of Their Ideas - Lessons to America from a Small School in Harlem &an outspoken critic of state-mandated standards and tests.
ooker T. Washington (1856-1915)
Dame Schools
Deborah Meier (1931- )
Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP)
27. Usually found in New England - were town schools - governed by an elected board and funded by local and state aid.
Catherine Beecher (1800-1878)
Latin Grammar Schools
accountability
Jose Angel Gutierrez
28. As head of the American Federation of Teachers - Albert Shanker became the most widely known educational figure in the history of organized labor.
Validity
Deborah Meier (1931- )
Albert Shanker (1928-1997)
Horace Mann (1796-1859)
29. 1. families played a large role in teaching children 2. pluralism - no single pattern of schooling. 3. American common school or public school 4. Cooperation between public & private sectors
accountability
American Traditions in School
Advanced Placement (AP)
ACT
30. Relates to consistency of assessment - including affecting factors - ambiguous questions - too many options within exam - vague marking instructions & poorly trained markers. Traditionally - based on temporal stability - form equivalence & internal c
Second Great Awakening
Adoption
Reliability
Jose Angel Gutierrez