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Foundations Of Teaching 1
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1. A test to measure a student's knowledge and skills. (Ed Source)
John Dewey (1859-1952)
accommodations
achievement test
Albert Shanker (1928-1997)
2. Measurement of performance and knowledge require different testing procedures that both data and performance driven to get a better overall assessment
Reliability
John Joseph Hughes (1797-1864)
accountability
Why are multiple measures important when assessing students?
3. 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)
Academic Performance Index (API)
American Traditions in School
accommodations
Reliability
4. A religious revival of evangelical protestantism that swept U.S. in the late 1820s and 1830s.
Adoption
accommodations
American Traditions in School
Second Great Awakening
5. An individual state's measure of yearly progress toward achieving state academic standards.
E.D. Hirsch - Jr. (1928- )
Jose Angel Gutierrez
Bernard Bailyn
Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP)
6. Called early 20th century teachers 'educational missionaries'
Jose Angel Gutierrez
Bernard Bailyn
Advancement Via Individual Determination (AVID)
American Traditions in School
7. A set of college admissions tests. Most colleges now accept either the SAT or the ACT for admissions purposes. (Ed Source)
ACT
accommodations
Deborah Meier (1931- )
Catherine Beecher (1800-1878)
8. 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
Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP)
Horace Mann (1796-1859)
Academic Performance Index (API)
9. As head of the American Federation of Teachers - Albert Shanker became the most widely known educational figure in the history of organized labor.
Albert Shanker (1928-1997)
ooker T. Washington (1856-1915)
Jose Angel Gutierrez
Why are multiple measures important when assessing students?
10. Usually found in New England - were town schools - governed by an elected board and funded by local and state aid.
Advancement Via Individual Determination (AVID)
Reliability
Latin Grammar Schools
Catherine Beecher (1800-1878)
11. Refers to the chosen curriculum of a particular school.
Adoption
Academic Performance Index (API)
accountability
Dame Schools
12. 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.
Reliability
Dame Schools
ooker T. Washington (1856-1915)
Deborah Meier (1931- )
13. A four-year elective college preparatory class designed to motivate students to attend college
Linda Brown Thompson (1943- )
John Joseph Hughes (1797-1864)
Latin Grammar Schools
Advancement Via Individual Determination (AVID)
14. 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
Bernard Bailyn
Robert J. Breckinridge
Reliability
Catherine Beecher (1800-1878)
15. 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
Catherine Beecher (1800-1878)
John Dewey (1859-1952)
ooker T. Washington (1856-1915)
E.D. Hirsch - Jr. (1928- )
16. 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.
Reliability
Validity
Robert J. Breckinridge
ACT
17. CONTENT - PURPOSE - CANDIDATE CHARACTERISTICS (considerably in wording - complexity - and purpose - from that for an air pilot candidate) airline pilot candidate)
ACT
Validity
Dame Schools
John Dewey (1859-1952)
18. 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.
Dame Schools
Adoption
Horace Mann (1796-1859)
Catherine Beecher (1800-1878)
19. 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)
Why are multiple measures important when assessing students?
Adoption
Reliability
20. 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
American Traditions in School
Validity
Advanced Placement (AP)
Jose Angel Gutierrez
21. 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.
Ellwood Cubberley (1868-1941)
Second Great Awakening
ACT
Bernard Bailyn
22. The first Archbishop of New York. helped to set in motion the secularization of American public schools
Reliability
Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP)
John Joseph Hughes (1797-1864)
Bernard Bailyn
23. A statewide ranking of schools based on student test scores from the CAT/6 - CST - and high school exit exam.
Albert Shanker (1928-1997)
Reliability
achievement test
Academic Performance Index (API)
24. 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.
Ellwood Cubberley (1868-1941)
Dame Schools
Albert Shanker (1928-1997)
John Dewey (1859-1952)
25. 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.
Second Great Awakening
Linda Brown Thompson (1943- )
Jose Angel Gutierrez
Bernard Bailyn
26. 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)
Bernard Bailyn
Advanced Placement (AP)
Jose Angel Gutierrez
American Traditions in School
27. 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.
John Dewey (1859-1952)
Dame Schools
Linda Brown Thompson (1943- )
accountability
28. 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.
ooker T. Washington (1856-1915)
Deborah Meier (1931- )
Catherine Beecher (1800-1878)
accountability
29. Instruction offered by individuals female teacher usually in homes.
ACT
Catherine Beecher (1800-1878)
Dame Schools
Reliability
30. Relates to the accuracy with which skills and and knowledge are measured.
Dame Schools
Advancement Via Individual Determination (AVID)
Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP)
Reliability