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Teaching Strategies

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Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The ability to use the necessary hardware and software to meet the needs for information.






2. A systematic and continuous process by which the significance of something is judged; the process of collecting and using information to determine what has been accomplished and how well it has been accomplished to guide decision making.






3. The willingness of a person emigrating to a new culture to gradually adopt and incorporate the characteristics of the prevailing culture.






4. A systematic assessment to determine that extent to which all activities for an entire department or programs over a specified time period have accomplished the goals originally established.






5. A common instructional method for exchange of information whereby the teacher delivers individual verbal instructional of learning activities in a format designed specifically to meet the needs of a particular learner.






6. The behavioral and biological differences between males and females.






7. Non-print instructional media that can influence all three domains of learning and stimulate the senses of hearing and/or sight to help convey the message to the learner. 5 major types: projected - audio - video - telecommunications - and computer fo






8. A complex concept that is an integral part of each person's life and includes knowledge - beliefs - values - morals - customs - traditions - and habits acquired by the members of a society.






9. Systematic assessment of the degree to which individuals have learned or objectives have been met as a result of education intervention.






10. A process whereby parents who are low income and educational level produce children of low income and educational attainment - who grow up and repeat the process with their own children - generation after generation are born into poverty by many fact






11. A disorder that manifests itself during the developmental period when a child demonstrates subaverage general intellectual functioning with concurrent deficits in adaptive behaviors. Sometimes referred to as mental retardation or developmental delay.






12. The use of self as a role model often overlooked as an instructional method - whereby the learner acquires new behaviors and social roles by identification with the role model.






13. An ethnocultural group of people who have experiences different from those of the dominant culture.






14. A record of an individual's improvement in psychomotor skill development made by measuring his or her ability at different stages during a specific time period - which includes 6 stages: negligible progress - increasing gains - plateau - renewed gain






15. An absence or impairment of the ability to communicate through speech or writing due to a dysfunction in the Broca's ares of the brain - which is the center of the cortex that controls motor abilities.






16. The process of recognizing and selecting appropriate or inappropriate stimuli.






17. One of the newest forms of online communication - also known as web logs or web diaries - is an increasingly popular mechanism for individuals to share information and/or experiences about a given topic that include images - media objects - and links






18. The ability to write and read - understand - and interpret information written at the eighth-grade level or above.






19. One of three classifications of instructional settings in which health care is an incidental or supportive function of an organization - such as a business - industry - and school system.






20. An instructional method requiring the learner to participate in a competitive activity with preset rules.






21. A specific statement of a short-term behavior that is written to reflect an aspect of the main objective leading to the achievement of the primary objective.






22. A flexible telecommunications method of instruction using video or computer technology to transmit live - online - or taped messages directly between the instructor and the learner - who are separated from one another by time and/or location.






23. Evidence that is not generated from research but is appropriate for use when - for example - it is derived from a systematically conducted experiment.






24. Variation in health status - health behavior - or learning abilities among individuals of different social and economic levels.






25. A computer network of information servers around the world that are connected to the Internet; it is technology-based educational resource that was created as a virtual space for the display of information.






26. The level of reading difficulty at which printed teaching tools are written. A measure of those elements in a given text of printed material that influence with what degree of success a group of readers will be able to read and understand the informa






27. A general category of learning disability that refers to orally responding and performing physical tasks - which include language and motor disorders.






28. The effects of learning one skill on the subsequent performance of another related skill. Includes self-transfer - near transfer - and far transfer.






29. Describes an individual's adaptation to the customs - values - beliefs - and behaviors of a new country or culture.






30. The conscientious use of current best evidence in making decisions about client care - most EBP models gather evidence from systematic reviews of clinically relevant - randomized controlled trials upon which to base practice decisions - especially ab






31. The ability to read and interpret numbers.






32. Factors that influence an individual's identification with an ethnic group and that cause the individual to share a group's worldview such as nationality - race - color - gender - age - and religious affiliation.






33. A single - specific - unidimensional behavior that is short term in nature - which should be achievable at the conclusion of one teaching session or within a matter of a few days following a series of teaching sessions.






34. The ability of adults to read - write - and comprehend information between the fifth- and the eight-grade level of difficulty. Aka marginally literate






35. A method of instruction by which learners participate in an unrehearsed dramatization - acting out an assigned part of a character as they think the character would act in reality.






36. The process of assessing outcomes or effects of an educational activity that extend beyond the activity itself to address organizational and/or societal effects.






37. A mutually agreed-on specific plan of action between the learner and educator clearly defining the specific behavioral objectives and predetermined goal to be achieved as a result of instruction.






38. The most concrete form of stimuli that can be used to deliver information. A real person or a model being used to demonstrate a procedure such as breast self-examination.






39. Thoughts - attitudes - and beliefs that reflect the social needs and desires of an individual or ethno cultural group.






40. The process of becoming sensitive to the interactions with other cultural groups by examining one's biases and prejudices toward others of another culture or ethnic background.






41. Intended outcomes of the educational process that are action oriented rather than content oriented and learner centered rather than teacher centered.






42. Difficulty with voluntary muscle control of speech due to damage to the CNS or PNS that controls muscles essential to speaking and swallowing.






43. The process of transforming letters into words and being able to pronounce them correctly.






44. Includes all the activities and interactions that enable individuals with a disability to develop new abilities to achieve their maximum potential.






45. Overall blueprint or outline for instruction clearly defining the relationship between the essential components of behavioral objectives - instructional content - teaching methods - and tools - time frame for teaching - and methods of evaluation that






46. A comparison between the sexes as to how males and females act - react - and perform in situations affecting every sphere of life as a result of genetic and environmental influences on behavior.






47. Intended outcomes of the educational process that are in reference to an aspect of a program or a total program of study that are content oriented and teacher centered.






48. One of three classifications of instructional settings - in which the delivery of health care is the primary or sole function of an institution - organization - or agency. Examples: hospitals - visiting nurse associations - public health departments






49. A population of people - also referred to as a subculture - that has different experiences from those of the dominant culture.






50. Learning information over successive periods of time - which is much more effective for remembering facts and forging memories than massed practice or cramming which does not allow for long-term recall of information