Test your basic knowledge |

Teaching Strategies

Subject : teaching
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
  • If you are not ready to take this test, you can study here.
  • Match each statement with the correct term.
  • Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.

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 generic term that refers to a heterogeneous group of disorders manifested by significant difficulties with learning. Inattention and impulsivity are signs indicating developmentally inappropriate behavior.






2. 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.






3. 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.






4. The resources or vehicles used to help communicate information - which include both print and nonprint media - to aid teaching and learning by stimulating the various senses - such as vision and hearing. These are intended to supplement - not replace






5. The total inability of adults to read - write - or comprehend information or whose reading and writing skills are at or below the fourth grade level.






6. The ability to access - evaluate - organize - and use information from a variety of sources.






7. The present period of time - in which sweeping advances in computer and information technology have transformed the economic - social - and cultural life of society.






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






10. A general category of learning disability that refers to the process of receiving and recording information in the brain - which includes visual - auditory - perceptual - and integrative processing such as dyslexia and short and long term memory diso






11. 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






12. A reduction or complete loss of vision due to infection - accident - poisoning - or congenital degeneration of the eyes.






13. [electronic learning] professional development and training organizations have capitalized on by using the power of computer technology to provide learning solutions for workforce training. It involves the use of technology-based tools and processes






14. The observed differences between the sexes in personality and affective behaviors thought to be largely determined by culture - but to some extent is a result of interaction between environment and heredity.






15. A complete loss or a reduction in sensitivity to sounds by persons who are deaf or hard of hearing.






16. A huge global computer network - of which the WWW is a component - established to allow transfer of information from one computer to another. It provides a diverse range of services used to deliver information to large numbers of people and to enable






17. 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.






18. The opportunity for repeated practice of a behavioral task.






19. 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.






20. A situation or area in which health teaching takes place as classified on the basis of what relationship health education has to the primary function of an organization - agency - or instruction in which the teaching occurs.






21. Technological tools available for people with disabilities that provide access to education - employment - recreation - and communication opportunities that allow them to live as independently as possible.






22. Can be defined as a highly structured method by which the teacher verbally transmits information directly to groups of learners for the purpose of instruction. Oldest and most often used approaches to teaching. An ideal way to provide foundational ba






23. The ability to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of another person's culture and accept and respect cultural differences by adapting interventions to be congruent with that specific culture when delivering care.






24. 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






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






26. A concept in which the belief is held that one's own culture is superior and all other cultures are less sophisticated.






27. Inability to perform some key life functions; often used interchangeable with the term functional limitation.






28. One of three domains in the taxonomy of behavioral objectives; deals with aspects of behavior focusing on the way in which someone thinks in acquiring facts - concepts - principles - etc.






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






30. Refers to how well an individual can read - interpret - and comprehend health information for maintaining an optimal level of wellness.






31. A type of model that conveys a message to the learner through the use of abstract constructs - like words that stand for the real thing. Cartoons and printed materials are examples of symbolic forms of a message.






32. The values and behaviors every human group assigns to its conventions - which arise out of its own historical background and can only be accurately interpreted and understood in the light of that group's cultural worldview.






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






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






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






36. Devices such as the computer - that allow people who are unable to speak or whose speech is difficult to understand to be able to communicate with others - which has added a whole new dimension and quality to their lives.






37. The relearning of previous skills which often requires an adjustment to altered functional abilities and altered lifestyle.






38. The ability to read and interpret numbers.






39. 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.






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






41. A disorder of children with prominent attention difficulties as demonstrated by inattention and impulsivity that are signs of developmentally inappropriate behavior.






42. A desirable outcome to be achieved by the learner at the end of the teaching-learning process; global - more future oriented and long term in nature






43. 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.






44. A discipline that analyzes consumers' needs for information - studies and implements methods of making information accessible to consumers - and models and integrates consumer preferences into medical information systems






45. 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.






46. Stands for mobile learning - which is a new strategy that takes advantage of the many wireless - portable - and handheld devices such as MP3 players - that can access course materials - search the web - listen to lectures - and record experiences and






47. A type of model that uses analogy to explain something by comparing it to something else.






48. 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.






49. The way information is taught that brings the learner into contact with What is to be learned. EX: lecture - group discussion - one-to-one instruction






50. 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.