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Teaching Strategies

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1. An opinion or conveyance of a message through oral or body language by the teacher to the learner about how well he or she performed a psychomotor skill.






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






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






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






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






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






8. 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.






9. 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






10. 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.






11. A category of instructional materials that depict realism - such as dimensionality. Examples: photographs - drawings - audiotapes. They depend on imagination to fill in the gaps and offer the learner experiences that simulate reality.






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






13. A facsimile constructed to scale that resembles the features or substance of the original object. It may be examined or manipulated by the learner to get an idea of how something works.






14. 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.






15. 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.






16. 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.






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






18. 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.






19. 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.






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






21. One of the three domains in the taxonomy of behavioral objectives; deals with the attitudes - values - and beliefs.






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






23. 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






24. 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.






25. Numbers and words - symbols written and spoken to convey ideas or represent objects - which are the most common forms of communication yet are the most abstract types of messages.






26. A method of teaching whereby learners get together to exchange information - feelings - and opinions with one another and with the teacher.






27. The ability to use the necessary hardware and software to meet the needs for information.






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






29. Scientific inquiry applied to a specific program or activity to determine processes - outcomes - and/or their relationship






30. Evidence derived from practice rather than from research - such as the results of a systematically conducted evaluation - clients' responses to care delivered on the basis of clinical expertise - or a systematically conducted quality improvement proj






31. 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.






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






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






34. Factors that influence an individual's identification with an ethnic group and that cause the individual to share a group's worldview - such as SES - physical characteristics - educational status - occupational status - and place of residence.






35. Learning information all at once - which is much less effective for remembering facts than learning information over successive periods of time - similar to cramming.






36. 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






37. Evidence derived from research that is generalizable beyond a particular study setting or sample.






38. 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






39. 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.






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






41. A form of hierarchical classification of cognitive - affective - and psychomotor domains of behaviors according to their degree or level or complexity.






42. 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.






43. A systematic and continuous assessment of success of the teaching process made during the implementation of materials - methods - and activities to control - ensure - or improve the quality of performance in delivery of an educational program.






44. 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






45. 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






46. 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






47. 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.






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






49. An absence or impairment of the ability to comprehend What is read or heard due to a dysfunction in the Wernicke's area of the brain which controls sensory abilities. The person is unable to understand the significance of the spoken word and is unabl






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