Students and teachers sharing a common purpose and investing in the process of learning together is called:
A. Classroom management
B. Classroom community
C. Process management
D. Purposeful classroom
ANS: B
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In order to help students understand and learn appropriate behavior that they can apply to a variety of settings over an extended period of time, the text recommends teachers do all of the following, EXCEPT:
a. initially encourage and reward students each time you see them using appropriate behaviors in your classroom before monitoring generalization across different settings. b. offer students multiple opportunities to rehearse new skills across a variety of settings. c. involve a variety of staff and school personnel who are willing to help students generalize prosocial behaviors. d. do not involve parents in this process as this is a school issue and the student will only be confused if family are brought into the generalization process.
Mr. Simon is curious about the experiences the children in his preschool class have had with printed materials. Three of the following behaviors will give Mr. Simon useful information about the children's emergent literacy skills. Which behavior is least likely to yield useful information?
a. Ability to handle books correctly b. Willingness to share books with peers c. Frequency of looking at books independently d. Degree of attentiveness as an adult reads a storybook
Test usage that result in valid prediction for one group, but invalid predictions in another group is referred to as
a. differential predictive validity. b. measurement of different constructs. c. homogeneity of regression. d. cultural bias.
In discussing adult literacy issues, which of these would be an incorrect statement?
A. Reasons for adult illiteracy include geographic isolation, unusual economic factors, immigration from an underdeveloped nation, and failure to benefit from educational experience in normal school years. B. For adults, literacy –- both reading and writing – is needed to increase occupational knowledge, to attend to one's health needs, to use community resources, and to understand government and law. C. It is difficult to determine the exact number of illiterates and functional illiterates in a country. D. Short-term instruction is sufficient for illiterate and functionally illiterate adults, because -- since they are adults – they learn faster.