List and describe the five dimensions of scientific literacy
What will be an ideal response?
A. Scientific illiteracy: Students cannot relate or respond to a reasonable question about science.
B. Nominal Scientific Literacy: Students understand the topic as scientific, but the level of understanding clearly indicates a misconception.
C. Functional Scientific Literacy: Students can memorize appropriate definitions of terms, and in this sense have some scientific knowledge, but they have limited knowledge and lack a full scientific understanding.
D. Conceptual and Procedural Scientific Literacy: Students develop some understanding of the conceptual schemes of a discipline related to the whole discipline. They have ability and understand what scientific inquiry includes.
E. Multidimensional Scientific Literacy: Students begin to make connections within scientific disciplines, between science and technology, and between science and technology and the larger insured of social challenges.
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a. emphasizes natural consequences for misbehavior b. uses induction and repeated requests until compliance, without power assertion c. uses a constructivist approach in which the child constructs an understanding of appropriate behavior for a specific situation d. uses power assertion and if-then threats to achieve compliance
____________________ ____________________ refers to treatment administered for injuries and illnesses that are not considered life threatening
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
While the World Wide Web was developed in the late 1960s, the Internet came into existence less than a decade ago — in the early 1990s
a. True b. False
Principal Renfro likes to place students in groups at the beginning of the school year according to their IQ scores and keep them together for the rest of the year. Which of the following assumptions would this principal most likely cite to support this practice?
a. Intelligence is the prime determiner of academic performance. b. Differences in intelligence cannot be changed through instruction. c. Students learn best when grouped with their intellectual peers. d. All of the above.