Explain what is meant by uneven development. Give an example of a child with uneven development in the social-emotional domain. Describe three strategies you could use to promote the skill areas that need more support
What will be an ideal response?
The answer should state that in all domains, but particularly in the social-emotional domain in this context, children will vary in their level of competency among many skills. Skills may include emotional regulation, impulse control, communication, joining in, problem solving, sharing, taking turns, dealing with disappointment, and so on. Strategies include directly teaching the skill, creating games that promote the skill, using puppets or stories whose characters model the skills, engaging the child in role-plays, modeling the skill, pairing the child with a child who is more competent in that skill, and so on.
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Mrs. Torres's use of the computer with Jeremy best illustrates which of the following forms of differentiation?
Mrs. Torres has her students working on fractions, decimals, and rounding numbers. She gives a quiz and the results indicate that Jeremy has only a minimal understanding of the process of rounding, so she sends him back to one of the computers in her room to work with a piece of software that gives him practice with rounding. She then plans to give him another set of exercises to assess the extent to which he understands the process. While the majority of the students are doing a seatwork assignment, and Jeremy is working on the computer, Mrs. Torres takes another group of four students who are struggling with converting fractions to decimals and uses direct instruction to illustrate the process. She then gives the group a set of problems to solve, and directs the group to help each other if they need it. a. Varying learning objectives b. Varying educational standards c. Offering different learning activities d. Offering different forms of motivation
Given an ideal test item in which 100 percent of the ten students in the high scoring group answer correctly and 20 to 25 percent of the ten students in the low scoring group select each of the four alternatives. An index of discriminating power of .80 for a test item means that it
a. has an ideal level of difficulty b. has satisfactory discriminating power c. is too easy for most students d. should be revised or eliminated
What is the term referring to significant developmental events or accomplishments?
What will be an ideal response?
Topographical generalization addresses
a. Why a behavior has occurred b. The occurrence of the target behavior over time c. Whether or not a behavior occurs in untrained situations d. Addresses the use of functional contingencies