The authors of your textbook introduce action research for this problem of practice.
a. Promoting educational equity in student achievement
b. Implementing educational policies
c. Reforming and improving educational organizations
d. Improving instructional and leadership practice
d. Improving instructional and leadership practice
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When a teacher rates how well a child communicates with other children, he uses ____.?
a. ?a checklist b. ?a rating scale c. ?an anecdotal record d. ?a standardized test
Match the sampling strategies below with the examples provided
a. Comprehensive i. Homogenous b. Critical case j. Snowball/chain/network c. Maximum variation k. Intensity d. Extreme/deviant/unique l. Stratified purposeful e. Typical m. Random purposeful f. Negative/discrepant n. Theoretical g. Opportunistic o. Criterion h. Convenience 1. Selecting participants who score high, low, and moderate on a measure of anxiety to study feelings of anxiety 2. Selecting an urban, rural and suburban school to study bullying behavior among students. 3. Selecting highly successful individuals from families where all other siblings are in prison or living in poverty to determine what factors supported them in avoiding similar circumstances. 4. Selecting children who have a history of abuse to better understand avoidant attachment disorder which research suggests is a result of abusive or neglectful caregivers. 5. Selecting members of your own church to study faith, 6. Selecting all teachers in a school to interview about a new program they are implementing. 7. Selecting one school that has implemented Response-to-Intervention techniques school wide in oder to enhance student success. 8. Selecting the sole survivor of a fatal accident to study feelings of loss. 9. Selecting a best-selling author who is an alumni of your school to study the creative writing process. 10. Selecting only teachers who have been through a one year or less alternative preparation program for teaching. 11. Selecting by drawing from a hat the names of five of the 12 private schools in a city. 12. Interviewing one female dean who has been recognized for leadership by a national organization and asking her to recommend another female dean she would consider a great leader. 13. Selecting only teachers who are in their first three years of teaching in a school district. 14. Selecting in-state, out-of-state, and international college students to interview based on the percentages of each group in the total student population. 15. Selecting a school to study that has demonstrated average performance for the past five years.
Should everyone have the opportunity to experience or read the same text and do the same type of writing?
a. Yes, because this means all students are learning the same CCSS. b. No, because some texts will be too difficult for some students and some writing will be beyond the ability of some students. c. Yes, because this helps build self-esteem and lets all students know they can do some of the same tasks as others. d. It doesn't matter whether they do or not, as long as all students are grouped appropriately.
You are at an interview in hopes of securing a fifth-grade teaching position. The principal asks you to explain how you plan to teach fifth graders to comprehend narrative text. Write a response to the principal, incorporating the following in your reply: a brief statement about why comprehension is important;a description of three specific strategies you will use; andresearch or a theory to support your points (be sure to make a clear connection to the research or theory).
What will be an ideal response?