Explain how the complexity of classroom teaching and learning affects research and efforts to apply that research
What will be an ideal response?
As David Berliner has argued, schools and classrooms differ from each other in a number of ways, including quality and quantity of personnel, teaching methods, budget, leadership, and community support. In addition, cognitive and effective outcomes of schooling are affected by complex interactions among such factors as student characteristics, teacher characteristics, curriculum materials, socioeconomic status of the community, and peer influences. The result of all this complexity is that teaching methods and programs that work the same way for a broad sample of teachers and students in different school districts are few and far between.
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a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Computer programs for bodily/kinesthetic intelligence (body smart) learners are:
a. helpful in developing hand-eye coordination. b. often inappropriate. c. confusing for their spatial orientation. d. all of the above.
How parents respond to having a child with a disability:
a. has little impact on the rest of the family. b. can affect family dynamics and professional relationships. c. depends on the ages of the parents. d. depends on their parenting skills.
Which one of the following is the best example of summative assessment?
a. Ms. Vickery gives her social studies students a test at the end of a unit to determine how well they have learned the material in the unit. b. Mr. Waters gives his government students a quiz at midterm to determine whether he needs to spend more time on certain aspects of the federal judicial system. c. Ms. Yarborough gives her introductory German students weekly quizzes to make sure they're keeping up with the material. d. Mr. Zeller gives his science students a pretest before beginning a unit on the water cycle to determine how much they already know about the topic.