Briefly describe 3 cognitive characteristics of students with learning disabilities.
What will be an ideal response?
Answers will come from the following:
Attention: Students with learning disabilities may have poor selective attention. Perception: Many students with learning disabilities exhibit problems with how their brains interpret what is seen or heard and how they act on it. Memory: Many have problems with both short- and long-term memory. Information processing: Students with learning disabilities may have difficulty with metacognition, or thinking about thinking. They may lack the ability to actively consider how new information they are learning relates to other information already stored or how to apply that knowledge in a novel learning situation.
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Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
Explain how you might use a table of specifications to obtain a representative sample of student achievement
What will be an ideal response?
According to researchers, students learn best when they are _____.
A. stressed B. relaxed C. relaxed and alert D. stressed and alert
For maximum impact in the classroom it has been suggested that Web 2.0 technologies should be used with
A) inquiry-based learning B) extreme caution C) individual students, never whole class D) podcasting