Relate the factors that contribute to quality early childhood education environments
What will be an ideal response?
Quality results when teachers have adequate training in the area of health and safety, and they are adequately compensated. Teachers also need to be culturally competent, have good communication skills, promote parental nurturing, and provide sensitive and responsive care to children. The environment of care should allow for good health and safety, provide an adequate teacher-to-child ratio, and provide good working conditions for the teacher. Developmentally appropriate practice should be an integral part of the program. Caution should be taken for adequate nutrition and food safety.
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a. Lau v. Nichols. b. Morrison v. Board of Education. c. Brown v. Board of Education. d. Roe v. Wade.
According to the text, discovery and intention statements can be useless if they don’t lead to changes in behavior
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
There is a strong positive correlation between the number of bars in a town and the number of banks in a town; that is, the more bars there are in a town, the more banks there tend to be as well. As it turns out, this relationship is due to the correlation of both the number of bars and the number of banks with the population of a town. This relationship between the number of bars and banks in a town is called a(n):
a. illusory correlation b. spurious correlation c. inverse correlation d. dependent correlation
Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
A position of zero on the x axis of an item characteristic curve indicates average ability.