Why are fixed pieces of equipment, such as bouncy seats, high chairs, and playpens, detrimental to an infant’s development?
What will be an ideal response?
ANSWER: A typically developing child needs frequent opportunities for movement and interactions with people and objects. Fixed pieces of equipment do not provide opportunities for varied and active experiences.
You might also like to view...
For the past three years, 16-year-old Susan has set her sights on becoming an electrical engineer. Which one of the following statements about Susan is consistent with research on career goals?
a. It's highly unusual for an adolescent like Susan to have such a stable career goal. b. Susan worries about whether she'll be able to handle both her career and motherhood. c. Susan's high aspirations are quite surprising; most adolescents (boys and girls alike) tend to aspire to careers far below what they are capable of achieving. d. Susan is likely to find equal numbers of males and females in her college engineering classes.
A teacher who gives credit to a new program for academic gains has actually obtained those results by sampling error. a. He has made a Type I error. b. He has made a Type 11 error. c. He can still claim that the gains are due to the program because othervariables were controlled
d. none of the above.
Ms. Perisho wants the students in her high school civics class to apply what they have been learning about cities
and how they are run. Which of these computer-assisted instruction approaches might be appropriate? a) drill and practice have students complete exercises on civics terms b) instructional games have students play a game to identify famous cities in the world c) simulation have students use Sim City, a simulation of city management d) tutorial have students complete a tutorial about city management
The student collects and reflects on examples of his or her own work in a specific area in
A. criterion assessment. B. curriculum-based measurement. C. interview assessment. D. portfolio assessment.