Equilibration
What will be an ideal response?
Piaget's process of learning; Students move from a state of equilibrium to disequilibrium as they experience cognitive conflict through new experiences; They use assimilation and accommodation to reach a more sophisticated state of equilibrium
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a. baking a pie b. making a speech c. taking a test d. making a speech and taking a test e. All of the above
After calculating the difference between sample means of all possible samples from a population and the population mean, we would expect the mean of these differences to be
a. equal to the population mean. c. zero. b. higher or less than the population mean. d. None of these are true.
What can help facilitate good home-school communication as issues emerge throughout the year?
a. Parents having the teacher's phone number. b. Approach parents in every meeting with the assumption that you have a common goal. c. Make the principal aware of the problems that each child has. d. Discuss ideas with other professionals regarding how to help the child.
An elementary school decides to experiment with two different curriculum approaches to language arts. The first focuses on a whole language approach, and the second focuses on word-attack skills, such as phonics
If the schools' results are consistent with patterns identified by research, which of the following is the most likely outcome? a. The whole-language approach will result in more student learning than will the approach emphasizing phonics in all the elementary grades. b. The approach emphasizing phonics will result in more student learning than will the approach emphasizing whole language in all the elementary grades. c. The approach emphasizing phonics will result in more student learning in the lower elementary grades, but the approach emphasizing whole language will result in more learning in the upper elementary grades. d. The effectiveness of either approach depends on the knowledge and skills of the teacher implementing the program; one is not necessarily better than the other.