Several studies have shown that the quality of instruction is lower for some students when this type of grouping is practiced:
a) untracking
b) tracking
c) The Joplin Plan
d) regrouping
b Despite widespread use of tracking, research does not support it use. Students have found that the quality of instruction is lower in low-track classes than in middle or high-track classes.
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Three of the following strategies should engage students' interest in class material and foster their intrinsic motivation to learn it. Which one is least likely to do so?
a. Have each student read a different character's lines when the class is reading the play Our Town. b. Ask students to imagine what it must have been like to live in medieval England. c. Show students a scientific phenomenon that isn't what they'd expect to happen given their existing beliefs about the world. d. Tell students that occasional failures are probably due to circumstances beyond their control.
Damar, a well-liked football star and Yrden, a poor immigrant who has just moved into the neighborhood, get into a fight on the playground. They are both taken to the principal's office. The teacher tells the principal that the fight started over a football. She says, "Yrden claims it is his but I doubt it since he is too poor to afford it and Damar is the football star after all. Yrden should be
suspended." The principal says he will listen to both sides of the story before deciding what happened and the punishment. What conflict resolution value is the principal exhibiting that the teacher is not? a. Fallibility b. Reciprocity c. Nonviolence d. Equality
The studies included in the functional analysis review (and most, if not all, functional analyses for that matter) required that the behaviors be
A.described in detail by the caregivers B.directly observed C.reported to occur in multiple settings D.reported to occur a minimum of 10 times a day
The two factors to consider when assigning a priority level to a to-do item are:
a. time and cost b. time and effort c. importance and urgency d. ease and effort