Several teachers tell you that they are "teaching to students' right brains" by spending a lot of time on painting, map interpretation, geometry, and other highly visual and/or spatial activities. Critique their claim using what you have learned about how the human brain functions
What will be an ideal response?
The teachers are misconstruing how the brain functions. Although the two hemispheres tend have different strengths (e.g., the left hemisphere specializes in language and logical thinking, the right hemisphere in visual and spatial tasks), they constantly collaborate in day-to-day tasks. Even very simple tasks (e.g., recognizing an object, identifying a particular word while reading) recruit numerous areas of the cortex.
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A holistic rubric is most useful for scoring:
a. detailed analysis of the qualities of an essay. b. a collection of multiple-choice questions. c. the overall quality of a complex constructed response. d. a bowling tournament.
What is meant by your textbook authors' statement: "Differentiated instruction is a logical companion to universal design for learning"?
What will be an ideal response?
What percentage of the school population nationally is identified as having an intellectual disability?
A) approximately 1% B) approximately 3% C) approximately 5% D) approximately 7%
A researcher identifies the following conclusion: “The data show the number of patients who complete counseling depends on, or is related to, whether a patient participated in family or individual counseling sessions.” What type of ?2 test was computed in this example
A. factorial analysis of variance B. goodness-of-fit test C. test for independence D. either goodness-of-fit test or test for independence could be correct