On a standardized vocabulary test, children were asked, "Which of the following would you expect to take you to the hospital if you were injured?" and they were given, "ambulance," "car," "airplane," and "truck" as choices. Ambulance was the correct answer, but several Eskimo children in a remote village in the Arctic selected airplane as a choice because airplanes were the only form of motorized
transportation that came into their village. Of the following, which theory would provide the best explanation for the Eskimo children's choice?
a. Social cognitive theory
b. Sociocultural learning theory
c. Situated cognition
d. Cognitive load theory
b
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A) ?screening and eligibility determination. B) ?screening and monitoring progress. C) ?assigning grades and monitoring progress. D) ?accountability and eligibility determination.
Generalization is the
a. tendency for a behavior to increase when it is reinforced. b. speed at which a new skill is acquired. c. transfer of a skill from one setting to another. d. demonstration of an acquired skill over time.
What can occur when one or more of the characteristics of good governance are violated?
a. loss of revenue b. loss of strategic vision c. loss of superintendent d. failure
If you are conducting a descriptive study on a community where a charter school has proposed to open, which of these variables would most likely be of interest to you?
a. Student test scores b. Student height c. Teachers’ highest degrees earned d. Percentage of families living below the poverty line