Teachers can be trained to use educational strategies and materials effectively. What is this belief about teaching?
a. Innate ability to teach
b. Teachers possess intuition to teach
c. Teaching is a profession
d. Teaching is a science
ANS: D
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Researchers have suggested a variety of explanations for why children from lower socioeconomic status (SES) families often perform less well on IQ tests and in school than their higher SES counterparts. Three of the following are common explanations. Which one is not?
a. Teachers often have lower expectations for low-SES students and so give them less attention and fewer challenging assignments. b. On average, low-SES children have less nutritious diets and less health care than high-SES children. c. Parents with limited education themselves are less able to support their children's academic learning. d. In general, parents in low-SES families don't appreciate the importance of a good education.
Which of the following forms of assessment is the most effective way to determine whether students are making satisfactory progress?
A. diagnostic B. formative C. norm-referenced D. summative
A distractor is not functioning properly if no one in the upper group selected it
a. True b. False
Token reinforcement systems allow a student to become accustomed to delayed gratification
Indicate whether the statement is true or false