Piaget's stages of intellectual intelligence are well known to all teaching professionals. Which of the following is an example of preoperational cognitive development?
A. Children use grasping, manipulation, and other tactile sensations to begin the thought process.
B. Children think in abstract terms and can mentally manipulate concepts that require abstract reasoning.
C. Children acquire representational skills such as language, mental imagery, symbolic play, and drawing.
D. Children enjoy games with rules and understand the consequences of not following the rules of a game.
C
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a. learning to make a table or a graph is both a problem-solving strategy and mathematical content. b. concepts and skills need for data collection and analysis also enable students to organize and present problem data in a table or graph. c. recording data gives a visual display that allows students to look for patterns and relationships. d. making a graph ensures that mathematical understanding will increase.
What characteristic of quantitative research is evident in the parent involvement study by Deslandes and Bertrand (2005)?
a. The researchers do not refer to themselves. b. The problem of parent involvement in education is an issue today c. The implications suggest a different way of considering parent involvement. d. The authors had first-hand experiences with parenting children
The term operational means
a. broadly defined. b. medical terminology. c. specifically defined. d. none of the above
Define norm-referenced tests.
a. Compare performance to mastery of the content being tested b. Tests must yield consistent results. c. Interprets a person’s performance by comparing it to that of his or her peers d. Tests come from a legitimate source and meet basic statistical criteria.