Samuel Gridley Howe led the New England Asylum for the Blind in Massachusetts. What were the three guiding principles Howe believed his educational program should follow?
What will be an ideal response?
Howe's guiding principles were attention to each student's individual needs, curriculum similar to that for sighted students, and the expectation that students would be integrated into their communities.
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Inter-rater reliability is established when:
A. many researchers have used the same measure in their research. B. a measure has been used with a variety of different samples. C. more than one observer looks at the same behavior and gets the same results. D. a sample has the same characteristics as the population from which it is drawn.
The recording method most open to observer bias is:
A. Checklist B. Event sampling C. Running record D. Rating scale
Which pair of groups are involved in implementing the jigsaw model of cooperative learning?
A. base groups, timing groups B. base groups, expert groups C. resource groups, timing groups D. expert groups, resource groups
One way to deal with children’s behaviors is to understand developmental stages. This is important because
a. all two-, three-, four-, and five-year-olds follow a specific set of behaviors unique to their age and it is important to understand these. b. an understanding of what children of a given age generally are and are not able to do allows the teacher to set realistic expectations accordingly. c. the teacher can then set expectations for each age group, according to developmental norms, which all children will have to meet before their next birthday. d. the teacher can ask parents to remove a child from the program if that child does not conform to these behaviors.