A teacher at your school has enlisted your help. She wants to know how to determine if one of her kindergarten students has an intellectual disability.
What will be an ideal response?
Intellectual disability is a condition with an onset before age 18 that involves low intelligence (usually below 70 on a traditional individually administered intelligence test) and difficulty in adapting to everyday life. For an individual to be given a diagnosis of intellectual disability, the low IQ and low adaptiveness should be evident in childhood, not following a long period of normal functioning that is interrupted by an accident or other type of assault on the brain.
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Infants are learning how to act, how others should treat them, and how they should feel. They are developing:
A) cognitively B) attachment C) a working sense of self D) a sense of the working self
Student-centered educational philosophies agree that
A) teachers need to establish rules and then explain their rationale to the students. B) the best learning occurs in an environment where the teacher is an active learner also. C) teachers must center their efforts on transmitting knowledge. D) tangible rewards given to students inspire them to learn more.
Texts used for guided reading instruction should be written at the students':
a) independent level b) instructional level c) frustration level d) listening level
. A researcher does a cross-sectional study and she compares the recycling behavior in younger and older individuals. She finds that older people are more likely to recycle than younger people. She concludes that with age, people become more likely to recycle. A problem with her conclusion is that:
a. There was an attrition error b. According to her results, age is unrelated to recycling behavior c. Her older participants were from a different cohort or different generation than her younger participants and this might be the reason a difference was observed rather than the process of aging d. There is no problem with her conclusion