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24 Cards in this Set
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Affective Domain
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Attitudinal and emotional areas of learning, such as values and feelings
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Aptitude Test
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Measures natural ability; Predicts subsequent performance
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Phonemic Segmentation
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Counting the sounds heard within a word.
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Phonemes
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The minimal sound units that can be represented by letters.
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Cooperative Learning
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An instructional approach in which students work together in groups to achieve learning goals.
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Divergent Thinker
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An open ended type of thinking that extends in different directions and considers multiple answers to a question.
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Extrinsic Motivation
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Motivation created by external events or rewards outside the learning situation itself.
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Inductive Reasoning
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A type of reasoning from the particular to the general; reasoning in which one can make a general conclusion based on facts.
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Intrinsic Motivation
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An internal source of motivation such as curiosity of the desire to learn; motivation associated with activities that are their own reward.
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Language Experience
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Role playing; drama.
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Mean
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A measure of the central tendency. (average)
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Reinforcement
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Presentation of a stimulus or event after a behavior has been emitted and has the effect of increasing the occurence of that behavior in the future.
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Reliability
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To the extent to which the test results can be reproduced.
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Socratic Method
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A method of teaching that centers on the use of questions by the teacher to lead students to certain conclusions.
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Standardized Test
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A systematic sample of performance obtained under prescribed conditions, scored according to definite rules, and capable of evaluation by reference to normative information.
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Stanine
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Whole number scores from 1-9, each representing a wide range of raw scores. Stanine scores combine some of the properties of percentile ranks with some of the properties of standard scores.
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Accountability
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Holding schools responsible for what students learn.
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Graphophonemic
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The system that gives cues about the sounds associated with written symbols.
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Advanced Organizer
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A framework for understanding the material to be taught, which is introduced prior to the lesson.
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At-risk student
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A term used to refer to children who are not currently identified as handicapped or disabled but who are considered to have greater than usual risk of development.
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Brown vs. Topeka Board of Education
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Supreme Court declared school segregation to be illegal.
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Cognitive Style
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Different ways in which people mentally perceive, reason, and learn new information.
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Discovery Learning
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Bruner's approach to teaching in which students are exposed to specific examples and use these to discover general principles and relationships. Contrasts with expository teaching.
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Schemata
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A way of organizing in memory past experiences so that in remembering one constructs or infers the probable components of a memory and the order in which they occur.
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