“selective hearing” behavior in regards to certain conversation topics. The behavioral funnel will be used to assess Dr. Harvey’s behavior and the appropriate responses. According to Hawkins (1979), the behavioral assessment is similar to the shape of a funnel. The beginning of the assessment should be broad and consider all possibilities while having a narrow scope of the behavior. There are 5 stages that form the behavioral funnel and to better understand Dr. Harvey’s “selective hearing”…
needed changes to the faculty. Additionally, I will discussed what I will do to be more effective in the styles that are outside of my preferred style. The case study is about a local school who have a high percentage of students failing an introductory course, and as a head of the department, I proposed a change of the school textbook, assessments, and classroom participation requirements. To better prepare the situation, the teachers will have to be aware of the high percentage of students…
patient. The use of this technology is also geared towards ensuring medical errors are prevented. Similar to other medication administration or scanning technologies, barcode administration or scanning helps in dealing with drug administration in cases with no double checks and addressing high-risk medications. The other goals of this technology is promoting patient safety, dealing with intravenous administration of medication, and acting as measuring instrument for ongoing quality improvement…
fluency, and phonemic awareness. There are also a number of assessments and observations that fall under literacy, all of which are extremely important to effectively teaching literacy to young children. I learned a lot about the different types of assessments this semester. I learned about authentic assessments which includes observations and watching students in action. I thought the authentic assessment was an invaluable assessment. I can learn so much about a student by watching how she…
isn’t possible for “one size” to fit everyone. For this reason, we don’t rely on one person to make every educational decision, one assessment to determine the appropriate services, or one teaching strategy to reach every student. This is an important concept to remember each and every day. 2. The child must always be the center of focus. Quantitative data (assessment scores) should never be the only factor in the decision-making process. 3. Under IDEA, there are 13 categories of disabilities.…
Get wisdom, and whatever you get, get insight” (Proverbs 4:6-7, English Standard Version). It is wise to look into one’s personality in order to gain insight into how life can be lived fully and in right standing with God. The Prentice Hall’s Self-Assessment shows how a person’s personality, values, motivations, and decision making styles can be transformed to make the person a better leader and co-worker. While the questionnaire does not correlate all of these traits together, it does explain…
A functional behavior assessment is a systematic method of gathering and analyzing information about why an individual engages in specific behaviors which enables the identifying the potential functions, triggers, and abating influences (Mayer, Sulzer-Azaroff, & Wallace, 2014). In conducting a functional behavior assessment an attempt is made to identify which antecedents and consequences can be reliably associated with the occurrence of the behavior. Indirect assessment methods are utilized…
2.5. How and why assessments are used. Ongoing data is collected across all key learning areas (KLA’s) to inform teachers and to allow teacher to make judgements. Assessments are graded/marked by teachers making judgement (Marsh, 2010). Data collected from assessments is also used to inform practice and to assist in the planning of future lessons and report to parents during interviews and on report cards. Assessments and reporting are key components of the curriculum planning process…
authentic activities that go beyond reading chapters and memorizing facts, the integration of other subject areas into the social studies lesson and content reading strategies and comprehension opportunities, and finally, both formal and authentic assessments used. The companies that publish these educational materials, not just for social studies look at the national social studies national standards to make sure that the books they produce are meeting the standards of as many states as…
This study chose to, “examine the potential intergenerational transmission of social skills and psychosocial problems (i.e., loneliness and anxiety) among a sample of 255 father-mother-adult child triads,” (Burke et al., 2013). Burke, Woszidlo, & Sergin (2013) argued that one of the primary places to learn any kind of social skills is in a family setting. How a parent communicates with others arounds them can influence their child and can even go as far as predicting what kind of social skills…