Curriculum and Instruction GACE,
GACE Curriculum & Instruction
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Analytical (Analytic) Scoring - ✔✔Calls for teachers to provide feedback on written
assignments. Assigns individual scores to separate aspects of writing quality. (Multiple
scores)
Holistic Scoring - ✔✔A single, overall assessment score for the paper as a whole.
Raw Scoring - ✔✔The number of items answered correctly without adjustment for
guessing. (Ex: If there are 15 problems and 11 are answered correctly, the raw score is
11).
Developmental Scoring - ✔✔Have been transformed from raw scores and reflect the
average performance at age and grade levels.
Title IX of Education Act of 1972 - ✔✔Prohibited gender inequalities in federally funded
education, including athletics.
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, Title I Act - ✔✔Funding to schools to support education of low-income students
I.D.E.A. (Individuals with Disabilities Education Act) - ✔✔A law that makes available a
free appropriate public education to eligible children with disabilities throughout the
nation and ensures special education and related services to children.
No Child Left Behind Act - ✔✔2001 law that set high standards and measurable goals
for education. States that regardless of race, family background, or disability, every
child will learn. Increased the federal role in holding schools accountable for academic
progress.
Action Research - ✔✔Research carried out by educators in their own classrooms or
schools. Used to help the teacher fine tune their own practice by amassing information.
Descriptive Research - ✔✔Type of research that aims to observe and record behavior.
Research that focuses on describing the behavior and the situation within which it
occurs. (Not manipulated).
Experimental Research - ✔✔Control and manipulate variables. Randomly assign
individuals to various treatment categories.
Maslow - ✔✔Hierarchy of Needs. People are motivated to achieve certain needs and
that some needed tag precedence over others. Our most basic need is for physical
survival, and this will be the first thing that motivates our behavior.
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GACE Curriculum & Instruction
Review Questions and Answers 100%
Pass
Analytical (Analytic) Scoring - ✔✔Calls for teachers to provide feedback on written
assignments. Assigns individual scores to separate aspects of writing quality. (Multiple
scores)
Holistic Scoring - ✔✔A single, overall assessment score for the paper as a whole.
Raw Scoring - ✔✔The number of items answered correctly without adjustment for
guessing. (Ex: If there are 15 problems and 11 are answered correctly, the raw score is
11).
Developmental Scoring - ✔✔Have been transformed from raw scores and reflect the
average performance at age and grade levels.
Title IX of Education Act of 1972 - ✔✔Prohibited gender inequalities in federally funded
education, including athletics.
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, Title I Act - ✔✔Funding to schools to support education of low-income students
I.D.E.A. (Individuals with Disabilities Education Act) - ✔✔A law that makes available a
free appropriate public education to eligible children with disabilities throughout the
nation and ensures special education and related services to children.
No Child Left Behind Act - ✔✔2001 law that set high standards and measurable goals
for education. States that regardless of race, family background, or disability, every
child will learn. Increased the federal role in holding schools accountable for academic
progress.
Action Research - ✔✔Research carried out by educators in their own classrooms or
schools. Used to help the teacher fine tune their own practice by amassing information.
Descriptive Research - ✔✔Type of research that aims to observe and record behavior.
Research that focuses on describing the behavior and the situation within which it
occurs. (Not manipulated).
Experimental Research - ✔✔Control and manipulate variables. Randomly assign
individuals to various treatment categories.
Maslow - ✔✔Hierarchy of Needs. People are motivated to achieve certain needs and
that some needed tag precedence over others. Our most basic need is for physical
survival, and this will be the first thing that motivates our behavior.
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