UWA Masters of Elementary Education
Comprehensive Exam well answered
Instructional Strategies for inclusion settings - correct answer ✔✔ Diversify learning material.
Taking into account students' needs.
Make it easy for all students to participate.
Develop a rapport with each student.
Technology Integration - correct answer ✔✔ making technologies an integral part of the
teaching and learning process that impacts resources, teacher and student roles, and
instructional activities
Formal Assessment - correct answer ✔✔ Pre-planned, systematic attempt to assess what
students have learned.
Informal Assessment - correct answer ✔✔ Assessment that results from a teacher's
spontaneous, day-to-day observations of how students behave and perform in class.
standardized test - correct answer ✔✔ a test that is given with uniform procedures for
administration and scoring
Developmental Appropriateness - correct answer ✔✔ ensuring that goals and experiences are
suited to their learning and development and challenging enough to promote their progress and
interest.
Developmental Appropriate Practice - correct answer ✔✔ is an approach that early care and
education professionals use to support the learning and development of young children birth to
age nine.
, Behaviorism - correct answer ✔✔ focuses on the idea that all behaviors are learned through
interaction with the environment. This learning theory states that behaviors are learned from
the environment, and says that innate or inherited factors have very little influence on behavior
Manipulative use - correct answer ✔✔ engaging students visually and physically with objects
such as coins, blocks, puzzles, markers, etc
Constructivism - correct answer ✔✔ A philosophy of learning based on the premise that people
construct their own understanding of the world they live in through reflection on experiences
Constructivism - correct answer ✔✔ is the theory that says learners construct knowledge rather
than just passively take in information. As people experience the world and reflect upon those
experiences, they build their own representations and incorporate new information into their
pre-existing knowledge (schemas).
Behaviorism - correct answer ✔✔ the science of behavior that focuses on observable behavior
only
social learning - correct answer ✔✔ process of altering behavior by observing and imitating the
behavior of others
Social Learning Theory - correct answer ✔✔ is based around the idea that students can learn
from watching or imitating others. As one of the most informal ways of learning based around
creating, building, and teaching, social learning has been around for a long time and can even
be attributed to the advancement of our species.
mathematical proficiency - correct answer ✔✔ is the ability to competently apply the five
interdependent strands of mathematical proficiency to mathematical investigations. The
components of mathematical proficiency are conceptual understanding, procedural fluency,
strategic competence, adaptive reasoning, and productive disposition.
Comprehensive Exam well answered
Instructional Strategies for inclusion settings - correct answer ✔✔ Diversify learning material.
Taking into account students' needs.
Make it easy for all students to participate.
Develop a rapport with each student.
Technology Integration - correct answer ✔✔ making technologies an integral part of the
teaching and learning process that impacts resources, teacher and student roles, and
instructional activities
Formal Assessment - correct answer ✔✔ Pre-planned, systematic attempt to assess what
students have learned.
Informal Assessment - correct answer ✔✔ Assessment that results from a teacher's
spontaneous, day-to-day observations of how students behave and perform in class.
standardized test - correct answer ✔✔ a test that is given with uniform procedures for
administration and scoring
Developmental Appropriateness - correct answer ✔✔ ensuring that goals and experiences are
suited to their learning and development and challenging enough to promote their progress and
interest.
Developmental Appropriate Practice - correct answer ✔✔ is an approach that early care and
education professionals use to support the learning and development of young children birth to
age nine.
, Behaviorism - correct answer ✔✔ focuses on the idea that all behaviors are learned through
interaction with the environment. This learning theory states that behaviors are learned from
the environment, and says that innate or inherited factors have very little influence on behavior
Manipulative use - correct answer ✔✔ engaging students visually and physically with objects
such as coins, blocks, puzzles, markers, etc
Constructivism - correct answer ✔✔ A philosophy of learning based on the premise that people
construct their own understanding of the world they live in through reflection on experiences
Constructivism - correct answer ✔✔ is the theory that says learners construct knowledge rather
than just passively take in information. As people experience the world and reflect upon those
experiences, they build their own representations and incorporate new information into their
pre-existing knowledge (schemas).
Behaviorism - correct answer ✔✔ the science of behavior that focuses on observable behavior
only
social learning - correct answer ✔✔ process of altering behavior by observing and imitating the
behavior of others
Social Learning Theory - correct answer ✔✔ is based around the idea that students can learn
from watching or imitating others. As one of the most informal ways of learning based around
creating, building, and teaching, social learning has been around for a long time and can even
be attributed to the advancement of our species.
mathematical proficiency - correct answer ✔✔ is the ability to competently apply the five
interdependent strands of mathematical proficiency to mathematical investigations. The
components of mathematical proficiency are conceptual understanding, procedural fluency,
strategic competence, adaptive reasoning, and productive disposition.
