Comprehensive Exam UWA questions
well answered
IDEA - correct answer ✔✔ Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. Ensures that all children
with disabilities have the right to a free and appropriate education. Students can not be denied
this education because of the disability being too severe or moderate.
Instructional strategies for inclusion settings - correct answer ✔✔ Backwards teaching,
accommodations, reciprocal teaching, questioning, differentiate time, text, or method of
delivery
Technology integration - correct answer ✔✔ Digital citizenship, teaching students to be good
digital citizens using seesaw, class dojo, smart board
Formal assessment - correct answer ✔✔ Data driven, sometimes standardized
Informal assessment - correct answer ✔✔ occurs in a more casual manner and may include
observation, inventories, checklists, rating scales, rubrics, performance and portfolio
assessments, participation, peer and self evaluation, and discussion
Erikson's stages of development - correct answer ✔✔ 1) trust vs mistrust
2) autonomy vs shame
3) initiative vs guilt
4) industry vs inferiority
5) identify vs confusion
6) intimacy vs isolation
7) generativity vs stagnation
, 8) integrity vs despair
Using manipulatives - correct answer ✔✔ Allows students to construct their own cognitive
models for abstract mathematical ideas and processes
Constructivism - correct answer ✔✔ The idea that people actively construct or make their own
knowledge and that learning comes from experience. Learning is socially constructed, learning
happens from experience, and is an active process. Learning happens in the mind and relates to
prior knowledge
Behaviorism - correct answer ✔✔ Behaviors can be shaped, trained, and taught to our students.
Positive reinforcement drives motivation, learners are learning passively, teacher is sole
instructor and lecturer, students are rewarded for good behavior and scores
social learning theory - correct answer ✔✔ we learn social behavior by observing and imitating
and by being rewarded or punished. Considers what learners learn from what they observe in
the environment and may copy the behavior at a later time
Mathematical proficiency - correct answer ✔✔ 5 aspects to this: procedural fluency, conceptual
understanding, adaptive reasoning, strategic competence, and productive disposition
Procedural Fluency - correct answer ✔✔ skill in carrying out procedures flexibly, accurately,
efficiently, and appropriately
conceptual understanding - correct answer ✔✔ comprehension of mathematical concepts,
operations, and relations
Adaptive Reasoning - correct answer ✔✔ capacity for logical thought, reflection, explanation,
and justification
well answered
IDEA - correct answer ✔✔ Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. Ensures that all children
with disabilities have the right to a free and appropriate education. Students can not be denied
this education because of the disability being too severe or moderate.
Instructional strategies for inclusion settings - correct answer ✔✔ Backwards teaching,
accommodations, reciprocal teaching, questioning, differentiate time, text, or method of
delivery
Technology integration - correct answer ✔✔ Digital citizenship, teaching students to be good
digital citizens using seesaw, class dojo, smart board
Formal assessment - correct answer ✔✔ Data driven, sometimes standardized
Informal assessment - correct answer ✔✔ occurs in a more casual manner and may include
observation, inventories, checklists, rating scales, rubrics, performance and portfolio
assessments, participation, peer and self evaluation, and discussion
Erikson's stages of development - correct answer ✔✔ 1) trust vs mistrust
2) autonomy vs shame
3) initiative vs guilt
4) industry vs inferiority
5) identify vs confusion
6) intimacy vs isolation
7) generativity vs stagnation
, 8) integrity vs despair
Using manipulatives - correct answer ✔✔ Allows students to construct their own cognitive
models for abstract mathematical ideas and processes
Constructivism - correct answer ✔✔ The idea that people actively construct or make their own
knowledge and that learning comes from experience. Learning is socially constructed, learning
happens from experience, and is an active process. Learning happens in the mind and relates to
prior knowledge
Behaviorism - correct answer ✔✔ Behaviors can be shaped, trained, and taught to our students.
Positive reinforcement drives motivation, learners are learning passively, teacher is sole
instructor and lecturer, students are rewarded for good behavior and scores
social learning theory - correct answer ✔✔ we learn social behavior by observing and imitating
and by being rewarded or punished. Considers what learners learn from what they observe in
the environment and may copy the behavior at a later time
Mathematical proficiency - correct answer ✔✔ 5 aspects to this: procedural fluency, conceptual
understanding, adaptive reasoning, strategic competence, and productive disposition
Procedural Fluency - correct answer ✔✔ skill in carrying out procedures flexibly, accurately,
efficiently, and appropriately
conceptual understanding - correct answer ✔✔ comprehension of mathematical concepts,
operations, and relations
Adaptive Reasoning - correct answer ✔✔ capacity for logical thought, reflection, explanation,
and justification
