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PPR EC-12 Review Questions with
Detailed Verified Answers
Question: accommodation
Ans: In the theories of Jean Piaget: the modification of internal
representations in order to accommodate a changing knowledge of reality.
Question: accountability
Ans: Holding schools responsible for what students learn.
Question: acculturation
Ans: The adoption of the behavior patterns of the surrounding culture.
Question: achievement
Ans: The amount a student has learned in a given area..
Question: advanced organizers
Ans: A framework for understanding the material to be taught, which is
introduced prior to the lesson.
Question: affective domain
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Ans: Attitudinal and emotional areas of learning, such as values and
feelings.
Question: affective objectives
Ans: Learning physical and perceptional ability (Health and Exercise).
Question: Aptitude Test
Ans: A test designed to predict a person's future performance; aptitude is
the capacity to learn.
Question: assertive discipline
Ans: Classroom management approach (Canter)
based on establishing clear limits and
expectations, insisting on acceptable
student behavior and delivering appropriate
consequences when rules are broken.
Question: assimilation
Ans: Process of changing one's own culture to the dominant cultural
norms.
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Question: at risk students
Ans: 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 chance of development.
Question: behavior disorder
Ans: Problem when behavior deviates so much from appropriate behaviors
for the child's age group that it significantly interferes with child growth
and development.
Question: behavior objective
Ans: A form for writing an instructional objective that emphasizes
precision and careful delineation of expected student behaviors the testing
situation and a performance criterion.
Question: bottom-up processing
Ans: Starting with skills and moving to whole knowledge, starting with
parts and working toward the whole. An example is learning sounds, then
words, then sentences, etc.
Question: Brown vs. Topeka Board of Education
PPR EC-12 Review Questions with
Detailed Verified Answers
Question: accommodation
Ans: In the theories of Jean Piaget: the modification of internal
representations in order to accommodate a changing knowledge of reality.
Question: accountability
Ans: Holding schools responsible for what students learn.
Question: acculturation
Ans: The adoption of the behavior patterns of the surrounding culture.
Question: achievement
Ans: The amount a student has learned in a given area..
Question: advanced organizers
Ans: A framework for understanding the material to be taught, which is
introduced prior to the lesson.
Question: affective domain
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Ans: Attitudinal and emotional areas of learning, such as values and
feelings.
Question: affective objectives
Ans: Learning physical and perceptional ability (Health and Exercise).
Question: Aptitude Test
Ans: A test designed to predict a person's future performance; aptitude is
the capacity to learn.
Question: assertive discipline
Ans: Classroom management approach (Canter)
based on establishing clear limits and
expectations, insisting on acceptable
student behavior and delivering appropriate
consequences when rules are broken.
Question: assimilation
Ans: Process of changing one's own culture to the dominant cultural
norms.
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Question: at risk students
Ans: 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 chance of development.
Question: behavior disorder
Ans: Problem when behavior deviates so much from appropriate behaviors
for the child's age group that it significantly interferes with child growth
and development.
Question: behavior objective
Ans: A form for writing an instructional objective that emphasizes
precision and careful delineation of expected student behaviors the testing
situation and a performance criterion.
Question: bottom-up processing
Ans: Starting with skills and moving to whole knowledge, starting with
parts and working toward the whole. An example is learning sounds, then
words, then sentences, etc.
Question: Brown vs. Topeka Board of Education
