Nida Exam 1 with Complete Solutions

ESSA - ANSWER-Returned most of the control to the state. States and local schools decide when and how to test and how to intervene in the lowest performing schools Danielson's Framework - ANSWER-Used to evaluate teachers: 1. Planning and preparation 2. Classroom environment 3. Instruction 4. Professional Responsibilities Educational Psychology - ANSWER-What happens when someone/something (a teacher/computer) teaches something (math/weaving/dancing) to someone else (student/co-worker) in some setting (classroom/gym). Correlation Studies - ANSWER-Identify relationships and allow predictions. A correlation is a number that indicates both strengths and direction of a relationship between two events or measurements. The closer the correlation the stronger the relationship. Experimental Studies - ANSWER-Allow researchers to detect causes, not just make predictions. Should help teachers implement useful changes. Instead of just observing and describing an existing situation, the investigators introduce changes and note the results. ABAB Experimental Designs - ANSWER-Researchers examine the effects of treatments on one or more people, often using a baseline/intervention approach. Example: clinical interviews, case studies, ethnographies. Piaget's Theory - ANSWER-The active learner and the qualitative view. Increase in age, increase in logical thinking. Constructivism - ANSWER-Children build knowledge through hands on manipulation and exploration or objects. Relational Logic - ANSWER-Understanding qualitative relations Seriation - ANSWER-ability to mentally arrange items along a quantitative dimension such as size (Gianna) Transitive Inference - ANSWER-the ability to recognize relations among elements in a serial order. (For example: if AB and BC, then AC) Conservation - ANSWER-Knowing that certain physical characteristics of objects remain the same, even when their outward appearance changes.