Module 1

At what age do prejudices feelings typically peak among White children?

Ages 5-7

When do SES differences have the biggest impact on math achievement?

Around the middle school transition

______ are classroom strategies derived from scientific research.

Best practices

Why are best practices constantly changing?

Best practices change as new research findings present teachers with more effective strategies

Two students in Mr. Patterson's class have not been getting along for most of the semester. Mr. Patterson assumes that if he has the two students sit at opposite ends of the classroom, the issue between them will resolve. What kind of teaching approach is Mr. Patterson using?

Common-sense

A teacher is interested in knowing the connection between the number of hours students do homework each week and their college entrance exam scores. What type of research design is she most likely to use?

Correlational

Which of the following is an example of a quasi-experimental design commonly used in research?

Cross-sectional study

A school administrator is interested in knowing the percentage of girls in school who are involved in sports this year. Which type of research design is the most likely to use?

Descriptive

Which of the following is an example of an individual or group characteristic researchers commonly use to assess diversity among participants?

Disabilities

What most accurately describes what socioeconomic status is based upon?

Education level and occupation of family members

Which is the most accurate statement about the terms ethnic group and racial group?

Ethnic group is about environment, and racial group is about biology.

Which type of research is most likely to yield information that determines cause and effect?

Experimental

Which of the following is considered a sexual orientation?

Homosexuality

Which best describes the field of educational psychology?

It provides teachers with evidence-based knowledge from research and theory to support their daily decision-making.

Which of the following is considered to be a main source of group differences?

Malnutrition

In which instance would a researcher be most likely to use a quasi-experimental design?

Ms. Morris wants to infer whether being from an abusive home causes students to have poorer reading scores.

Assume that a well-designed correlational research study shows a very strong relationship between how much children recreationally read at home and grades. Which is the most accurate conclusion?

None of the above can be concluded.

Which best exemplify measures used in educational psychology research?

Observations, interviews, tests

Which best describes the difference between prejudice and discrimination?

Prejudice describes a belief, and discrimination describes differential treatment of people based upon this belief.

A baby is born to Chinese parents in Asia and then adopted and raised by a white, middle-class family living in the rural Midwestern U.S. Which most accurately describes the group status of this child?

Race is Asian, and ethnicity is Caucasian.

Mrs. Kelly found a recent journal article that provided evidence supporting the use of "brain breaks" between lectures to promote student engagement and retention. Mrs. Kelly used what teaching approach?

Research-based

Which best describe the three key elements of every educational psychology research study?

Samples, measures, designs

Which is the most accurate statement about the terms sex and gender?

Sex refers to biology, while gender is a social definition

Which is most true about correlational designs?

They indicate the type and strength of the relationships between variables

What kind of programs have been implemented to help train individuals to close the achievement gap due to SES differences?

Urban education

Which most accurately describes the best method for ensuring a sample is representative?

Use a random sample

A researcher wants to know the effect of a new instructional program on language development of children with communication disabilities. She soon has dozens of eager families signed up to participate. The researcher is concerned that the set of individuals signed up for her study are different from the population in general. This concern is most accurately labeled as _____.

Volunteer bias

Common Core provides teachers with information on ______.

academic standards students need to meet

Mrs. Abel believes that students from low-income families are poor readers. When some of her students from lower-income families score well on a standardized reading achievement test, Mrs. Abel interprets their performance as due to luck because "poor students will be poor readers." Her thinking can be best interpreted as ______.

belief perseverance

Ms. Flores wants to know whether a new conditioning program improves the speed of the athletes she coaches. So with half of her students she uses the new program, and with the other half she trains them as usual. She then measures their speed to determine if the new program caused a difference in speed. The design can most accurately be classified as ______.

experimental

It is most accurate to say that the key characteristic that designates members of a minority group is that they _____ than the majority group.

have less power

The common-sense approach is not a recommended classroom practice because ______.

it is often found to be an ineffective and sometimes counterproductive approach to teaching

A researcher who wants to examine the same group of people repeatedly over time to know how earlier events can be connected to later events can be most accurately described as doing ______ research.

longitudinal

To fully take advantage of what educational psychology has to offer, it is important for teachers to ______.

understand scientific research and how they can incorporate it into their classroom practices