Ch 10/11 Questions for Final Exam

What are the advantages of the statewide adoption of textbooks?

A common statewide curriculum, less expensive texts, saves time and work for teachers at the local level

What was the educational approach that best fits an emphasis on cultural literacy as advanced by E.D. Hirsch, Jr?

A curriculum that details the facts and concepts that every American should know

When asking questions, teachers tend to give more wait time to what type of student?

A student who will more likely give a right answer

What is Bloom's taxonomy?

A system for determining the intellectual level of questions

What is withininess?

A teacher's ability to correct misbehavior before it gets out of control and before other students in the class see it and also begin to do it.

What does research on the effectiveness of computers in education shows?

Although a popular idea, there is limited research proving the effectiveness.

What is "Intelligent design"?

An idea or theory that competes with the theory of evolution, it credits an unnamed intelligence for aspects of nature unexplained by science

How does the state government influence the curriculum?

By creation of state standards, curriculum guide, and frameworks

How do teachers shape the curriculum?

By supplementing an official curriculum with other materials and objectives

The strong emphasis on the basics and academics during the 1980s was due to what?

Due to concern over the proliferation of easy high school electives and declining test scores.

What were the key components of the back-to-basics movement?

Fewer electives and the need to improve test scores

What are high-stakes testing has been criticized for

For failing to consistently correlate with other measures of student learning

The sequence of planned learning experience described in course guides and syllabi is called what type of curriculum?

Formal curriculum

What is a major difference between the formal and the hidden curriculum?

Hidden curriculum arises spontaneously from interactions between students and their environments

Proposed content standards were quite controversial in which content area in which of these subjects areas: Math, history, science, or English?

History

When does "Cooperative learning groups" work best?

In small groups

What is "Direct teaching"?

Includes guided practice, teacher feedback, and review, among other active teaching behaviors.

What is group alerting?

Is engaging the attention of the whole class while individuals are responding

According to Jere Brophy, what is "effective praise"?

Is responsive to past performance and student ability and effort

In A Place Called School, which of the following researchers reported great variation in the way schools use their time: Arno Bellack, Mary Budd Rowe, Jere Brophy, or John Goodlad?

John Goodlad

A textbook uses "he" and "mankind" to refer to all people. This is an example of bias called what?

Linguistic Bias

Teachers' questions are usually "higher order" or "lower order"?

Lower order

How often is the pedagogical cycle initiated by the teacher

Mainly: usually always

The amount of time a teacher typically wait to call on a student after asking a question is

One second or less

What are "Lower order questions"?

Questions that require the retrieval of memorized information and do not require more complex intellectual process

The formal curriculum of the 17th century was primarily concerned with what?

Reading and Religion

What is the main point of The Saber Tooth Curriculum?

Slavish devotion to the content of past times can result in a curriculum is obsolete for contemporary realities

What did the curriculum emphasized in the 1960s?

Social Issues

What "moves" does Arno Bellack's pedagogical cycle features?

Structure, Question, Responds, React

What are the two states that are most influential in the state textbook adoption process?

Texas and California

What part of the country is textbook adoption states mainly located?

The South and West

What are extracurriculum activities?

The part of school life that comprises activities, such as sports, academic and social clubs, band, chorus, (ETC).. many educators think that the extracurricular develops important skills and values

The push for more testing had helped to reduce what?

The use of class time

What is engaged time?

Time students are actively involved with the subject matter

A textbook covers 20th century U.S. History w/o mentioning the continuing struggle for civil rights, and pictures throughout the text portray only harmonious race relations. This is an example of bias called what?

Unreality Bias

When are "higher order questions" most effectively used?

Used during a discussion or student reasoning

A teacher asks a student to grade her own research paper--- and to justify her grade. What level of the level of this task on Bloom's taxonomy?

higher level, evaluation

By beginning a lesson with a riddle or an anecdote, a teacher is trying to establish what?

is trying to establish motivation

In order to promote more efficient use of classroom time, how should classroom rules should be designed?

should be few and fair

A scientific "theory" such as the theory of evolution, is a thoroughly tested belief is it like to change or unchanged?

unlikely to change