Chapter 8 Quiz

Chapter 8 Quiz

. Instruction that is directed toward mastery of basic skills is known as _______ instruction.

. In _______ instruction, all students are involved in the same activities at any given time during the class.

. In _______ instruction, students are encouraged to help plan the learning tasks they will undertake.

. A school that typically includes the fifth or sixth grade through the eighth grade is a(n) _______ school.

. A school that typically includes the seventh grade through the ninth grade is a(n) _______ school.

. Which of the following is not one of changes that students transitioning from elementary to secondary school typically have to adjust to?

. In research on the characteristics of effective schools, differences in social and academic climates among schools, or differences in teaching staff, are referred to as _______ variables.

. In research on the characteristics of effective schools, the number of students per classroom, computers per student, or books in the library are considered _______ variables.

. In research on the characteristics of effective schools, criteria such as student achievement and college attendance rates are called _______ variables.

. James Comer argues that parents contribute the most to their child's achievement when their involvement in the child's education begins

. _______ is a classroom technique that stimulates solutions to problems by having students alternately argue their own and the opposing side of a conflict.

. _______ programs are designed to teach students to view conflict as a problem to be solved mutually, with a win-win perspective.

. A classroom organized into small, ethnically balanced working groups in which each student contributes to a different part of the lesson is known as a _______ classroom.

. Bronfenbrenner calls the underlying social and political climate that can impinge on an adolescent's realities the

. Bronfenbrenner calls an adolescent's firsthand experiences such as interactions at home, in the classroom, and with friends the

. Bronfenbrenner calls the interactions among the different microsystems of which one is a part the

. Research by Steinberg, Brown, and Dornbusch found that high school students in the U.S. spend an average of _______ hours a week doing homework, _______ students in other industrialized countries.

. A motivational pattern in which students focus on what they are learning and work to increase their competence is known as a(n) _______ orientation.

. A motivational pattern in which students focus on their own performance, using it as a way to assess their ability, is known as a(n) _______ orientation.

. Teaching learning-disabled students in regular classrooms is known as

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