Chapter 1 pt.1 Flashcards
Teachers must?
- motivate students
- help students recognize what true mastery involves
- assess where each student currently is in their learning and development
- create a good environment for a student learn in
How can teachers improve their self-development?
- keep up with research
- subject knowledge
- specific strategies
- community culture
- self-efficacy
How are teachers also students?
- CECS
- challenge your beliefs
- check your understanding
Educational psychology is a discipline that:
1.
2.
(1) systematically studies the nature of learning, child development, motivation, and related topics and
(2) applies its research findings to the identification and development of effective classroom practices
True or False: Children most effectively acquire new knowledge and skills in the first three years of life
False
neurons in the human brain spontaneously generate many new interconnections (_______) in the first two or three years of life
synapses
_______ in the human brain spontaneously generate many new interconnections (synapses) in the first ____ or ______ years of life
neurons
two
three
Is synaptic pruning good or bad? Why?
It is good because it eliminates unproductive and counterproductive responses and thereby making thinking and behavior more efficient
True or False: the human brains’ development stops at a certain age
False; it continually develops throughout life
True or False: Some children are predominantly left-brain thinkers, whereas others are predominantly right-brain thinkers
False; practically speaking there is no such things as left-brain or right brain thinking
True or False: Children’s personalities are largely the result of their home environments
False
________ has a significant impact on children’s personality
heredity
True or False: The best way to learn and remember a new fact is to repeat it over and over
False
A better alternative to repeating information repeatedly, is by ___________
elaboration
using prior knowledge to expand or embellish on a new idea in some way
elaboration
True or False: students know how much they know on a topic
False; students often misjudge how much they know about a topic
True or False: Anxiety sometimes helps students learn and perform a topic
True
True or False: Playing a video games interferes with children’s cognitive development
False
True or False: The ways in which teachers assess students’ learning, influence what and how students actually learn
True
Teachers are _______ ______
decision makers
teaching must be based on the science of _________ and the science of __________
learning
instruction
the use of instructional methods and other classroom strategies that research has consistently shown to bring about significant gains in students’ development and academic achievement
evidence-based practices
What are the two types of research?
Qualitative
Quantitative
Qualitative or quantitative research:
research yielding information that is inherently numerical in nature or can easily be reduced to numbers
Quantitative Research
Qualitative or quantitative research:
research yielding information that cannot easily be reduced to numbers; typically involves an in-depth examination of a complex phenomenon
Qualitative Research
What are the four general categories of quantitative research?
- Descriptive Studies
- Correlational Studies
- Experimental Studies
- Quasi-Experimental Studies
research study that enables researchers to draw conclusions about the current state of affairs regarding an issue but not about correlation or cause-and-effect relationships
descriptive studies
What type of study draws conclusions about the way things are- the current state of affairs?
descriptive studies
Descriptive Studies don’t enable?
- predictions about one variable based on another variable or
- conclusions about cause-and-effect relationships
