Exam 12: School As Context for Development

Cathy Block and her colleagues studied the effectiveness of various instructional approaches to reading, including standard reading instruction and alternative instructional approaches. The researchers found that alternative approaches using student-guided, teacher-led discussion of the texts were:

What are units of sounds called?

What is the purpose of instructional discourse?

Children with a disability who display a pattern of performance in which their verbal IQ is high and their quantitative IQ is low have:

Recent research has supported Piaget's belief that the ability to conserve quantity:

According to Dweck (1999), 12-year-old children begin to articulate theories about intelligence that can be categorized as ____________ or ____________.

Playworld practice involves enacting, discussing, making art, and playing with themes based on works of children's literature.

Enriched experiences in rhyming, breaking down words into syllables, and language games such as pig Latin help children learn:

Children of immigrant families are the fastest growing group of children in the United States.

Nicte and Maria are Guatamalan Maya children. Nicte's mother has no experience with schooling, while Maria's mother has extensive experience with Western schooling. Their little brothers are being shown how to fold an origami dinosaur by an adult. What is MOST likely to happen based on research conducted with this population?

Terrance has been learning to weave hats by moving in with his uncle and then shadowing him and watching him weave hats. Terrance is learning through:

When Wagner (1974) asked educated and uneducated Mayan children to remember the location of a series of cards, he found that the educated children's performance:

According to researchers, realistic mathematics education should do the following EXCEPT:

Ladd and Dinella explored the relationship between school engagement and academic achievement in nearly 400 children as they progressed from first to eighth grade. The researchers focused on which of the following two dimensions?

The academic difficulties of children who fare poorly in school despite normal IQ test performance are referred to as mental retardation.

For which of the following does a child participate in a cognitive activity before he or she has mastered the full set of abilities for that activity?

Children with a disability that involves special difficulties in learning to write, including poor handwriting, problems with spelling, as well as problems in putting thoughts on paper, have:

Since its inception in 1965, Head Start has enrolled more than ____________ children in the program.

Children who have a disability related to difficulty in phonological processing have:

The contexts within which apprentices learn: