Exam 12: School As a Context for Development

Elida and Pilar are two girls from the same village. Elida's mother did not attend school growing up, but Pilar's mother attended elementary school as a child. What do we know about the girls based on past research comparing children of mothers who had no formal schooling versus children of mothers who did?

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 found that school engagement:

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

The form of job preparation in which a novice spends an extended period working for an adult master and learning the trade on the job has historically been known as:

What are three things that "realistic mathematics education" should do?

Top-down mathematics instruction begins with:

The MOST successful school programs for culturally and linguistically diverse students:

A specific learning disability may include learning problems associated with:

In comparison with working-class Kenyan children or children from Brazil or the United States, Kenyan middle-class children:

Swedish and Finnish classrooms are:

Children who are socialized in an interdependent culture are more likely to:

Students whose mathematics instruction focused on traditional recitation scripts scored better in ____________, while students whose mathematics instruction focused on problem- oriented approaches scored better in ____________.

Ladd and Dinella explored the relationship between school engagement and academic achievement in nearly 400 children as they progressed from first to eighth grade. Which students did the researchers find to be MOST at risk for academic problems?

Compared to American school children, memory performance in school children from other cultures is:

Children who have participated in formal schooling tend to perform better on logical thinking tasks than their unschooled peers primarily because:

Even when family income and maternal employment are held constant, children whose families speak Spanish at home are:

Sending a girl in sub-Saharan Africa to school:

Reciprocal teaching is an example of:

What are two of the challenges of teaching immigrant children or children of immigrants in schools in the United States? How can these challenges be addressed by the schools that serve them?

One of the most widely used methods to distinguish children with a specific learning disability is to analyze their performance on an IQ test and on an academic achievement test. Children with specific learning disabilities have: