Use of educational methods that research has shown bring about gains in students' development and academic achievement.
What is Evidence Based Practice?
100
A strong and loving emotional bond between a child and caregiver. Considered essential for the healthy development of all future relationships.
What is Attachment?
100
In the brain, these have an unlimited capacity to form new connections. Over time they will both branch and be pruned.
What is a neuron?
100
The process of actively creating meaning and understanding through interacting with the world.
What is Constructivism?
100
When meaning is jointly constructed by two or more people, by groups or by cultures over time.
What is Social Constructivism?
200
Research that does not easily reduce to numbers; it typically involves an in-depth examination of complex ideas/phenomena
What is Qualitative Research?
200
Parenting style in which parents take responsibility for authority and set high standards for behavior but do it with warmth, explanation and consistent enforcement of the rules.
What is Authoritative Parenting?
200
The notion that children actively create their own knowledge, as well as their beliefs about the world through their interactions with it.
What is Constructivism?
200
The part of cognition and memory where information is temporarily attended to, deciphered and stored.
What is Working Memory?
200
An integrated set of concepts or principles that allows us to explain and predict behavior, or intervene with a particular phenomena/behavior.
What is a Theory?
300
A study that examines the relationship between two or more variables in order to make predictions about one variable based on the movement of the other variable(s).
What is Correlational Research?
300
Examples are Preoperational Period, Concrete operational period, Formal Operational period.
What are Piaget's stages of development?
300
The process of dealing with new information/experience by altering a current schema or by building a new one.
What is Accommodation?
300
Knowledge that is primarily made up of discreet facts. It can be learned by either rote or meaningful learning methods.
What is Declarative Knowledge?
300
A tightly organized set of facts about a specific topic, for example "high school."
What is a schema?
400
Systematic studies of issues in one's own school with the goal of finding more effective strategies for working with students or finding solutions to one's own school's problems.
What is Action Research?
400
Stage of social-emotional development that teens are in according to Erik Erikson.
What is Identity vs. Role Confusion?
400
The stage of Piaget's cognitive development theory in which students are able to form and test multiple hypotheses and engage in higher-order mathematical reasoning.
What is Formal Operations?
400
Memory aids, sometimes in the form of rhymes or "tricks", used to retrieve information when deeper knowledge is limited
What is a Mnemonic Device?
400
1. Provide opportunities for first-hand experimentation;
2. Present experts' perspectives;
3. Emphasize conceptual-level understanding;
4. Encourage classroom dialogue;
5. Assign authentic activities;
6. Create a community of learners.
What are six ways to encourage knowledge construction or active learning?
500
Refers to what percentage of the population the individual performed BETTER than.
What is percentile rank?
500
Identity status in which adolescents actively search for identity, considering options available that best reflect their belief systems and career choices
What is Moratorium?
500
When operating in this target area, students can perform tasks with assistance but not yet independently. It is the ideal range for teaching.
What is the Zone of Proximal Development?
500
The failure to store information correctly; decay; retrieval failure; inadequate search of long-term memory; interference; or a reconstruction error
What causes forgetting?
500
A significant revieion of of an existing theory or belief system, enabling new and discrepant information to be better understood and explained.