Violet
An assessment that encourages cognitive processes essential for high-quality learning.
What is a good assessment?
An ineffective method of learning where information is practiced several times over.
What is repetition?
Ways in which members of various cultural groups, economic groups, or genders are apt to be a bit different on average with respect to certain characteristics or behaviors.
What is between-group differences?
A design wherein one variable is manipulated to test its potential direct impact on another.
What is an experimental study?
Explanations that are useful for understanding patterns in learning and development but which should not be taken as absolute fact.
What are theories?
A measure of student’s self-reported preferences that doesn’t noticeably enhance student’s learning or academic achievement.
What is “learning styles”?
Differences noticeable beginning in infancy that appear to have their roots in biology and genetics. They persist throughout the childhood years and into adulthood.
What is temperament?
Ways in which the individual members of any particular group exhibit characteristics and behaviors unique to themselves.
What is within-group differences?
A design that allows one to establish if a relationship exists between two factors but not whether one causes the other.
What is a correlational study?
Generalizations that identify and describe the effect(s) that a certain factor may have on students’ learning, well-being, and development.
What are principles?
Teaching strategies specific to the topic being taught.
What is pedagogical content knowledge?
The false notion that different individuals predominantly use one hemisphere of their brain when thinking, derived from the true idea that the 2 hemispheres have different specialties.
What is left-brain and right-brain thinking?
A method where educators continually examine and critique their assumptions, inferences, and instructional practices, and they regularly adjust their beliefs and strategies in the face of new evidence.
What is reflective teaching?
Research that focuses on specific numbers, statistics, and numeric values.
What is quantitative research?
A design used when random assignment would be impractical or impossible, especially when groups are divided based on pre-existing characteristics, such as race or gender.
What is a quasi-experimental study?
Time, practice, and considerable knowledge about human learning and motivation, developmental trends, individual and group differences, and effective classroom practices.
What is the "domain of educational psychology"?
Using prior knowledge to expand or embellish on a new idea in some way. Examples include drawing conclusions from facts, identifying new examples for a concept, or thinking of situations in which a procedure might be helpful.
What is elaboration?
When teachers and administrators share a common vision for students learning and achievement, work collaboratively to achieve desired outcomes for all students, and regularly communicate with one another about their strategies and progress.
What is a professional learning community?
Research that focuses on more complex or unique explanations of phenomena, often in the form of open-ended questions.
What is qualitative research?
A form of intervention meant to solve problems within a classroom/school by identifying the issue(s), collecting and analyzing data, and developing an action plan.
What is action research?
An easy and effective learning method where students connect new information and ideas to things they’ve previously learned.
What is meaningful learning?
When people believe they are capable of executing certain behaviors or reaching their goals, generally allowing them to achieve at higher levels.
What is self-efficacy?
When students revise their existing notions to accommodate new and discrepant information.
What is a conceptual change?
A technique used in experimental studies to average out pre-existing differences in groups that may otherwise affect results.
What is random assignment?
A design that explains the prevalence or details of a particular phenomenon rather than why or how it occurs.
What is a descriptive study?