This includes an explanation of your ideas about teaching, your methods of teaching, and justification for both of these.
What is your teaching philosophy
100
Along with the measures and design, this is important to consider in any educational psychology study.
What is the sample?
100
In a normal distribution, 68% of scores will fall within this.
What is one standard deviation above and below the mean?
100
This type of test compares an individual’s performance to the performance of a group of similar test takers.
What is a norm-referenced test?
100
An expectation that leads the teacher to act in ways that make the expectation come true.
What is a self-fulfilling prophecy?
200
A subgroup of a larger population that has less than equal power.
What is a minority
200
This type of design might be used to determine the percentage of girls in school who are involved in sports this year.
What is descriptive?
200
This is the simplest measure of variability.
What is range?
200
A way to test whether a student’s performance meets a set curricular standard.
What is a criterion-referenced test?
200
This is one’s overall pool of knowledge, resulting from formal and informal education.
What is crystalized intelligence?
300
The basis of the information learned in educational psychology courses.
What is psychology research
300
To be a true experiment, an independent variable must be both randomly assigned and this.
What is manipulated?
300
A type of frequency distribution that looks lopsided or a-symmetrical.
What is a skewed distribution?
300
This type of test assesses future potential, or capacity to learn.
What is an aptitude test?
300
The effect that IQ scores have increased over successive generations throughout the world.
What is the Flynn effect?
400
This is determined by education level and occupation of family members.
What is socioeconomic status.
400
A study showing this type of relationship found that the more minutes per day spent on cell phones, the lower quality a person's social relationships.
What is a negative correlation?
400
A measure that is typical or representative of a group of scores.
What is central tendency?
400
This is what is standard in a standardized test.
What are the conditions in which a test is given?
400
This is one’s potential for learning, resulting from general abilities to reason, think, and learn new things.
What is fluid intelligence?
500
This requires that scientifically based research, such as what we study in Ed Psych, be used by schools and educational programs in order to receive federal funding.
What is No Child Left Behind act
500
This determines the optimal design used in educational psychology research.
What is the question being asked?
500
This type of validity relates to how a variable is operationalized.
What is construct validity?
500
This type of test is used to determine what instruction should follow and/or facilitate future learning.
What is formative assessment?
500
According to this theory, instruction should be balanced so that over the course of a unit, students are exposed to lessons that emphasize analytical, creative, and practical abilities.
What is Sternberg's theory of successful intelligence?