A state establishes "standards" that students must meet in order to graduate. The state is MOST LIKELY focusing on this broad educational goal.
What is transmitting society's knowledge and values?
100
These were originally implemented as a tool to desegragate schools.
What are magnet schools?
100
Although it is a popular idea, there is limited research proving the effectiveness of these in schools.
What are computers?
100
This is time students are actively involved with subject matter.
What is engaged time?
100
This 1969 publication by Rosenthal and Jacobson, supports the premise that student achievement can be increased when teachers believe that students can effectively meet their academic challenges.
What is "Pygmalion in the Classroom"?
200
This individual is the author of A Place Called School, a study examining the purposes of schooling.
Who is John Goodlad?
200
These typically enjoy permission to operate for a fixed length of time.
What are charter schools?
200
These individuals supplement an official curriculum with other materials and objectives.
Who are teachers?
200
You have just been assigned to teach a class. In order to establish this, the best course of action is to establish predictable routines and rules to offer a sense of stability.
What is classroom management?
200
This curriculum includes activities such as varsity sports, music, and dramabut often underrepresents students of low socioeconomic status. Students participating typically have higher SAT scores and grades.
What is the extracurriculum?
300
When students, parents, and teachers were asked to rate school goals in a study, these four were all rated "very important."
What are vocational, personal, academic, and social and civic goals?
300
This Supreme Court established criteria to determine the legality of government funds used in religious schools.
What is Lemon v. Kurtzman?
300
These entities influence school curriculums by the creation of standards, curriculum guides, and frameworks.
What are state governments?
300
By beginning a lesson with a riddle or an anecdote, a teacher is trying to establish this.
What is motivation?
300
Teachers tend to give these individuals more wait time.
Who are students they believe will be able to give a correct answer?
400
Encouraging students to question and reform social ills such as poor living conditions for the disabled would be advocated by someone favoring this variety of curriculum.
What is a social action curriculum?
400
This curriculum arises spontaneously from interactions between students and their environments.
What is the hidden curriculum?
400
The main point of this publication is that slavish devotion to the content of past times can result in a curriculum obsolete for contemporary realities.
What is "The Saber Tooth Curriculum"?
400
These types of questions are effectively used during classroom discussions.
What are higher order questions?
400
This is responsive to past performance and student ability and effort.
What is effective praise?
500
These tend to change to reflect the nation's ever-changing priorities.
What are school goals?
500
This educational movement supports using instructional procedures that stress drill, homework, and frequent testing, permitting fewer electives, and the need to improve test scores.
What is the back-to-basics movement?
500
This has been criticized for failing to consistently correlate with other measures of student learning.
What is high-stakes testing?
500
A teacher asks a student to grade her own research paper—and to justify her grade. Identify the level of this task on Bloom's taxonomy.
What is evaluation?
500
A teacher whose goal is for students to take charge of their own learning would be LEAST LIKELY to use this instructional method.