Disability
ADHD, define both description and name.
What is Attention-deficit/Hyperactivity disorder?
Neurodevelopmental disorder that includes symptoms of inattention, hyperactivity, impulsivity and deficits in executive functions
Balanced literacy approach
What is the approach to teaching reading that combines elements of the phonics-based and whole language approaches?
Describe what an Exceptional Learner is.
What is a child who has one or more of a variety of special learning needs?
Intelligence
What is description of an individual’s ability to adapt to the world around them?
Describe Mental age
What is the age at which a person is performing based on an intelligence test?
Describe Dyslexia
What is the learning disability that involves difficulties in reading?
Crystallized intelligence
What is the existing knowledge that individuals have developed during their life through education and experience?
Describe Fluid intelligence.
What is the ability to use logic and to solve problems in new ways?
Intelligence quotient (IQ)
What is score used to quantify human intelligence?
Metamemory
What is the understanding of how memory works?
Describe Dyscalculia
What is the learning disability that involves difficulties in math?
Constructivism
What is the idea that students play an active role in acquiring knowledge by constructing it through experience?
Describe the General intelligence factor (g)
What is general cognitive factor that underlies multiple cognitive skills?
Learning Disability
What is the condition that impacts learning in a specific academic area?
Metalinguistic awareness
What is awareness of the qualities of language, allowing individuals to think about and evaluate language?
Describe Dysgraphia
What is the learning disability that involves difficulties in writing?
Concrete operational thinking
What is the third stage of Piaget’s theory on cognitive development during which children begin to understand basic cognitive principles and concepts such as cause and effect, relationships, size, and distance?
Describe the Flynn effect
What is the effect that describes the significant increases of scores on intelligence tests over time?
Describe Individualized education program (IEP)
What is a written plan that spells out the specific educational goals and services that have been individualized for a student with a disability?
Metacognition
What is knowledge about how we think and learn and how we use that awareness to become better thinkers and learners?
Describe Intellectual disability
Extra 100: Describe Self-efficacy
What is the disability that consists of limits in intellectual functioning, often indicated by an IQ score less than 70 and challenges in adaptive functioning?
Extra 100: What is the individual’s confidence in their ability to successfully solve a problem or complete a task?
Individualized education program (IEP)
Extra 100: Describe Seriation
What is a written plan of specific educational goals and for students with a disability?
Extra 100:What is the ability to put objects in order, such as by size or color?
Describe what giftedness is
Extra 100: Describe triarchic theory of intelligence
What is variation in intelligence marked by cognitive flexibility, cognitive performance, specific ability areas, and an IQ above 130, may be referred to by other terms?
Extra 100: What is the theory of intelligence that proposes that there are three types of intelligence (analytical, creative and practical)
Least-restrictive Environment
Extra 100: What happens during Middle Childhood?
What is the principle that states that all children with a disability should receive general education in an environment that is as similar as possible to the one for children without disabilities?
Extra 100:What is growth rates slow down compared to earlier childhood, but children still increase in height and weight?
Describe the Phonics approach
Extra 100: Describe whole-language approach
What is the approach to teaching language that teaches children to translate letters into sounds and to combine individual sounds to form words?
Extra 100: What is the approach to teaching reading that uses natural context such as books rather than focusing on the sounds that make up words?