Schools & Classrooms
What has historically been the primary source of local revenue for schools?
Property tax
This theorist is associated with behaviorism and positive reinforcement.
This type of evaluation is used to make final judgments about whether a certain level of accomplishment has been attained.
Summative evaluation
Which amendment ensures freedom of speech, religion, and the press?
First Amendment
This type of assessment measures what a student has learned so feedback can be provided.
Formative assessment
The belief that one can control one’s life is
self-efficacy
By the end of this class, students will measure objects and calculate their areas and volumes. This statement is an example of a(n)
objective
Income, occupation, and educational attainment are criteria that constitute
Socioeconomic status
Which amendment grants educational roles and responsibilities to the states?
the 10th Amendment
This type of assessment measures the individual's performance compared with that of a norm group of similar individuals. Often these are referred to as "standardized tests."
norm-referenced assessments
The document produced each year that summarizes the data analyses and specifies action steps that will be taken is
School Improvement Plan
The process of purposefully monitoring our thinking. Is characterized by clarifying the purposes for learning, monitoring one’s own comprehension through self-questioning, and taking corrective action if understanding fails. These skills require awareness, reflection, and interaction with others.
Metacognition
Which domain addresses human reactions and responses to content and subject matter?
Prevent discrimination so that females and males have equal educational opportunities.
Title IX
This type of assessment compares a student’s performance with a specific type of accomplishment or criterion.
criterion referenced assessment
This is a legal wrong based on alleged negligence. Teachers have a duty to protect including foreseeability of harm.
tort
Some children develop preconceived negative attitudes against members of groups who are different from them in some way. These patterns, which they may learn from their families, cause them to practice
prejudice
The identification of membership in a group based on the national origin (that is, a specific country or area of the world) of one’s ancestors, a shared culture, and a sense of common destiny is called
ethnicity
This title serves students from low-income families.
Title I
What do we call an assessment that actually measures what it is intended to measure?
Valid
Requires teachers to maintain confidential student records. Enables parents to be able to review and challenge student records.
FERPA or Buckley Amendment
Which theorist is associated with scaffolding?
Lev Vygotsky
The court decision that struck down the separate but equal doctrine of 1896
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
This amendment ensures equal educational opportunity. Everyone is entitled to due process.
the 14th Amendment.
Teachers with this understand the knowledge students possess and how to build on it.
pedagogical content knowledge