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ED300 Midterm Study Guide (Chapter 1-5) Exam Questions and Complete
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The Characteristics of Teacher Professionalism - Answer: People who produce more learning in their
students than would be expected for their students' background and ability and their knowledge and
understanding of learning; and teaching sets them apart from colleagues with less expertise.
4 Different Kinds of Knowledge for Expert Teaching - Answer: Knowledge of Content, Pedagogical
Content Knowledge, General Pedagogical Knowledge, & Knowledge of Learners and Learning
Praxis Exam - Answer: A test that covers basic and academic skills in reading, writing, and mathematics.
Also includes tests that cover specific subject content. Used for teacher licensure.
What role does research play in the acquisition of professional knowledge? - Answer: Research is the
process of systematically gathering info in an attempt to answer professional questions
Different Kinds of Research - Answer: Descriptive Research
Correlational Research
Experimental Research
Qualitative Research
Action Research
Design-Based Research
Qualitative Research - Answer: primarily exploratory research. Used to gain an understanding of
underlying reasons, opinion, and motivation.
Quantitative Research - Answer: used to quantify the problem by way of generating numerical data or
data that can be transformed into usable statistics. Used to quantify attitudes, opinions, behaviors, and
other defined variables - and generalize results from a larger sample population.
, Descriptive Research - Answer: Research that uses surveys and other tools
Correlation Research - Answer: Research that finds a relationship between variables that allow us to
predict changes in one variable on the basis of changes in another without implying that one causes the
other
Experimental Research - Answer: Research that systematically manipulates variables
in attempts to determine cause and effect.
Action Research - Answer: Research designed to answer a specific school- or classroom-related question.
It can be descriptive, correlational, experimental, or qualitative
Scientifically-Based Research in Education - Answer: Research conducted with the specific goal of
impacting classroom practice
Principles of Development - Answer: - Development depends on both heredity and environment
- Development proceeds in relatively orderly and predictable pattern
- People develop at different rates
physiology of learning - Answer: conditioned response: Behavior is learned shaped, repeated, or curbed
by a variety of rewards and punishments in our environment, start with the following
Positive reinforcement: stimulates behavior and is encouraging, if a behavior is not reinforced, it will
extinguish
Extinction occurs when job well done is not positively reinforced,
Cerebral Cortex - Answer: The outer covering of the cerebrum. It is the site of much that characterized
human thinking, problem solving, and language.
- Divided into 4 sections, called "lobes" - frontal, parietal, occipital, and temporal lobe
- larger in humans than any other animal
- Contains the greatest # of neurons and synapses
- Develops moremore slowly than other parts of the brain
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