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EDU Psy - Chapter 1
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Teacher’s sense of efficacy | Teacher's belief that he or she can reach even difficult students to help them learn. |
| Reflective | They constantly think back over situations to analyze what they did and why. |
| NCLB | No Child Left Behind Act became a federal law. |
| SEL | Social and Emotional Learning. Deep breathing, larger classroom practices and kits that teach many skills such as PATHS). |
| PATHS | Promoting Alternative Thinking Strategies. Intervention Strategy. Goes alongside SEL. |
| RULER | Recognizing, Understanding, Labeling, Expressing, and Regulating emotions. Intervention Strategy. |
| TeachingWorks | A national project based at the University of Michigan that is dedicated to improving teaching practice. |
| CLASS | Classroom Assessment Scoring System. |
| Negative Correlation | A relationship between two variables in which a high value on one is associated with a low value on the other. Example: height and distance from the top of head to the ceiling. |
| Positive Correlation | A relationship between two variables in which the two increase or decrease together. Example: calorie intake and weight gain. |
| Correlations | Statistical descriptions of how closely two variables are related. |
| Descriptive Studies | Studies that collect detailed information about specific situations often using observation, surveys, interviews, recordings, or a combination of these methods. |
| Experimentation | Research method in which variables are manipulated and the effects recorded. |
| Participants/Subjects | People or animals studied. |
| Case Study | Intensive study of one individual or one situation. |
| Ethnography | A descriptive approach to research that focuses on life within a group and tries to understand the meaning of events to the people involved. |
| Participant Observation | A method for conducting descriptive research in which the researcher becomes a participant in the situation in order to better understand life in that group. |
| Qualitative Research | Exploratory research that attempts to understand the meaning of events to the participants involved using such methods as case studies, interviews, ethnography, participant observation, and other approaches that focus on a few people in depth. |
| Quantitative Research | Research that studies many participants in a more formal and controlled way using objective measures such as experimentation, statistical analyses, tests, and structured observations. |
| What Works ClearingHouse | IES (U.S. Institute of Education Sciences) established this that consists of like recommendations from experts. |
| Action Research | Systematic observations or tests of methods conducted by teachers or schools to improve teaching and learning for their students. |
| Hypothesis/hypotheses | Systematic observations or tests of methods conducted by teachers or schools to improve teaching and learning for their students. |
| Empirical | Based on systematically collected data. |
| Danielson’s Framework for Teaching. | Demonstrate knowledge of content and pedagogy. Demonstrate knowledge of students. Setting instructional objectives. Demonstrating knowledge of resources. Designing coherent instructions. Designing student assessments. |
| Educational Psychology | The study of development, learning, motivation, teaching, and assessment in and out of schools. |
| What percentage does U.S. children under 18 have at least one immigrant parent. What is one of the states that have a higher percentage. | 25%. Some states such as California is closer to 50%. |
| US has 7th highest rate of what? | Child poverty |
| Over half of students in public schools have free access or reduced cost of what? | Lunches. |
| Black and American Indian children poverty rate of what? What percentage does Hispanic children have? | 30%. 24%. |
| About (what percentage) of American children have mild to severe developmental disability such as speech and language impairments, intellectual disabilities, cerebral palsy, or autism. | 18% |
| For children birth to 17, 23% had what? | Divorced Parents |
| 8% were living with someone who had what? | A drug of alcohol problem. |
| 7% had a parent who what? | Served time in prison/jail. |
| 7% lived with someone who had what? | Mental Illness. |
| Quasi-Experimental Studies. | Studies that fit most of the criteria for true experiments, with the important exception that the participants are not assigned to groups at random. Instead, existing groups such as classes or schools participate in experiments. |