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CA Schooling
Question | Answer |
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education | form of socialization, learn from environment |
apprenticeships | some cultures have this, not common until older, learn skills, some start in childhood |
motivation | formal vs. informal, the gap between when use |
social relation | different teachers, relatives as apprentices |
social organization | how many students |
medium of instruction | one on one, alone work, oral instruction, hands on, written |
main focus of education | reading and math |
bottom up processing | phonics approach, teach to soud out words, little comprehension |
top-down processing | whole language approach, expose as whole, reade story, gain understanding, inspire them to seek out skills |
combination of learning | practice, reasoning, effective strategies |
comprehension | drilling vs. number sense |
research in math | German and Asians score high, Brazil can pass if worded correctly |
small class size | 13- 17, have high acheivement |
regular with 1 teacher | 22-25 |
standard classroom | traditional and constructivists |
alternatives | reciprocal teaching, realistic mathematics education |
traditional | teacher = authority child= passive learner, listen |
constructivists | teacher= guide, some authority, explain further student= active learner, role in own education |
realistic mathematics education | use meaningful activities, support basics, employ models, emphasize reasoning |
Boalar (2001) | traditional vs. realistic, traditional better at procedure, realistic better at applications |
cognitive consequences of schooling | cutoff strategies, schooled vs. nonschooled children, second-generation of schooling |
cut off strategies | child must be certain age by certain date, similar patterns in results |
schooled v. non schooled children | logical thinking, memory, metacognitions |
logical thinking | research not clear on concrete operational thinking, inconclusive results |
memory | performance increases when the child is given the opportunity to attend school, capacity didn't increase, |
metacognition | increase in ability to reflect on and talk about own thought processes when schooled, explain steps take |
2nd generation mother affects | infant mortality, health during childhood, and academic achievement |
IQ | good predictor of academic achievement |
high achieving nations | Japan, Taiwan, Korea, spend more time in school for about 8 hrs per day, go to school more than 50 days more than here |
learning disabilities | normal IQ but low on subscales, dyslexia normal IQ but some low verbal skills |