Ed Psych Exam 1 with accurate detailed answers
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Next to the home, what is the single most effective influence on student learning? - ✔✔A
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teacher
What is educational psychology? - ✔✔The academic discipline that studies teaching and
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learning
What is Psychology? - ✔✔The scientific study if the mind and behavior
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Ed Psych studies the effectiveness of ______________________ interventions. -
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✔✔educational
Educational Psychology both _______ _________ and _________ __________ cognitive
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science and learning sciences. - ✔✔Draws from, contributes from
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What is an expert? - ✔✔A person who is highly knowledgable or skilled in a particular
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domain
What is an effective teacher? - ✔✔Teachers who produce more learning than would be
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expected or the student's backgrounds and ability
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What is an effect size? - ✔✔It is a number that tells you the size of the impact that an
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intervention has on student learning. It tells what degree you are succeeding in your work
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with students.
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How much effect size growth does a student typically have? - ✔✔.5 effect size growth
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How many grades are students from poverty behind in? - ✔✔1-3 grades behind
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0.00 or less effect size - ✔✔Negative effects
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0.00-0.20 effect size - ✔✔Unclear effects || || || || ||
0.21 to 0.40 effect size - ✔✔Small to moderate effects
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0.41-0.60 effect size - ✔✔Moderate to strong effects
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0.61-2.00 effect size - ✔✔Extreme positive effects
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Ed Psych focuses on _________ and ___________ of a teacher - ✔✔skills and knowledge
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What is professional knowledge? - ✔✔Body of knowledge and skills and unique to a
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particular area of study. || || ||
4 types of professional knowledge and describe them - ✔✔1. Knowledge of Content- What
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to teach
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2. Pedagogical Content Knowledge- How to teach in general
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3. General Pedagogical Knowledge- how to teach particular content
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4. Knowledge of learners and learning- Who you are teaching
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Effective teachers use _______________ practice- critical examination of one's teaching. -
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✔✔Reflective
What is research? - ✔✔Research is the process of systematically gathering information in
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an attempt to answer professional questions.
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What are the types of research? - ✔✔- Quantitative
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- Qualitative
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Quantitative Research - ✔✔Use of numeric data || || || || || ||
Qualitiative Research - ✔✔attempts to describe a complex educational phenomenon in a
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holistic fashion using nonnumerical data
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- often foundational and can be biased
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ex: effects of a school shooting, how children fair in military school
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Descriptive Research - ✔✔Use of tests, surveys, and observations to describe the status or
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characteristics of a situation or phenomenon. || || || || || ||
- Usually one variable at a time
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ex: What percentage of kids drop our of high school in Grant County?
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