Gardner-Webb University

PSYC 303

Unit 1 Midterm

Quiz 1

1)A student has been absent for many days during a semester, so the teacher meets with the student's parents. The teacher remarks that the more days absent from school, the worse student's grades tend to be. What type of correlation is the teacher suggesting there is between attendance and achievement?

2. Which of the following statements best expresses the text author's view of the importance of subject matter knowledge in effective teaching?

3. Intentional teachers become expert by engaging in all of the following activities EXCEPT:

4. Who wrote "Talks to Teachers on Psychology"?

5. Teachers who think about the outcomes they want for their students and how each decision they make moves students toward those outcomes:

6. Which of the following statements about the role of educational psychology in teacher education is accurate?
7. Which of the following components of sound teacher decision making is FALSE?

8. A benefit of action research is that:

9. Content knowledge is to "what to teach" as                             is to "how to teach."

10. The essence of a variable is that it: