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Practice Midterm Questions

The document discusses several topics related to early childhood education including reading to kindergarteners, the Head Start program, a 3-tier behavioral model, culturally responsive teaching, service learning and its impact on mental health, variable practice versus static repetition in learning, and service learning in urban schools.

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Practice Midterm Questions

The document discusses several topics related to early childhood education including reading to kindergarteners, the Head Start program, a 3-tier behavioral model, culturally responsive teaching, service learning and its impact on mental health, variable practice versus static repetition in learning, and service learning in urban schools.

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Reading to Kindergarteners

1) Kindergartners are more likely to remember new vocabulary from a story their teacher reads them if
they:
a) Have a smaller vocabulary before reading/hearing the story
b) Have a large vocabulary before reading/hearing the story
c) Have never been exposed to the story before
d) All of the above
2) It is easier for kindergarteners to learn
a) Nouns
b) Verbs
c) Adjectives
d) Numbers
3) According to this study, how many times must a kindergartner hear a word to learn it.

4) Describe how researchers/parents can know kindergarteners’ vocabulary size if they can’t read yet.

HEADSTART IMPACT STUDY

5) What is the age of kids that attend head start?


a) 1-2
b) 2-3
c) 3-4
d) 4-5
6) According to the study what are the 4 impacts head start has working with these children?
Mental health, nutrition, physical health, school readiness
7) What was the overall experience of the head start children in the study discussed in class
a) HS increases likely of low-income children to be enrolled in early childcare programs
b) Has a positive impact on children’s exposure to high quality early care in education
c) All children that participate learn language, literacy, and math
d) Not all children in head start have a positive experience
e) All of the above
8) What racial/ethnic groups are most impacted by head-start?
9) What are some of the main challenges that head-start faces in addressing school readiness gaps?
10) Should head-start services be extended to beyond prepping for kindergarten? Why or why not?

3-tier model

1) Which tier is used to promote children’s competencies such as emotional literacy and impulse
control
a) Tier 1
b) Tier 2
c) Tier 1 and 2
d) Tier 3

2) What did the tier-study evaluate?


a) Positive behavioral interventions
b) Writing skills
c) Comprehension
d) Externalizing behaviors
3) Describe the 3 tiers
Everyone, some people, individual

Culturally Responsive Teaching

1) What does RCT stand for?


a) Recreational cultural theory
b) Relational communication theory
c) Relational cultural theory
d) None of the above
2) What did the study explore?
a) Explores culturally sensitive teachers’ actions and provide the observable psychological
consequences of their African American students
b) Explores culturally sensitive teachers’ actions and provides the observable psychological
consequences of their Caucasian students
c) Explores emotionally sensitive teachers’ actions providing observable psychological
consequences of their African American students
d) Explores emotionally sensitive teachers’ actions providing observable psychological
consequences of their Caucasian students
3) What does the culturally responsive education method do?

Service Learning & Mental Health

1) Describe the difference between service-learning and community service. Describe the
difference between service-learning and an internship
2) What is one key component of learning in the service-learning process
3) Students with mental health needs are often the recipients of service-learning. How might being
the provider in the service-learning experience help those with mental health needs?
4) What are some of the disadvantages or challenges of service learning?

Variability in practice and learning

1) What is an example of variable practice?


a. Repeating a task
b. Learning car through observation and reading
c. Learning vocabulary through only reading
d. B & C
2) What are the methods when facing new or unfamiliar situations?
a. Interpolation
b. Skill generalization
c. Extrapolation
d. A & C
3) How does variable practice and static repetition improve ones skillset
4) Why is variable practice more effective than static repetition? How do they differentiate?
5) Variable practice leads to
a. Interpolation
b. Extrapolation
c. Skill generalization
d. Transfer effect
e. All of the above

Thinking outside of the box

 Head start enhances all of the following skills except


o Cognitive
o Social
o Educational
o Emotional
 How does the server and the served benefit from service learning
 Explain the differences and similarities between two forms of reciprocity (enriched and
traditional)

Service learning in Urban schools

1) Explain why urban settings are cultural contexts and not just a city location?

What does DEAL stand for? (Assche paper)

1) What does PBIS stand for?


a. Pre-behavioral intensive study
b. Post-behavioral intensive study
c. Positive behavior interventions and support
d. None of the above

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