ELED 120 Chapter 2: Vocabulary
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Accommodation: the process of altering existing schemes or creating new ones in response to new information. Action research: systematic observations or tests of methods conducted by teachers or schools to improve teaching and learning for their students. Appropriating: taking in and using ways of acting and thinking prided by the culture and by the more capable members of a group. Assessment bias: the qualities of an assessment instrument that offend or unfairly penalize a group of students because of the students" gender, socioeconomic status, race, ethnicity, and so on. Attention: focus on a stimulus; also, the awareness of and interest in phenomena. Behaviorism: explanations of learning that focus on external events as the cause of changes in observable behaviors. Bioecological model: bronfenbrenner"s theory describing the nested social and cultural contexts that shape development. Every person develops within a microsystem inside a mesosystem embedded in an exosystem all of which are a part of the macrosystem of a culture.
