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Spring 1995

Exam #1--Chapters 1-5--Slavin (1994)

Short essay.  Use complete sentences.  MAKE SURE TO ANSWER ONLY 10 OF THE 14
ESSAYS!!  (10 POINTS EACH)

1.  How are for-profit schools proposed to improve education?








2.  How are internal and external validity important for experiments?






3.  How does thought during the concrete operational period of development differ from that
of earlier thought, according to Piaget's cognitive-developmental theory?






4.  How can Vygotsky's theory of development be applied to education?







5.  Should some children be kept back in kindergarten?  Provide evidence for your answer.





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6.  How do identity diffusion and identity foreclosure differ?








7.  What parenting style is considered most effective and why?








8.  Why are schools considered middle-class institutions?  Why does this fact make multi-
cultural education important?








9.  How do impulsive and reflective individuals differ in their cognitive style?  Why should
teachers know about these types of individuals?







10.  How does operant conditioning work to change behavior?







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11.  How does social learning theory differ from behavioral learning theories?






12.  How do conditioned and unconditioned stimuli differ?







13.  What are randomized field experiments?  How do they differ from laboratory
experiments?





14.  How can teachers help adolescents become formal operational thinkers?