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Compared with children without a learning disability, children with a learning disability are more likely to show poor academic performance and are more likely to drop out of school.  

Which one of the following classrooms best reflects effective classroom management?

Mr. Johnson teaches a class of twenty 8-year-old third graders. His goal for the upcoming school year is to help at least 50% of his students reach formal operations. From the perspective of Piaget’s theory, we would expect that Mr. Johnson’s goal is:

A researcher finds that students who were given computers to use at home demonstrated greater independent learning skills than a comparable group that was not selected to receive home computers. What type of research study was probably designed for this conclusion to be valid?

Pat believes that the reason for her success in reading is the effort she puts into it. Pat is reflecting what type of locus of control?

Knowledge is not only the outcome of learning, it also ______________ what new things will be learned.

What level of Bloom’s Taxonomy is represented by the following objective? “Students will create a lesson plan based on Gagne’s Nine Events of Learning.”

Teachers with high self-efficacy tend to view difficult students as reachable and teachable, whereas teachers with low self-efficacy are inclined to say that students who are not learning are unable to do so because of low ability.

Lyla is interviewing for a faculty position at Auburn High School. The assistant principal asks her to state her approach to students’ learning. Lyla’s response focuses on instilling a sense of curiosity in students by helping them to see learning tasks as interesting and meaningful. Which learner-centered principle has Lyla really touched on?

When handing in material, Mr. Spark’s students pass their work forward to the students in the front row, who then pass the materials from left to right. This approach is an example of clasroom