Psy 212

Exam 5 – Review Sheet

Chapter 12: Creating Learning Environments

• Changing Trends in Classroom Management

· Rules for Making Rules

• Self-Management
• Planning spaces for learning, Action zone, Classroom arrangement
• Characteristics of first day/week in a well-managed classroom
• Establishing a “classroom-community” feeling
• Kounin’s prevention strategies,

Movement management, Momentum, Smoothness, Transitions, Maintaining group focus, Withitness, Overlapping

• Fostering Self-regulation
• Styles of management & their outcomes
• Gordon’s no-lose method of conflict resolution, IDEAL approach to problem solving
• Determining Ownership of problems.

· General Guidelines for Interventions in the classroom

· Hierarchy of Interventions

· “I” messages

· Communication Styles: Aggressive, Manipulative, Passive, Assertive

Chapter 14: Classroom Assessment, Grading, and Standardized Testing

• Norm-referenced vs. Criterion-referenced tests
• Achievement, Aptitude, and Diagnostic tests
• Norms-- how developed & used
• Characteristics of Normal Distributions
• Percentile scores—their meaning and their drawback
• Histogram, Frequency polygon
• Measure of central tendency--their uses and meaning
• Measures of variability--their uses and meaning
• Standard scores--their calculation and meaning
• Z-scores—their calculation and meaning, t-scores, IQ-type and SAT-type scores
• Grade equivalent scores—their meaning and uses
• Reliability—Definition and types and acceptable values
• Classical theory of measurement
• Standard error of measurement
• Interpretation of individual scores using reliability info, Confidence intervals
• Validity—definition and validation strategies and acceptable magnitude
• Content Validation, Criterion-related validation, Concurrent validation, Predictive validation, Construct Validation, Discriminant, & Convergent validity
• Issues in Testing
• Americans With Disabilities Act