What are some possible reasons that more boys than girls are identified with learning disabilities?

What are some possible reasons that more boys than girls are identified with learning disabilities?

What are some of the import elements and issues around conducting parent-teacher conferences.

What are some of the import elements and issues around conducting parent-teacher conferences. Focus your responses on the interaction between parents of students with disabilities and teachers.

Online Adult Education

How does adult education change in an online environment?

Guidance and suggestions for analyzing an elementary classroom observation. These ideas are also useful to look over prior to observing an elementary classroom.

Included in the solution are ways to analyze goals and philosophies of the classroom by observing the teacher, interaction between teachers and student, behaviors of students, and classroom environment. The classroom used was a kindergarten class where the observer saw the students counting and singing during circle time, then ...continues

Descriptive and Inferential Statistics

What are the main differences between descriptive and inferential statistics? Give examples of each. When would random sampling not be the best approach to sample selection? Give an example.

IEP

Does the IEP consider all aspects of the student's learning including academic, functional, adaptive, and communication strengths/needs? Explain the relationship between the IEP and a Free and Appropriate Public Education in the Least Restrictive Environment.

Research Studies

1) In research we often rely on the 68-95-99.7 rule. Discuss how this can be applied to make statements about the number of data values below 1,2, or 3 standard deviations from the mean. Give an example of application of this rule. 2) In a research study, what does statistically significant mean? How are decisions made on da ...continues

Cultural factors and learning styles are important in education. These become especially important in Distance education where typically the instructors, fellow students and the learner are separated. This paper examines the issues and suggests some approaches to ease difficulties.

This paper looks at the problem of cultural factors and learning styles and its implications in Distance education. As more students are leaving traditional class rooms for distance education courses over the web, class rooms are distributed and students can join in from anywhere in the globe. This paper examines the relevance o ...continues

Learning

a. Do you believe that learning is observable? Is it characterized by a change in behavior? Do you subscribe to this perspective on learning? Why or why not? Defend your position. b. Do you believe that learning is thinking and/or a change in thinking? Do you subscribe to the cognitive-developmental view of learning? ...continues

Type I vs. Type II Errors

1) What is more important for the researcher to be concerned about in a study, Type I or Type II errors? Why? How does the type of data collected and the way in which the data is collected affect the possibility of Type I or Type II error? 2) Give two examples when practical significance would outweigh statistical significan ...continues