Which School Transition Appears to Be Most Difficult for Youth

question 41

Multiple Choice

Which school transition appears to be most difficult for youth?

• A) From preschool to elementary school
• B) From elementary school to middle school
• C) From middle school to high school
• D) From high school to college

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Definitions:

Mainstreaming

The practice of placing children with special education needs in regular educational settings with non-disabled peers, as much as possible.

Accommodation Strategy

A cognitive process described by Piaget, where individuals adjust their existing schemas or develop new ones to incorporate new information.

Assimilating

The process of absorbing new information into our previously existing schemas or understanding, especially noted in the context of learning and cognitive development.

Transitivity

In mathematics, a property indicating that if a relation holds between a and b, and b and c, then it also holds between a and c. In linguistics, it refers to a property of verbs that require both a subject and one or more objects.