Instructional or Behavioral Strategies Introduced by a General Education Teacher

question 62

Multiple Choice

Instructional or behavioral strategies introduced by a general education teacher to assist a struggling student are

• A)informal assessments.
• B)prereferral interventions.
• C)portfolios.
• D)student work samples.

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Definitions:

Attributions

Explanations that individuals create for the causes of their own and others' behaviors and events.

Fundamental Attribution Error

The tendency to overemphasize personality-based explanations for behaviors observed in others while underestimating the influence of situational factors.

Self-serving Bias

A common tendency to attribute one's successes to personal characteristics and failures to external factors.

Just-world Hypothesis

The cognitive bias that assumes that actions always yield morally fair and fitting consequences, essentially that the world is just.