For those of us enrolled at EC, Information Literacy is a 1 credit Requirement and I think EC is quite pricey for 1 credit.

I just confirmed and have approval from my Advisor at EC, that Penn Foster ENG 103 Information Literacy (1 Credit) will satisfy EC's information Literacy.

The Goodness is that it Cost $75 for all the expenses, shipping included

I called Maribeth at Penn Foster and registered immediately.

Hopefully this will help those who wanting to save a few dollars

Mapalo

I'm needing to take the Dantes test. I've heard that its very hard. Any input would be awesome!
Thanks

I am taking the Statistics test next Saturday, and I have read several posts from the past few months indicating how hard it is, and a debate about what calculator you can use.

I just talked to the testing center where I am taking the test, and was told you can bring in a calculator for the on-line test (one does not pop up like it does on some CLEP exams). However, the calculator can only add, subtract, multiply, divide, do percentages, and square roots. Any calculators with factory options for standard deviaition, permutations, mean, median, etc. are not allowed. That is BAD news, but I would rather find out now than the day of the test.

I am not optimistic about passing, but I will keep on studying until the last minute. Wish me luck!

Thanks.

I arrived here via looking for info on bain4weeks
I understand this is a similar program
I am wondering if anyone here familiar with Excelsior TESC and COSC give me any advice on my grades and a viable course of action

so my grades are as such (sorted by grade)
It is not a stellar performance I know. I was an 18 year old drug addict that year. It was 10 years ago.

Hello IC Friends. I just took the Educational Psychology test and passed with a 63. I was scared witless too. I studied the college network module, went over the IC flashcards, took the peterson mock exams, read the explanations of the answers. I also took an earlier suggestion from someone to look over the material and do the practice test from the Slavin: Educational Psychology site. I have to say that this site & peterson help me tremendously in getting the information in my head. Oh yeah, check out Wikipedia too.

Here's a little breakdown for you. Some things will overlap:

Know the following definitions
Schemas, shaping, extinction, scaffolding, elaboration, reinforcement, centration, conservation, assimilation, accommodation, Premack Principle, metacognition, advanced organizers, Zone of Proximal Development, Pygmalion effect, wait time, IDEA (individuals with disabilities act), convergent & divergent thinking.

Statistical definitions: mean (central tendency) also called the average, mode (score that occurs most often), median (arithmetic middle score in a group of scores), range (subtracting the lowest score from the highest), standard deviation, standard score or z-score. Percentage score vs percentile scores.

Development: Know what happens at each stage good vs bad
Piaget: schemas - desire to make sense of our world. 1) sensory motor, object permanence 2) preoperative stage, centration egocentric can't perceive from another's viewpt. 3) concrete operations, begins to think logically understands conservation principle. 4) Formal operational, abstract reasoning, ability to deduce, potential moral reasoning.

Erikson: I'll give you the first couple
Know the age issue resolution lack of resolution of his stages
Infant 0-18 months trust vs safety insecurity anxiety
mistrust


Toddler 18 mo - 3yr autonomy vs self-control helplessness
self-doubt lack of self-control

Preschool

School-age etc.

Go over Freud, though I don't remember specific questions about his stages.

Moral Development: Although Piaget did some studies in this direction, the following are the names & their ideas to know:

Kohlberg: 1) preconventional, 2) conventional, 3) post conventional.

Carol Gilligan: modeled from caring. Men's morality vs Women's.

Conditioning
Classical Conditioning Neural response
Pavlov: Unconditioned response to Unconditioned stimulus, conditioned response to conditioned stimulus.

Operant Conditioning: Specific behavior illicit a specific outcome through reinforcement (increase in the behavior) whether positive, negative or punishment.

BF Skinner experimental analysis of behavior.
Thorndike (law & effect) know what it means & how it works.

Theories of Intelligence

Spearman proposed "g" general intelligence this formed the basis of IQ
Thurstone - multiple factor model of intelligence.
Gardner - multiple intelligences within the brain, their are seven. A person can have one or several and not others.
Sternberg Triarc model of intelligence.
Guilford - convergent & divergent (creative use this one)

Others to know:
Vygotsky social cultural theories. Zone of Proximal Development what it means & how it is used in education today. Scaffolding teaching through guided experiences.

Testing

IQ, aptitude (tests ability to learn new skills i.e. SAT, ACT). achievement (tests academic achievement)

Teaching

pedagogy -
instructor centered learningstudent centered learning know cooperative learning, reciprocal teaching, inquiry method, discovery learning,
Blooms Taxonomies know them, and the hierarchy.
formative & diagnostic assessments
Pygmalion effect

testing bias
expert learners know what they do & how they learn

Research

Selection of research sample
Experimental research independent variable & dependent variable
Descriptive research
Cross validation and meta analysis

Motivation
Intrinsic vs extrinsic
locus of control
Maslow's hierarchy of needs
Attribution theory
performance goals, learning goals
efficacy

social learning / modeling

Information Processing: encoding, storage, retrieval
Types of memories
long term - sematic, rote rehearsal, elaborative rehearsal, episodic memory, procedural, flashbulb
short term 5 - 9 pieces of info
sensory few seconds - visual (iconic) auditory (echoic), sensory register

Retrieval, i.e. chunking

Proactive interference
Retroactive interference

deductive and inductive reasoning
critical thinking

Okay, there's more but I'm all out of memory. Chat with you later.

Just got back from taking my first three CLEP exams

Intro To Business Law *IC and Petersons* 59
Spanish *Prior Knowledge* 77
Information Systems and Computer Applications *Prior Knowledge* 59


hilarious 18 Credits WOOOHOOO!!!hilarious

Hello all,

I just scored a 66 on the Intro to Sociology CLEP. So, I thought I would pass along a few pointers.

You may want to study these topics in addition to the flashcards:

Know a thing or two about Erving Goffman, Cooley, Compte, Durkheim, Mead, and Marx and Weber. (The only names necessary)
Know the difference between the Halo effect and a glass-ceiling (workplace promotion).
Know "assimilation vs. integration"
Know "amalgamation"
Know "dramaturgy"
Know the textbook definition of a "crowd".
Know "cultural pluralism".
Understand socio-economic classification.
Know the current trends regarding marriage vs. white-collar workers.
Know the players that make up "the power elite" and who wrote it.
Know why women have an increased interest in sports since the 70's.

The flashcards really are on-the-mark and you should score well with flashcards and common sense alone.


Have fun.

Can anyone make a recommendation on which to take first? Princliples of Finance or Principles of Statistics? Do they overlap at all?

Hi,
I have until the 30th to take four DSSt/CLEP exams (just found out my TESC enrollments over then). If you have any suggetions on which two you have found to be "common sense" type exams or one's that correlate well, it would be appreciated. My major is Psych and these are free electives.

I haven't taken any Business exams, so if you know of two that are relatively easy, I'm interested in those. Also, I'd like to do Educational Psyh, but wasn't sure what to take along with it (perhaps Organizational Behaivor?). ARGGGHHHH! (just had to get that out, lol). Thanks!

Hi, I am new at the forums and I signed up because I want to take Business Law clep and I have no clue where to start from. The questions seem so hard and hard to remember. I am still stuck on the first set of questions even though and everytime I go back to answer it, I just can't remember anything.
Please if someone can help me with this or tell me exactly what to study and what not to study in order to pass the clep, I will appreciate it.