Ralph W. Tyler
What should evaluation start with?
Objectives
Who did she work closely with?
Piaget
T/F: a learner is able to comprehend better in by categorizing ones environment
True
T/F: His work did not have a profound effect on educational theories
False; his work has a profound effect on educational theories
What did he present?
Social Development Theory
What did he establish?
Learning experiences
What kind of ideas does Ducksworth have?
Had ideas on how ideas are nurtured and how to grow
What did he theorise?
By categorizing one's environment, a learner is better able to comprehend.
What is he best known for?
Epistemological studies of intellectual growth of children
How many major themes were in Vygotsky's Social Development Theory
Three
What did he believe?
Believed that successful teaching and learning could be determined by scientific study
What does she believe?
Ideas are the essence of intelligence and there are many ways of knowing and understanding similar concepts
What did his theory highlight?
The structures of discipline and use of inquiry.
Epistemological Studies
T/F; learning occurs in a zone of proximal development between the learner's ability to learn with the support of others and the ability to learn independence.
True
What did he believe to not entirely rely on?
What do her ideas require teachers to do?
Engage in an intellectual conversation with her students to understand and hear their explanations
What did his theory soon become recognized as?
Discovery method
What did he study?
Human knowledge is constructed through interactions with reality
T/F: One of the major themes included the "development in a child appears second on a social level with others and then inside the child"
False; Development in a child appears first on a social level with others and then inside the child
What did Tyler convince the educational community to offer?
Interesting and useful courses
T/F: she believed it was okay to view learning from only one perspective
False; she believed it was detrimental to view learning from one perspective
The impotence of teaching the thinking skills necessary to the _______?
Development of problem solving abilities
Piaget's work had a profound effect on educational theories regarding what?
When students are ready to learn specific information
What is the Social Development Theory?
Viewing cognition as the end product of socialization and social behavior