Random
Comparing students' test scores at the beginning and end of the year is what kind if research?
Quantitative
Ms. Cardot wants her students to enjoy math. In order to help students associate math with pleasant thoughts, she introduces new manipulatives at the math center each week to help students solve math problems. Often the manipulatives involve edible snacks. Ms. Cardot’s approach is an example of:
Classical conditioning
When Jennifer took algebra, she was really quick about solving two-step equations. She hasn’t taken a math course in over a year, and she’s struggling on the standardized test. She knows it’s worth taking the time to figure out the steps again and solve the equations. She is using:
Reconstruction retrieval/retrieval
Which theorist or group of theorists promoted the idea that knowledge is co-constructed during social interactions?
Vygotsky
Staci stopped running in the hallway at school after seeing two other students receive after-school detention for running. What element of observational learning is illustrated by her stopping this behavior?
Vicarious reinforcement
Give us one trend about the diversity of the US educational system
1. Majority of teachers are white
2. Many students come from immigrant families
3. Many students are online/on social media
In her fifth grade classroom, Ms. Latimer has several students who don’t cooperate when she tells the class to get into group formation. These students are vocal about disliking group work. Ms. Latimer told them today that they may shorten their group task time by getting into groups quickly and completing cooperative tasks according to the ten-minute schedule she has planned. Ms. Latimer is using which of the following methods to get her students to cooperate?
Negative reinforcement
In this case, reducing group time is the aversive stimulus. It will be reduced after students provide the proper response.
Raj smelled the aroma of the dinner rolls baking in the cafeteria down the hall from his classroom. What memory system is at work as Raj processes this stimulus?
Sensory memory
As a seven-year-old boy, Dean likes to catch butterflies and moths. He is fascinated by the colors and patterns on their wings. He has caught many different butterflies and moths and pinned them to his display board. He looks up each one he catches and records specific information about it. He can explain their life cycles and numerous facts about them. What is his knowledge structure for all of this information?
Schema
Ms. Porter is the favorite teacher of tenth grader Alejandro. During today’s writing assignment, she reminds him how well he did on the previous essay and helps him set goals for each step of the new writing task. She assures him that he can succeed with this essay. This is an example of:
Social persuasion
Estefan has problems with penmanship. His fine motor skills are not well developed and Mrs. Finch believes that he will never perform well enough to gain reinforcement. Mrs. Finch breaks the task of forming letters with long stems into small steps. First, she expects Estefan to make straight stems. She will reinforce his efforts when he makes straight stems on his writing assignment. In this case, she is using:
Shaping
Bryson was three when his neighbor’s house burned down. He heard the loud sirens and saw the fire and trembled with fear. Now he’s starting preschool. He hears the loud bell ring and associates it with the fire and fire trucks and begins to tremble. In this setting, the sound of the bell is:
Conditioned stimulus
Ken is reading his notes from science class. He wants to organize information the teacher presented about erosion—the causes, the effects, and relationships between weather conditions and erosion. He needs an effective learning strategy. Which of the following tools seems most likely to help Ken meet his goal?
Concept map/organization/
Bryan went to the zoo with his first grade class. At the zoo, he saw alligators for the first time. He had never even seen pictures of alligators, but called them big-mouthed snakes. What basic tendency of thinking is Bryan using?
Assimilation
Ian is a student in Mr. Dumas’s ninth grade class. When Mr. Dumas announces that there will be a science test on Friday, Ian begins to dread Friday. He wonders whether he will be able to pass the science test. He didn’t do well on the previous test, and he struggled with the concepts in this chapter about natural selection. Ian’s doubt about his ability to do well on the science test is representative of his:
low self-efficacy
DOUBLE PTS, 600
The students in Ms. Lemley’s class are working on a project in which their collaborative groups take different positions on an issue related to the world economy. They conduct research and discuss ideas that support their positions. After each group presents its position and defense, the entire class discusses pros and cons of proposed positions. These students are involved in:
Social negotiation
Mr. LeDoux is gathering information about the perpetual misbehavior of Reid in French class. He recorded the antecedent of the behavior in several instances and the consequences following the behavior. He is trying to understand why Reid repeats the negative behavior. What process is Mr. LeDoux using?
Functional behavior assessment
DOUBLE POINTS, 800
Rico is learning the steps to use when he accesses the secure sight to check his grades, look at assignments, and receive messages from his teachers. What kind of knowledge is he using?
Declarative
Mr. Reese conducted a concept lesson in math and assigned a challenging task. He expected some of his students to grasp the concept and complete the task with moderate effort, but he knew other students would not. He monitored their progress, stopping to ask prompting questions or drop hints to help students connect prior learning with this new concept. Mr. Reese was providing:
Scaffolding
Volition/will power
Six-year-old Ana saw her big brother take cookies from the cookie jar without permission. He didn’t get caught or scolded. Ana decided she wanted cookies too and copied her brother’s behavior. The children’s mother has told them to ask before getting cookies, but they took cookies without asking. Based on triarchic reciprocal causality, what three kinds of influences are working together to explain Ana’s behavior?
Personal, environmental, and behavioral
Cristal rushes through her spelling assignments and her seatwork. She likes to finish first and read, but she makes careless mistakes and turns in incomplete work. Her teacher has tried several strategies that have not worked with Cristal. Now she plans to use applied behavior analysis. She tells Cristal that the goal is for her to complete the seatwork with fewer than three errors and no incompletions. She tells Cristal she will give her a token each time she meets the goal. If she achieves five tokens in a week, she will choose a reward from the surprise basket. Now what does the teacher need to do?
Keep a record of Cristal’s results and modify the plan if necessary.
Mr. Anthony has set up the lab many times for the experiment of acids and bases using litmus paper. In fact, he says he can practically do it with his eyes closed. He follows the same steps in the same order. What kind of memory is Mr. Anthony using to set up the lab for this experiment?
Script/Procedural memory
23. Nick is doing his sixth grade homework in history. The task requires him to make two maps of his state and compare the two maps. One map represents the state in 1850 and the other represents the state in current times. Nick is working at the task, following the instructions, and feeling that he can complete it successfully. He does need to ask the teacher one question before he finishes. Which of the following terms best describes the relationship of this assignment to Nick’s level of performance?
Zone of proximal development
A few days ago, Mr. McKay worked with students to develop a rubric for assessing their projects in the historical fiction unit. The class has worked on the unit for more than a week, and students know the expectations for their projects. Today Mr. McKay paired students to work together and review their work using the rubric as a guide. This scenario is an example of:
Shared regulation