The four teachers below are hoping to improve their students’ sense of self-effi

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The four teachers below are hoping to improve their students’ sense of self-efficacy. Which one will probably be LEAST effective in doing so?

Select one:
a. Ms. Berry helps her students understand how wonderful they are.
b. Mr. Anderson helps his students be successful at math word problems.
c. Mr. Carrera helps his students improve their creative writing skills.
d. Ms. D’Amato helps her students throw a softball farther than they could before.

Asking students to remember prior knowledge is most likely to result in

Select one:

a. procedural knowledge to be created

b. schema/spreading activation to occur

c. new declarative knowledge to be created

d. episodic knowledge to be developed

One of the educational implications of sensory memory is that

Select one:

a. reinforcement is a requirement if children are to retain information.

b. children can take in and comprehend almost a limitless amount of information.

c. information seen is brought into consciousness almost immediately.

d. attention is necessary if children are to remember information.

Which one of the following teaching practices is most likely to encourage students to elaborate as they study new material?
Select one:
a. Ask them how they might apply the principle that gas expands when heated.
b. Ask them, “Who remembers what the chief exports exports of Japan are?”
c. Say, “Yesterday we learned the safe way to hand a pair of sharp scissors to someone else. Who can show us what we learned to do?”
d. Help them locate Berlin on a map of Europe.

Three of the following strategies illustrate the use of metacognitive processes in problem solving. Which strategy is least metacognitive in nature?

Select one:

a. Looking up the correct answer at the back of the textbook

b. Identifying a logical approach to solving a problem

c. Continually monitoring progress toward problem solution

d. Breaking a complex problem into smaller, easier sub-problems

Explanation / Answer

Ms. Berry often tells her students how wonderful they are. Asking students to remember prior knowledge is most likely to result in episodic knowledge to be developed. One of the educational implications of sensory memory is that attention is necessary if children are to remember information. Ask them how they might apply the principle that gas expands when heated. Looking up the correct answer at the back of the textbook is least metacognitive in nature

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