EDTC 611
Which type of teaching strategy is most "student-centered"?
Socratic dialogue
The support of understanding as an instructional goal probably requires attention not only to knowledge, but also to the tendency to apply that knowledge in appropriate conditions. What terms apply to such a tendency?
dispositions or habits of mind
Only one of the following is a necessary aspect of critical thinking. Which one?
evaluating information or arguments
What does critical thinking involve?
evaluating the accuracy and worth of information or argument
Which of the following is most clearly a failure of metacognition?
A student reads a whole textbook chapter, not realizing that he did not understand it
Three of the following strategies should promote effective problem solving. Which one will not?
Have students practice mathematical principles on just one or two particularly vivid examples
Which of the following is not true of discovery learning?
It involves teacher-centered delivery
A teacher wishes to promote problem solving in her classroom. Which of the following approaches would not be consistent with that goal?
an expectation that students' performance is error-free
In reaching for a complex goal, you do something that is likely to move you closer to that goal. This is an example of:
a heuristic
With enough practice, activities that at one time entailed problem solving can become:
algorithmic
Means-ends analysis, working forward, and working backward are all heuristics that are relevant to solving problems in many areas. These heuristics are known as:
general heuristics
Insightful problem solving can sometimes be found in animals. This was a discovery of:
gestalt psychologists
Discovery learning depends heavily on the process of:
inference, especially induction
Which of the following is the best example of metacognition?
knowing that you don't understand
Which one of the following are students least likely to obtain in a typical classroom?
lots of practice solving ill-defined problems
Lisa is an expert in her field of work. Which heuristic would she most commonly apply in her everyday job?
means-ends analysis
The practice of monitoring and controlling thought is called:
metacognition
Some students can accurately appraise what they know and what they do not. This accuracy indicates good:
metamemory
Metacognition is least relevant to:
performing a highly-practiced skill
In "Apollo 13," NASA personnel had to figure out a way to build a new CO2 scrubber from an assortment of materials that were on board the spacecraft. Their intention was to provide the astronauts with an algorithm to follow. For the technicians in Houston, however, the task was not algorithmic but an instance of:
problem solving
Means-ends analysis is a very general heuristic in which the immediate aim is to:
reduce discrepancy between the current state and goal state
Which one of the following goals is most likely to be reached with a heuristic rather than an algorithm?
resolving an argument
In problem solving, heuristics are:
strategies that might work but are not guaranteed
Teaching to become better problem solvers is incompatible with:
the expectation of error-free performance
Problem solving can be defined as
the pursuit of a goal when the path to that goal is uncertain.