Exam 3

Of the following, the most important characteristic of the concept cup is:

holds liquids

Of the following, which is least likely to influence transfer of learning?

Rehearsal of important concepts and definitions

Three of the following are factors that affect transfer. Which one is not a factor that affects transfer?

Reinforcement of basic skills

Of the following, the best teacher question to promote critical thinking on the part of students is:

How do you know?

Which of the following is the most important in a study strategy's effectiveness?

The decision about what is important (such as deciding what and what not to write down).

Three of the following are considered to be text signals. Which one is not a text signal?

A series of end-of-chapter comprehension questions

All things being equal, which of the following is the best predictor of ability to solve a given problem successfully?

Domain-specific knowledge

Divergent thinking is considered to be an important component of creativity. Which one of the following is the best example of divergent thinking?

Donna, who enjoys wine with dinner, glues the corks together in the shape of small containers and uses them to hold pencils, paper clips, and other materials.

Use the following example to answer the questions below. Mr. Wilson has presented his students with the following problem: We have a quart of pure alcohol. If we add a cup of water to the alcohol, what percent of the new mixture is alcohol? He then says, "Let's look at what we're given and what we want." "We want the total amount of the mixture we have together," Robert suggests. "I think we should first find the fraction of the total that is alcohol," Eva suggests. After some discussion, the class decides that the mixture is 75% alcohol. "I don't think that's right," Kathy observes. "We have 5 cups of mixture altogether, and only one of those cups is water."

Evaluating the results

Which of the following is a characteristic of problem-based learning?

The teacher guides student's efforts with questioning and other forms of scaffolding as they work toward solving a problem that is the focus of the learning activity.

You are teaching the concept living thing to your first graders and have presented the students with the following examples: themselves, a cat, a dog, a lizard, a fish, and a bird. Of the following, the most important example to show them in addition would be:

a tree

All of the following are examples of strategies except:

concept learning

Mrs. Evans is teaching her students about gerunds and participles and has presented a series of examples of each. She then gives them exercises where they identify the underlined word as a gerund or participle in sentences such as the following: Swimming is a very good form of exercises. Look at the swimming girl. For successful students, the complex cognitive process the students are involved in is best described as:

concept learning.

In using the study strategy SQ3R, the final R stands for:

review

You want to teach your students the concept of internal conflict. Of the following, the best example for teaching the concept would be:

the statement, "Kelly didn't know what to do. She was looking forward to the class trip, but if she went she wouldn't be able to take the scholarship qualifying test," displayed on the overhead.