bep 305 final

A community of learners can best be described as:

a classroom in which a cooperative spirit of helping one another learn prevails

As a high school music teacher plays a recording of Ferde Grofé's symphony Grand Canyon Suite for his class, he asks his students to visualize scenes that Grofé tried to capture with music: a sunrise over the Grand Canyon, a burro ride down a winding trail, a thunderstorm, and so on. This lesson could best be described as:

a mediated learning experience

As a teacher, you want two students who have physical disabilities to develop closer friendships with their nondisabled classmates. Of the following choices, the best instructional approach to use for this purpose is:

cooperative learning

As a teacher, you want your students to learn basic concepts in chemistry well enough that they can use them when studying more advanced topics. Of the following choices, the best instructional approach to use for this purpose is:

direct instruction

In cooperative learning, you would be most likely to form all-male and all-female cooperative groups if your goal was to:

encourage all group members to participate actively

After explaining what sines and cosines are, a high school math teacher shows students how they might use these concepts in constructing large buildings. Which one of the following principles does this scenario best illustrate?

learners perform more effectively when they acquire the cognitive tools of their culture

From the teacher's point of view, instructional goals and objectives are especially useful for:

planning appropriate instructional strategies

Judging from the brief descriptions below, which one of these four teachers is using a mastery learning approach?

mr. Dickson insists that students pass each test at the 80% level before beginning the next unit

Bill's behaviors in Ms. Kennedy's class are really distracting to other students. For example, he whispers to the boy beside him when Ms. Kennedy is giving directions on how to do any assignment. He flings paper clips at a girl across the room. He makes strange grunting noises that a few classmates find amusing. Ms. Kennedy glares at him or admonishes him whenever he behaves in a distracting way, yet his inappropriate behaviors are increasing rather than decreasing. Which one of the following interpretations best explains why Bill's behaviors are increasing?

ms. Kennedy is positively reinforcing him for the distracting behaviors.

As children develop, they acquire many cognitive tools of their culture. Which teacher is most clearly applying this idea?

ms. Turiel shows students how to graph their research results so that they can more easily see trends in the data

At the beginning of the school year, Mr. Webber is concerned that Frances rarely does her independent seatwork. He begins praising Frances for each seatwork assignment she completes, and by January she is completing her assignments regularly. To make sure that the behavior continues in the years to come, what would operant conditioning theorists tell Mr. Webber to do now?

praise her for only some of her completed assignments

A teacher wants to encourage her students to work cooperatively with one another as they study classroom subject matter. Which one of the following strategies reflects the principle that some antecedent stimuli tend to elicit certain kinds of behaviors?

provide instructional materials that students can use only by working together

Any consequence that increases the frequency of a particular behavior is called a(n) _________.

punishment

Alex loses his best friend Tyler after he tattles on Tyler at recess. Alex learns that tattling on friends is not a good idea. The loss of Tyler's friendship is an example of:

removal punishment

An incentive is likely to be an effective motivator for students only when:

students believe it is within their reach

As educators define the term, standards are general statements regarding:

what knowledge and skills students should acquire