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.