Quiz Eight - Chapter Eight

Research has favored cooperative learning in cases where two essential conditions are met. First, there must be some kind of recognition or small reward provided to groups that do well so that group members can see that it is in their interest to help their group-mates learn. What is the second essential condition?

Individual accountability

Which of the following teaching strategies would a constructivist be most likely to advocate?

Cooperative learning

Given a problem to solve, beginners tend to jump right into proposing solutions, while experts tend to spend time thinking about the underlying causes of the problem, and interpreting it from different perspectives. Which step in the IDEAL model are the beginners neglecting?

Define goals and represent the problem.

An important goal of teaching critical thinking to students is to create:

a critical spirit.

Mr. Overby is initiating reciprocal teaching with a group of six students of high, average, and low ability. Who should be the teacher for the first segment of learning?

a. Mr. Overby

What component of STAD is designed to give each team member an equal opportunity to contribute to the team points?

Points are based on improvement rather than absolute score.

One study found that students in schools were a variety of cooperative learning methods in all subjects were used for a two-year period, differed from students in schools using traditional teaching approaches. How did they differ?

Students from cooperative learning schools achieved significantly more than students from traditional schools.

Constructivist approaches to teaching typically make extensive use of cooperative learning. Why is this?

Students understand concepts better if they can talk with each other.

Which of the following is the best example of reciprocal teaching?

The teacher asks a small group of students questions about material they have just read. Later, the students model the teacher's behavior, generating their own questions for the group.

Mr. Allen's class is discussing potential solutions to world hunger. He has asked his students to come up with as many solutions to solving the world hunger problem as they can think of, no matter how seemingly unrealistic. What is this problem solving process called?

brainstorming

In general, people who do well on tests of creative problem solving:

do not worry about making mistakes.

Providing students with a great deal of practice on a wide variety of problem types is essential for skill development, but practice alone is not sufficient unless the practice includes:

feedback on their solutions, and on the process by which they arrived at the solutions.

In the Learning Together a model of cooperative learning, students work in:

heterogeneous groups.

One key to the teaching of problem solving is providing problems that:

intrigue and engage students.

The question "What is the difference between where I am now and where I want to be?" is a critical step in:

means-ends analysis.

In the general problem-solving strategy IDEAL, what does the A stand for?

Anticipate outcomes and act.

Cooperative learning methods fall into two broad categories. One category might be called group study methods. The second category is project-based learning or collaborative learning also known as:

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Studies of the Instrumental Enrichment treatment have found that the program has positive effects on:

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