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what should drive a teachers decision making?
in depth knowledge of students
how can the effectiveness of various classroom practices be determined?
systematic research
what can research provide?
quantitative, qualitative or both
quantitative
data that is in numbers
qualitiative
information that cannot be counted or measured
what is required for drawing conclusions about cause and effect relationships?
all other possibilities for an outcome are eliminated
experimental and control groups
subjects in both groups are treated exactly the same, except they are not exposed to the same treatment, or manipulation of the independent variable.
independent and dependent variables
independent variable is what is being changed, dependent variable is the result of the independent variable. Ex. The drug dose taken is the independent variable while the effectiveness is the dependent variable.
confounding variable
in an experiment, a factor other than the independent variable that might produce an effect
mnemonics
memory aids, especially those techniques that use vivid imagery and organizational devices
episodic memory
memory for one's personal past experiences
semantic memory
memory for knowledge about the world
procedural memory
the gradual acquisition of skills as a result of practice, or "knowing how" to do things
declaritive memory
memory of knowledge that can be called forth consciously as needed
Piaget's Concrete Operations
(ages 7 to 11)
As physical experience accumulates, accommodation is increased. The child begins to think abstractly and conceptualize, creating logical structures that
explain his or her physical experiences.
Piaget's Formal Operations
beginning at ages 11 to 15)
Cognition reaches its final form. By this stage, the person no longer requires concrete objects to make rational judgments. He or she is capable of deductive and hypothetical reasoning. His or her ability for abstract thinking is very similar to an adult
what happens to thinking during the elementary school years?
increasingly logical
what happens to thinking during the middle and secondary school years?
increasingly abstract
what thinking processes are improved during adolescence?
logical thinking processes important for math and scientific reasoning
What can children think logically and abstractly about?
topics they know well
when does true expertise come?
after many years of study and practice
how do learners tend to be more creative and effective problem solvers?
if they have considerable knowledge an think flexibly about new tasks
both convergent and divergent thinking are
constrained by working memory capacity
convergent thinking
narrows the available problem solutions to determine the single best solution
divergent thinking
expands the number of possible problem solutions
meta cognitive activities are partly
effective problem solving and creativity
effective teachers classroom environment
encourages and supports productive behaviors and ways of thinking.
how to encourage productive behaviors
modeling desired behaviors and a variety of role models.
descriptive study
describes a situation
correlational study
a research project designed to discover the degree to which two variables are related to each other
students with special needs
different enough from their peers that they require specially adapted instructional material.
reflective teaching
a teacher's habit of examining and evaluating their teaching on a regular basis
PLC (Professional Learning Communities)
share a common vision of students learning and achievement
Steps in Action Research
1. Identify area of focus
2. Collect Data
3. Analyze the data
4. Develop an action plan
effective study strategies
pay attention, relate new info to prior knowledge, organize new info, visual imagery, go beyond what you read and add to it, check in to check understanding.
Behaviorism
downplay the role of cognitive processes, focus on responses and stimuli
social cognitive theory
people learn through observation, self regulation
Cognitive Psychology
the scientific study of mental processes, including perception, thought, memory, and reasoning
Contextual Theory
emphasizes the role of environmental influences on development
attention
whatever learner mentally pays attention to continues on working memory
The practice of inclusion involves which one of the following?
educating students with special needs in general education settings alongside their nondisabled peers
The textbook offers several suggestions for studying a textbook effectively. Which one of the following is not necessarily recommended?
Take detailed notes on the book's content.
Occasionally stop and check to make sure you understand.
Draw inferences from the things you read.
Relate new
ideas to your own past experiences.
Take detailed notes on the book's content.
An example of evidence based practice
A fourth-grade teacher uses a reading program that research has shown to be effective for fourth graders.
In general, experimental studies have which one of the following advantages over descriptive and
correlational studies?
Only experimental studies allow us to be specific about our teaching objectives.
Only experimental studies allow us to determine what caused something.
Only experimental studies allow us to analyze data statistically and therefore arrive at precise results.
Only experimental studies enable us to draw accurate conclusions.
Only experimental studies allow us to determine what caused something.
Which one of the following alternatives best describes learner-centered instruction?
instruction that is tailored to individual students' characteristics and needs
instruction in which students determine the specific topics they will study
instruction geared primarily toward students who are highly motivated to learn
instruction geared primarily toward students who are not very motivated to learn
instruction that is tailored to individual students' characteristics and needs
Which one of the following is an example of elaboration?
Sharon automatically knows how she can best study for an upcoming history test.
When Melissa first learns about inertia, she thinks of examples of it in her own life.
Darren repeats the detailed excuses his friend Logan suggests he use to explain why he didn't do his homework.
Rosie repeats the spelling of each word several times the
night before her spelling test.
When Melissa first learns about inertia, she thinks of examples of it in her own life.
In psychology, a theory can best be characterized as a/an
explanation of how and why learning or development occurs
Experimental research requires which one of the following?
manipulating an aspect of the
environment
being able to predict two or more variables
describing each variable in considerable detail
studying behavior in an actual classroom environment
manipulating an aspect of the environment
Which one of the following statements about educational research is true?
Experimental research can only be conducted in the laboratory under somewhat artificial conditions.
Descriptive research gives
us the most information for making decisions about teaching practice.
Experimental research allows us to draw cause-and-effect conclusions.
Correlational research is more difficult and time-consuming than experimental research.
Experimental research allows us to draw cause-and-effect conclusions.
Which one of the following statements is most accurate regarding psychological theories?
They have been
proven to be true.
They are continually modified as new data emerge.
They will eventually be replaced by physiological (brain-based) explanations of behavior.
Any single theory can be used to explain virtually every aspect of human behavior.
They are continually modified as new data emerge.
Which one of the following statements is consistent with research findings described in the textbook?
Repeating
something over and over is usually the most effective way to learn it.
Students often study differently for different kinds of classroom assessments.
For optimal performance, students should never feel any anxiety in the classroom.
By the time children are 8 or 9 years old, most of them have developed effective ways of learning classroom material.
Students often study differently for different kinds of classroom assessments.
Which one of the following statements is consistent with research findings described in the textbook?
Students who play video games are more likely to have delays in their cognitive development than students who play video games infrequently.
Students learn a new idea most effectively when they keep it simple, without trying to remember its potential implications or applications.
Students use both their right and left hemispheres for thinking.
Students are
usually the best judges of what they do and don't know.
Students use both their right and left hemispheres for thinking.
A study that tells us whether two variables are associated, but does not tell us if one variable causes or influences the other, is a/an
correlational study
Dr. Kenney conducts a study in which she gives some students (chosen randomly) logically organized learning material; she gives other students the same material presented in a haphazard, unpredictable sequence. She finds that students with the organized material remember more. This study can best be described as a/an
experimental study
Imagine you are an educational researcher who wants to learn about the type of psychological environment in which middle school students feel most comfortable and best able to concentrate on their studies. You plan to examine a wide variety of factors that might contribute to such an environment—both physical factors (e.g., cleanliness and colorfulness of the school building) and social factors—(e.g., teacher-student relationships, general tolerance for diverse behaviors and beliefs). You realize that students might identify important factors that you yourself haven't even thought of. In this situation, your best choice would probably be a/an
qualitative study
Which one of the following conclusions can be drawn only from an experimental study?
Drugs administered during childbirth affect a child's early development.
Boys are more likely to show aggressive behavior than girls.
Children's muscular coordination improves as they grow older.
Children grow taller as they get older.
Drugs administered during childbirth affect a child's early development.
A research study finds that, on average, students who weigh more do better in school. Which one of the following is an appropriate deduction from this information?
Parents should feed their children as much as possible.
The school cafeteria should decrease the fat content of the food it serves.
On average, students who eat more do better in school.
There is a correlation
between weight and classroom performance.
There is a correlation between weight and classroom performance.
Mr. Jacobs wants to find out whether a new program for teaching physical education promotes students' physical development. So he gives his students a number of tests before they begin the program (pretests) and the same tests again after they have been in the program for eight months (posttests). He finds that the students' posttest scores are higher than their pretest scores and so concludes that the program is effective. What is definitely wrong with Mr. Jacobs' conclusion?
There are other possible explanations for his results.
Which one of the following statements best describes psychologists' proposal that children's knowledge sometimes takes the form of theories?
Children develop a general set of beliefs about how the world operates.
Behaviorists view learning differently than information processing theorists and constructivists do. best describes the difference?
Behaviorism focuses on observable behaviors; information processing theory and constructivism focus on mental phenomena.
the following teaching strategies best illustrates many educational psychologists' belief that, in some situations, less is more?
Teach fewer topics, but teach each one more thoroughly.
Social cognitive theory can best be characterized as being concerned with learning
through observations of others
In contemporary psychology, a script can best be described as
knowledge about the typical sequence of events in an activity
best characterizes the duration of the sensory register?
Visual information lasts less than a second, with auditory information lasting a bit longer.
The textbook suggests that students often engage in rote learning rather than meaningful learning of school subject matter because:
classroom assessment practices often encourage it.
As human beings, we encounter a great many stimuli at any one time. Which alternatives most accurately reflects educational psychologists' perspective about how we respond to all these stimuli?
We must select the things we think are most important to learn and remember, and ignore the rest.
The textbook recommends a number of strategies for increasing students' attention in the classroom. Which one of the following alternatives, while possibly beneficial for other reasons, is not necessarily recommended as a strategy for increasing attention?
Follow a predictable routine every day.
Vary classroom presentation methods.
Encourage note taking.
Provide concrete manipulatives with which students can discover some ideas for themselves.
Follow a predictable routine every day.
Three of the following teaching strategies are likely to help students acquire a conceptual understanding of classroom subject matter. Which strategy, though possibly beneficial for other reasons, is least likely to promote conceptual understanding?
exploring a topic in depth
developing automaticity of basic skills
asking students to teach a topic to a classmate
showing
students how several ideas are logically interrelated
developing automaticity of basic skills
Three of the following statements are consistent with general principles of learning presented in the textbook. Which one is not consistent with these principles?
Different people may learn different things from the same experience if they process it differently.
People don't just passively absorb knowledge like a
sponge; instead, they actively construct it.
People learn in ways that are very similar to how most other animal species learn.
People's existing beliefs about a topic influence the new things they learn about the topic.
People learn in ways that are very similar to how most other animal species learn.
Psychologists often emphasize the importance of attention in the learning process. From the perspective of the three-component model of memory, why is attention so important?
It moves information from the sensory register into working memory.
statements is consistent with the textbook's recommendations for promoting retrieval?
Teach students how to create and use their own retrieval cues.
Three of the following strategies should help students remember academic material over the long run.
Reviewing the material periodically over the course of several days or weeks
Engaging in meaningful learning by relating the material to a situation in which they are likely to use it
Elaborating by drawing inferences from the things they study
Generally speaking, meaningful learning is an effective way of learning and remembering new information. An exception to this rule is when students:
elaborate on the information using previously acquired misconceptions
Which one of the following examples illustrates conceptual change?
As a Boy Scout, Andy has learned how to cook a wide variety of foods over an open fire.
Brad misinterprets the scientific explanation of fire to fit what he believes: that fire is an object with substance and
weight.
Charlotte used to think that fire was an actual substance, but now she knows it's a chemical change.
Danielle wasn't aware of how much damage fire could really do until the house next door burned down.
Charlotte used to think that fire was an actual substance, but now she knows it's a chemical change.
Ms. Rushing, a middle school science teacher, wants her students to develop a good understanding of principles related to the concepts of force and velocity. Three of the following strategies should help her students construct such an understanding. Which strategy would educational psychologists be least likely to advocate for promoting effective knowledge construction related to force and velocity?
Make sure that students can recite definitions of both force and velocity and can repeat basic principles regarding how the two are interrelated.
If you wanted to help students learn something by using a mnemonic, which one of the following sentences would you use?
"Area equals length times width" is the formula for calculating the area of a rectangle.
"Do unto others as you would have them do unto you" is the Golden Rule.
"My very energetic mother just slugged Uncle Norton" tells us the eight planets in the solar system.
"Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, and Adams" are the
first six presidents of the United States.
"My very energetic mother just slugged Uncle Norton" tells us the eight planets in the solar system.
To learn how to spell rhinoceros, Paula repeats the letters of the word over and over without really thinking about what she is saying. Considering what psychologists have learned about the effectiveness of rehearsal, we can predict that Paula's strategy will be
relatively ineffective
Three of the following are examples of mnemonics. Which one is not a mnemonic?
to learn how to drive a car with a standard transmission, Bart practices the various parts of the task (e.g., steering, shifting, and braking) separately
to learn the letters identifying the spaces on the treble clef in written music (F A C E), Annabelle simply remembers the word face
to learn that
the Spanish word pájaro means "bird," Corey pictures a bird wearing pajamas
to learn that the Spanish word navidad means "Christmas," Dorene thinks of the word "nativity"
to learn how to drive a car with a standard transmission, Bart practices the various parts of the task (e.g., steering, shifting, and braking) separately
Calvin is seven years old and in second grade. Given children's typical metacognitive
abilities at different age levels, which one of the following is most likely to be true of Calvin?
He realizes that mastering a topic might take him considerable time and practice.
He believes that people's conflicting opinions about a topic may all be "right" to some degree.
He is overly optimistic about how much he can learn and remember in a short time period.
He recognizes that learning is an active, constructive process.
He is overly optimistic about how much he can learn and remember in a short time period.
Three of the following strategies are consistent with the textbook's recommendations for helping students learn to engage in self-evaluation. Which strategy, although possibly beneficial for other reasons, is least likely to promote self-evaluation?
Give students detailed feedback about their biology lab reports.
Have students reflect on the strengths and weakness of
their performance in a daily journal.
Have students compile portfolios of their best work.
Give students a checklist to things to look for as they read the first draft of their research papers.
Give students detailed feedback about their biology lab reports.
Three of the following strategies should help students acquire effective study strategies. Which one is least likely to do so?
Have students work
in pairs to ask one another thought-provoking questions about a topic.
Express confidence that with time and effective strategies, students can learn everything there is to know about a topic.
Have students experiment with different methods of trying to remember information and then reflect on each method's effectiveness.
Give students a general structure to guide their early note-taking efforts.
Express confidence that with time and effective strategies, students can learn everything there is to know about a topic.
Three of the following strategies illustrate the use of metacognitive processes in problem solving. Which strategy is least metacognitive in nature?
breaking a complex problem into smaller, easier subproblems
continually monitoring progress toward problem solution
identifying a logical approach to solving a problem
looking up the correct answer at the back of the
textbook
looking up the correct answer at the back of the textbook
reflects the textbook's recommendation regarding the assessment of complex cognitive processes?
Often include complex cognitive processes in assessment tasks to communicate the message that such processes are important.
Critical thinking can best be described as involving
judging the credibility of information or arguments
Researchers have observed cultural differences in three of the following areas. In which area are there least likely to be cultural differences?
existence of a central executive that oversees learning
commonly used learning strategies
beliefs about the nature of knowledge
a disposition to think critically about classroom subject
matter
existence of a central executive that oversees learning
Three of the following teaching strategies should promote critical thinking. Which strategy, although beneficial in other ways, will not necessarily promote critical thinking skills?
Ask students to evaluate the quality of a variety of scientific research studies.
Have students relate new material to things they have already learned.
Have
students debate a controversial issue by taking a perspective in direct opposition to what they actually believe.
Ask students to read a persuasive essay and look for possible flaws in the author's line of reasoning.
Have students relate new material to things they have already learned.
Many children lack metacognitive knowledge. This is reflected in the fact that they
don't know very much about how to learn
Which one of the four teachers below is most likely to facilitate problem solving and creativity in the classroom?
Ms. Axelrod wants her students to develop a single "best" strategy for encoding problems.
Ms. Blakely wants her students to learn why heuristics are almost always better than algorithms for solving problems.
Ms. Corning wants her students to learn why algorithms are almost always better than
heuristics for solving problems.
Ms. Darwin wants her students to have an in-depth knowledge of the topics they study.
Ms. Darwin wants her students to have an in-depth knowledge of the topics they study.
Three of the following alternatives describe classrooms that have an overall culture that values complex thinking processes. Which classroom, although possibly enhancing students' classroom achievement, is
not necessarily promoting such a culture?
A teacher and his students regularly look for ways to apply what they're studying.
A teacher encourages students to describe their study strategies for one another.
Students from diverse backgrounds meet in small groups to brainstorm potential solutions to challenging social problems.
A teacher gives assignments frequently and all of the assignments count towards a student's final grade.
A teacher gives assignments frequently and all of the assignments count towards a student's final grade.
Claire is 9 years old and in fourth grade. Considering the aspects of self-regulation typically seen at different grade levels, which one of the following is most likely to be true for Claire?
She has many ways of keeping herself motivated during boring tasks.
She often chooses activities that help her reach her long-range goals.
She is unable to
control her impulses.
She feels guilty when she does something wrong.
She feels guilty when she does something wrong.
Three of the following are accurate statements about factors that affect transfer. Which statement is not necessarily accurate?
Students are more likely to transfer what they have learned if they have studied it in a meaningful, rather than rote, fashion.
Students are more likely to
transfer what they have learned if they have studied it for a lengthy period of time.
Students are more likely to transfer things they learn in school than things they learn outside of school.
Students are more likely to transfer general attitudes toward a subject area than specific facts in that subject area.
Students are more likely to transfer things they learn in school than things they learn outside of school.
Three of the following are accurate statements about epistemic beliefs. Which statement is not accurate?
Students who view learning as an active, constructive process are more likely to undergo conceptual change when it's warranted.
Students who believe that learning is a slow, gradual process are more likely to persist in their efforts to understand classroom material.
Young children are apt to believe that conflicting points of view on a topic may be equally valid; as they
get older, they become increasingly convinced that one perspective is almost invariably more valid than others.
As students move through the high school years, some of them increasingly begin to realize that mastering academic subject matter involves understanding concepts and their interrelationships rather than memorizing discrete facts.
Young children are apt to believe that conflicting points of view on a topic may be equally valid; as they get older, they become increasingly convinced that one perspective is almost invariably more valid than others.
From the perspective of psychology, why should teachers not expect students to solve complex problems in their heads?
Students' working memories can hold only a few pieces of information at a time.
Creativity often involves divergent thinking. Which one of the following is the best example of divergent thinking?
Lacking any wooden blocks to build an arch for his toy soldiers to march under, Thomas builds an arch using upside-down paper cups.
Fourteen-year-old David rarely turns in his homework and often skips school, and so he is earning Ds and Fs in most of his classes. Yet he expresses his sincere desire to go to college and "make something of myself." This apparent inconsistency between his poor academic performance, on the one hand, and his strong interest in going to college, on the other, can probably best be explained by
insufficiently developed self-regulation skills
Which one of the following problems is most likely to be solved with a heuristic rather than an algorithm?
peacefully resolving an argument
Natalie is sometimes too impulsive when she answers multiple-choice questions on standardized achievement tests: She picks an answer before she has even read all the alternatives. Natalie knows she has a problem and would really like to change her behavior. The concept we can best use to help Natalie is
self-instructions
Which one of the following teachers is obviously keeping the notion of
situated cognition in mind as he or she helps students transfer what they are learning in school?
Ms. Sporer asks her students to speculate about what might have happened if the Europeans had not "discovered" the New World until the 1800s.
Mr. Gerberg takes his middle school math students to the grocery store so that they can use their math skills to do some comparison shopping.
Mr. Mendoza makes sure that each one of the students in his instrumental music class knows the difference
between the treble and bass clefs.
Ms. Sabih gives each of her elementary art students a hunk of clay and then says, "I'd like you to mold your clay into a mythical creature of some kind—into an animal that doesn't actually exist."
Mr. Gerberg takes his middle school math students to the grocery store so that they can use their math skills to do some comparison shopping.
Three of the following are differences
that teachers may find among children from some cultural backgrounds. Which behavior is probably not the result of a child's cultural background per se?
Some children may look down at their feet as a way of showing respect for authority figures.
Some children may be accustomed to "talking back" to authority figures when they disagree.
Some children may feel uncomfortable performing new skills in front of their teacher and peers.
Some children may often touch the people they are
talking to.
Some children may be accustomed to "talking back" to authority figures when they disagree.
Which one of the following statements best reflects the concept of reciprocal causation?
The environment affects students' behavior, but their behavior also affects the environment they experience.
Three of the following are
typical benefits of group discussions in the classroom. Which one is not a typical benefit when learners discuss classroom material?
Class discussions may promote more thorough understanding of a topic.
Class discussions encourage students to organize their thoughts about a topic.
Class discussions promote more rapid learning of classroom subject matter.
Discussions about controversial topics encourage students to reevaluate their current opinions.
Class discussions promote more rapid learning of classroom subject matter.
An incentive is likely to be an effective motivator for students only when
students believe it is within their reach
The term negative reinforcement can best be described as a situation in which
something the learner doesn't want is taken away after a response
A community of learners can best be described as
a classroom in which a cooperative spirit of helping one another learn prevails
Distributed cognition can best be described as
a group of people collaborating to address a task or problem
The concept of socialization, as psychologists typically use the term, can best be described as
a process that molds children to act and think in culturally appropriate ways
The Case Study at the beginning of Chapter 3 in the textbook presents a narrative involving a Navajo student, Jack, who doesn't return home after going to the movies with friends. After a week-long absence from both home and school, Jack is eventually found safe. At that point, his parents keep him home from school for a few extra days to help out on the family farm. Which one of the following alternatives is probably the best explanation for the parents' behavior?
The Navajo culture values both individual autonomy and interpersonal cooperation
best describes a mediated learning experience?
An adult helps a child make sense of a new situation.
Psychologists propose that three of the following are essential for students to exhibit behavior they have seen a model demonstrate. Which one is not necessarily essential?
attention to the model
memory of the observed behavior
motivation to perform the behavior
reinforcement for good performance
reinforcement for good performance
Operant conditioning theorists use the term reinforcement rather than "reward" because
the term "reward" implies a consequence that others would judge to be desirable
Which one of the following is the best example of a social reinforcer?
being told that you did a good job
best illustrates the concept of distributed cognition?
Edie, Linda, and DeWayne discuss various ways they might solve a physics problem.
Three of the following strategies are recommended for working with students from low-income families. Which one is not recommended?
Don't test any content material that requires basic skills that were not acquired at home.
If students are willing, ask them to talk about the inequities they've faced in society.
Arrange field trips to
museums, zoos, and farms.
Identify existing areas of knowledge on which you can build classroom lessons.
Don't test any content material that requires basic skills that were not acquired at home.
Three of the following are examples of operant conditioning. Which one is not?
Andrew gives his dog Maggie a scrap of food from his plate whenever Maggie begs at the dinner table. Before long, Maggie is by
Andrew's side begging at every meal.
Bart uses obscene words when he speaks in class. His teacher scolds him for such language in front of his classmates. Much to the teacher's dismay, Bart's use of obscene words increases.
Carol's room has been a disaster area for more than a month, with toys and clothes lying about everywhere. Carol's mother has told Carol that, once the room has been cleaned, they will spend a day at the zoo. There is no noticeable improvement in Carol's housekeeping
habits.
Daniel once went to visit the elderly woman next door, and she gave him a couple of homemade cookies. Now Daniel goes to see the woman almost every day after school and comes home a half an hour later still licking crumbs off his lips.
Carol's room has been a disaster area for more than a month, with toys and clothes lying about everywhere. Carol's mother has told Carol that, once the room has been cleaned, they will spend a day at the zoo. There is no noticeable improvement in Carol's housekeeping habits.
Good grades are reinforcing to some students but not to others. Someone explaining this fact from an operant conditioning perspective would say that good grades are most likely to be reinforcers to students who
have previously associated grades with other reinforcers
Which of the following is an example of vicarious punishment?
Connie sees her friend Maria scolded for chewing gum in class. She quickly takes her own gum out of her mouth.
In psychologists' conceptualization of reciprocal causation, which one of the following is a person factor?
Alma pays close attention to lectures in her science class.
The textbook advocates the
use of classroom dialogues for promoting learning. Which one of the following student interactions is most likely to be effective in this regard?
Two students work together on a crossword puzzle that includes the week's new spelling words.
The students in a cooperative learning group discuss different ways of solving a certain math problem.
When a French teacher begins class by saying, "Comment allez vous?" the students reply in unison, "Trés bien."
Two students help each other
prepare for a quiz by giving each other practice test questions.
The students in a cooperative learning group discuss different ways of solving a certain math problem.
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