Which one of the following statements is most often TRUE?
(a) Learning by student-centered instruction takes less instructional time than when learning by strategies that are teacher-centered.
(b) Learning by expository instruction is more likely to help students learn how to learn than when learning by inquiry, discovery, and problem solving.
(c) Students are more likely to learn important things when learning from expository strategies than when learning from inquiry, discovery, and problem solving.
(d) Learning inquiry, discovery, and problem solving is more likely to provide students with opportunity to practice intellectual skills than when learning by expository strategies.
Question 2...The Little Engine That Could demonstrates the affective domain of:
a. Self-esteem
b. Self-concept
c. Self-efficacy
d. Resilience
Question 3...Lev Vygotsky, a Russian scholar, is noted for all of the following except
a. the zone of proximal development.
b. the relationship between language and thought in childhood.
c. the role of play in the development of symbolic thinking and overall growth.
d. recognizing that children learn best by being passive learners.
Question 4...Margaret and Rachel McMillan
a. focused on health issues in early childhood education in England.
b. are noted for developing the concept of kindergarten and circle time.
c. were the first female physicians in London, England, and first to establish an education program in the slums of London.
d. developed the first Montessori school in Germany.
Question 5...Maria Montessori
a. founded the first early education program in Venice, Italy, called Casa dei Pepe.
b. believed that institutionalized children couldn't be educated.
c. was the first female physician in Italy and first to establish an education program in the slums of Rome.
d. created the first nursery school in Spain called Casa de Nios.
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