Your school district is considering eliminating recess for primary grade students in order to devote more time to basic skills instruction, and has invited teachers to respond. What would your response be?
a. This is a good idea because most teachers want to have more time for instruction.
b. This is a good idea because it will contribute to higher test scores when the children start taking standardized tests in third grade.
c. This is neither a good idea nor a bad idea since recess has no noticeable positive or negative effect on children's development.
d. This is a bad idea since recess provides multiple benefits for primary grade students.
Ques. 2An approach to learning that is based on a student's ability to effectively assimilate information into existing schemes and to develop new schemes and operations in response to novel or discrepant ideas is called
a. operant conditioning.
b. cognitive constructivism.
c. social learning theory.
d. social constructivism.
Ques. 3Assume that you are a preschool or kindergarten teacher and would like to help your students more accurately assess their capability for performing particular tasks. You consult Chapter 3 of Psychology Applied to Teaching and decide on the basis of the research findings summarized there that you should
a. create a relatively unstructured classroom that emphasizes free play.
b. allow your students to perform the task several times so they can compare their prior performance to the most recent one.
c. ignore the issue until the children are older and in Piaget's concrete operational stage of cognitive development.
d. have your students compare their performance to that of a peer who has done the task correctly.
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