Mr. Lewis is an expert high school math teacher. Whenever the class is having a difficult time grasping a new concept, he looks to familiar, everyday events to create analogies with the new math concepts. Mr. Lewis is using which of the key ways experts think about problems?
a. Experts combine information in ways that are useful for problem solving.
b. Experts ignore irrelevant information presented to the class by students.
c. Experts distinguish information relevant to solving a problem from information that is not relevant.
d. Experts apply information acquired in context to a teaching problem in another context.
Ques. 2According to the text, which of the following is NOT one of the ways expert teachers differ from novice teachers?
a. intelligence
b. amount and depth of knowledge
c. insights into problems on the job
d. efficiency
Ques. 3Katie still remembers the notes on the treble cleft by reciting: Every Good Boy Does Fine. Katie is using which memory strategy?
a. acrostic
b. pegwords
c. keywords
d. acronym
Ques. 4Rita believes she is capable of succeeding in school. According to the text, Rita has a(n)
a. low perceived self-efficacy.
b. high perceived self-efficacy.
c. incremental view.
d. entity view.
Ques. 5Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of an expert student?
a. Use of effective learning strategies
b. High aspirations
c. Entity view of intelligence
d. High self-efficacy
Ques. 6Experts and novices do not differ in the amount of knowledge they have; only in how they organize that knowledge in memory.
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Ques. 7Being effective as a teacher happens as a result of sitting down at the end of each school day and thinking about what it means to be an effective teacher.
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Ques. 8An educational psychologist discovers that the more sleep students have, the greater their test scores are. This is an example of:
a. a positive correlation
b. an experiment
c. a negative correlation
d. a case study
Ques. 9Valerie and Jamie just performed poorly on a test. Valerie states that next time she is going to try a different study technique, while Jamie states that the teacher is really difficult. Rotter would say that Valerie is _________, and Jamie is __________.
a. external; internal
b. incremental; entity
c. internal; external
d. entity; incremental
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