Describe the essential characteristics of effective feedback.
What will be an ideal response?
Ques. 2Describe each of the essential teaching skills, and explain how they increase learning.
What will be an ideal response?
Ques. 3Tom Evans gives a multiple-choice test to his biology students, and he is also careful to be certain that his test is consistent with his goals. As it turns out, Tom unintentionally writes the stem of one of the items in a misleading way, so that the students select a distracter rather than the correct answer, even though they understand the concept being measured with the item. Of the following, which is the most accurate statement?
a. The item is reliable but not valid.
b. The item is valid but not reliable.
c. The item is both valid and reliable.
d. The item is neither valid nor reliable.
Ques. 4The form of review occurring at the end of a lesson is referred to as:
a. closure.
b. transition.
c. discourse.
d. focus.
Ques. 5According to research, teacher wait-times tend to be about how long?
a. 1 second
b. 3 seconds
c. 5 seconds
d. 10 seconds
Ques. 6A teacher calls on a student, and the student fails to respond. The teacher then asks another question designed to illicit a response. This process is best described as:
a. equitable distribution.
b. prompting.
c. repetition.
d. review.
Ques. 7A teacher notices Mary being inattentive in a class discussion on the factors leading up to the American Revolutionary War. Based on research examining effective teaching behaviors, of the following, what is the best teacher action?
a. Ask, What is one of the things the British did that angered the colonists? Mary?
b. Ignore the inattention.
c. Say, Mary, please pay attention to this topic. Information from this discussion will be on the next test.
d. Say, Mary, please pay attention to what we're doing here. This information is important.
Ques. 8Susan heard that posing questions to her students while teaching a topic will make her presentations better, so she has started to pose questions. However, she has found not many students are trying to answer, and most often those that do are the best students. Susan's problems with questioning are most likely tied to:
a. asking too many questions.
b. not asking enough questions.
c. not providing enough wait time.
d. not practicing equitable distribution.
Ques. 9According to research, of the following, the most significant result of teacher questioning is:
a. a greater difference between the achievement of faster compared to slower learners.
b. higher levels of student involvement from all students.
c. a tendency for high achievers to process information more efficiently.
d. greater recall from working memory.
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