According to Piaget, three factors interact to influence cognitive development. Two of the factors are maturation and acting on the environment. What is the third factor?
a. Synaptic pruning
b. Social transmission
c. Quality of parenting
d. Quality of teaching
Ques. 2In which of the following situations does Mr. Cannon scaffold learning?
a. Mr. Cannon assigned readings in the text about the period of history immediately following the Civil War in the U.S.
b. Mr. Cannon gave a student a choice between two actions: return to his seat quietly and immediately or stay after school.
c. Mr. Cannon showed a brief video with a close-up demonstration of the detailed steps he had explained to the class.
d. Mr. Cannon divided students into groups to play their favorite game of trivial pursuit in history.
Ques. 3Sherita is now grasping the concept of conservation. She is most likely in what stage of development?
a. Formal operational
b. Preoperational
c. Sensorimotor
d. Concrete operational
Ques. 4Bryan went to the zoo with his first grade class. At the zoo, he saw alligators for the first time. He had never even seen pictures of alligators, but called them big-mouthed snakes. What basic tendency of thinking is Bryan using?
a. Conservation
b. Assimilation
c. Object permanence
d. Reversible thinking
Ques. 5In Action Research, a consultant or administrator is the primary researcher in the classroom
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Ques. 6Teacher self-assessment can help teachers raise their sense of self-efficacy
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Ques. 7Which of the following tools is helpful in determing the social status of students in a classroom
a. A teacher made checklist
b. A sociogram
c. Observations by a colleague
d. The Classroom Environment Scale (Moos and Tricket, 1995)
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