Three of the following strategies are consistent with the textbook's recommendations for helping students learn to engage in self-evaluation. Which strategy, although possibly beneficial for other reasons, is least likely to promote self-evaluation?
A) Give students detailed feedback about their biology lab reports.
B) Have students reflect on the strengths and weakness of their performance in a daily journal.
C) Have students compile portfolios of their best work.
D) Give students a checklist to things to look for as they read the first draft of their research papers.
Ques. 2Imagine you are a high school principal who wants students to develop effective study strategies before they graduate. If you follow the textbook's recommendations for teaching study skills and other complex cognitive processes, which one of the following approaches should you use?
A) Purchase textbooks that are about two years below students' present reading levels.
B) Have teachers incorporate study skills training into the specific academic courses they teach.
C) Have a one-semester study skills course that all students take in their first year of high school.
D) Have a one-semester study skills course that all students take in their final year of high school.
Ques. 3Three of the following are examples of people or dogs who have been conditioned through operant conditioning. Which one is not?
A) Andrew gives his dog Maggie a scrap of food from his plate whenever Maggie begs at the dinner table. Before long, Maggie is by Andrew's side begging at every meal.
B) Bart uses obscene words when he speaks in class. His teacher scolds him for such language in front of his classmates. Much to the teacher's dismay, Bart's use of obscene words increases.
C) Carol's room has been a disaster area for more than a month, with toys and clothes lying about everywhere. Carol's mother has told Carol that, once the room has been cleaned, they will spend a day at the zoo. There is no noticeable improvement in Carol's housekeeping habits.
D) Daniel once went to visit the elderly woman next door, and she gave him a couple of homemade cookies. Now Daniel goes to see the woman almost every day after school and comes home a half an hour later still licking crumbs off his lips.
Ques. 4Fourteen-year-old David rarely turns in his homework and often skips school, and so he is earning Ds and Fs in most of his classes. Yet he expresses his sincere desire to go to college and make something of myself. This apparent inconsistency between his poor academic performance, on the one hand, and his strong interest in going to college, on the other, can probably best be explained by:
A) A lack of vicarious punishment in his life.
B) An inability to think abstractly about his goals.
C) Insufficiently developed self-regulation skills.
D) A general tendency for adolescent boys to punish rather than reinforce themselves for academic success.
Ques. 5When educators use the expression Less is more in their discussions of promoting complex cognitive processes, they mean that:
A) Students are more likely to engage in complex processes when they focus on learning a few topics very well.
B) Students are more likely to engage in complex processes if they spend very little time per day listening to lectures.
C) Students will more successfully transfer what they've learned to new problems and situations when those problems are simple rather than complex.
D) Students can only store so much in working memory at any one time.
Ques. 6One common educational practice is to chart students' progress over time so that students can see their own improvement. These progress charts often lead to higher student achievement in the absence of other observable forms of reinforcement. The effectiveness of such charts in changing behavior illustrates the role of reinforcement as:
A) Positive feedback.
B) Cueing.
C) An immediate, rather than delayed, consequence.
D) An alternative to school-wide standardized achievement testing.
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