Thorndike asked a group of students who had learned Latin and group of students who had not taken Latin to learn a new subject such as bookkeeping. According to the doctrine of formal discipline, which group should learn the new subject better?
a. students who knew Latin will learn better because Latin fosters "proper habits of mind"
b. students who had not taken Latin will learn better
c. both will learn the same because Latin and bookkeeping do not share any of the same components
d. the doctrine of formal discipline does not make a prediction
A
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In today's schools collaboration is least likely to exist under a leader that advocates:
a. Scientific Management. b. Administrative Management. c. The Bureaucratic Structure. d. Open System Theory.
Effective teachers:
A. Pace instruction very slowly to ensure that no one is being left behind B. Pace instruction briskly to keep students on-task C. Present a large amount of material at one time to challenge students
In a recent study about biased decision-making, it was shown that:
A. Students' labels really did not make much difference. B. Teachers were more likely to rate behavior of students labeled "gifted" as off-task C. Students' labels only mattered if they were labeled as "oppositional defiant" D. Teachers were less likely to rate behavior of students labeled "gifted" as off-task