Three of the following are possible reasons why classroom dialogues help students better understand classroom subject matter. Which one is not necessarily a benefit of classroom dialogues?
A) Students are exposed to the views of other people—views that may be more accurate than their own.
B) Students must clarify their ideas sufficiently to explain them to their classmates.
C) Students may discover weaknesses in their own thoughts and ideas about a topic.
D) Students are more likely to form visual images related to their ideas when they describe those ideas to others.
D
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According to Piaget's model of cognitive development, which of the following statements best describes a child in the concrete operations stage?
a. The child is able to make predictions, experience metacognition, and appreciate and use the structure of language. b. The child begins to use symbols as his or her grasp of concepts develops rapidly. c. The child primarily learns through senses as his or her motor capabilities develop. d. The child begins to think logically, and understands the concept of conservation.
The idea that using strategies can improve one's learning is most consistent with
a. an entity theory b. a schema theory c. a naive theory d. an incremental theory
Alice is able to pronounce each letter in a word individually, but she cannot combine the sounds to pronounce the
word. Her problem is a. auditory acuity. b. auditory blending. c. auditory closure. d. auditory memory. e. auditory sequencing.
Which of the following would be a good topic for a show-the-work problem in a science class?
(a) Describing the parts of an atom (b) Balancing a chemical equation (c) Identifying the chemical symbols for a group of elements