Which of the following is not one of the three fundamental instructional principles of the Makes Sense Strategies (MSS) model?
A. Students learn better when they are actively engaged.
B. Increasing the learnability of information is preferable to dumbing it down.
C. Students should not waste time learning trivia.
D. Graphic organizers simplify content to be learned.
D. Graphic organizers simplify content to be learned.
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The law of 1642 did not work and was changed in what year?
a. 1643 b. 1644 c. 1645 d. 1646 e. 1647
Pre-assessment as a classroom-based practice enables educational designers:
a. to ascertain students' readiness for the learning experience and gauge the utility of a given instructional model selected for a certain purpose and specific group of learners. b. to establish baseline data regarding students' level of knowledge and skills to compare their achievement and learning to that of others as a basis for a class ranking. c. to help students to review content covered and should have learned. d. to compare student achievement against ‘norms' and measure students' proficiency against grade-level standards.
Learning theorists often emphasize the importance of attention in the learning process? From the perspective of the dual-store model of memory, why is attention so important?
a. It gets information into the sensory register. b. It moves information from working memory into long-term memory. c. It moves information from the sensory register into long-term memory. d. It moves information from the sensory register into working memory.
Fifth grade teacher Kathy Smyth helps the young writers in her class develop an awareness
of expository text structures. Writers use expository text structures primarily because these structures: a) help readers comprehend the material b) help readers apply decoding strategies c) build students' vocabulary d) add graphics to the text