Three of the following teachers are likely to enhance students' motivation to do well in the classroom. Which one is unlikely to do so?
a. Mr. Avalon makes sure his classroom assessments are good measures of his classroom objectives.
b. Mr. Brandt is full of surprises; his students never know what he'll ask them to do next.
c. Mr. Cisneros sometimes asks his students to work together on group projects.
d. Mr. Dobson describes the terrible living conditions on the ships that brought African slaves to the New World during the 1600s, and the students become quite angry about how some of their ancestors behaved.
b
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