You are sitting in the workroom of your school with a faculty member who has just said, "I got sick of the students' continually talking today, so I fixed them. I doubled their homework assignment. I had assigned the odd problems at the end of the section, and now they get to do all the problems."
You comment courteously, "I'm not sure that's a good idea."
"Why not?" your colleague retorts. "It stopped the talking."
Using classical conditioning as a basis for your response, explain why using homework as a form of punishment is not a good idea.
What will be an ideal response?
Through classical conditioning, homework, which is initially a neutral stimulus, can become associated with the event of being punished (the UCS). Being punished can cause negative emotions (UCR). Because of homework being associated with punishment, the homework becomes a conditioned stimulus (CS), which produces negative emotions as conditioned responses
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Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
Standards do not have a role in curriculum development
a) True b) False
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A) Not give paper-pencil tests at all. B) Ask many short questions rather than a few lengthy ones. C) Give assessment tasks that require meaningful understanding of the material. D) Assess students' rote knowledge of the material first, then ask higher-level questions about the material in a subsequent assessment.
Which of the following phrases is most commonly used to describe a portfolio focused on a student's self-evaluative and ongoing improvement in the quality of work products?
A. Working portfolio B. Showcase portfolio C. Formative portfolio D. Summative portfolio