Which one of the following statements is most accurate about how anxiety affects students' performance in the classroom?
a. A little bit of anxiety can facilitate learning and performance, and high anxiety can facilitate performance on very easy tasks.
b. The best way to deal with anxiety is to eliminate it. Totally relaxed students learn more and perform better.
c. A little bit of trait anxiety may facilitate learning, but state anxiety is always detrimental to performance.
d. High anxiety can facilitate performance on very difficult tasks, but it may get in the way when students try to do tasks they have learned to do quickly and automatically.
a
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A. Steps in the activity. B. Concern about what is being produced. C. The inability to make a meaningful project. D. Focusing on the process. E. All of the above.
Which one of the following is inconsistent with today's emphasis on personalizing the learning to work toward quality learning?
(a) starting a study by finding out what the students already know or think they know (b) empowering students with some decision-making responsibility (c) providing students with a variety of learning experiences (d) lecture on a unit of study, followed with drill and practice
Which deals with perceptions about science subject matter?
A. Basically, I am an adequate science teacher. B. People are basically trustworthy and dependable. C. The process of learning science is culturally important. D. Science and technology is essential in our society.
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