The term scaffolding refers to:
A. one of Piaget’s levels of development.
B. student ideas that are not congruent with accepted scientific views.
C. the teacher providing instructional assistance to enable learners to achieve higher levels.
D. the region between the learner’s spontaneous level of knowing and thinking, and the level he or she can reach in problem solving with assistance.
C. the teacher providing instructional assistance to enable learners to achieve higher levels.
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The ability to do work, moving a force through a distance, is the way scientists define __________.?
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
A well-known cooperative learning strategy where students are assigned to six-member teams with academic material broken into sections. Each team member reads his or her assigned section of the material and then meets with member of the different teams who had been assigned the same material. Students then return to their original teams and teach their teammates about their section.
a. think-pair-share b. jigsaw c. numbered heads together d. peer tutoring
The psychological problem that has attracted the most attention is __________. This problem is fairly common; about one third of women have experienced it at some time during their lives.
A. anxiety B. depression C. bi-polar disorder D. ADHD
When working in small groups, students usually experience
A) ?a sense of entitlement. B) ?a sense that their task is important. C) ?less commitment to the task at hand. D) ?urgency to go to lunch.