All else considered equal, which one of the following transitions in learning activities is probably best during the same instructional period?
a. teacher talk to student discussion
b. teacher talk to student investigation
c. cooperative learning to student oral reports
d. video presentation to a 35-mm slide presentation
b
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A researcher is interested in examining students' understanding and recall of texts. She gives students a series of texts to read (either essays or stories matched on critical variables such as length and grade level and presented randomly) and trains assistants to score and count up the exact number of correct "idea units" (or unique phrases) students recall from each text. The researcher also
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