Which one of the following situations best illustrates situated learning?
a. Twelve-year-old Andrew bakes often at home and can easily figure out how much flour he needs when he cuts in half a cookie recipe that calls for 21/4 cups of flour. Yet Andrew has trouble making similar calculations in his math class.
b. Ten-year-old Bernita wonders what it would be like to live on a farm rather than in the city. As she sits in class, her mind often wanders to rural locations she has visited only in her dreams.
c. Sixteen-year-old Calvin has trouble understanding the process of mitosis when his biology teacher describes it in abstract terms. He still finds the concept difficult when, later, the teacher draws a diagram of the process on the chalkboard.
d. Four-year-old Danetta has trouble understanding that her friend Michael has moved to a community more than a thousand miles away. She keeps insisting that Michael must only be a short car ride away and throws a fit when her mother refuses to drive her to Michael's house.
a
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a. more alert. b. less curious. c. less tolerant of others. d. more difficult to work with.
Do not use email to discuss
a. negative information about your organization or department b. sensitive personal information c. serious issues or difficult problems that are best resolved in person d. all of the above e. Email is appropriate to discuss all of these issues.
One reason African-American children have higher rates of expulsion from school than their which peers is that
a. they are more likely to misbehave b. their parents do not teach them proper behavior c. their behavior is misinterpreted by predominately white, Anglo-American teachers d. they are jealous of the other children
Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
For very large populations, sampling without replacement is associated with substantial changes in probabilities from one selection to the next.