Which of the following best reflects the focus of critical constructivism?

a. When the teacher has to criticize a student's work, the emphasis is on giving constructive criticism.
b. To maximize instructional efficiency, a teacher breaks a lesson down into small units, reinforces students for giving correct responses, and gives them a test before allowing them to proceed to the next unit.
c. Because students of color often have lower test scores and grades, a teacher decides to give them less difficult tasks in order to strengthen their self-esteem.
d. A teacher strives to minimize his or her expectations about what students can accomplish based on their racial, ethnic, or SES background.


d

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According to Herzberg, workers:

a) are concerned only with external factors of work. b) develop long-lasting positive job attitudes when they get a pay raise. c) can be satisfied and dissatisfied at the same time with their jobs. d) usually discount the external factors surrounding their work.

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Teachers generally begin the year by planning?

a. ?the units they like to teach. b. ?what their director tells them to teach. c. ?what the parents ask them to teach. d. ?what they know about the age level they are teaching.

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Which one of the following attributions can be classified as internal, stable, and, uncontrollable?

a. Believing that getting the highest test score in class was all a matter of luck b. Knowing you did poorly on an assignment because you didn't give it your best shot c. Thinking your teacher is too hard a grader d. Concluding that you just weren't cut out to be an athlete

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In what way did Jean-Jacques Rousseau consider the social structure at the time to be unnatural?

What will be an ideal response?

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