You are visiting a school in the week before classes are to begin. Most of the teachers have already set up their rooms for the students who will soon arrive. You look through the open doorway into one room and notice that there are open areas, with small groups of chairs arranged around tables in a number of separate areas. Off to one side there is an area with two computers and in a corner
there is a circular rug with a small, but colorful and attractive collection of books. From your observation, you are able to predict that the teacher in that room perceives learners to be
A) passive.
B) active.
C) neutral.
D) obedient.
B
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Through the use of a contingency contract, Logan learned to raise his hand to ask for help from his teacher. After three weeks, the contract was discontinued. However, Logan continued to raise his hand to ask for help. What type of generalization is represented by this scenario?
a. response maintenance b. stimulus control c. response generalization d. stimulus generalization
Henry Giroux believes the aim of education is to
a. engage students in social discourse that helps them reject human suffering and exploitation. b. promote a hierarchical social organization with postmodernism's rejection of metanarratives c. help students promote a better understanding of the language difficulties involved. d. provide students with the kinds of texts they need to solve problems.
If you want to examine the difference between the average scores of three unrelated groups, which of the following statistical techniques should you select?
a. regression b. dependent samples t-test c. analysis of variance d. independent samples t-test
Selecting, designing or adapting a worthwhile task requires that teacher to ask what important question?
A) Does this task have potential for students to demonstrate Mathematical Practices? B) Does this task require students to activate prior knowledge? C) Does the task only require or need the use of one problem solving strategy? D) Does the task require more than one class period to solve?