Learning Theories

1. What belief system is inquiry-based learning, in which learners generate their own knowledge through their experiences and teachers serve only as facilitators, based on?

• behaviorism

• constructivism

• activism

• objectivism

2. Which theorist believed that, while the ages at which children mature vary somewhat, all children go through four stages of cognitive development that occur after certain neurological changes.

• B. F. Skinner

• Jean Piaget

• Jerome Bruner

• Robert Gagné

Technology integration strategies that promote skill fluency or automaticity are based on which kind of models?

• discovery

• activist

• directed

• constructivist

What theory developed by John Dewey was based on the belief that social consciousness was the ultimate aim of all education, and learning was useful only in the context of social experience?

• social activism

• social scaffolding

• discovery learning

• situated cognition

Which one of these learning theorists offered principles that could help inform constructivist technology integration strategies?

• B. F. Skinner

• Jean Piaget

• Robert Gagné

• Benjamin Bloom

Which of these learning theorists would help inform directed technology integration strategies?

• Robert Gagné

• Albert Bandura

• Jean Piaget

• Lev Vygotsky

Which of the following is a typical technology integration strategy based on constructivist learning models?

• identifying skill weaknesses and targeting tutorial and drill software to them

• showing video-based problems that students solve through small group work

• letting students write papers with word processing rather than by hand

• giving students a French language tutorial because a teacher is not available

Which two different approaches to integration must proficient technology-oriented teachers learn to combine?

• indirect and directed

• directed and constructivist

• directed and objectivist

• inquiry-based and constructivist

Which of the following is the focus of an integration strategy based primarily on directed models?

• foster creative problem solving and metacognition

• foster group cooperation skills

• promote skill fluency or automaticity

• generate motivation to learn

Which of the following is an example of a technology integration strategy that could help facilitate either directed or constructivist models?

• to foster creative problem solving

• to support efficient, self-paced learning

• to remove logistical hurdles to learning

• to remedy identified weaknesses or deficits