Chapter 10 Quiz

Unlike Vygotsky's model of child development, Piaget's model emphasizes the importance of social interactions in shaping children's knowledge.

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According to Vygotsky's theory, the culture in which a student lives has minimal influence on the knowledge, skills, and beliefs of the student.

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Situated cognition refers to the idea that a student's thinking is embedded in social and physical contexts.

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In some instances, cross-age peer tutoring benefits the tutor as well as the tutee, especially when the older tutor is a low-achieving student

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Research suggests that participation in cooperative groups helps increase students' motivation to learn.

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When implementing peer tutoring in the classroom, it is best to assign students to a single role of either a tutor or a tutee.

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Good tutoring involves scaffolding as it adjusts the amount of guidance required to fit a student's current performance.

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The Valued Youth program is an effective peer tutoring program that gives secondary school students who are not achieving well or are at risk for school-related problems the responsibility of tutoring elementary school children.

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An efficient use of peer tutoring is to have tutors assess tutees' improvement so that they can accurately target remedial help.

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Group rewards are one of the most important conditions for effective cooperative learning.

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