CITW Chapters 1-6 Quiz

What is the process of establishing a direction to guide learning?

• Memorization

• Setting Objectives

• Group Discussion

• Explanation

Providing feedback communicates information to students that helps them better understand what?

• What they are to learn, what high quality performance looks like, and what changes are needed to improve their learning.

• That they are not doing well enough.

• That you have higher expectations for them.

• What they need to work harder on and how to take better notes.

Learning objectives should be stated in terms of what?

• What activity or assignment students are expected to complete.

• Expected scores for upcoming assessments.

• What students are supposed to learn.

• Topics discussed in large groups.

Self-efficacy is:

• Beliefs about one's competency.

• Beliefs about one's ability to influence what is happening or will happen.

• Motivation that comes from an individual's desire for self-satisfaction.

• Beliefs about reasons for doing a task.

Teaching about behavior can positively influence what in students'?

• Their self esteem.

• Their ability to focus in the classroom.

• Their desire to participate in group discussions.

• Thinking, behavior, and beliefs about their ability to succeed.

When teachers adopt a mastery-goal orientation, they emphasize?

• Learning and meeting goals

• Comparing students' performances.

• Mastery on all tests.

• Persistence.

What is the underlying purpose of cooperative learning?

• To promote students learning each other.

• To allow the students to cheat.

• To make each group member a stronger individual in his or her own right.

• To emphasize group discussion.

This is one of the five elements identified by Johnson and Johnson.

• Group Processing

• No Accountability

• Benchmark Success

• Detention

Without the five elements, group learning structures can do what to the learning process?

• Enhance it

• Impede it

• Promote it

• Engage it

What does engaging students in cooperative learning require?

• Careful planning and facilitation

• Prompting students

• Being unaware of your students

• Working quietly on tasks