Perkins and Blythe

What is understanding?

• Being able to do a test successfully.

• Being able to utilize information with flexibility.

• Being able to state facts about a topic.

what is a generative topic?

• Any topic

• A broad topic from which many other topics can be generated

• information that can be gathered

Performance of understanding is?

• Any activity done based on a topic to test knowledge

• An activity that requires many materials and time

• An activity that goes outside the routine and gauges capability for flexibility

What is a possible performance of understanding for a topic like: Healthy foods

Which of these is not a generative topic?

• Space

• Food

• Energy sources

• Getting dressed

Which of these is not performance of understanding?

• memorize the names of each bone in a human body

• create a campaign to promote recycling and waste management

• build a terrarium considering the variety of living organisms that could live there

Are Understanding and Knowledge mutually exclusive?

• Yes

• No

• Sometimes

Based on the activity you did in class is performance of understanding applicable to your own classroom? Why or why not?