Education Theories

Personal beliefs are defined as statements, principles or doctrines an individual believes to be true.

• True

• False

Which of the following influences are how personal beliefs are formed?

• Culture

• Education

• Faith or spirituality

• All of the answer choices are correct

Which of the following describes personal beliefs?

• Affects one's behavior, thought and emotions

• Influences where one works

• Determines how one achieves goals

• All of the answer choices are correct

Which of the following does NOT explain the formal operational stage?

• Happens among children between the ages of two and seven

• The period of time involving a dramatic increase in logical thinking

• Children can use deductive reasoning and understand abstract concepts

• Children can see multiple potential solutions

__________ is defined as a cohesive, repeatable action sequence possessing

component action which is tightly interconnected and governed by a core meaning.

• Sensorimotor stage

• Schema

• Accommodation

• Assimilation

The __________ theory is when the student is reliant on the instructor for learning

and the __________ theory is when the student is self sufficient.

• Andragogy; pedagogy

• Pedagogy; andragogy

• Sensory; intuitive

• Visual; verbal

Select all of the following which describes reflective learning.

• Like to think things through before acting

• Tend to gain information with a linear process

• Tend to learn more effectively by thinking the situation through

• Tend to work better in large groups

Match the following teaching philosophies to their descriptions.

• Behaviorism

• Truth and knowledge is subjective

• Constructivism

• Focus on an individuals’ skills of knowledge acquisition

• Humanism

• Self-discovery is a part of learning and education is life

  itself

• Cognitivism

• Learning is a process of responding to stimuli continuing

  to reinforce the process

John, a high school science instructor, is working on writing a two to three page

philosophy of education. Select all of the following which should be included within

his philosophy of education.

• How to improve as an instructor

• How education is not important to student success

• The goal of education and how the goal will be met

• The importance of education

• Why the material is taught in a certain manner

Personal beliefs do not affect how an instructor produces their philosophy of education.

• True

• False