Chapter 1-6 CITW

Why do teachers set objectives?

• To ensure students journeys’ with learning are purposeful.

• To confuse students and make the lesson more challenging.
• To waste time and make the lesson longer.
• To make the lesson more boring and uninteresting.

Self efficacy is beliefs about ____ competency

Providing feedback has positive impacts on students’ achievement

• True

• False

Which of the following statement is not listed in the four recommendations for setting classroom objectives?

• set learning objectives that are specific but not restrictive

• communicate learning objectives with students and parents

• Engage students in setting personal learning objectives

• Communicate with the parents about classroom help

What are the practices for reinforcing effort

• Teach students about the relationship between effort and achievement

• Provide students with explicit guidance about exactly what it means to expand effort.

• Ask students to keep track of their effort and achievement.

• All of the above.

Recommendations for providing recognition

• Promote a mastery-goal orientation

• Provide praise that is specific and aligned with expected performance and behaviors

• Use concrete symbols for recognition

• All of the above

Purpose of positive interdependence is what

• Ensure each student understands the topic

• Ensure that all members clearly understand effective group skills

• Ensure that success by an individual promotes success among other group members

• individuals encourage and activate efforts to achieve and help one another learn

Cooperative learning increases motivation for learning

• true

• False

Which of the following is listed as a recommendation for using cooperative learning in the classroom?

• include elements of both positive interdependence and individual accountability

• Keep group sizes small

• Use cooperative learning consistently and systematically

• All of the above

Which of the following is not a recommendation to help teachers fine tune their cues and questions for students?

• Use explicit cues

• Ask analytic questions

• Ask inferential questions

• Ask rhetorical questions